Wigstock: The Movie
by: Liz Drust
(playing at the
Esquire on Ludlow)
*ed. note: it was
playing there at the time that this article was written in like 1995.
Liz I miss you!!!
If you are
not a homophobe going into this movie, you will be a homophobe coming out.
Warn T.J. Burdine, should he ever be moved to see it, not knowing what
it's about.
What is
it about? Drag queens. Men who shave their legs and wear makeup
and have learned how to make really good fake breasts. They dance
in groups that would make En Vogue envious, and sing like Tina Turner.
The movie
has no particular point. It covers 2 years' worth of clips and interviews
of Wigstock, a drag queen fest in which participants and attendees wear
gaudy clothes and try to have the biggest most oddly colored hair.
I was
the most scared when the female impersonator stripper took the stage.
He began removing articles of clothing. Finally he was down to two
feathered fans, on of which he held in front of his butt and one in front
to his genitalia. He began switching the fans as he finished his
song, making the gap between the covering longer. The last note,
he lifted both fans, revealing a very white penis for all the world to
see. I wanted to throw up. There's nothing worse than seeing
a gay mans' wonk.
The only
good thing about the movie is that it only lasts an hour and 15 minutes.
Everything else is bad.
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