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Pink Flamingos (1972) 50th Anniversary Special

The Evolution of Horror

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The Origins of Drag Queens

Before divine drag was quite different right and it was more like he described it as almost just like people passing right so it wasn't that same kind of extreme kind of mixed with the almost kind of clown or grotesque or whatever. Drag queens intersected with multiple identities like you know marsha p johnson identified herself as a drag queen well there was a lot of a lot of blurring of gender a lot of fluidity and in old drag, according to John Water's interview on The Tonight Show.

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