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Levity as Queer Performance in Beeban Kidron’s To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
“Step two to becoming a queen: ignore adversity” (To Wong Foo 27:24). Of the four steps to becoming a drag queen posited by Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (henceforth To Wong Foo), step two is particularly emblematic of the film’s approach to depicting bigotry. To suggest…
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