“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.