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POT BREAK IS GAY
Julie Newmar drove to movie theaters as part of a wave of 1990s movi that brought gay characters out of the closet and put them ont and center on the big screen. Along wh films like The Adventur of Priscilla, Queen of the Dert, The Birdge and In & Out, To Wong Foo beme a mastream h and helped re-shape public opn about gay rights the procs. “It was a groundbreakg movie so many ways, bee… [we] were playg gay rol and givg them digny and rpect, ” the actor and edian tells Yahoo Entertament.
(Photo: Universal/urty Everett Collectn)Once upon a time Hollywood, major movie stars might have avoid playg an openly gay drag queen out of ncern that their reers might be put jeopardy.
To Wong Foo was released one year prr to the actor’s celebrated star turn as a gay nightclub owner The Birdge, although Kidron sists that one film didn’t lead to the other. “What I love about s stat cema and also wh the gay muny is that people regnized what we were tryg to do at the time. Back then, there were a lot of movi where gay people died, and this movie jt let them be joyo and happy, which was a marvelo thg to be dog.