SonicWyldeDec 18, 2022
Supership 79
It recently struck me that 27 years ago there was a movie with Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and John Leguizamo playing drag queens,and if it came out today, someone would firebomb the theaters it was in. I'm not putting a sensitive warning on this picture because it's not fucking sensitive. its a movie that came out in 1995. things have moved backwards in a terrifying way.
Dec 14, 2022 at 12:31amWeb
Show threadKT controls miniature worldsDec 14, 2022

@Supership79

I remember when that came out. I didn't see it because I'd seen "Priscilla: Queen of the Desert" and this sounded like just an American ripoff of it.

But I did see a trailer for it, and it confused me... "I thought there were three drag queens in it, but all I see is two played by Swayze & Snipes, and some woman!" :}

Show threadSupership 79Dec 14, 2022
@KinkyTurtle it was a cheap knockoff of Priscilla, and not that great of a movie, and even i knew at the time that drag queens did not spend every waking moment of their lives in drag. but even if it wasn't a great movie, it did a lot to promote acceptance, and its a sign of the current climate that it would be greeted with terrorism if released today.
Show threadKT controls miniature worldsDec 14, 2022

@Supership79

This is true. I definitely do not remember anyone getting mad about its existence back then.

Show threadDomando Al Lobo 🐺Dec 15, 2022
@KinkyTurtle @Supership79 my sister and I! We loved it and still do it! Great one. I don't know it's impacto (🇪🇸)
Show threadArseny KhakhalinDec 15, 2022
@KinkyTurtle @Supership79 Why would anyone be mad about its existence now?
Show threadKevinMar 2, 2023
@ampanmdagaba @KinkyTurtle @Supership79 I don't know where you live, but in the United States there are dozens of laws trying to ban drag performances.
Show threadJames WidmanMar 2, 2023
@KevinLikesMaps @ampanmdagaba @KinkyTurtle @Supership79 yes, and furthermore, in tennessee, presenting yourself according to a gender other than the one assigned to you at birth, in public, is now regarded as an "adult cabaret performance" and classified as a felony:
https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Bill/HB0009.pdf
Show threadRussell NechesMar 3, 2023
@Supership79 @KinkyTurtle I would like to think that the (violent, awful and very harmful) performative outrage we're seeing now is a response to substantially wider acceptance. Remember, Mathew Shepard was murdered three years after To Wong Foo came out.
Show threadEnby SharkMar 3, 2023
@ryneches @Supership79 @KinkyTurtle there's a lot to unpack in your response, but I don't have the inclination to do that right now. So I'll just share this in hopes that it will provide some needed reflection and enlightenment: https://harvardcrcl.org/americas-war-on-black-trans-women/
America’s War on Black Trans Women | Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review

Show threadRussell NechesMar 3, 2023
@cozymel @Supership79 @KinkyTurtle I have no disagreement with anything here. Violence is definitely getting worse. However, the level of violence is not the same thing as the level of acceptance. There is no question that attitudes have broadly shifted towards acceptance since 1990, but trends in violence aren't on the same trajectory. Why? I don't know. I have my guesses, but I know I'm not an expert.
Show threadJónJan 4, 2023
@KinkyTurtle @Supership79 Yeah, it was pretty terrible. Today, even without the right wing hate, it https://i.imgur.com/ThNl6UZ.pngwould have been called #cringefest.
Show threadfacepalm nationMar 2, 2023
@KinkyTurtle @Supership79 Priscilla: Queen of the Desert is a classic! Excellent soundtrack, too
Show threadLiddle Lamzy Dive BarDec 14, 2022

@Supership79 Absolutely LOVED this movie. This part always makes me a little weepy:

Carol Ann : Adam's Apple. Women don't have Adam's Apples, only men have Adam's Apples. The first night that you came to town I noticed that you had yourself an Adam's Apple.

Vida Boheme : Then, then you know?

Carol Ann : I know, that I am very fortunate to have a lady friend who just happens to have an Adam's Apple.

Show threadDevilled Gregg 🏳️‍🌈🇩🇰Dec 14, 2022

@Supership79 BEST MOVIE EVER!!!

Might be the reason why my cats are named Vida Bohème and Julie Newmar... 😅

Show threadRimuDec 14, 2022
@Supership79 Remember Pracilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)? https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/adventures_of_priscilla_queen_of_the_desert
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

When drag queen Anthony (Hugo Weaving) agrees to take his act on the road, he invites fellow cross-dresser Adam (Guy Pearce) and transsexual Bernadette (Terence Stamp) to come along. In their colorful bus, named Priscilla, the three performers travel across the Australian desert performing for enthusiastic crowds and homophobic locals. But when the other two performers learn the truth about why Anthony took the job, it threatens their act and their friendship.

Rotten Tomatoes
Show threadSupership 79Dec 20, 2022
@rimu totally. it was a great movie! although with some.. unfortunately dated bits in it
Show threadJason PerlowDec 15, 2022
@Supership79 Snipes' best film. Fight me.
Show threadMike DDec 15, 2022

@jperlow @Supership79

Demolition Man?
Blade?

Show threadnot a martian, honestMar 1, 2023
@jperlow @Supership79 why? I mean, why fight you?
Show threadStone Bear Dec 15, 2022

@Supership79 Same with Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

We were doing so damn WELL and then FUCKERY...

Show threadRoxanne MagnusonDec 15, 2022
@stonebear @Supership79 everything goes in waves. We need to rise to rise the happy love wave!
Show threadwhat the duckDec 15, 2022
@Supership79 One of the most unfortunately useful words I ever learned is revanchism. Pretty much the entire right wing identity right there in that one word.
Show threadRuss SharekDec 15, 2022

@Chimneyswift @Supership79

Thank you for the term for the thing I understood but didn't have words for.

Show threadpewpewdragonsDec 15, 2022

@RussSharek @Chimneyswift @Supership79

Same tbh. And it was never intentional. I'm not native English speaker so the first similar thing I encounted was a place called Revachol in Disco Elysium.

Then I met a birdsite user with a name Revanchist and I asked if it had anything to do with Disco Elysium. They just laughed at me.

Fair, I suppose.

I did do a search for revanchist but it didn't give me much. Apparently revanchism was the word I needed to use. And now I know!.

Show threadRoxanne MagnusonDec 15, 2022
@Chimneyswift @Supership79 thanks for the vocab addition. “A policy of seeking to retaliate, especially to recover lost territory: a recipe for deep future resentment…and renewed conflict” from French ‘revenge’. I trade revanchism for forgiveness, compromise, diplomacy & civil conversation.
Show threadpewpewdragonsDec 15, 2022

@Supership79 I have to be honest, I only saw this bc of Wesley Snipes, bc Demolition Man :D

It only had... or grew in significange for me later on. When I learned more about my own identty. But then again, I grew up with it and it grew up with me. I'm sureit would have been something else if I had been born 10 years earlier or later.

Show threadMichael BehrDec 15, 2022
@Supership79 this was a great movie
Show threadWe're Not In Kansas AnymoreDec 15, 2022

@Supership79

That's a great movie... I enjoyed it and have watched it Several times..

Show threadAndrea MarieDec 15, 2022
@Supership79 I just recently got it on dvd and told my mom - we saw it in the theater - i remembered it being such a sweet movie and she agreed.
Show threadAlex VranasDec 15, 2022
@Supership79 It's a damn good movie too. It doesn't discuss gender identity like we do today, but it's excellent representation for its time!
Show threadGameTightMarvinDec 15, 2022
@Supership79 that’s a great flick
Show threadWinchell Chung ⚛🚀Dec 15, 2022
@Supership79
My wife and I liked that movie, and Kinky Boots with Chiwetel Ejiofor
Show threadJob DestroyerDec 15, 2022

@Supership79

agreed, and i don't mean to downplay the horrifying implications of what you're getting at

but liguizamo was so friggin hot in that movie, just sayin

Show threadshaunDec 15, 2022
@Supership79 Hell, I don’t even think Mrs. Doubtfire could be made today without facing similar attacks. Entire state legislatures would be attempting to ban it, and passing resolutions calling Robin Williams a “groomer.”
Show threadNathalieDec 15, 2022
@Supership79 all I know is John Leguizamo looks hot af in a dress
Show threadPeter CohenMar 3, 2023
@nattiecat @Supership79 agreed but I like Bugs Bunny in drag so maybe I'm not the best judge
Show threadAnnaDec 15, 2022
@Supership79 I see and raise you...
1 - 1994
2 - The better drag queen road trip film (IMO)
3 - Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce and Terrence Stamp
Show threadSupership 79Dec 20, 2022
@jellycrystals Oh i fully concede Priscilla is a superior movie, but the entire 'vietnamese war bride' sequence can fall in a hole
Show threadAnnaDec 21, 2022
@Supership79 Fair point. We were never ones for tact and do enjoy stereotypes... There is a lot of cringeable Aussie TV/movie in our history.
Show threadAnnaDec 15, 2022
@Supership79 ...and the link.. Doh!
https://www.movieswatchfreeonline.com/free-movies/watch/the-adventures-of-priscilla-queen-of-the-desert-1994/
Show threadJulie SqveakarooDec 15, 2022

@Supership79

They have... also, I loved that movie...

Show threadJaye F.R. CoatesDec 15, 2022
@Supership79 And Priscilla, Queen of the Desert a year before that.
Show threadMJonesMar 3, 2023

@jfrcoates @Supership79 "Why do you ask, Two Dogs Fucking?"

I love that movie so much.

The ping pong scene still cracks me up!!

Show threadjen.. ( she/her )Dec 15, 2022
@Supership79 such a good flick.
Show threadPunky_John 🌱(He/Him)Dec 15, 2022
@Supership79 Even worse if the Crying Game was shown.
Show threadTrixDec 15, 2022
@Supership79 LOVED that movie! Maybe I need to go back and watch it again. I haven't seen it in a long time.
Show threadPxtlDec 15, 2022
@Supership79 And it's rated PG-13, and is therefore branded as "Safe for Children" by the MPAA. How scandalous.
Show threadSupership 79Dec 20, 2022
@Pxtl because it is! Nothing about drag is in and of itself 18+ or NSFW. thats the whole problem
Show threadChris-CatDec 16, 2022
@Supership79 I loved Priscilla: Queen of the Desert. To Wong Foo was 'entertaining' but it seemed disjointed to me, but I appreciated it at the time b/c it was a sign of progress. Not so much now. 😐
Show threadMorten KjeldgaardDec 16, 2022
@Supership79 Some like it hot (1959) https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0053291/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Manche mögen's heiß (1959) - IMDb

Manche mögen's heiß: Directed by Billy Wilder. With Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft. After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

IMDb
Show threadShlomo 🏳️‍🌈 שלמהDec 18, 2022
@Supership79 I love this film SO MUCH !!! 
Show threadBRANDON HILTON Dec 18, 2022
@Supership79 one of my fav movies forever!!!
Show threadKeri LuizDec 18, 2022
@Supership79 I love this movie and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Both fabulous movies and I agree… things have moved backwards in a way that is terrifying.
Show threadTwopawDec 18, 2022
@Supership79 Saw Maximum Von Sideeye reMastodon your present post on Twitter, so this 2Paw knew you were also present here.
Show threadMabbDec 20, 2022
@Supership79 sadly, I think you’re right.
Show threadinfinite_loopyDec 20, 2022
@Supership79 I recall when the movie came out I thought it sounded dumb and didn't go see it. TO this day I've never seen it, but John Leguizamo calls it one of his favorite roles and now I'm wondering what I missed....
Show threadFenris LorsraiDec 20, 2022

@Supership79 this post breeched containment and I've seen screenshots of it making the rounds on several local queer orgs

which is wild considering Mastodon doesn't really seem to have viral posts and yet this has already gone to screenshots on fb of all places

Show threadSupership 79Dec 20, 2022
@FenrisLorsrai you're not the only one who's told me that! Wild.
Show threadBerkubernetusJan 4, 2023
@Supership79 John Leguizamo remains one of the hottest women ever to appear on screen.