AVANT-DRAG! (2024)
Ten drag artists in Greece are featured in director Fil Ieropoulos’ 2024 documentary AVANT-DRAG!
VICTOR/VICTORIA (1982)
Julie Andrews masquerades as a gay man in drag in writer/director Blake Edwards’ 1982 gender-bending musical comedy VICTOR/VICTORIA.
CAMP (2003)
Out writer/director Todd Graff’s 2003 musical comedy-drama CAMP follows a group of teenagers at a summer camp for the performing arts.
Some Like it Hot (1959)
Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis dress in drag, and find themselves in some queer situations, in Billy Wilder's classic 1959 comedy SOME LIKE IT HOT.
Queer Frame Archive:
Andrew Proctor, a film editor and creator of The Queer Frame Archive, gives us the history behind The Gay Girls Riding Club in his latest video essay on YouTube. The Gay Girls Riding Club was a small film production company made by a group of LA gays in the 1960s.
The Brady Bunch 1 & 2 (1995/96)
THE BRADY BUNCH MOVIE (1995) and A VERY BRADY SEQUEL (1996) had some key gay writers working behind the scenes.
FIRST A GIRL (1935)
The 1935 British drag comedy FIRST A GIRL, Victor Saville’s adaptation of VIKTOR UND VIKTORIA (1933).
STONEWALL (1995)
The 1995 film STONEWALL blends fact and fiction in its exploration of the events leading up to June 28th, 1969. Screenwriter Rikki Beadle-Blair and the film’s director, Nigel Finch, used author/historian Martin Duberman’s 1994 book “Stonewall” as a guide when crafting their story.
FEMME (2023)
Check out what Instagram’s @queerblackhollywood had to say about Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping’s 2023 thriller FEMME.
CHRISSY JUDY (2022)
Todd Flaherty and Wyatt Fenner star as drag performing besties in writer/director/star Flaherty’s 2022 film CHRISSY JUDY.
POLYESTER (1981)
The 1981 film POLYESTER brought queer icons John Waters and Divine together again for a comedic homage to Douglas Sirk’s classic Hollywood melodramas. Gay actor Tab Hunter, who was a major Hollywood heartthrob in the 1950s/60s, plays Divine’s romantic interest.