It’s the season finale of Video Queens, and we’re taking you back to the beginning with the sequel to our pilot episode, Another Gay Sequel. Is this the worst movie we’ve watched? Patrick certainly thinks so, and goes through the five stages of grief over having watched it. Cameron tries to rescue the core concept and finds a silver lining in a few of the film’s cameos. There’s lots to unpack in the problem attic and make sure you stick around till the end because we’re giving out Oscar style awards to the best and brightest performances in the movies we’ve watched this year.
It’s the last day of pride month so the queens are watching two drag movies! To Hollywood Cult Classic To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything Julie Newman, and the Aussie Indie hit The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Patrick tries to reconcile which drag road trip movie is which and Cameron connects To Wong Foo to the history of selling gay culture to straight audiences. The problem attic and the history corner are in full swing this week.
This week the Queens watch Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy. The episode is pretty much a thin pretext for Cameron and Patrick to work on their Harvey Fierstein voices, but it really pays off! There’s also lots of good history stuff about the history of drag. Up in the problem attic we’re more interested what’s not in the boxes: bi phobia and dead queer characters.
Our Pride Drag-a-thon continues! This week the queens watch the Canadian drag cult classic Outrageous! Patrick learns how to use Wikipedia to look up facts about a Canadian celebrities and basically renders Cameron useless. Cameron unpacks some time capsule moments about drag in the 70s and sees himself in a bedroom queen. Up in the problem attic… actually we’re not sure. Can psychosis be problematic? We’ll talk.
Its week two of our pride month drag movie marathon! This week we watched John Water’s classic Pink Flamingos, staring the legendary Divine. Cameron struggles with his vanilla sensibilities and his appreciation for the impact of John Waters. Patrick explains his take on the egg man and spends most of the movie waiting for the famous poo scene. We’re not sure where the problem attic begins and ends with this one but we’re going to give it a try.
Its Pride month! This week the queens kick of their pride drag movie marathon with the 1968 documentary The Queen. Patrick is staunchly team Crystal and wants to introduce a scoring system for real life. Cameron can’t help talking about Drag Race and gives us a little history lesson on drag before Stonewall. Up in the problem attic we’re taking a little at white beauty standards and racial biases in drag competitions.
This week the Queens watch cult classic, fan favorite, But I’m a Cheerleader. Cameron is obsessed with the colour pallet and gets into the history of blue and pink baby colours. Patrick is searching for his own root and finds it on Broadway. Up in the problematic we’re trying to figure out what happened to Jan and unpacking a light comedy about conversation therapy.
This week the Queens watch John Cameron Mitchel’s Shortbus. Patrick is so excited that we finally get full frontal nudity and talks about the controversial non-simulated sex scenes in this movie. Cameron comes up with a new drag name and assigns an undergrad term paper. Not much in the problem attic this week but Patrick reveals a secret about a personal connection to one of the actors.
This week the Queens watched Trick and have their first fight about a movie. Cameron reveals the audition monologue he’s been working on for the last twenty years and Patrick struggles to find the com amongst the rom. Don’t forget to join us in the problem attic because we need help moving a box labelled sexism and the “fag hag” trope in 90s pop culture.
This week the Queens watch Mambo Italian, the gay Canadian-Italian answer to My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Cameron has a mental block against the protagonist’s name that borders on pathological and Patrick workshops a new sensitive gay character, Davis. Join us up in the problem attack to unpack a box filled with gay guys who hate other gay guys, effeminacy, and the dreaded “scene.”
This week the Queens watched Better Than Chocolate and fall in love with pretty much everyone but the main characters. Cameron gives us a history lesson on bookstores doing battle with customs and Patrick comes to terms with the discovery that he might be a boob guy. In the problem attic we’ve got a dusty box about the history of cis actors playing trans characters.
This week the Queens watch Camp, the musical about life at a musical theatre summer camp. Patrick refuses to learn the words to any song ever written and Cameron works through his own internalized musical theatre phobia. Up in the problem attic we’re talking about straight boy worshipping in gay spaces and the limitations of colorblind casting.
This week the Queens watch Boy Culture and contemplate the limits of pretentious interior monologues. Patrick works on his Christian Bale Batman impression and Cameron tries to pitch a less terrible remake. Up in the problem attic we’re looking for a box marked “aggressive slut shaming.”
In the first episode of Video Queens, the Queens watched Another Gay Movie (2006) and discuss if every gay reference you can think of mashed together makes a movie (sort of?). Patrick refuses to learn anyone’s real name and Cameron considers an alternate reading of the movie as a sex ed class. Join us in the problem attic to discuss lazy racist jokes and mixed feelings about the film's only lesbian character.