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Dragtime : looking back in time
A great wee find on YouTube (so its free) is this thoroughly entertaining HBO documentary by then newbie director Patti Kaplan about some of our favorite Drag Queens. The year is 1997 and Jeff Roberson aka Varla Jean Merman is so young he is totally unrecognizable in men’s attire : Lady Bunny had more…
Queen of The Capital : Muffy makes it to the Top
This is an affectionate portrait of a middle-aged man who is a Department of Labor official by day and a Drag Queen who dreams of being royalty at night. Daniel Hays may reside in Washington DC these days but he still loves his Southern upbringing so hence his alter-ego Muffy Blake Stephyns loves to…
All Male, All (almost) Nude, Johnsons has its World Premiere
There is a decidedly old fashioned feel to gay nightlife in Fort Lauderdale, and even more so in Wilton Manors which is home to a rapidly increasing amount of elderly gay men. It’s becoming more and more like Palm Springs the Californian town where gay men chose to retire in. Whereas in other cities…
Fabulous’ movie review : the tale of Lasseindra Ninja finally going home
This documentary by director Audrey Jean-Baptiste is the heartwarming story of a queer French Guiana kid known as Xavier who left his home country as it was impossible to be his true self. He put several thousands miles between his biological family and him and landed in New York, and very quickly found a…
