“This Was Me” is the beatg heart of the gay mil’s film adaptatn.
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IS W BENTLEY’S JAMIE GAY YELLOWSTONE?
The people marched and got beaten up by police so that we uld have the eedom to go to a gay club and snog a stranger. Like the stage show — and like the 2011 documentary, Jamie: Drag Queen at 16, which preced both fictnalizatns — the Amazon Studs film follows the story of Jamie, a gay teen a small village who has a secret sire to perform as a drag fact that this story has been told and retold aga mak perfect sense.
In the stage versn, Hugo reveals his fabulo past a mpy number tled “The Legend of Lo Chanelle (and the Blood Red Drs)” that’s part Joan Crawford melodrama, part Drag Race the film, however, the high-energy scene is replaced wh the origal song, “This Was Me, ” which chews all the vampg and mythmakg of “Lo Chanelle” and stead reunts Hugo’s personal stggl as a gay man durg the ’80s and ’, director Jonathan Butterell drops the glterg mic vio athetic that gloss over the rt of the film while Hugo (Richard E. Lyrilly, “This Was Me” is a movg ttament to the rilience of LGBTQ+ people who lived the Uned Kgdom throughout the AIDS crisis and durg Margaret Thatcher’s blatantly homophobic le. ”Gray home vios of Hugo and his iends partyg gay clubs show a part of history seldom showsed ntemporary LGBTQ+ entertament, which so often ignor queer culture’s ep roots to tell more prentist stori.