The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

 Jon Vitka

    Alrighty, this was defiantly one of the obvious types of queer movies that we had watched throughout this year. It saddens me to know that this was the very last one we would write about on our blog so I wanted to put everything into this last blog of mine. First things first let's talk about the characters,  especially on the fact that they go around dressing and sing like women. there was the transgender person, the gay drag queen, as well as, other queer-like characters that could be found throughout the movie. After reading our required reading you can actually learn how these characters played the biggest role in queerness since they didn't try to hide the fact that they were queer in some way or another. "Is a lens through which to examine the traditional views of masculine and feminine gender roles" (Challinor). This is quote really basically sums up the whole purpose of the movie as well as the readings as it simply states that we watched this movie to really see the difference between gender roles as sometimes our roles are not what they seem to be.

Another that is very important to look at is the actual setting that this movie took place in a desert as they are wearing these clothes that you would see at a casino. Why would this be ay important to queerness? Well, it's quite simple actually, most of the time casinos such as Las Vagus usually have all the odd and talented people or mysterious out-of-the-world things there. That giving its famous quote, "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" Giving the idea that whatever you see or do will stay there in Vegas. Now did you know that most of the time in casinos you would have a lot of live performances and music and wild articles of clothing? Yup, that's right if you haven't figured it out yet, there were a lot of crossdressers and transgender performers in their casinos as they would sing, crossdress, and dance in front of many people. Just like the characters in the movie as they would crossdress, sing, and dance in front of many people as if they were performers for a show. In the end, this movie really showed queerness as it was pro queerness in my opinion since it showed that even people who couldn't understand queerness could at least try to join or fit in with them. Oh, also it was very sad seeing the last scene near the end where he gets beaten up because he was queer. It deffinently makes it harder to see the pro queerness out of this movie rather than negative queerness. 

I personally really liked this movie since before I watched this movie I read the required readings which gave me the insight to know what to look at and what to expect from this movie. It was also very important to understand what character was what in sexuality and gender since it gave me a clear idea of each role of watch character. I also loved all the songs within this movie since the songs in the movie were my favorite songs back then when my parents would play them in the kitchen. I also loved the scene where they went on the bus and had them put their head out of the roof while wearing this awesome clothing as it reflected the light like it was chromatic. In the end, I honestly loved this movie, just because of how interesting it was and how cool it was to watch that scene where they perform in front of these people when they were traveling on the road and gave clothes to that guy as he even joined in and danced with them.