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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.