1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:10,748 --> 00:00:12,684 ( music playing ) 4 00:00:17,455 --> 00:00:19,487 Linda Simpson: The world is sick with masculinity. 5 00:00:19,556 --> 00:00:23,695 So, as much femininity as this one body can have... 6 00:00:25,162 --> 00:00:26,829 ...that is what makes 7 00:00:26,898 --> 00:00:28,500 a really good drag queen. 8 00:00:30,034 --> 00:00:31,766 Drag, for me, 9 00:00:31,835 --> 00:00:35,237 is an ancient, ancestral performing art. 10 00:00:35,306 --> 00:00:38,841 It’s a way for the gay community 11 00:00:38,910 --> 00:00:40,875 to choose its icons. 12 00:00:40,944 --> 00:00:43,478 We’re the priests. We are kind of like 13 00:00:43,547 --> 00:00:45,680 the spiritual masters of the gay community. 14 00:00:45,749 --> 00:00:48,751 Emcee: Ladies, and gentlemen who would rather be ladies... 15 00:00:48,820 --> 00:00:52,124 ( music playing ) 16 00:01:13,745 --> 00:01:16,381 ( music continues ) 17 00:01:28,825 --> 00:01:31,093 Lady Bunny: I wanna tell you something. 18 00:01:31,162 --> 00:01:34,329 I moved to New York City in 1984. 19 00:01:34,398 --> 00:01:36,831 Since then, like the other jaded scenesters, 20 00:01:36,900 --> 00:01:39,266 and I’m guilty of it too, I sit and bitch: 21 00:01:39,335 --> 00:01:42,302 "There’s a Duane Reade and a Chase Bank on every corner. 22 00:01:42,371 --> 00:01:45,206 The city’s so slick and sophisticated" and all that. 23 00:01:45,275 --> 00:01:48,310 But you know what? After doin’ that and bitchin’ for about 30 years, 24 00:01:48,379 --> 00:01:49,910 I finally said, "Well, listen here: 25 00:01:49,979 --> 00:01:52,380 You’re a lifer. You ain’t movin’. 26 00:01:52,449 --> 00:01:54,582 So your choice is to keep bitchin’ 27 00:01:54,651 --> 00:01:57,119 or put on a festival like you used to do 28 00:01:57,188 --> 00:01:58,720 to bring people together 29 00:01:58,789 --> 00:02:01,789 and make something fun about New York City! 30 00:02:01,858 --> 00:02:04,492 - ( music playing ) - Are you ready, Wigstock? 31 00:02:04,561 --> 00:02:06,528 Festivalgoers: Yeah! 32 00:02:06,597 --> 00:02:08,600 Lady Bunny: Maestro, hit it! 33 00:02:09,967 --> 00:02:15,003 ♪ Uh-huh, make me tonight ♪ 34 00:02:15,072 --> 00:02:20,812 ♪ Tonight, tonight ♪ 35 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:28,187 ♪ Oh, your hair is beautiful ♪ 36 00:02:30,054 --> 00:02:34,693 ♪ Oh, tonight ♪ 37 00:02:35,893 --> 00:02:38,360 ♪ Atomic ♪ 38 00:02:38,429 --> 00:02:40,463 Drag Queen: She worked her way up 39 00:02:40,532 --> 00:02:41,997 to New York City, 40 00:02:42,066 --> 00:02:44,166 {\an8}to the Queen of Manhattan, 41 00:02:44,235 --> 00:02:45,801 {\an8}and now she’s hearkening back 42 00:02:45,870 --> 00:02:48,270 {\an8}to her Chattanooga white trash roots, 43 00:02:48,339 --> 00:02:50,939 doin’ one of her songs of her own 44 00:02:51,008 --> 00:02:53,275 in a style that she made famous. 45 00:02:53,344 --> 00:02:56,111 Please welcome Lady Bunny! 46 00:02:56,180 --> 00:02:57,980 ( crowd cheering ) 47 00:02:58,049 --> 00:03:00,348 ♪ Tonight ♪ 48 00:03:00,417 --> 00:03:02,617 ♪ Make me tonight ♪ 49 00:03:02,686 --> 00:03:05,454 {\an8}Lady Bunny: I snuck into a club at 13, 50 00:03:05,523 --> 00:03:07,488 {\an8}in Chattanooga, Tennessee. 51 00:03:07,557 --> 00:03:09,124 I’d never seen-- whoo!-- 52 00:03:09,193 --> 00:03:11,492 sequined gowns and false eyelashes, 53 00:03:11,561 --> 00:03:13,328 the giant wigs and whatever. 54 00:03:13,397 --> 00:03:15,363 I lived in drag as a child. 55 00:03:15,432 --> 00:03:18,299 The long t-shirts and the short-shorts. 56 00:03:18,368 --> 00:03:20,000 And I had long hair, so, honey, 57 00:03:20,069 --> 00:03:22,938 I was never in the closet, let’s put it that way. 58 00:03:23,007 --> 00:03:23,973 ( laughing ) 59 00:03:24,042 --> 00:03:26,979 ♪ Atomic ♪ 60 00:03:30,247 --> 00:03:32,551 ♪ Don’t you know your queen ♪ 61 00:03:35,086 --> 00:03:37,520 ♪ Whipped ♪ 62 00:03:37,589 --> 00:03:38,821 Who’s that guy? 63 00:03:38,890 --> 00:03:40,756 ♪ Heaving ♪ 64 00:03:40,825 --> 00:03:45,093 ♪ Flower bloom at my feet... ♪ 65 00:03:45,162 --> 00:03:46,862 - We gotta go now. Bye. - Bye. 66 00:03:46,931 --> 00:03:48,263 Bye, Nelson! 67 00:03:48,332 --> 00:03:49,798 Lady Bunny: The Pyramid Club, 68 00:03:49,867 --> 00:03:53,368 when I arrived in about ’83, 69 00:03:53,437 --> 00:03:55,904 was a swinging club 70 00:03:55,973 --> 00:03:57,673 that they billed as 71 00:03:57,742 --> 00:04:00,375 "drag-owned and operated." 72 00:04:00,444 --> 00:04:02,310 Wait a minute. There we are. 73 00:04:02,379 --> 00:04:04,346 That’s my new pyramid heart. 74 00:04:04,415 --> 00:04:08,183 - What’s that? - It’s a pyramid. 75 00:04:08,252 --> 00:04:11,490 ( music playing ) 76 00:04:14,258 --> 00:04:16,595 Hello. Welcome to the Pyramid. 77 00:04:20,664 --> 00:04:23,499 Lady Bunny: We were really ridiculous... 78 00:04:23,568 --> 00:04:27,269 taking LSD... 79 00:04:27,338 --> 00:04:30,375 you know, it was a magic time. 80 00:04:33,277 --> 00:04:35,377 The Pyramid celebrities 81 00:04:35,446 --> 00:04:37,946 were creating their own persona. 82 00:04:38,015 --> 00:04:41,616 They weren’t doing Cher, Joan Rivers, or whatever. 83 00:04:41,685 --> 00:04:43,885 They were coming up with their own persona 84 00:04:43,954 --> 00:04:46,489 with its own look and its own repertoire. 85 00:04:46,558 --> 00:04:48,952 ♪ When I sashay ♪ 86 00:04:49,021 --> 00:04:51,761 ♪ Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah ♪ 87 00:04:51,830 --> 00:04:54,497 ♪ Ah-ah-ah-ah ah-ah-ah ♪ 88 00:04:54,566 --> 00:04:56,298 ♪ Hey, hey ♪ 89 00:04:56,367 --> 00:04:59,101 ♪ Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah ♪ 90 00:04:59,170 --> 00:05:01,469 ♪ Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah... ♪ 91 00:05:01,538 --> 00:05:06,375 Emcee: Please welcome Linda Simpson! 92 00:05:06,444 --> 00:05:08,109 {\an8}Linda Simpson: In the ’70s and ’80s, 93 00:05:08,178 --> 00:05:11,013 {\an8}the atmosphere at the gay bars and clubs was macho. 94 00:05:11,082 --> 00:05:14,749 People didn’t want femininity, really. 95 00:05:14,818 --> 00:05:18,453 - Emcee: What did our studio audience think? - ( audience cheering ) 96 00:05:18,522 --> 00:05:20,989 Linda Simpson: And the Pyramid, drag became tongue-in-cheek, 97 00:05:21,058 --> 00:05:23,626 was rebellious, it was like punk rock. 98 00:05:23,695 --> 00:05:25,827 No one was careerist about it. 99 00:05:25,896 --> 00:05:28,130 People were just doing it to have fun. 100 00:05:28,199 --> 00:05:31,467 ♪ No family is safe ♪ 101 00:05:31,536 --> 00:05:33,602 ♪ When I sashay ♪ 102 00:05:33,671 --> 00:05:37,472 ♪ Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah ♪ 103 00:05:37,541 --> 00:05:40,476 Emcee: Welcome Lahoma Van Zandt. 104 00:05:40,545 --> 00:05:42,544 ( crowd cheering ) 105 00:05:42,613 --> 00:05:46,414 {\an8}Lahoma Van Zandt: We were just fucking down to just do our thing. 106 00:05:46,483 --> 00:05:48,150 {\an8}It was a form of expression, 107 00:05:48,219 --> 00:05:51,982 and also discovery of our feminine side. 108 00:05:52,051 --> 00:05:53,655 It’s the make-believe. 109 00:05:53,724 --> 00:05:55,257 It’s the make-believe part of it. 110 00:05:55,326 --> 00:05:57,426 And so we just created our own world. 111 00:05:57,495 --> 00:06:00,062 - The snow. The snow. - Yeah. 112 00:06:00,131 --> 00:06:02,230 - OK. - Thank you. 113 00:06:02,299 --> 00:06:03,732 ( all laughing ) 114 00:06:03,801 --> 00:06:05,467 Lady Bunny: RuPaul and I met in Atlanta, 115 00:06:05,536 --> 00:06:09,772 {\an8}and were immediate whatever-we-were. 116 00:06:09,841 --> 00:06:11,739 {\an8}It was more than a friendship, 117 00:06:11,808 --> 00:06:14,910 it was a sisterhood, we were close. 118 00:06:14,979 --> 00:06:16,611 What people don’t know about Ru 119 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:20,682 is that his taste in music is unbeatable. 120 00:06:20,751 --> 00:06:22,850 I ain’t sayin’ listen to his current records. 121 00:06:22,919 --> 00:06:25,654 Emcee: This next performer’s name is RuPaul. 122 00:06:25,723 --> 00:06:27,255 Make no mistake about it, 123 00:06:27,324 --> 00:06:30,325 this summer, RuPaul is hot. 124 00:06:30,394 --> 00:06:32,560 Man: Yay! RuPaul! 125 00:06:32,629 --> 00:06:34,124 I think right now I’m gonna-- 126 00:06:34,193 --> 00:06:35,630 Man: RuPaul is red hot! 127 00:06:35,699 --> 00:06:37,700 I’m think right now I’m gonna break out. 128 00:06:37,769 --> 00:06:39,234 Here, let me get red hot. 129 00:06:39,303 --> 00:06:40,935 Lady Bunny: Ru really didn’t have an act, 130 00:06:41,004 --> 00:06:42,904 so he needed to have a few extra clowns. 131 00:06:42,973 --> 00:06:45,907 And I was one of those clowns that he brought up to New York 132 00:06:45,976 --> 00:06:48,777 for a gig at the Pyramid to go-go dance in drag. 133 00:06:48,846 --> 00:06:51,046 RuPaul: I wanna break out tonight! 134 00:06:51,115 --> 00:06:54,686 {\an8}( continues, indistinct ) 135 00:06:56,287 --> 00:07:00,960 - ( music playing ) - ( singing, indistinct ) 136 00:07:05,496 --> 00:07:08,467 ( laughter, chatter ) 137 00:07:17,307 --> 00:07:20,008 Store P.A.: ♪ Don’t it make my brown eyes ♪ 138 00:07:20,077 --> 00:07:24,683 ♪ Don’t it make my brown eyes blue ♪ 139 00:07:26,445 --> 00:07:29,385 God, is Bunny a terror, or what? 140 00:07:29,454 --> 00:07:31,486 ( laughing ) 141 00:07:31,555 --> 00:07:35,050 She was a terror. She had this attitude after she came. 142 00:07:35,119 --> 00:07:39,121 She said, "I can deal with workin’, and I work hard," she said, 143 00:07:39,190 --> 00:07:42,431 "Every five minutes having to cue up a record is gonna drive me crazy." 144 00:07:42,500 --> 00:07:43,999 To the Pyramid. 145 00:07:44,068 --> 00:07:45,901 You know he was dying to be spanked. 146 00:07:45,970 --> 00:07:48,503 Came up to me saying it was his birthday 147 00:07:48,572 --> 00:07:51,206 and was he too old to warrant a spanking, 148 00:07:51,275 --> 00:07:54,309 and asked me if there were any alternative S&M clubs. 149 00:07:54,378 --> 00:07:56,345 Man: They’re all closed because of AIDS. 150 00:07:56,414 --> 00:07:58,013 Lady Bunny: The club closed, 151 00:07:58,082 --> 00:08:00,043 and we were all friends with the bartenders, 152 00:08:00,112 --> 00:08:01,483 and they drank too, 153 00:08:01,552 --> 00:08:03,951 but then when they’d say, "No, you have to shut," 154 00:08:04,020 --> 00:08:06,155 we would just grab six-packs and head over 155 00:08:06,224 --> 00:08:08,658 to Tompkins Square Park where there was a band shell. 156 00:08:08,727 --> 00:08:11,861 Nelson: Bonsoir! Bonsoir! 157 00:08:11,930 --> 00:08:15,698 ♪ Don’t you know your queen ♪ 158 00:08:15,767 --> 00:08:17,432 ♪ Gleaming ♪ 159 00:08:17,501 --> 00:08:20,268 ♪ Wrapped in golden leaf ♪ 160 00:08:20,337 --> 00:08:22,738 Lady Bunny: You know, we were just blasted drunk, 161 00:08:22,807 --> 00:08:23,905 had been drunk all night... 162 00:08:23,974 --> 00:08:25,644 You bitch! I’ll kill you! 163 00:08:26,978 --> 00:08:28,678 ♪ Rank ♪ 164 00:08:28,747 --> 00:08:30,378 ♪ Ragged ♪ 165 00:08:30,447 --> 00:08:35,654 ♪ Skin sewn on sheets ♪ 166 00:08:37,621 --> 00:08:40,188 Lady Bunny: We were just clowning on... 167 00:08:40,257 --> 00:08:43,492 for angry homeless people that wanted to sleep. 168 00:08:43,561 --> 00:08:47,494 Someone said, "What if we do some kind of festival here?" 169 00:08:47,563 --> 00:08:51,601 Who knows who said, "Instead of Woodstock, we’ll call it Wigstock." 170 00:08:51,670 --> 00:08:52,801 I have no idea. 171 00:08:52,870 --> 00:08:54,536 ♪ When I sashay ♪ 172 00:08:54,605 --> 00:08:58,073 ♪ Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah ♪ 173 00:08:58,142 --> 00:09:00,743 ♪ Ah-ah-ah-ah- ah-ah-ah ♪ 174 00:09:00,812 --> 00:09:02,781 ♪ Hey, hey ♪ 175 00:09:04,549 --> 00:09:06,285 ♪ Hey, hey ♪ 176 00:09:12,255 --> 00:09:14,890 {\an8}- Huh? - Man: Are you gonna be here next week too? 177 00:09:14,959 --> 00:09:16,624 {\an8}Yes, it’s the anniversary. 178 00:09:16,693 --> 00:09:20,199 {\an8}( loud music playing, Lady Bunny indistinct ) 179 00:09:24,696 --> 00:09:27,606 ( music playing, lyrics indistinct ) 180 00:09:35,044 --> 00:09:38,581 Lady Bunny: The environment that I grew up in, 181 00:09:38,650 --> 00:09:40,415 in large clubs, 182 00:09:40,484 --> 00:09:44,786 I think we could use a dose of community. 183 00:09:44,855 --> 00:09:47,289 When we had a common enemy, 184 00:09:47,358 --> 00:09:51,526 like rampant, unchecked discrimination, 185 00:09:51,595 --> 00:09:56,363 inability to marry, or serve in the military, or AIDS-- 186 00:09:56,432 --> 00:09:59,668 we did come together because there was an enemy to fight. 187 00:09:59,737 --> 00:10:03,705 ( music continues ) 188 00:10:03,774 --> 00:10:07,808 Lady Bunny: Now I think we’re tending to fight each other more. 189 00:10:07,877 --> 00:10:10,946 and I think that if we got in each other’s faces, we would say, 190 00:10:11,015 --> 00:10:14,750 "Oh, yeah! You. I get it." 191 00:10:14,819 --> 00:10:16,951 The whole idea of Wigstock 192 00:10:17,020 --> 00:10:20,588 is that we wanted to be considered freaks, 193 00:10:20,657 --> 00:10:21,991 because it made it feel like 194 00:10:22,060 --> 00:10:24,860 we had gotten into some in-crowd 195 00:10:24,929 --> 00:10:28,029 in New York City! 196 00:10:28,098 --> 00:10:31,133 - Lady Bunny: Hello! - Man: Bunny! 197 00:10:31,202 --> 00:10:33,202 - Waah! Mwah. - Love you. 198 00:10:33,271 --> 00:10:35,265 - Take care. - Love you, hussy. 199 00:10:35,334 --> 00:10:36,772 Let me get up the stairs. 200 00:10:36,841 --> 00:10:38,907 - Bye, honey. - Man: Sweetie. 201 00:10:38,976 --> 00:10:40,742 Yes. Oh, thank you so much! 202 00:10:40,811 --> 00:10:43,406 - Got about five of ’em. - Oh, OK. Wonderful. 203 00:10:43,475 --> 00:10:48,117 One, two, three, four, five, six-- 204 00:10:48,186 --> 00:10:50,185 I don’t pick up my paychecks very often 205 00:10:50,254 --> 00:10:52,253 because I’m independently wealthy. 206 00:10:52,322 --> 00:10:54,489 ( laughing ) 207 00:10:54,558 --> 00:10:57,259 Don’t worry. I’m already... 208 00:10:57,328 --> 00:11:01,066 in the Wesley Snipes... category. 209 00:11:02,767 --> 00:11:05,133 With taxes. Not talent. 210 00:11:05,202 --> 00:11:08,770 Not talent or looks or physical fitness or acting ability. 211 00:11:08,839 --> 00:11:10,373 OK. ( laughing ) 212 00:11:10,442 --> 00:11:12,274 Bye! 213 00:11:12,343 --> 00:11:14,279 ( music playing ) 214 00:11:16,781 --> 00:11:18,918 ( chatter ) 215 00:11:20,718 --> 00:11:22,752 {\an8}( music playing ) 216 00:11:22,821 --> 00:11:24,386 {\an8}Man: Ooh, fog. Fog. 217 00:11:24,455 --> 00:11:25,887 {\an8}( laughter ) 218 00:11:25,956 --> 00:11:28,551 Man 2: Oh, that fog! 219 00:11:28,620 --> 00:11:33,365 First day! Have a fun first day. 220 00:11:35,599 --> 00:11:37,399 {\an8}♪ Take me by the hand... ♪ 221 00:11:37,468 --> 00:11:40,205 {\an8}( song continues, lyrics indistinct ) 222 00:11:47,544 --> 00:11:50,012 Lady Bunny: So, I think that Wigstock 223 00:11:50,081 --> 00:11:51,580 might have bitten the dust 224 00:11:51,649 --> 00:11:54,148 if I hadn’t really seen something there. 225 00:11:54,217 --> 00:11:57,747 But I had always been the brat that pins up a sheet in between two trees 226 00:11:57,816 --> 00:12:00,325 and invites the neighbors over for a show. 227 00:12:02,086 --> 00:12:03,925 {\an8}Linda Simpson: Lady Bunny and some other people 228 00:12:03,994 --> 00:12:06,094 {\an8}from the Pyramid came up with this idea 229 00:12:06,163 --> 00:12:09,334 {\an8}to do this outdoor drag-fest during the day. 230 00:12:10,635 --> 00:12:12,771 {\an8}( music playing ) 231 00:12:14,671 --> 00:12:16,204 {\an8}But it was hysterical, because drag 232 00:12:16,273 --> 00:12:18,874 was usually confined to, like, 3:00 a.m., 233 00:12:18,943 --> 00:12:22,272 in pure darkness of a club. 234 00:12:22,341 --> 00:12:24,179 Welcome to Wigstock! 235 00:12:24,248 --> 00:12:27,215 Stop the pigs and give ’em wigs! 236 00:12:27,284 --> 00:12:30,118 All right! We got so much incredible talent for you 237 00:12:30,187 --> 00:12:31,787 lined up tonight, and you’re just 238 00:12:31,856 --> 00:12:33,922 dying to see it, I can tell! 239 00:12:33,991 --> 00:12:37,525 ( singing ) 240 00:12:37,594 --> 00:12:39,360 Gonna bring down the house, 241 00:12:39,429 --> 00:12:42,564 and I’m so glad to see each and every one of you. 242 00:12:42,633 --> 00:12:45,967 Lots of wigs out there too, and that’s even better! 243 00:12:46,036 --> 00:12:48,836 ( music, chatter ) 244 00:12:48,905 --> 00:12:51,472 Linda Simpson: So it was probably attended by just a few hundred people 245 00:12:51,541 --> 00:12:55,114 at first, and a lot of them were just wandering by. 246 00:12:58,049 --> 00:12:59,381 I know that trick. 247 00:12:59,450 --> 00:13:02,217 {\an8}Tabboo!: Alphabet City was dangerous. 248 00:13:02,286 --> 00:13:03,686 {\an8}The only people that were on the streets 249 00:13:03,755 --> 00:13:05,653 {\an8}were junkies, drug dealers, 250 00:13:05,722 --> 00:13:08,090 and there were no cops, so you could do whatever you want. 251 00:13:08,159 --> 00:13:10,960 We were very tentative about getting our asses kicked. 252 00:13:11,029 --> 00:13:13,323 "Halloween Q, Take Back the Night." 253 00:13:13,392 --> 00:13:14,562 An anti-violence march. 254 00:13:14,631 --> 00:13:16,731 We’re stopping in several places along the route. 255 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:19,334 One’s for police, one’s for violence against lesbians, 256 00:13:19,403 --> 00:13:21,236 one’s for violence against people of color, 257 00:13:21,305 --> 00:13:24,506 one’s for AIDS-phobia/ homophobia. 258 00:13:24,575 --> 00:13:26,908 ( chatter ) 259 00:13:26,977 --> 00:13:28,576 Man: Give me an orange one that will stand out more. 260 00:13:28,645 --> 00:13:31,513 Right back there. "Drag queens are under attack." 261 00:13:31,582 --> 00:13:35,684 {\an8}They’re already all over the street. On their way to Wigstock. 262 00:13:35,753 --> 00:13:37,486 ♪ I finally feel like ♪ 263 00:13:37,555 --> 00:13:40,488 ♪ I’m gonna be feelin’ this way... ♪ 264 00:13:40,557 --> 00:13:42,524 {\an8}So right here, we finally got our sound system, 265 00:13:42,593 --> 00:13:46,094 {\an8}and the show should be going off real soon. 266 00:13:46,163 --> 00:13:48,663 {\an8}Flotilla DeBarge: It was just for the artists 267 00:13:48,732 --> 00:13:51,266 {\an8}in the neighborhood, basically, when it started. 268 00:13:51,335 --> 00:13:53,969 {\an8}But then it became, like, a big thing 269 00:13:54,038 --> 00:13:55,270 where the neighborhood would come 270 00:13:55,339 --> 00:13:57,139 and other people would come 271 00:13:57,208 --> 00:14:00,208 and heterosexuals would come and bring their kids. 272 00:14:00,277 --> 00:14:01,877 We got a dynamite show for you. 273 00:14:01,946 --> 00:14:04,779 The Pyramid put on this every year, 274 00:14:04,848 --> 00:14:07,649 just because there are so many housewives and children 275 00:14:07,718 --> 00:14:09,918 that can’t always make it to the nightclub. 276 00:14:09,987 --> 00:14:11,520 - ( crowd cheering ) - Man: Yeah! 277 00:14:11,589 --> 00:14:13,956 Lady Bunny: I knew that I was a jester, 278 00:14:14,025 --> 00:14:16,124 and I could bring people together, 279 00:14:16,193 --> 00:14:18,660 and I want this to represent the New York scene! 280 00:14:18,729 --> 00:14:21,496 I don’t know every queen from every scene, 281 00:14:21,565 --> 00:14:24,832 but I want it to be very inclusive, 282 00:14:24,901 --> 00:14:30,305 because we all felt like we were putting something special out there into New York. 283 00:14:30,374 --> 00:14:34,346 {\an8}( music playing, drag queen lip-syncing ) 284 00:14:41,419 --> 00:14:43,719 ( song ends ) 285 00:14:43,788 --> 00:14:45,821 ( cheering, applauding ) 286 00:14:45,890 --> 00:14:49,591 {\an8}Let there be peace on earth, 287 00:14:49,660 --> 00:14:51,627 {\an8}and let it begin... 288 00:14:51,696 --> 00:14:53,398 {\an8}with me! 289 00:14:56,133 --> 00:14:58,334 God bless you! 290 00:14:58,403 --> 00:15:00,401 God bless you. 291 00:15:00,470 --> 00:15:03,606 {\an8}Next up, we have a dose of high fashion 292 00:15:03,675 --> 00:15:06,041 {\an8}with Mr. Fashion! 293 00:15:06,110 --> 00:15:10,612 {\an8}So all of you can wig out! 294 00:15:10,681 --> 00:15:13,716 Lady Bunny: We wanted to be more like Woodstock 295 00:15:13,785 --> 00:15:15,016 in the beginning. 296 00:15:15,085 --> 00:15:17,252 There were bands-- many bands. 297 00:15:17,321 --> 00:15:20,656 Every Wigstock-- it was eight hours long. 298 00:15:20,725 --> 00:15:24,163 ( singing indistinctly ) 299 00:15:26,731 --> 00:15:29,068 ( music continues ) 300 00:15:31,235 --> 00:15:33,638 ( cheering, applauding ) 301 00:15:36,506 --> 00:15:39,274 - ♪ Everybody do the ♪ - ♪ Do what, baby? ♪ 302 00:15:39,343 --> 00:15:41,710 ♪ Come on and do the barracuda ♪ 303 00:15:41,779 --> 00:15:43,615 ♪ Cuda ♪ 304 00:15:47,784 --> 00:15:50,017 Linda Simpson: Every year, we’d go, 305 00:15:50,086 --> 00:15:51,952 "Wig’s comin’,it’s comin’, Wigstock’s comin’." 306 00:15:52,021 --> 00:15:54,422 And you could do all the shows you wanted in the nightclub, 307 00:15:54,491 --> 00:15:58,193 but when Wigstock came, everybody saw it. 308 00:15:58,262 --> 00:16:01,363 {\an8}Welcome to Wigstock ’92! 309 00:16:01,432 --> 00:16:03,865 ( cheering, applauding ) 310 00:16:03,934 --> 00:16:07,135 Lady Bunny: It felt like every year the festival doubled, 311 00:16:07,204 --> 00:16:09,404 but I was too stupid to even ask for help! 312 00:16:09,473 --> 00:16:12,474 Linda Simpson: At that point, Wigstock becomes so popular 313 00:16:12,543 --> 00:16:14,875 it was attracting thousands of people. 314 00:16:14,944 --> 00:16:18,380 It’s amazing, because it started out as such a simple little thing, 315 00:16:18,449 --> 00:16:21,016 and then became this phenomenon. 316 00:16:21,085 --> 00:16:23,418 ♪ Barracuda ♪ 317 00:16:23,487 --> 00:16:27,456 Lady Bunny: The reason that this festival stuck together 318 00:16:27,525 --> 00:16:30,125 is that there is a sisterhood. 319 00:16:30,194 --> 00:16:32,593 We are not in a competition. 320 00:16:32,662 --> 00:16:35,163 We’re coming together to say, "Here’s a gift 321 00:16:35,232 --> 00:16:37,132 to make New York City better." 322 00:16:37,201 --> 00:16:38,700 {\an8}Lady Bunny: We’re not just gonna 323 00:16:38,769 --> 00:16:41,269 {\an8}sock it to ya here at Wigstock ’94, 324 00:16:41,338 --> 00:16:43,705 {\an8}we’re gonna sock it right through ya! 325 00:16:43,774 --> 00:16:46,642 {\an8}♪ B-A ♪ 326 00:16:46,711 --> 00:16:48,605 ♪ R-R... ♪ 327 00:16:48,674 --> 00:16:51,580 {\an8}Welcome to Wigstock 1997! 328 00:16:51,649 --> 00:16:54,149 {\an8}( cheering, applauding ) 329 00:16:54,218 --> 00:16:57,185 {\an8}This is our 15th fucking anniversary. 330 00:16:57,254 --> 00:17:00,523 {\an8}There is no way in hell that we are gonna cancel. 331 00:17:00,592 --> 00:17:02,761 {\an8}♪ Cuda ♪ 332 00:17:06,296 --> 00:17:08,667 ( traffic noise ) 333 00:17:10,835 --> 00:17:16,472 ( chatter, laughter ) 334 00:17:16,541 --> 00:17:18,443 ( chatter ) 335 00:17:34,124 --> 00:17:37,559 Lady Bunny: There’s a lot that’s changed about New York. 336 00:17:37,628 --> 00:17:39,894 We talk about this sense of community-- 337 00:17:39,963 --> 00:17:43,398 well, are we really in each other’s lives? 338 00:17:43,467 --> 00:17:45,467 Oh, don’t lick it, don’t lick it. 339 00:17:45,536 --> 00:17:48,036 - Don’t lick it... - Mwah! 340 00:17:48,105 --> 00:17:49,371 Bye. You’re not going with us? 341 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:51,038 Lady Bunny: I don’t think so. 342 00:17:51,107 --> 00:17:53,508 I thinkwe’re all scrolling on Instagram, 343 00:17:53,577 --> 00:17:55,444 and I don’t like that community. 344 00:17:55,513 --> 00:17:56,944 And I don’t need to be a community 345 00:17:57,013 --> 00:18:00,249 with somebody whose profile picture is a cat. 346 00:18:00,318 --> 00:18:02,387 - Man: Good night, Bunny. - Good night. 347 00:18:04,621 --> 00:18:06,956 Lady Bunny: Here’s the sad part. 348 00:18:07,025 --> 00:18:09,858 {\an8}New York City is no longer affordable 349 00:18:09,927 --> 00:18:13,028 {\an8}for the wacky, offbeat artists 350 00:18:13,097 --> 00:18:14,930 {\an8}that made Wigstock possible. 351 00:18:14,999 --> 00:18:17,099 {\an8}- Hmm. - It’s not. 352 00:18:17,168 --> 00:18:18,733 {\an8}If you’re wacky and you have a trust fund 353 00:18:18,802 --> 00:18:20,769 {\an8}and rich parents, then you can come. 354 00:18:20,838 --> 00:18:25,440 This is why we treasure people like Bobbie 355 00:18:25,509 --> 00:18:27,476 who did make it here 356 00:18:27,545 --> 00:18:29,873 and who is one of us 357 00:18:29,942 --> 00:18:32,514 and who doesn’t do the obvious, 358 00:18:32,583 --> 00:18:35,184 who is not cookie-cutter. 359 00:18:35,253 --> 00:18:37,820 {\an8}- Oh... - Man: Hey, Bobbie. 360 00:18:37,889 --> 00:18:39,454 {\an8}I’m gonna cry. 361 00:18:39,523 --> 00:18:41,589 Particularly, Wigstock was the big thing 362 00:18:41,658 --> 00:18:43,491 that was like, OK, "I need to move to New York, 363 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:45,427 I need to get it together." 364 00:18:45,496 --> 00:18:48,163 And when I got here, I thought it was still going on 365 00:18:48,232 --> 00:18:49,597 so I was super-excited. 366 00:18:49,666 --> 00:18:50,961 Honey, we’re bringing ’ it back, 367 00:18:51,030 --> 00:18:52,934 and we’re draggin’ you with us. 368 00:18:53,003 --> 00:18:54,303 Even if it rains, 369 00:18:54,372 --> 00:18:57,901 we’re gonna bring the spirit of Wigstock back 370 00:18:57,970 --> 00:19:00,909 to New York City, and maybe more. 371 00:19:00,978 --> 00:19:03,778 Lady Bunny: So, should we stand up, sit down? 372 00:19:03,847 --> 00:19:06,515 What do you think? ’Cause we can bust out a pose. 373 00:19:06,584 --> 00:19:08,349 Bouncing around and posing’s great. 374 00:19:08,418 --> 00:19:10,085 OK. I’m new at this. 375 00:19:10,154 --> 00:19:12,187 You can see I’m very young. 376 00:19:12,256 --> 00:19:14,023 Man: Amazing. 377 00:19:14,092 --> 00:19:16,024 I like that. Yes. 378 00:19:16,093 --> 00:19:17,729 {\an8}( man continues speaking ) 379 00:19:20,965 --> 00:19:23,064 Ohhh... 380 00:19:23,133 --> 00:19:26,234 Lady Bunny: There is a Broadway element to this 381 00:19:26,303 --> 00:19:28,069 by adding Neil Patrick Harris, 382 00:19:28,138 --> 00:19:30,638 and the funny thing to me is that some people have said, 383 00:19:30,707 --> 00:19:32,907 you know, "What are you doing with Neil?" 384 00:19:32,976 --> 00:19:35,976 And I think there’s many more of his friends asking, 385 00:19:36,045 --> 00:19:40,749 "What are you doing with the crazy old hag Lady Bunny?!" 386 00:19:40,818 --> 00:19:42,384 ( laughter ) 387 00:19:42,453 --> 00:19:43,688 {\an8}( photographer, Bunny talking ) 388 00:19:45,989 --> 00:19:49,557 Lady Bunny: So we are very thrilled that you are covering it. 389 00:19:49,626 --> 00:19:51,760 Thank you so much, honey. Good to see you. 390 00:19:51,829 --> 00:19:54,329 Thanks for poppin’ out so late. OK. 391 00:19:54,398 --> 00:19:56,064 Bunny: Just found out that RuPaul 392 00:19:56,133 --> 00:19:58,433 will not be performing, 393 00:19:58,502 --> 00:20:01,336 because we cannot fit the amount of people 394 00:20:01,405 --> 00:20:03,638 it takes to make her look like a gorgeous woman 395 00:20:03,707 --> 00:20:07,042 - on that rooftop. So... - Flotilla: You’re so mean. 396 00:20:07,111 --> 00:20:09,481 You are so mean. 397 00:20:19,251 --> 00:20:20,984 Charlene Incarnate: Oh, my God. 398 00:20:21,053 --> 00:20:24,726 {\an8}It was a total pinch-me moment 399 00:20:24,795 --> 00:20:29,298 {\an8}to see the lineup that they announced for Wigstock, 400 00:20:29,367 --> 00:20:31,333 the fucking names 401 00:20:31,402 --> 00:20:33,935 that I was mentioned with. ( laughs ) 402 00:20:34,004 --> 00:20:36,805 It’s like definitely an honor just to be nominated. 403 00:20:36,874 --> 00:20:39,074 Like, I think they did it alphabetically, 404 00:20:39,143 --> 00:20:41,241 so I’m right after Candis. 405 00:20:41,310 --> 00:20:44,875 It’s just like, who in the fuck am I to be mentioned 406 00:20:44,944 --> 00:20:46,749 {\an8}right after Candis Cayne? 407 00:20:46,818 --> 00:20:47,750 {\an8}Jesus Christ. 408 00:20:47,819 --> 00:20:50,117 Bobbie: I wanna invite my trade 409 00:20:50,186 --> 00:20:53,617 to Wigstock, but I don’t think he’d go for it. 410 00:20:53,686 --> 00:20:55,724 Who is it? 411 00:20:55,793 --> 00:20:57,192 Oh... you know. 412 00:20:57,261 --> 00:20:58,660 Anyway, I don’t wanna talk about it. 413 00:20:58,729 --> 00:21:00,395 Why can’t he come to Wigstock? 414 00:21:00,464 --> 00:21:02,664 Well, because he lives on the other spectrum 415 00:21:02,733 --> 00:21:06,001 of, like, the world, you know, he’s orderly and has-- 416 00:21:06,070 --> 00:21:07,639 He’s fucking you? 417 00:21:09,340 --> 00:21:11,506 - ( laughter ) - Well, who says that-- 418 00:21:11,575 --> 00:21:14,242 who says that I’m the one getting fucked? 419 00:21:14,311 --> 00:21:15,645 ( laughs ) 420 00:21:15,714 --> 00:21:17,512 - Me. - Just kidding. 421 00:21:17,581 --> 00:21:19,818 - ( laughter ) - I-- You know. 422 00:21:23,221 --> 00:21:26,388 - Are you gonna go to Wigstock? - Yeah! 423 00:21:26,457 --> 00:21:29,458 - Are you? - I wanna be a drag king. 424 00:21:29,527 --> 00:21:31,726 - Ooh. - ( all laugh ) 425 00:21:31,795 --> 00:21:34,495 Willam Belli: What do you know about drag queens? 426 00:21:34,564 --> 00:21:37,532 That they’re crazy and they say bad words. 427 00:21:37,601 --> 00:21:40,268 {\an8}- Who uses bad words? - Lady Bunny. 428 00:21:40,337 --> 00:21:43,406 {\an8}- Yeah, Lady Bunny’s got a filthy-- - ♪ Loco ♪ 429 00:21:43,475 --> 00:21:46,074 {\an8}She is loco. 430 00:21:46,143 --> 00:21:48,977 {\an8}Neil Patrick Harris: She did say more curse words than anyone that we’ve-- 431 00:21:49,046 --> 00:21:50,813 {\an8}Burtka: That we’ve ever had over for dinner. 432 00:21:50,882 --> 00:21:52,480 {\an8}She didn’t even know she’d said it. 433 00:21:52,549 --> 00:21:54,283 And we said, "You just said the F-word." 434 00:21:54,352 --> 00:21:56,751 "I did? Oh, I’m so sorry. 435 00:21:56,820 --> 00:21:58,286 I didn’t even know I said it." 436 00:21:58,355 --> 00:21:59,787 "I just thought they were short. 437 00:21:59,856 --> 00:22:01,456 I didn’t know they were kids." 438 00:22:01,525 --> 00:22:04,059 ( kids shouting, indistinct ) 439 00:22:04,128 --> 00:22:06,595 Burtka: Oh, man, the sugar’s kicked in. 440 00:22:06,664 --> 00:22:08,929 ( shrieks ) Excuse me! 441 00:22:08,998 --> 00:22:12,534 - No more sugar. - They act like crazy monster people. 442 00:22:12,603 --> 00:22:14,164 That’s what kids are supposed to do. 443 00:22:14,233 --> 00:22:15,603 - Is it? - I was a nightmare. 444 00:22:15,672 --> 00:22:16,905 I went to the ER, like, every month. 445 00:22:16,974 --> 00:22:18,539 But that’s not a good example. 446 00:22:18,608 --> 00:22:20,946 - Yeah, probably not. - ( laughing ) 447 00:22:22,346 --> 00:22:23,979 Harris: Wigstock in the past 448 00:22:24,048 --> 00:22:26,247 have been fun 449 00:22:26,316 --> 00:22:29,317 because they were alt, right? 450 00:22:29,386 --> 00:22:32,521 Now I feel like drag is so embraced 451 00:22:32,590 --> 00:22:35,357 that I wonder if if it will still have 452 00:22:35,426 --> 00:22:38,021 that pulse of necessity, 453 00:22:38,090 --> 00:22:41,164 or is it gonna feel like... 454 00:22:41,233 --> 00:22:42,698 Disney? 455 00:22:42,767 --> 00:22:44,527 The kernel of what Bunny wants, 456 00:22:44,596 --> 00:22:47,235 when she talked to us, when I first approached her, 457 00:22:47,304 --> 00:22:49,271 what she wants in this 458 00:22:49,340 --> 00:22:51,473 is for everybody just to have a laugh 459 00:22:51,542 --> 00:22:53,741 and to have fun and smile, 460 00:22:53,810 --> 00:22:55,810 and to get a relief, have a release from 461 00:22:55,879 --> 00:22:58,914 all this shit that’s goin’ on in the world right now. 462 00:22:58,983 --> 00:23:01,720 {\an8}( music playing ) 463 00:23:04,821 --> 00:23:07,755 Tell us what you know about Lady Bunny. 464 00:23:07,824 --> 00:23:12,895 Lady Bunny? She is who the working girls today 465 00:23:12,964 --> 00:23:16,264 look towards as Mother New York. 466 00:23:16,333 --> 00:23:17,932 Also she’s really old-school. 467 00:23:18,001 --> 00:23:21,336 You’ve never seen her out of drag. Ever. 468 00:23:21,405 --> 00:23:23,739 Like, fucking ever. Ever. 469 00:23:23,808 --> 00:23:25,707 For me, as a magician, 470 00:23:25,776 --> 00:23:29,378 I really enjoy the magic trick element of it. 471 00:23:29,447 --> 00:23:31,846 For me, that’s a part of it, is going, "Wait a minute, 472 00:23:31,915 --> 00:23:34,583 I wonder what this person looks like as a boy. 473 00:23:34,652 --> 00:23:36,552 How is that tuck happening? 474 00:23:36,621 --> 00:23:38,353 And how-- 475 00:23:38,422 --> 00:23:40,855 I like the magic trick of it. 476 00:23:40,924 --> 00:23:43,525 Drag Queen: Do you feel like you guys do the same work? 477 00:23:43,594 --> 00:23:44,960 - Me and Bunny? - Yeah. 478 00:23:45,029 --> 00:23:46,761 No, we’re not of the same time. 479 00:23:46,830 --> 00:23:49,865 My message is different because I’m of a different time. 480 00:23:49,934 --> 00:23:52,700 I’m coming into drag in a time 481 00:23:52,769 --> 00:23:56,471 that needs visible trans women in trans bodies 482 00:23:56,540 --> 00:23:58,940 transgressing the drag stage. 483 00:23:59,009 --> 00:24:02,577 They had trans women on their stages then, absolutely. 484 00:24:02,646 --> 00:24:05,846 Like, a thousand percent. Like, they were all low-key trans women, 485 00:24:05,915 --> 00:24:08,750 ’cause drag queens are, like, all low-key trans women. 486 00:24:08,819 --> 00:24:11,181 Or they’re no good. 487 00:24:11,250 --> 00:24:12,655 I’ve never really done drag. 488 00:24:12,724 --> 00:24:14,890 I’ve never really gotten... 489 00:24:14,959 --> 00:24:17,191 - fully... - Belli: Really? 490 00:24:17,260 --> 00:24:20,427 - Ever. No. - You should, so you know what we have to go through. 491 00:24:20,496 --> 00:24:23,363 That’s one of the reasons I stopped drinking and went to shots. 492 00:24:23,432 --> 00:24:26,968 Because mixers, they fill up your bladder. Shots, you just get drunk. 493 00:24:27,037 --> 00:24:29,871 You can’t do mixers when you’re in drag because you have to pee too much. 494 00:24:29,940 --> 00:24:32,074 Charlene Incarnate: New York is unique. 495 00:24:32,143 --> 00:24:36,178 We are a community who values performance first. 496 00:24:36,247 --> 00:24:38,879 That is Bunny’s whole fucking soapbox, 497 00:24:38,948 --> 00:24:42,685 is that everyone in this post "Drag Race" era, 498 00:24:42,754 --> 00:24:45,320 and it’s all about face, 499 00:24:45,389 --> 00:24:46,989 Bunny is the one who’s like, 500 00:24:47,058 --> 00:24:49,657 "It only matters what you do onstage." 501 00:24:49,726 --> 00:24:52,631 ( music playing, lyrics indistinct ) 502 00:25:02,372 --> 00:25:05,540 Charlene Incarnate: There’s this very explicit script 503 00:25:05,609 --> 00:25:07,442 that I was expected to follow. 504 00:25:07,511 --> 00:25:12,151 But I was, like, a closeted church boy from Alabama. 505 00:25:15,153 --> 00:25:17,586 I came out, and my parents flipped out, 506 00:25:17,655 --> 00:25:20,692 and within six months I look around, and I don’t have a family. 507 00:25:22,293 --> 00:25:24,693 Basically, my worst fears were confirmed 508 00:25:24,762 --> 00:25:26,995 that the price of being myself 509 00:25:27,064 --> 00:25:29,601 meant my entire life as I knew it. 510 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,274 Charlene Incarnate: Convenient thing about the Christian Church 511 00:25:39,343 --> 00:25:43,811 is that it’s one of the only places 512 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:48,884 where flaming faggots can hide in plain sight. 513 00:25:48,953 --> 00:25:53,455 Most of my gay role models growing up, 514 00:25:53,524 --> 00:25:57,225 were closeted dads... 515 00:25:57,294 --> 00:25:58,961 in church. 516 00:25:59,030 --> 00:26:02,864 So I kind of, in the back of my mind, knew... 517 00:26:02,933 --> 00:26:07,206 that my whole life was gonna be spent hiding. 518 00:26:08,339 --> 00:26:10,072 And so I came to New York, 519 00:26:10,141 --> 00:26:12,007 thinking that even as a freshman at NYU, 520 00:26:12,076 --> 00:26:14,476 I would be, like, stepping out of a limo 521 00:26:14,545 --> 00:26:17,613 to dozens of photographers everywhere I went 522 00:26:17,682 --> 00:26:18,981 within a few months. 523 00:26:19,050 --> 00:26:20,749 But it didn’t go like that, 524 00:26:20,818 --> 00:26:23,585 because my problems followed me to New York. 525 00:26:23,654 --> 00:26:27,659 I was like, "I don’t need a new location, I need a new life." 526 00:26:30,761 --> 00:26:33,628 Charlene Incarnate: What makes a really good drag queen, 527 00:26:33,697 --> 00:26:36,764 for me, it requires an ascension. 528 00:26:36,833 --> 00:26:39,001 I like my drag queens, like, trans, 529 00:26:39,070 --> 00:26:41,536 HIV-positive meth addicts, 530 00:26:41,605 --> 00:26:44,673 like, recovering from something. 531 00:26:44,742 --> 00:26:46,841 People who lost their family, 532 00:26:46,910 --> 00:26:51,146 we make better spokespeople for the queer community 533 00:26:51,215 --> 00:26:55,050 because we have lost all semblance 534 00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:57,251 of what it means to live a normative, straight life. 535 00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:00,956 There’s that artist’s credo of, like, "I am an artist 536 00:27:01,025 --> 00:27:03,524 because I share my trauma with everyone," 537 00:27:03,593 --> 00:27:06,495 so I realized that I wanted to start manipulating my body 538 00:27:06,564 --> 00:27:08,163 as an extension of my art. 539 00:27:08,232 --> 00:27:11,166 It made sense for me to want to 540 00:27:11,235 --> 00:27:12,968 {\an8}start hormones, 541 00:27:13,037 --> 00:27:16,004 {\an8}or start my medical transition, onstage, 542 00:27:16,073 --> 00:27:18,707 {\an8}which was at Bushwig in 2015. 543 00:27:18,776 --> 00:27:20,108 {\an8}Emcee: It’s 2015. 544 00:27:20,177 --> 00:27:21,977 We can be 545 00:27:22,046 --> 00:27:25,047 whatever the fuck we want. 546 00:27:25,116 --> 00:27:26,682 ( shouts ) 547 00:27:26,751 --> 00:27:28,817 ( crowd cheering ) 548 00:27:28,886 --> 00:27:32,487 Charlene Incarnate: And I had my girlfriend 549 00:27:32,556 --> 00:27:34,622 shoot me up with my first estrogen shot, 550 00:27:34,691 --> 00:27:37,059 that was not sanctioned by Callen-Lorde or anything, 551 00:27:37,128 --> 00:27:39,394 there was no doctor who knew I was doing it. 552 00:27:39,463 --> 00:27:41,896 There was an element of proclamation to it, 553 00:27:41,965 --> 00:27:44,065 and there was also an element of me trying 554 00:27:44,134 --> 00:27:48,003 to expose my community to the trans experience. 555 00:27:48,072 --> 00:27:50,875 ( music playing, crowd cheering ) 556 00:27:53,844 --> 00:27:56,945 {\an8}Charlene Incarnate: Bushwig is a drag festival 557 00:27:57,014 --> 00:27:58,680 {\an8}that was started in Brooklyn 558 00:27:58,749 --> 00:28:00,916 {\an8}to fill the hole that Wigstock left. 559 00:28:00,985 --> 00:28:03,222 {\an8}( music playing, crowd cheering ) 560 00:28:05,022 --> 00:28:09,525 {\an8}Emcee: It is Lady Quesa’Dilla! 561 00:28:09,594 --> 00:28:11,796 {\an8}( music playing ) 562 00:28:17,634 --> 00:28:21,337 {\an8}Charlene Incarnate: I was Miss Bushwig in 2017. 563 00:28:21,406 --> 00:28:23,038 {\an8}Thanks, girls! 564 00:28:23,107 --> 00:28:28,110 It’s been the best Bushwig ever! 565 00:28:28,179 --> 00:28:31,711 Here’s to tits and a dick! Love you! Mwah! 566 00:28:38,555 --> 00:28:40,489 {\an8}John Cameron Mitchell: Ladies and gentlemen, 567 00:28:40,558 --> 00:28:43,358 {\an8}how are you doing tonight? 568 00:28:43,427 --> 00:28:45,326 {\an8}( band tuning up ) 569 00:28:45,395 --> 00:28:49,164 We’ve got a little rock and roll anthem for you tonight. 570 00:28:49,233 --> 00:28:51,700 This is the big finale from our show-- 571 00:28:51,769 --> 00:28:53,569 "Hedwig and the Angry Inch." 572 00:28:53,638 --> 00:28:56,839 This is called "Midnight Radio." 573 00:28:56,908 --> 00:28:59,842 {\an8}( guitars strumming ) 574 00:28:59,911 --> 00:29:02,481 {\an8}♪ That hits you so hard ♪ 575 00:29:04,682 --> 00:29:06,418 {\an8}♪ Filling you up ♪ 576 00:29:09,414 --> 00:29:13,158 ♪ Suddenly gone ♪ 577 00:29:14,624 --> 00:29:17,660 ♪ And you’re spinning ♪ 578 00:29:17,729 --> 00:29:20,356 ♪ Like a 45 ♪ 579 00:29:20,425 --> 00:29:22,530 ♪ Ballerina dancing ♪ 580 00:29:22,599 --> 00:29:27,172 ♪ To your rock and roll ♪ 581 00:29:28,572 --> 00:29:30,875 ♪ Lift up your hands ♪ 582 00:29:32,877 --> 00:29:35,344 ♪ Lift up your hands ♪ 583 00:29:35,413 --> 00:29:37,983 ♪ Hands ♪ 584 00:29:41,686 --> 00:29:44,753 ( song ends ) 585 00:29:44,822 --> 00:29:47,392 - ( crowd cheering ) - Thank you. 586 00:29:48,527 --> 00:29:50,225 Thank you. 587 00:29:50,294 --> 00:29:52,194 Lady Bunny: When we were first doing Wigstock 588 00:29:52,263 --> 00:29:54,730 {\an8}in Tompkins Square Park and word came to me 589 00:29:54,799 --> 00:29:59,468 {\an8}that this legendary pop star goddess 590 00:29:59,537 --> 00:30:03,538 thought that my little event was cool enough for her 591 00:30:03,607 --> 00:30:05,540 to come down from the heavens 592 00:30:05,609 --> 00:30:10,612 and grace us with her chart-topping magnificence... 593 00:30:10,681 --> 00:30:12,812 ( crowd cheers ) 594 00:30:17,221 --> 00:30:20,588 ...I felt like I had done did somethin’. 595 00:30:20,657 --> 00:30:22,057 Please put your hands together 596 00:30:22,126 --> 00:30:24,660 for the incredible... 597 00:30:24,729 --> 00:30:26,562 Deborah Harry. 598 00:30:26,631 --> 00:30:28,730 ♪ Oh ♪ 599 00:30:28,799 --> 00:30:32,071 ♪ Your hair is beautiful ♪ 600 00:30:33,371 --> 00:30:36,606 ♪ Oh ♪ 601 00:30:36,675 --> 00:30:39,675 ♪ Tonight ♪ 602 00:30:39,744 --> 00:30:40,843 ♪ Atomic ♪ 603 00:30:40,912 --> 00:30:43,448 ( music continues ) 604 00:30:45,048 --> 00:30:48,684 So, since it’s about wigs, I thought I should wear a wig. 605 00:30:48,753 --> 00:30:51,256 {\an8}( music playing ) 606 00:30:53,958 --> 00:30:56,025 ♪ Ooh ♪ 607 00:30:56,094 --> 00:30:58,530 ( crowd cheering ) 608 00:30:59,597 --> 00:31:02,001 ♪ Atomic ♪ 609 00:31:05,704 --> 00:31:07,670 All right, fish stick! 610 00:31:07,739 --> 00:31:09,572 ( crowd cheering ) 611 00:31:09,641 --> 00:31:11,140 Thank you! 612 00:31:11,209 --> 00:31:12,540 ( crowd cheering ) 613 00:31:12,609 --> 00:31:14,109 Deborah Harry: The thing about Bunny 614 00:31:14,178 --> 00:31:15,744 that really pissed me off, though, 615 00:31:15,813 --> 00:31:17,679 is that she flirts like crazy. 616 00:31:17,748 --> 00:31:20,481 Debbie, it means so much to me that you are here, 617 00:31:20,550 --> 00:31:24,786 and as a measure of my thanks, I’m prepared to fuck you. 618 00:31:24,855 --> 00:31:29,058 Oh, Bunny, you say that every year and I never get it! 619 00:31:29,127 --> 00:31:31,163 ( laughter ) 620 00:31:32,796 --> 00:31:36,832 I would get all turned on, and then nothing would happen. 621 00:31:36,901 --> 00:31:38,901 ( laughing ) 622 00:31:38,970 --> 00:31:41,240 ( music playing ) 623 00:31:44,207 --> 00:31:48,210 Deborah Harry: Just see, you know, young men that on the street 624 00:31:48,279 --> 00:31:49,910 you wouldn’t think anything of, 625 00:31:49,979 --> 00:31:52,714 but then they’re transformed into these beautiful, 626 00:31:52,783 --> 00:31:56,084 beautiful, exotic creatures. 627 00:31:56,153 --> 00:31:58,590 It’s kind of wonderful. 628 00:32:01,159 --> 00:32:04,693 {\an8}( as Billie Holliday ) ♪ You’ve changed ♪ 629 00:32:04,762 --> 00:32:07,029 {\an8}♪ That sparkle ♪ 630 00:32:07,098 --> 00:32:10,699 {\an8}♪ In your eyes is gone ♪ 631 00:32:10,768 --> 00:32:13,630 ♪ Your smile ♪ 632 00:32:13,699 --> 00:32:16,872 ♪ Is just a careless yawn ♪ 633 00:32:16,941 --> 00:32:20,208 ♪ You’re breakin’ my heart... ♪ 634 00:32:20,277 --> 00:32:22,410 Lahoma Van Zandt: What makes makeup female? 635 00:32:22,479 --> 00:32:24,512 What makes anything female? 636 00:32:24,581 --> 00:32:27,082 {\an8}What characterizes this life’s particular starting point? 637 00:32:27,151 --> 00:32:29,884 {\an8}I mean, why are we-- what is this? 638 00:32:29,953 --> 00:32:32,553 {\an8}One thing I think is amazing is that when I was in a band, 639 00:32:32,622 --> 00:32:35,189 {\an8}we went to dump little towns and we played, and I was a boy, 640 00:32:35,258 --> 00:32:37,959 that was one thing, but then I started doing a girl in the band, 641 00:32:38,028 --> 00:32:41,162 and I would go to these dump little towns, in, like, Memphis, Tennessee. 642 00:32:41,231 --> 00:32:44,932 {\an8}We’d go into a club, and there’d be nothing but rednecks drinking beers 643 00:32:45,001 --> 00:32:48,302 {\an8}waiting for the band to come on. And I would think, "Oh, my God." 644 00:32:48,371 --> 00:32:52,107 {\an8}And I’d go out on the stage and I could see hostile faces at first. 645 00:32:52,176 --> 00:32:54,342 But within the course of the show, 646 00:32:54,411 --> 00:32:56,811 the fantasy, when it got to work, 647 00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,580 and by the end of the show they were screaming and hollering 648 00:32:59,649 --> 00:33:02,084 and having a great time, and weren’t afraid-- 649 00:33:02,153 --> 00:33:05,520 No matter what, we are all the same thing. 650 00:33:05,589 --> 00:33:09,024 And that’s just one more step closer to that, 651 00:33:09,093 --> 00:33:10,225 which is great. 652 00:33:10,294 --> 00:33:12,793 {\an8}( Fenton Bailey speaking ) 653 00:33:12,862 --> 00:33:16,766 {\an8}Lahoma Van Zandt: It’s a wonderful flavor. 654 00:33:16,835 --> 00:33:18,100 {\an8}It is! 655 00:33:18,169 --> 00:33:21,202 ( music playing ) 656 00:33:21,271 --> 00:33:24,472 ( car horns honking, crowd cheering ) 657 00:33:24,541 --> 00:33:27,909 ♪ Do not let me go blind for I still want to learn ♪ 658 00:33:27,978 --> 00:33:31,412 ♪ How to see what’s in front of my eyes without light ♪ 659 00:33:31,481 --> 00:33:35,084 ♪ What’s inside of me, what’s inside ♪ 660 00:33:35,153 --> 00:33:37,252 ♪ What’s inside ♪ 661 00:33:37,321 --> 00:33:41,360 ♪ Inside of, inside of ♪ 662 00:33:46,364 --> 00:33:48,130 Drag Queen 1: We have feminine ways, 663 00:33:48,199 --> 00:33:50,231 but we’re not actually guys that are-- 664 00:33:50,300 --> 00:33:53,501 we look the way that we look, but sometimes if people approach us, they think 665 00:33:53,570 --> 00:33:56,305 that we’re these over-the-top-- 666 00:33:56,374 --> 00:33:57,972 - Drag Queen 2: Queens. - Yeah. 667 00:33:58,041 --> 00:34:00,542 It’s an appearance, but personally, my personality-- 668 00:34:00,611 --> 00:34:03,043 - Drag Queen 3: Like, inside. - Yeah. 669 00:34:03,112 --> 00:34:05,641 Your exterior has nothing to do with what you feel internally. 670 00:34:05,710 --> 00:34:09,451 Everyone has a different mixture of masculinity and femininity put together. 671 00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:11,819 But even in the gay community, I feel like you think 672 00:34:11,888 --> 00:34:14,323 it’s like a "land of the free," and they even put you in boxes there. 673 00:34:14,392 --> 00:34:16,058 "You’re a femme, you’re a masc." 674 00:34:16,127 --> 00:34:17,692 It’s really a mixed pot of it all. 675 00:34:17,761 --> 00:34:21,296 I grew up very on the masculine side of life, 676 00:34:21,365 --> 00:34:23,631 and I grew into my femininity. 677 00:34:23,700 --> 00:34:26,101 Drag Queen: The boundaries of drag are being pushed 678 00:34:26,170 --> 00:34:28,369 with it being mainstream now. 679 00:34:28,438 --> 00:34:30,038 It’s getting more pushed to the forefront, 680 00:34:30,107 --> 00:34:32,540 so I feel like the small, little cracks for queens 681 00:34:32,609 --> 00:34:35,409 that didn’t have as much exposure as others 682 00:34:35,478 --> 00:34:38,780 are now getting that, and that’s not always in the essence of a woman. 683 00:34:38,849 --> 00:34:41,782 That’s not always in the essence of a man, or neither. 684 00:34:41,851 --> 00:34:44,353 It’s bringing what you feel inside to the forefront. 685 00:34:44,422 --> 00:34:47,255 Whatever that looks like, that’s your drag. 686 00:34:47,324 --> 00:34:51,259 ♪ Captain of none, captain of nothing ♪ 687 00:34:51,328 --> 00:34:53,828 ♪ Captain of none ♪ 688 00:34:53,897 --> 00:34:56,097 Tabboo!: The big difference between the queens of today 689 00:34:56,166 --> 00:34:57,532 and the queens of yesteryear 690 00:34:57,601 --> 00:34:59,835 is that the queens of yesteryear 691 00:34:59,904 --> 00:35:02,274 {\an8}were beautiful. 692 00:35:04,742 --> 00:35:06,842 {\an8}Mmm! Mmm! Mmm! 693 00:35:06,911 --> 00:35:09,177 {\an8}This is tasty. 694 00:35:09,246 --> 00:35:10,741 {\an8}Yeah! 695 00:35:10,810 --> 00:35:12,714 Both: What is it, huh? 696 00:35:12,783 --> 00:35:14,382 Shhh! 697 00:35:14,451 --> 00:35:16,685 It’s a surprise! 698 00:35:16,754 --> 00:35:17,689 ( giggles ) 699 00:35:19,089 --> 00:35:22,390 Pickle Surprise! Pickle Surprise! 700 00:35:22,459 --> 00:35:24,459 {\an8}Wigstock lemonade, come and get it! 701 00:35:24,528 --> 00:35:27,128 {\an8}Does anyone wanna buy some Wigstock lemonade? 702 00:35:27,197 --> 00:35:29,268 {\an8}Buy some lemonade? 703 00:35:31,101 --> 00:35:33,201 Tabboo!: You know, those queens, those young queens, 704 00:35:33,270 --> 00:35:35,870 they have no idea that they climbed to where they are 705 00:35:35,939 --> 00:35:38,373 on the shoulders and the backs of the old queens 706 00:35:38,442 --> 00:35:40,175 that came before them! 707 00:35:40,244 --> 00:35:43,078 {\an8}It’s hard enough being gay, never mind being a woman, honey, 708 00:35:43,147 --> 00:35:44,212 {\an8}never mind being a gay woman, 709 00:35:44,281 --> 00:35:45,713 {\an8}never mind being a black gay woman. 710 00:35:45,782 --> 00:35:49,817 Tabboo!: Back in the day before cell phones 711 00:35:49,886 --> 00:35:52,520 and bottled water, before the robots took over. 712 00:35:52,589 --> 00:35:56,425 When Wigstock first started, it was only a few short years, 713 00:35:56,494 --> 00:35:58,993 maybe 15 years after Stonewall revolutionary, 714 00:35:59,062 --> 00:36:01,796 that whole thing, so if you walked around, 715 00:36:01,865 --> 00:36:04,033 if you paraded around on the streets in drag, 716 00:36:04,102 --> 00:36:05,500 you’d get your ass kicked! 717 00:36:05,569 --> 00:36:08,337 Out in public in drag? Huh?! What?! 718 00:36:08,406 --> 00:36:09,972 Huh-huh-huh-huh. 719 00:36:10,041 --> 00:36:11,807 Shocking. Revolutionary. 720 00:36:11,876 --> 00:36:13,942 They all love me. The men love me. 721 00:36:14,011 --> 00:36:15,944 The women love me. 722 00:36:16,013 --> 00:36:17,345 Mahogany. 723 00:36:17,414 --> 00:36:19,447 Tabboo!: It kick-started the whole 724 00:36:19,516 --> 00:36:21,750 "Come out, come out, wherever you are" kinda thing. 725 00:36:21,819 --> 00:36:24,786 Before that, even Liberace and Freddie Mercury, 726 00:36:24,855 --> 00:36:27,322 they were all in the closet, believe it or not. 727 00:36:27,391 --> 00:36:30,191 And Wigstock said, "What closet, honey? 728 00:36:30,260 --> 00:36:31,826 My drag is clogging the closet, 729 00:36:31,895 --> 00:36:34,695 there’s no room for me in there, honey. Hello." 730 00:36:34,764 --> 00:36:36,731 Drag Queen: It’s "in" to be gay in the ’90s, 731 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:38,767 - did you know that? - ( crowd cheers ) 732 00:36:38,836 --> 00:36:42,203 It’s "in" to be gay! Who woulda thunk it, right? 733 00:36:42,272 --> 00:36:44,339 But it’s a new day. 734 00:36:44,408 --> 00:36:47,510 We’re being televised worldwide again today. 735 00:36:47,579 --> 00:36:49,906 The world is watching! 736 00:36:49,975 --> 00:36:51,746 The world is watching! 737 00:36:51,815 --> 00:36:53,381 Lady Bunny: Honey, I’m gonna tell you right now, 738 00:36:53,450 --> 00:36:55,450 they said just by being there, 739 00:36:55,519 --> 00:36:57,689 Wigstock is in-your-face. 740 00:36:59,956 --> 00:37:03,691 If it was in-your-face to say we’re not ashamed of who we are, 741 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:07,862 so my focus was: Let me show you what we could do. 742 00:37:07,931 --> 00:37:10,599 Drag Queen: Folks, you know, you got your drag queens 743 00:37:10,668 --> 00:37:12,900 and you got your drag kings. 744 00:37:12,969 --> 00:37:15,736 Lady Bunny: Not only do I already expect you to accept us, 745 00:37:15,805 --> 00:37:18,807 watch this, and if you don’t like it, 746 00:37:18,876 --> 00:37:20,609 hit it, ’cause you don’t see me 747 00:37:20,678 --> 00:37:22,773 carrying on at your football games. 748 00:37:22,842 --> 00:37:24,414 ( music playing ) 749 00:37:24,483 --> 00:37:26,785 ♪ Baby, baby ♪ 750 00:37:28,418 --> 00:37:30,518 ♪ Baby, baby ♪ 751 00:37:30,587 --> 00:37:33,121 If I’ve said anything to any of you 752 00:37:33,190 --> 00:37:36,591 and if I stepped on your toes, I have something to say: 753 00:37:36,660 --> 00:37:38,559 Baby, I really don’t give a damn. 754 00:37:38,628 --> 00:37:40,361 Lighten up, it’s just a drag show. 755 00:37:40,430 --> 00:37:42,997 ( crowd cheering ) 756 00:37:43,066 --> 00:37:46,068 Lady Bunny: We all felt like we were putting something special 757 00:37:46,137 --> 00:37:48,003 out there into New York, 758 00:37:48,072 --> 00:37:51,474 because this was the time of AIDS... 759 00:37:51,543 --> 00:37:54,204 sinking in. 760 00:37:54,273 --> 00:37:55,978 A lot of you have had a lot of fun, 761 00:37:56,047 --> 00:37:58,813 {\an8}like I have, like Ru and Lahoma have had, 762 00:37:58,882 --> 00:38:02,450 {\an8}for a couple of years at parties by Stephen Cohen. 763 00:38:02,519 --> 00:38:03,953 If you haven’t heard the news, 764 00:38:04,022 --> 00:38:06,054 Stephen Cohen passed away this week 765 00:38:06,123 --> 00:38:08,290 of complications from AIDS. 766 00:38:08,359 --> 00:38:10,826 I, personally, and Marge, are giving money 767 00:38:10,895 --> 00:38:12,527 to the Community Research Initiative 768 00:38:12,596 --> 00:38:14,829 to help find a cure, I hope you do too. 769 00:38:14,898 --> 00:38:16,965 And I know how I would like to be remembered, 770 00:38:17,034 --> 00:38:18,800 so we’re gonna open some champagne 771 00:38:18,869 --> 00:38:21,203 and have a really nice time. Think of Stephen while... 772 00:38:21,272 --> 00:38:23,705 Lady Bunny: People were dropping like flies. 773 00:38:23,774 --> 00:38:25,808 Man: Pop it, baby, pop it! 774 00:38:25,877 --> 00:38:27,542 Lady Bunny: It was terrifying. 775 00:38:27,611 --> 00:38:30,244 I didn’t visit one of my best friends, 776 00:38:30,313 --> 00:38:33,649 I did not visit him in the hospital as much as I should have 777 00:38:33,718 --> 00:38:36,551 because I was too scared 778 00:38:36,620 --> 00:38:40,355 to face the fact that I might have it. 779 00:38:40,424 --> 00:38:42,391 {\an8}But unfortunately, after performing, 780 00:38:42,460 --> 00:38:46,723 {\an8}shortly after performing at Wigstock last year... 781 00:38:46,792 --> 00:38:49,931 she passed away. 782 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,500 I would have loved to have her perform again this year. 783 00:38:52,569 --> 00:38:54,569 She was a queen among queens, never bitchy, 784 00:38:54,638 --> 00:38:57,372 never evil like so many of these girls. 785 00:38:57,441 --> 00:39:01,738 ( laughs ) And I’m sure she’s very much missed by family 786 00:39:01,807 --> 00:39:03,645 and friends. 787 00:39:03,714 --> 00:39:07,782 And I hope we can put all of our thoughts 788 00:39:07,851 --> 00:39:10,813 up towards the sky and think of Donna right now. 789 00:39:10,882 --> 00:39:14,493 Come on out here, let’s send her a wig up to the heavens. 790 00:39:16,460 --> 00:39:18,193 She might have been-- 791 00:39:18,262 --> 00:39:21,030 I don’t know if her family understood her properly 792 00:39:21,099 --> 00:39:22,597 and buried her in her wig. 793 00:39:22,666 --> 00:39:27,335 In case they didn’t, this goes out to you, Donna. 794 00:39:27,404 --> 00:39:29,975 ( crowd cheering, applauding ) 795 00:39:31,370 --> 00:39:33,845 We’re thinkin’ of ya, honey. 796 00:39:37,214 --> 00:39:38,646 Ladies and gentlemen, 797 00:39:38,715 --> 00:39:43,085 she is a columnist for "Time Out New York," 798 00:39:43,154 --> 00:39:45,887 {\an8}She also hosted and created 799 00:39:45,956 --> 00:39:48,957 {\an8}the fantastic Club Night at the Pyramid-- 800 00:39:49,026 --> 00:39:51,760 back when it was fun-- ( laughs ) 801 00:39:51,829 --> 00:39:54,430 Ooh. Put your hands together 802 00:39:54,499 --> 00:39:57,499 for Linda Simpson. 803 00:39:57,568 --> 00:40:00,602 ( crowd cheering, applauding ) 804 00:40:00,671 --> 00:40:04,104 Thank you, Bunny. Thank you so much for that. 805 00:40:04,173 --> 00:40:07,275 Linda Simpson: Putting on drag gives you a lot of confidence, 806 00:40:07,344 --> 00:40:11,546 and all of a sudden, you’re "pizzazz," you know what I mean? 807 00:40:11,615 --> 00:40:13,582 And you are strong, you’re bold. 808 00:40:13,651 --> 00:40:15,817 I demand more lights! 809 00:40:15,886 --> 00:40:19,119 I demand even more lights! Yes! All right. 810 00:40:19,188 --> 00:40:21,322 Linda Simpson: And then once you take the drag out, 811 00:40:21,391 --> 00:40:23,725 it can be sort of disorienting, 812 00:40:23,794 --> 00:40:26,094 because you don’t have that armor 813 00:40:26,163 --> 00:40:28,896 and people don’t react to you in the same way 814 00:40:28,965 --> 00:40:32,133 and they sometimes don’t give you that bow-down, 815 00:40:32,202 --> 00:40:35,270 worshipful atmosphere that you’ve been getting. 816 00:40:35,339 --> 00:40:37,839 {\an8}Do you think one of the drawbacks of doing drag, though, 817 00:40:37,908 --> 00:40:41,209 {\an8}is when you’re in drag, it’s hard to get a gay guy 818 00:40:41,278 --> 00:40:43,745 to be interested in you? 819 00:40:43,814 --> 00:40:46,448 Who’s gonna waste a shave on a gay guy? 820 00:40:46,517 --> 00:40:47,852 ( laughter ) 821 00:40:50,287 --> 00:40:53,788 Linda Simpson: "Drag Race," which dominates all things drag now, 822 00:40:53,857 --> 00:40:56,591 created this incredible renaissance for drag. 823 00:40:56,660 --> 00:40:58,993 But the other side of the coin would be 824 00:40:59,062 --> 00:41:03,732 that drag certainly was fun when it was underground 825 00:41:03,801 --> 00:41:05,901 and I have a great fondness 826 00:41:05,970 --> 00:41:08,904 for when it was just a fun, 827 00:41:08,973 --> 00:41:12,035 avant-garde way of expressing oneself. 828 00:41:12,104 --> 00:41:13,603 It was very unique. 829 00:41:13,672 --> 00:41:15,143 There wasn’t anyplace else in the world 830 00:41:15,212 --> 00:41:17,545 that was like the East Village drag scene. 831 00:41:17,614 --> 00:41:21,616 Back then it was a smaller group, it was an inside group. 832 00:41:21,685 --> 00:41:23,819 {\an8}Nelson Sullivan: Someone has to take my picture. 833 00:41:23,888 --> 00:41:25,787 {\an8}RuPaul: Stand right here, Linda. 834 00:41:25,856 --> 00:41:28,423 {\an8}Let the light drink your face in. 835 00:41:28,492 --> 00:41:30,558 Let’s see... ( indistinct ) 836 00:41:30,627 --> 00:41:32,960 {\an8}Ooh, that face, girl. You are fierce! 837 00:41:33,029 --> 00:41:36,198 {\an8}I feel so pretty that I feel like I must have always looked this way. 838 00:41:36,267 --> 00:41:38,133 OK, come over here some. 839 00:41:38,202 --> 00:41:40,836 Yes, there it is. There’s the face. 840 00:41:40,905 --> 00:41:42,498 Sullivan: Now, to me, 841 00:41:42,567 --> 00:41:45,941 drag is all about demystifying drag, 842 00:41:46,010 --> 00:41:49,211 and so, you know, it takes away 843 00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:51,879 from the insider-y, 844 00:41:51,948 --> 00:41:54,550 "We’ve got a secret" kind of club feel 845 00:41:54,619 --> 00:41:56,051 that we had before. 846 00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:57,887 Mona, it’s so nice to have you here. 847 00:41:57,956 --> 00:41:59,687 We just celebrated our two-year anniversary, 848 00:41:59,756 --> 00:42:02,123 I think you were reminiscing about the first time that you performed here. 849 00:42:02,192 --> 00:42:04,125 You were saying that your makeup was a little off, 850 00:42:04,194 --> 00:42:05,989 your hair was a little off-- what’s changed? 851 00:42:06,058 --> 00:42:08,100 Um... ( laughs ) 852 00:42:10,134 --> 00:42:12,100 Sullivan: There’s no secrets anymore. 853 00:42:12,169 --> 00:42:13,669 It’s like, "Here’s how you do the makeup, 854 00:42:13,738 --> 00:42:15,103 here’s how you stuff the boobs, 855 00:42:15,172 --> 00:42:16,805 here’s how you put the wigs on. 856 00:42:16,874 --> 00:42:19,140 Here’s the language we use." 857 00:42:19,209 --> 00:42:22,945 It’s very interesting now how people have created stardom, 858 00:42:23,014 --> 00:42:25,112 and many of them are quite young. 859 00:42:25,181 --> 00:42:28,117 And you know that expression "High tide raises all ships"? 860 00:42:28,186 --> 00:42:32,053 Even drag queens that are not on "Drag Race" 861 00:42:32,122 --> 00:42:36,258 are benefitting from the popularity of the show 862 00:42:36,327 --> 00:42:38,126 and in drag in general. 863 00:42:38,195 --> 00:42:40,228 {\an8}I wanna tell ya, 864 00:42:40,297 --> 00:42:42,030 {\an8}I’ve always had a dream 865 00:42:42,099 --> 00:42:44,331 {\an8}and I’ve always wanted to do what I do, 866 00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:48,836 and I want to tell each and every one of you within the sound of my voice: 867 00:42:48,905 --> 00:42:52,507 Hold onto your dreams, hold onto your dreams! 868 00:42:52,576 --> 00:42:56,077 ’Cause if it can work for me, it can work for you. 869 00:42:56,146 --> 00:42:58,313 I love you. Good night, everybody. 870 00:42:58,382 --> 00:43:00,382 ( crowd cheering ) 871 00:43:00,451 --> 00:43:02,721 ( music playing ) 872 00:43:05,221 --> 00:43:09,257 What would it mean to you to become America’s next drag superstar? 873 00:43:09,326 --> 00:43:11,927 It would mean the world to me to be America’s next drag superstar. 874 00:43:11,996 --> 00:43:13,829 {\an8}Naomi Smalls: Ru was very about 875 00:43:13,898 --> 00:43:14,897 {\an8}building an empire 876 00:43:14,966 --> 00:43:16,565 {\an8}of what you can build an empire, 877 00:43:16,634 --> 00:43:18,333 {\an8}honing in on your natural gift. 878 00:43:18,402 --> 00:43:21,236 I’ve been lucky enough to have Ru pave the way for me, 879 00:43:21,305 --> 00:43:23,105 but who the fuck paved the way for Ru 880 00:43:23,174 --> 00:43:24,707 to do what he’s doing right now? 881 00:43:24,776 --> 00:43:26,107 ( music playing ) 882 00:43:26,176 --> 00:43:29,044 He took over the world of drag. 883 00:43:29,113 --> 00:43:31,647 - ( music playing ) - ( crowd cheering ) 884 00:43:31,716 --> 00:43:33,214 When it comes to career-wise, 885 00:43:33,283 --> 00:43:36,451 I do view Ru almost as like a father figure. 886 00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:38,420 Is that weird to say? 887 00:43:38,489 --> 00:43:40,620 {\an8}( music playing ) 888 00:43:46,763 --> 00:43:49,764 Smalls: I started drag when I was 18. 889 00:43:49,833 --> 00:43:52,033 I was pretty much in drag in high school, 890 00:43:52,102 --> 00:43:54,202 - ( laughter ) - like, for the most part, 891 00:43:54,271 --> 00:43:58,301 six-inch heels to, like, the first day of senior year, 892 00:43:58,370 --> 00:44:00,542 with big Lady Gaga eyebrows. 893 00:44:00,611 --> 00:44:04,640 To test out my makeup skills, I would do my makeup, 894 00:44:04,709 --> 00:44:06,448 and then I would go on Chatroulette, 895 00:44:06,517 --> 00:44:08,917 and if they didn’t see that I wasn’t-- 896 00:44:08,986 --> 00:44:11,486 if they wouldn’t "next" me, thinking I was a dude, 897 00:44:11,555 --> 00:44:14,927 then I was like, "My makeup turned out well today." 898 00:44:18,696 --> 00:44:20,395 {\an8}Willam Belli: When I was on "Drag Race," 899 00:44:20,464 --> 00:44:22,797 {\an8}I broke a bunch of rules and tried to get kicked off 900 00:44:22,866 --> 00:44:25,367 because I knew getting kicked off is iconic on reality shows. 901 00:44:25,436 --> 00:44:27,135 Now no one else can have it. 902 00:44:27,204 --> 00:44:28,970 It’s one of those things where any reality TV show, 903 00:44:29,039 --> 00:44:31,639 it’s a toolto a bigger career, hopefully. 904 00:44:31,708 --> 00:44:35,343 I think I’ve navigated my way through that motherfucking beautifully. 905 00:44:35,412 --> 00:44:37,182 {\an8}( music playing ) 906 00:44:39,917 --> 00:44:42,417 ( all cheering ) 907 00:44:42,486 --> 00:44:44,954 I’m still working to this day, seven years later, 908 00:44:45,023 --> 00:44:47,122 and I’m in a movie with fucking Lady Gaga, 909 00:44:47,191 --> 00:44:48,928 so I’m doing something right. 910 00:44:52,129 --> 00:44:55,498 The fact that drag has gone from whispering about drag queens 911 00:44:55,567 --> 00:44:56,965 in the corner of a club 912 00:44:57,034 --> 00:44:59,669 to standing in two-hour-line meet-and-greets 913 00:44:59,738 --> 00:45:01,270 just to shake their hand 914 00:45:01,339 --> 00:45:03,038 blows my mind. 915 00:45:03,107 --> 00:45:06,041 And I love that it’s being normalized. 916 00:45:06,110 --> 00:45:08,276 {\an8}Thanks! And happy Groundhogs Day. 917 00:45:08,345 --> 00:45:11,080 {\an8}- They’re fuckin’ rodents. - ( Taser crackles ) 918 00:45:11,149 --> 00:45:12,915 I’m just gonna put my Taser away... 919 00:45:12,984 --> 00:45:14,249 {\an8}and shut the door. 920 00:45:14,318 --> 00:45:16,684 {\an8}’Cause there’s bugs and crackheads. 921 00:45:16,753 --> 00:45:19,622 {\an8}The best thing ever was, a crackhead came through the back door once 922 00:45:19,691 --> 00:45:21,189 late at night, and it was like 923 00:45:21,258 --> 00:45:23,491 five minutes after my camera guy had left, 924 00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:25,727 so I was like, "He’s just coming back for something." 925 00:45:25,796 --> 00:45:27,730 But the door opened kind slow, 926 00:45:27,799 --> 00:45:30,065 and I was right here 927 00:45:30,134 --> 00:45:31,934 and I was still in drag from filming, 928 00:45:32,003 --> 00:45:34,536 and the first thing I did was go like this 929 00:45:34,605 --> 00:45:37,606 and then grab this knife and do-- bam!-- and I said, 930 00:45:37,675 --> 00:45:39,808 "I have a knife, I will hurt you," 931 00:45:39,877 --> 00:45:42,911 and he starts-- he gets one foot in the door, 932 00:45:42,980 --> 00:45:45,180 and he’s like right here, 933 00:45:45,249 --> 00:45:47,009 I say, "I have a knife, I will hurt you," 934 00:45:47,078 --> 00:45:49,150 and he’s like, "Oh, my God, I’m sorry, ma’am!" 935 00:45:49,219 --> 00:45:51,586 And then he fell right there going back. 936 00:45:51,655 --> 00:45:53,756 But he called me "ma’am!" 937 00:45:53,825 --> 00:45:56,252 How cute, right? I passed. 938 00:45:56,321 --> 00:45:57,892 I was so excited. 939 00:45:57,961 --> 00:45:59,628 And I was ready to fuckin’ stab him, too. 940 00:45:59,697 --> 00:46:02,562 You don’t come in my fuckin’ back door. 941 00:46:02,631 --> 00:46:05,968 Well, a lot of people come in my fuckin’ back door, but not like that. 942 00:46:06,037 --> 00:46:08,270 That was different. 943 00:46:08,339 --> 00:46:12,207 When I’m in Wigstock this year, I think I’m gonna, um... 944 00:46:12,276 --> 00:46:14,875 butt-chug on my hoverboard. 945 00:46:14,944 --> 00:46:19,513 And my hoverboard’s like a little Judy Jetson little "vroom, vroom" thing, 946 00:46:19,582 --> 00:46:25,153 and then butt-chugging is when you stick alcohol in a disposable enema 947 00:46:25,222 --> 00:46:26,621 and then put it up your butt. 948 00:46:26,690 --> 00:46:28,589 Because it gets you real fucked up, real fast, 949 00:46:28,658 --> 00:46:31,526 and that’s the best way to be when you’re a drag queen. 950 00:46:31,595 --> 00:46:34,463 And then you don’t squirt it at the audience 951 00:46:34,532 --> 00:46:36,932 because that’s a whole different kind of show. 952 00:46:37,001 --> 00:46:38,299 That gets very combative. 953 00:46:38,368 --> 00:46:40,202 Nobody wants to get wet at a drag show, I think. 954 00:46:40,271 --> 00:46:41,804 Especially with ass juice. 955 00:46:41,873 --> 00:46:45,040 {\an8}Emcee: Who’s ready for bingo? 956 00:46:45,109 --> 00:46:47,542 {\an8}( crowd cheering ) 957 00:46:47,611 --> 00:46:50,779 {\an8}Naomi Smalls: Look at the crowd! And this is the second show. 958 00:46:50,848 --> 00:46:52,748 Look at that! 959 00:46:52,817 --> 00:46:56,446 The crowd is 30-45% faggots, 960 00:46:56,515 --> 00:46:58,887 the rest is straight women. 961 00:46:58,956 --> 00:47:00,455 Straight, drunk bachelorettes. 962 00:47:00,524 --> 00:47:03,124 A lot of women grow up playing with dolls, 963 00:47:03,193 --> 00:47:06,027 and then when they get old, they still want someone to dress up and hang out with, 964 00:47:06,096 --> 00:47:08,433 so they get drag queens, and then they pull our wigs. 965 00:47:10,368 --> 00:47:12,435 Use your flash. 966 00:47:12,504 --> 00:47:14,106 Yes. 967 00:47:16,540 --> 00:47:18,240 Leigh Bowery: ♪ Love stands tall and free ♪ 968 00:47:18,309 --> 00:47:20,943 {\an8}♪ Love stands tall and free ♪ 969 00:47:21,012 --> 00:47:22,978 {\an8}♪ Love stands tall and free ♪ 970 00:47:23,047 --> 00:47:25,147 {\an8}♪ Love stands tall and free ♪ 971 00:47:25,216 --> 00:47:27,316 {\an8}♪ Love stands tall and free ♪ 972 00:47:27,385 --> 00:47:29,317 ♪ Love stands tall and free ♪ 973 00:47:29,386 --> 00:47:32,555 ♪ Love stands tall and free ♪ 974 00:47:32,624 --> 00:47:34,456 ♪ Love stands ♪ 975 00:47:34,525 --> 00:47:38,263 ♪ Tall and free! ♪ 976 00:47:40,798 --> 00:47:44,636 Oh! Oh! Oh! 977 00:47:47,938 --> 00:47:51,443 Oh, my God! Wigstock’s first baby! 978 00:47:53,177 --> 00:47:55,280 ( song continues ) 979 00:47:59,984 --> 00:48:02,517 My little baby! 980 00:48:02,586 --> 00:48:05,988 Lady Bunny: This is your first time here at Wigstock, honey. 981 00:48:06,057 --> 00:48:09,124 {\an8}Have you got anything to say to these rascals out here? 982 00:48:09,193 --> 00:48:12,595 {\an8}Hi! How are you?! 983 00:48:12,664 --> 00:48:14,863 Enjoy your day, be safe, 984 00:48:14,932 --> 00:48:17,932 and just let it it all out, honey. 985 00:48:18,001 --> 00:48:20,302 Flotilla DeBarge: The first year I performed at Wigstock, 986 00:48:20,371 --> 00:48:22,737 I got to open it, and I was like, "What?" 987 00:48:22,806 --> 00:48:25,741 Bunny was like, "You’re going on now," and I was like, "What?" 988 00:48:25,810 --> 00:48:27,375 And it was fun, it was fun. 989 00:48:27,444 --> 00:48:30,045 But Flotilla wasn’t born yet. 990 00:48:30,114 --> 00:48:35,550 I did not get involved in drag until 1991. 991 00:48:35,619 --> 00:48:38,854 The people at Boy Bar, they put me together. 992 00:48:38,923 --> 00:48:40,155 I was groomed, 993 00:48:40,224 --> 00:48:42,627 {\an8}by Raven O and Matthew Kasten. 994 00:48:43,762 --> 00:48:45,160 {\an8}Hands down. 995 00:48:45,229 --> 00:48:47,967 Hands down. Boy Bar beauty forever. 996 00:48:50,501 --> 00:48:52,735 There’s too many people right now 997 00:48:52,804 --> 00:48:54,336 that want to be drag queens, 998 00:48:54,405 --> 00:48:57,006 and some of ’em don’t know what that entails. 999 00:48:57,075 --> 00:49:00,308 My thing is, if it’s all about money 1000 00:49:00,377 --> 00:49:02,110 and I don’t have the passion, 1001 00:49:02,179 --> 00:49:04,779 what the fuck am I doing this for? 1002 00:49:04,848 --> 00:49:07,916 When you find somebody that really wants to do drag 1003 00:49:07,985 --> 00:49:09,417 and has a passion about it, 1004 00:49:09,486 --> 00:49:10,986 that’s what drag, to me, is about, 1005 00:49:11,055 --> 00:49:13,121 and performing is about. 1006 00:49:13,190 --> 00:49:16,491 Finding somebody who just loves the art, 1007 00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:20,295 and when they’re onstage, you can see it. 1008 00:49:20,364 --> 00:49:22,397 Case in point: Lady Quesa’Dilla right here, 1009 00:49:22,466 --> 00:49:24,933 {\an8}who is a daughter of Perfidia, 1010 00:49:25,002 --> 00:49:27,402 {\an8}just a remarkable performer. 1011 00:49:27,471 --> 00:49:29,604 And studies the history, no less. 1012 00:49:29,673 --> 00:49:32,440 See, a lot of people don’t study their history 1013 00:49:32,509 --> 00:49:35,572 of who was before them, who’s with them, 1014 00:49:35,641 --> 00:49:37,246 who’s after them. 1015 00:49:37,315 --> 00:49:40,114 This is my drag daughter, Miss Konima. 1016 00:49:40,183 --> 00:49:43,885 - Konima, this is-- - Konima? Hi. Flo, nice to meet you, sweetie. 1017 00:49:43,954 --> 00:49:45,787 - Mm-hmm. - OK. 1018 00:49:45,856 --> 00:49:48,556 Flotilla DeBarge: I would see them nurtured at Pyramid, 1019 00:49:48,625 --> 00:49:51,326 you know, I had Linda Simpson, I had Bobby Miller, 1020 00:49:51,395 --> 00:49:54,162 doing my hair, and my makeup, when it looked rotten. 1021 00:49:54,231 --> 00:49:56,798 We took care of each other. 1022 00:49:56,867 --> 00:49:59,567 They’re beginning to have some of ’em now. 1023 00:49:59,636 --> 00:50:02,671 The girls in Bushwick are taking care of each other. 1024 00:50:02,740 --> 00:50:04,039 Which is a good thing. 1025 00:50:04,108 --> 00:50:05,407 Which is a really good thing. 1026 00:50:05,476 --> 00:50:07,877 Everybody can do drag, yeah. 1027 00:50:07,946 --> 00:50:09,410 That’s good, ya know. 1028 00:50:09,479 --> 00:50:12,615 But what kind of drag queen do you want to be? 1029 00:50:12,684 --> 00:50:16,251 ( music playing ) 1030 00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:19,087 {\an8}♪ Well, I don’t wanna talk about... ♪ 1031 00:50:19,156 --> 00:50:21,589 {\an8}Woman: Let me show you the lineup. 1032 00:50:21,658 --> 00:50:24,460 - This is the lineup for Wigstock? - Yeah. 1033 00:50:24,529 --> 00:50:26,695 We just got it. 1034 00:50:26,764 --> 00:50:29,064 Let me try finding you... 1035 00:50:29,133 --> 00:50:31,862 Oh, my God. So many people. 1036 00:50:31,931 --> 00:50:36,071 God, the legend lineup is so real. 1037 00:50:36,140 --> 00:50:39,111 {\an8}( music playing ) 1038 00:50:41,611 --> 00:50:43,411 Kevin Aviance: ♪ Mary had a little lamb ♪ 1039 00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:45,414 ♪ Her fleece was white as snow ♪ 1040 00:50:45,483 --> 00:50:47,215 ♪ Everywhere that Mary went ♪ 1041 00:50:47,284 --> 00:50:48,750 ♪ The lamb was sure to go ♪ 1042 00:50:48,819 --> 00:50:51,787 ♪ He made the children laugh and play ♪ 1043 00:50:51,856 --> 00:50:53,121 ♪ Laugh and play ♪ 1044 00:50:53,190 --> 00:50:56,358 ( laughing ) 1045 00:50:56,427 --> 00:50:59,664 ( laughing, shouting ) 1046 00:51:02,366 --> 00:51:04,669 ( music continues ) 1047 00:51:08,572 --> 00:51:10,305 ♪ Come on, boys and girls ♪ 1048 00:51:10,374 --> 00:51:12,074 ♪ Put your hands on up ♪ 1049 00:51:12,143 --> 00:51:13,675 ♪ If you’re part of the family ♪ 1050 00:51:13,744 --> 00:51:15,645 ♪ If you’re part of the children ♪ 1051 00:51:15,714 --> 00:51:17,841 ♪ Say yes, I am ♪ 1052 00:51:17,910 --> 00:51:19,248 ♪ Yes, I, yes, I, yes, I am ♪ 1053 00:51:19,317 --> 00:51:20,782 ♪ I am one of the children ♪ 1054 00:51:20,851 --> 00:51:22,985 ♪ From here to there ♪ 1055 00:51:23,054 --> 00:51:26,388 ( continues, indistinct ) 1056 00:51:26,457 --> 00:51:29,024 ♪ You’ve got to feel ♪ 1057 00:51:29,093 --> 00:51:31,559 ♪ Alive ♪ 1058 00:51:31,628 --> 00:51:37,293 {\an8}♪ You’re dancing, you’re dancing ♪ 1059 00:51:37,362 --> 00:51:39,334 Jeremy Extravaganza: Early ’90s, I met Kevin, 1060 00:51:39,403 --> 00:51:43,734 and he was my source into New York. 1061 00:51:43,803 --> 00:51:45,873 Kevin’s name was so hot 1062 00:51:45,942 --> 00:51:49,177 {\an8}that our group was just, like, they wanted us everywhere. 1063 00:51:49,246 --> 00:51:51,178 ♪ So alive ♪ 1064 00:51:51,247 --> 00:51:53,715 Extravaganza: There were all these things happening, 1065 00:51:53,784 --> 00:51:56,084 and Kevin’s career was exploding. 1066 00:51:56,153 --> 00:51:58,087 {\an8}♪ The lights are spinning ♪ 1067 00:51:58,156 --> 00:51:59,587 {\an8}♪ In my head ♪ 1068 00:51:59,656 --> 00:52:04,059 {\an8}♪ Getting brighter as we go higher ♪ 1069 00:52:04,128 --> 00:52:06,428 ♪ I’m feeling free for me ♪ 1070 00:52:06,497 --> 00:52:11,666 ♪ Only the mirror ball really matters at all ♪ 1071 00:52:11,735 --> 00:52:15,670 ♪ The joy I found like a child on a merry-go-round ♪ 1072 00:52:15,739 --> 00:52:19,102 ♪ DJ playin’ records spinnin’ round and round ♪ 1073 00:52:19,171 --> 00:52:21,476 ♪ I’ll be dancing all night long ♪ 1074 00:52:21,545 --> 00:52:23,478 ♪ I’m at peace with my soul ♪ 1075 00:52:23,547 --> 00:52:26,947 ♪ I feel love, I am so, so alive ♪ 1076 00:52:27,016 --> 00:52:30,385 ♪ Loving the feeling, learning the meaning ♪ 1077 00:52:30,454 --> 00:52:34,222 ♪ On top of the world and I’m hot, so alive ♪ 1078 00:52:34,291 --> 00:52:38,093 ♪ It’s closer than ever ♪ 1079 00:52:38,162 --> 00:52:42,231 ♪ Get me so high ♪ 1080 00:52:42,300 --> 00:52:45,234 ♪ Dance it, shake it, move it ♪ 1081 00:52:45,303 --> 00:52:48,036 {\an8}Linda Simpson: And at the same time in New York City, 1082 00:52:48,105 --> 00:52:49,804 {\an8}Mayor Giuliani became in charge, 1083 00:52:49,873 --> 00:52:52,511 and his whole thing was law and order. 1084 00:52:54,878 --> 00:52:58,179 So he really cracked down hard on the nightlife. 1085 00:52:58,248 --> 00:53:02,417 All of a sudden, the club scene began shrinking dramatically. 1086 00:53:02,486 --> 00:53:04,353 And of course, that affected drag a lot, 1087 00:53:04,422 --> 00:53:06,621 because the freedom and the jobs 1088 00:53:06,690 --> 00:53:10,292 and the whole sociability of it shrunk, ya know? 1089 00:53:10,361 --> 00:53:11,959 Everybody was under siege. 1090 00:53:12,028 --> 00:53:13,595 {\an8}Man: I think he should close ’em today, 1091 00:53:13,664 --> 00:53:15,897 {\an8}the video stores, Show World, 1092 00:53:15,966 --> 00:53:17,332 {\an8}all the dancing places-- 1093 00:53:17,401 --> 00:53:19,099 {\an8}I think every one of ’em should be shut down. 1094 00:53:19,168 --> 00:53:21,536 They’re an absolute disgrace to the neighborhood, 1095 00:53:21,605 --> 00:53:24,072 they attract nothing but garbage and sleaze. 1096 00:53:24,141 --> 00:53:26,808 Jason Williams: Personally, I’m a dancer myself, 1097 00:53:26,877 --> 00:53:29,277 {\an8}so, I mean, it hurts me just as well as everybody else. 1098 00:53:29,346 --> 00:53:30,712 {\an8}I don’t think there’s no need. 1099 00:53:30,781 --> 00:53:32,514 {\an8}It’s not really affecting anybody. 1100 00:53:32,583 --> 00:53:35,450 There are some kind of alarming changes coming up, 1101 00:53:35,519 --> 00:53:38,686 and actually affect Wigstock’s future. 1102 00:53:38,755 --> 00:53:42,291 Giuliani tryin’ to kill the whole nightlife in New York, 1103 00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:44,092 so you gotta represent. 1104 00:53:44,161 --> 00:53:48,763 ♪ Fuck off, fuck off ♪ 1105 00:53:48,832 --> 00:53:51,266 Kevin Aviance: Mayor Giuliani can kiss my ass. 1106 00:53:51,335 --> 00:53:53,601 Mayor Giuliani can kiss my ass, 1107 00:53:53,670 --> 00:53:57,105 ’cause we’re not gonna stop doing what we gotta do, right, faggots? 1108 00:53:57,174 --> 00:53:59,574 {\an8}We’re gonna run this fuckin’ world we call New York, 1109 00:53:59,643 --> 00:54:02,677 {\an8}not Mickey Mouse, right, children? 1110 00:54:02,746 --> 00:54:04,345 So when you go out tonight, children, 1111 00:54:04,414 --> 00:54:07,081 I want you to prance, prance, prance on, 1112 00:54:07,150 --> 00:54:10,722 and let them know who the faggot is in the house, OK? 1113 00:54:13,724 --> 00:54:17,259 {\an8}Now the rally for recording artist Kevin Aviance, 1114 00:54:17,328 --> 00:54:18,794 {\an8}beaten up by a group of thugs. 1115 00:54:18,863 --> 00:54:20,495 {\an8}Co-anchor: Today, hundreds of people 1116 00:54:20,564 --> 00:54:22,463 {\an8}marched from one side of Manhattan to the other... 1117 00:54:22,532 --> 00:54:24,667 {\an8}( continues, indistinct ) 1118 00:54:24,736 --> 00:54:26,568 {\an8}( all cheering ) 1119 00:54:26,637 --> 00:54:28,536 {\an8}Man: Kevin is here right now. 1120 00:54:28,605 --> 00:54:34,109 {\an8}Kevin, we are here to show you the love and the support. 1121 00:54:34,178 --> 00:54:35,744 It’s been kind of hard, 1122 00:54:35,813 --> 00:54:38,775 but you know what, you can’t keep a good queen down. 1123 00:54:38,844 --> 00:54:41,849 ( crowd cheering ) 1124 00:54:41,918 --> 00:54:45,020 Kevin Aviance: Something was not right, OK? 1125 00:54:45,089 --> 00:54:47,489 I’ve walked out in thongs and high heels, 1126 00:54:47,558 --> 00:54:49,390 and ain’t never had a problem. 1127 00:54:49,459 --> 00:54:50,992 Nothing. Think nothing of it. 1128 00:54:51,061 --> 00:54:53,262 Morning, daylight, don’t think nothing of it. 1129 00:54:53,331 --> 00:54:57,599 And there was something about this that was just different. 1130 00:54:57,668 --> 00:55:01,064 And when I stepped off the curb to walk into the street, 1131 00:55:01,133 --> 00:55:02,908 "We’re gonna get you, faggot." 1132 00:55:04,870 --> 00:55:07,342 OK. Whatever. 1133 00:55:07,411 --> 00:55:10,111 So I’m walking backwards and they’re coming towards me. 1134 00:55:10,180 --> 00:55:13,682 You could feel the hate from them, you could feel the heat. 1135 00:55:13,751 --> 00:55:16,584 I have never in my whole life felt that hatred 1136 00:55:16,653 --> 00:55:19,254 on someone I didn’t know, like that on someone. 1137 00:55:19,323 --> 00:55:22,189 I just... got hit. Bam! 1138 00:55:22,258 --> 00:55:25,427 And as I’m going down, they’re hitting me in the head, kicks. 1139 00:55:25,496 --> 00:55:27,562 After about 80 times of these kicks, 1140 00:55:27,631 --> 00:55:30,065 this is "gugga-gong, gong-gong-gong-gong-gong. 1141 00:55:30,134 --> 00:55:31,833 That’s all I could hear, was gong-gong-gong, 1142 00:55:31,902 --> 00:55:35,070 gong-gong-gong-gong-gong-gong- gong-gong-gong. 1143 00:55:35,139 --> 00:55:36,871 And every time it was getting louder and louder, 1144 00:55:36,940 --> 00:55:40,445 and I’m just like, "gong"-- and it stopped. 1145 00:55:43,347 --> 00:55:45,947 I woke up in the hospital room, 1146 00:55:46,016 --> 00:55:49,885 and all my sisters, all my friends, they were all there, 1147 00:55:49,954 --> 00:55:52,153 sitting around, waiting for me to wake up. 1148 00:55:52,222 --> 00:55:55,423 I had come out of it, but something’s not right. 1149 00:55:55,492 --> 00:55:57,392 My jaw’s not right, it’s not right. 1150 00:55:57,461 --> 00:56:00,227 Come to find out I had four hairline fractures in my jaw. 1151 00:56:00,296 --> 00:56:03,598 But it was like-- it was basically broken, but it was hairline fractures, 1152 00:56:03,667 --> 00:56:05,734 and so they had to go in, put me under, 1153 00:56:05,803 --> 00:56:07,902 fix my mouth, straighten it back up again, 1154 00:56:07,971 --> 00:56:10,105 and they prosecuted the guys and they went to jail. 1155 00:56:10,174 --> 00:56:13,008 By the time I went to testify, no one wanted me there. 1156 00:56:13,077 --> 00:56:14,842 I wanted to at one point, but they were like, 1157 00:56:14,911 --> 00:56:16,839 "That’d be the worst thing you could ever do." 1158 00:56:16,908 --> 00:56:20,010 I understand that now, why you just don’t meet your attacker, 1159 00:56:20,079 --> 00:56:21,382 why you don’t do that. 1160 00:56:21,451 --> 00:56:23,118 But there’s this bitter part of me 1161 00:56:23,187 --> 00:56:27,289 that always thinks that I could, like... 1162 00:56:27,358 --> 00:56:29,558 you know, I make people happy, 1163 00:56:29,627 --> 00:56:32,431 that’s what I do, you know? 1164 00:56:33,797 --> 00:56:36,998 And just, to know I couldn’t do that... 1165 00:56:37,067 --> 00:56:39,501 and people thought I was on the way out. 1166 00:56:39,570 --> 00:56:42,404 I’m running into people like Hector Xtravaganza or someone like that, 1167 00:56:42,473 --> 00:56:44,772 grabbing me, and they just cry and say, "Girl, you know, 1168 00:56:44,841 --> 00:56:46,374 you are such an inspiration for us. 1169 00:56:46,443 --> 00:56:48,643 Girls don’t come out the hospital. You come out. 1170 00:56:48,712 --> 00:56:50,479 You came out, and you’re better." 1171 00:56:50,548 --> 00:56:52,112 You don’t realize that 1172 00:56:52,181 --> 00:56:54,716 girls went into the hospital in New York and did not come out, 1173 00:56:54,785 --> 00:56:57,852 so that hospital was the end of all ends for a girl, you know? 1174 00:56:57,921 --> 00:57:01,423 For one of the New York girls, you know? That was just the way it was, you know? 1175 00:57:01,492 --> 00:57:03,558 And here I am going in and out. 1176 00:57:03,627 --> 00:57:05,760 Drag is the silver lining in that cloud. 1177 00:57:05,829 --> 00:57:08,163 That’s what drag is to me, ’cause I know, 1178 00:57:08,232 --> 00:57:09,397 at the end of the day, 1179 00:57:09,466 --> 00:57:12,634 I got a frock in my bag right now, girl, 1180 00:57:12,703 --> 00:57:15,070 and a pair of pumps right in there, girl. 1181 00:57:15,139 --> 00:57:18,673 I’ll give you a show at the drop of a hat. 1182 00:57:18,742 --> 00:57:21,276 I’ll give you a show right then and there, girl. 1183 00:57:21,345 --> 00:57:23,744 I will do it. Damn right I will. 1184 00:57:23,813 --> 00:57:27,282 And you’ll get your life, and you’ll gag... 1185 00:57:27,351 --> 00:57:29,985 ( laughs, snorts ) 1186 00:57:30,054 --> 00:57:32,154 ...period. 1187 00:57:32,223 --> 00:57:35,928 {\an8}( man vocalizing ) 1188 00:57:38,463 --> 00:57:41,630 ( chatter ) 1189 00:57:41,699 --> 00:57:44,166 {\an8}- ...his way. - Yeah. I was just-- 1190 00:57:44,235 --> 00:57:46,001 {\an8}You hit play for me, I’ll hit play for you. 1191 00:57:46,070 --> 00:57:47,907 I would like to know that my tracks are correct. 1192 00:57:49,974 --> 00:57:52,307 You’re good with that mic? 1193 00:57:52,376 --> 00:57:54,679 ( vocalizing ) 1194 00:57:57,381 --> 00:58:01,216 Scoot it back. As back as you can get it without-- 1195 00:58:01,285 --> 00:58:04,153 There’s a speaker right there. Be careful. 1196 00:58:04,222 --> 00:58:06,992 ( music playing ) 1197 00:58:11,595 --> 00:58:13,095 Charlene Incarnate: I got everyone working. 1198 00:58:13,164 --> 00:58:16,298 Harajuku, Two Sterlings, Belle, 1199 00:58:16,367 --> 00:58:18,800 Serena Dariani, 1200 00:58:18,869 --> 00:58:21,737 Orlando, Lucas and Patty, Dusty, Rose and Ryan, 1201 00:58:21,806 --> 00:58:23,909 and the Salami Sisters. 1202 00:58:26,343 --> 00:58:29,712 {\an8}This is the bitch that I used to go around the Lower East Side 1203 00:58:29,781 --> 00:58:31,913 chasing Lady Gaga with, 1204 00:58:31,982 --> 00:58:35,016 so we didn’t know anything about the landscape of nightlife 1205 00:58:35,085 --> 00:58:38,020 or any sort of grasp on the scene or anything. 1206 00:58:38,089 --> 00:58:41,223 We were just, like, faggots, closeted, in my case, 1207 00:58:41,292 --> 00:58:46,594 and basically tried to track down Lady Gaga, and we did it. 1208 00:58:46,663 --> 00:58:48,130 We did. We literally did. 1209 00:58:48,199 --> 00:58:50,932 Gaga walks in the room and everyone just gasps, 1210 00:58:51,001 --> 00:58:54,336 and there’s all the faggots screaming, "Aaaaah!!!" 1211 00:58:54,405 --> 00:58:57,276 - But it was us. We were the faggots screaming. - I know! 1212 00:58:59,143 --> 00:59:01,213 ( music playing ) 1213 00:59:02,847 --> 00:59:04,512 Remy Black: Oh, yikes. 1214 00:59:04,581 --> 00:59:09,051 Once upon a time I was a business student, an NYU-ster, 1215 00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:11,186 can you believe it? Oh, my God. 1216 00:59:11,255 --> 00:59:13,325 I’m so embarrassed. ( laughs ) 1217 00:59:15,826 --> 00:59:17,720 ( music playing ) 1218 00:59:17,789 --> 00:59:20,595 Charlene Incarnate: Lots of boys. Lots of boys. 1219 00:59:20,664 --> 00:59:22,730 - Lots of boys. - Lots of boys. 1220 00:59:22,799 --> 00:59:26,171 - But that’s not one. - ( laughs ) 1221 00:59:35,545 --> 00:59:40,719 ( music playing ) 1222 00:59:45,316 --> 00:59:48,556 Charlene Incarnate: The proportioning of drag is an aggression, 1223 00:59:48,625 --> 00:59:50,191 is a heightened femininity, 1224 00:59:50,260 --> 00:59:52,927 because femininity is the aggression. 1225 00:59:52,996 --> 00:59:55,800 So the bigger the lip, the bigger the sin. 1226 01:00:09,647 --> 01:00:13,953 ( music playing ) 1227 01:00:16,486 --> 01:00:19,091 Ladies and Gentlemen, your lovely ladies! 1228 01:00:38,476 --> 01:00:43,782 ( song sung in foreign language playing ) 1229 01:01:02,599 --> 01:01:05,237 ( music continues ) 1230 01:01:19,784 --> 01:01:23,322 ( crowd cheering ) 1231 01:01:46,505 --> 01:01:48,708 Charlene Incarnate: Stop! 1232 01:01:49,648 --> 01:01:51,946 "To Robert." So crazy. 1233 01:01:52,015 --> 01:01:55,218 Bobbie Hondo: Right. I hadn’t even then become Bobbie yet. 1234 01:01:55,287 --> 01:01:56,288 Yeah. 1235 01:01:57,356 --> 01:01:58,887 Wow. 1236 01:01:58,956 --> 01:02:02,691 I know her. I know her. I know her. 1237 01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:04,759 Linda! Stop! 1238 01:02:04,828 --> 01:02:07,495 Linda Simpson looks the literal exact same. 1239 01:02:07,564 --> 01:02:12,501 Thought it’ll be fun getting people to sign this, 1240 01:02:12,570 --> 01:02:16,071 and I go and figure out where, like, Bunny was DJing that night 1241 01:02:16,140 --> 01:02:18,806 and then having to sneak into the Monster 1242 01:02:18,875 --> 01:02:20,976 ’cause you’re only 19 years old 1243 01:02:21,045 --> 01:02:22,577 and the doorman’s upset at you, 1244 01:02:22,646 --> 01:02:24,479 and you’re like, "You don’t understand, sir, 1245 01:02:24,548 --> 01:02:27,116 I have this Wigstock flyer that I need to get Bunny to sign. 1246 01:02:27,185 --> 01:02:29,351 What if she dies tomorrow? I’m freaking out." 1247 01:02:29,420 --> 01:02:31,787 - ( Charlene laughs ) - Ya know? 1248 01:02:31,856 --> 01:02:34,055 My God. Fuck. 1249 01:02:34,124 --> 01:02:35,928 These girls look like us. 1250 01:02:38,295 --> 01:02:39,895 When’d you come to New York? 1251 01:02:39,964 --> 01:02:43,131 I came to New York in 2011, 1252 01:02:43,200 --> 01:02:46,768 - I was 16, and... - Damn, girl. 1253 01:02:46,837 --> 01:02:50,271 I really, really, really resonated with Wigstock 1254 01:02:50,340 --> 01:02:53,542 when I was 14-- I got AIDS, 1255 01:02:53,611 --> 01:02:54,910 you know what I mean? 1256 01:02:54,979 --> 01:02:57,212 From the get-go, I was like-- 1257 01:02:57,281 --> 01:03:01,049 - I needed Wigstock... - Yeah. 1258 01:03:01,118 --> 01:03:03,085 to find, like, people in this world 1259 01:03:03,154 --> 01:03:06,722 that are fighting a similar fight to me, 1260 01:03:06,791 --> 01:03:07,990 - and alive. - Yeah. 1261 01:03:08,059 --> 01:03:10,493 Flotilla and Lypsinka, 1262 01:03:10,562 --> 01:03:12,427 and Lady Bunny, 1263 01:03:12,496 --> 01:03:14,496 they saw, within me, 1264 01:03:14,565 --> 01:03:16,731 a way to almost help me out, 1265 01:03:16,800 --> 01:03:18,634 because this city tears you down. 1266 01:03:18,703 --> 01:03:20,701 I mean, I could be 1267 01:03:20,770 --> 01:03:25,807 just like all the other people I knew who disappear. 1268 01:03:25,876 --> 01:03:28,776 Tabboo! gave me the name Bobbie, 1269 01:03:28,845 --> 01:03:33,916 and Myka pretty much I’d wear all of her hand-me-downs, and... 1270 01:03:33,985 --> 01:03:35,851 You were parented by the legends. 1271 01:03:35,920 --> 01:03:38,047 I was parented... by the legends, 1272 01:03:38,116 --> 01:03:40,588 but just because they’re the greatest people ever. 1273 01:03:40,657 --> 01:03:43,892 I mean, they’re really the best people ever. 1274 01:03:43,961 --> 01:03:46,088 I’m excited to end this summer out 1275 01:03:46,157 --> 01:03:50,566 and get to Wigstock and see what it’s all about. 1276 01:03:50,635 --> 01:03:51,937 Me too. 1277 01:03:57,508 --> 01:03:59,941 Lady Bunny: Something happened that was interesting 1278 01:04:00,010 --> 01:04:05,080 that made me know that there’s something still unique about New York. 1279 01:04:05,149 --> 01:04:08,015 I was late for a gig, wearing a long dress, 1280 01:04:08,084 --> 01:04:12,086 jumped in a cab, slammed the door, the dress was hangin’ out. 1281 01:04:12,155 --> 01:04:14,557 All of a sudden, there’s a commotion outside. 1282 01:04:14,626 --> 01:04:16,692 Two young kids, 10, 12, 1283 01:04:16,761 --> 01:04:19,694 an old couple, 70, 80, 1284 01:04:19,763 --> 01:04:22,932 they were all trying to get my attention. 1285 01:04:23,001 --> 01:04:27,770 They did not look at me and think... 1286 01:04:27,839 --> 01:04:30,371 "That’s a punk-ass faggot." 1287 01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:33,208 These people said, "Help that fool!" 1288 01:04:33,277 --> 01:04:35,144 ( laughs ) "Help that fool. 1289 01:04:35,213 --> 01:04:37,440 It’s in me to want to help that fool." 1290 01:04:37,509 --> 01:04:39,414 Without any judgements. 1291 01:04:39,483 --> 01:04:42,918 This is what I want to prove by bringing this festival back: 1292 01:04:42,987 --> 01:04:44,653 that we are a community 1293 01:04:44,722 --> 01:04:46,988 and that we’re not fighting among each other so much 1294 01:04:47,057 --> 01:04:49,490 to where we can’t even get together. 1295 01:04:49,559 --> 01:04:52,694 It’s humanizing to be this close together. 1296 01:04:52,763 --> 01:04:56,235 And that’s the thing that still’s great about New York. 1297 01:05:00,004 --> 01:05:02,441 ( crowd chattering ) 1298 01:05:05,409 --> 01:05:08,347 ( chatter ) 1299 01:05:11,215 --> 01:05:14,016 - Hey! Mwah! - How are you? 1300 01:05:14,085 --> 01:05:16,852 ( chatter ) 1301 01:05:16,921 --> 01:05:20,189 ( laughing ) 1302 01:05:20,258 --> 01:05:22,325 {\an8}- Lady Bunny: Huh? - Is this your spot? 1303 01:05:22,394 --> 01:05:24,994 Yeah! Why? 1304 01:05:25,063 --> 01:05:28,397 Do you not think it’s good enough, either? 1305 01:05:28,466 --> 01:05:30,700 ( laughing ) 1306 01:05:30,769 --> 01:05:32,463 Drag Queen: We did it, Bunny. 1307 01:05:32,532 --> 01:05:34,669 ( music playing ) 1308 01:05:34,738 --> 01:05:38,407 ♪ Sometimes I still breathe in ♪ 1309 01:05:38,476 --> 01:05:41,610 ♪ What I don’t believe ♪ 1310 01:05:41,679 --> 01:05:45,079 - Lady Bunny: Aaaaah! - ♪ As if superstition ♪ 1311 01:05:45,148 --> 01:05:48,116 - ♪ Could keep you away from me ♪ - We made it! 1312 01:05:48,185 --> 01:05:51,554 ♪ Well, it’s the same as it never ♪ 1313 01:05:51,623 --> 01:05:53,122 ♪ Forever was ♪ 1314 01:05:53,191 --> 01:05:57,759 ♪ Haunted by who can I be now ♪ 1315 01:05:57,828 --> 01:05:59,528 ♪ Same as forever ♪ 1316 01:05:59,597 --> 01:06:01,163 ♪ I never was ♪ 1317 01:06:01,232 --> 01:06:05,033 ♪ Excuse me while I kiss the sky ♪ 1318 01:06:05,102 --> 01:06:07,169 ♪ Ay-ay-ay ♪ 1319 01:06:07,238 --> 01:06:10,738 ♪ I always knew you would come back ♪ 1320 01:06:10,807 --> 01:06:13,141 ♪ I always knew you would come back to me ♪ 1321 01:06:13,210 --> 01:06:15,410 Brace yourself. You have eight hours of this. 1322 01:06:15,479 --> 01:06:18,846 ♪ I always knew you would come back ♪ 1323 01:06:18,915 --> 01:06:24,448 ♪ I always knew you would come back, come back to me ♪ 1324 01:06:24,517 --> 01:06:26,321 I’m a princess! 1325 01:06:26,390 --> 01:06:28,357 Who’s got the drugs? 1326 01:06:28,426 --> 01:06:31,727 Drugs over in this corner, please! 1327 01:06:31,796 --> 01:06:33,732 ♪ Ay-ay-ay ♪ 1328 01:06:36,333 --> 01:06:39,935 {\an8}Are we supposed to act like the camera’s not there? 1329 01:06:40,004 --> 01:06:41,370 {\an8}Well, the camera’s a little low 1330 01:06:41,439 --> 01:06:43,338 {\an8}for someone with my fuckin’ neck. 1331 01:06:43,407 --> 01:06:46,173 I’m doing psychic readings. 1332 01:06:46,242 --> 01:06:51,546 People are Venmo’ing me $10, and I say, "You’re gonna die." 1333 01:06:51,615 --> 01:06:53,752 Come on, it’s funny. It’s dark. 1334 01:06:56,186 --> 01:06:58,453 ( no audible dialogue ) 1335 01:06:58,522 --> 01:07:01,023 ♪ What you do, what you do, what you do ♪ 1336 01:07:01,092 --> 01:07:03,728 ♪ What you do to me ♪ 1337 01:07:05,029 --> 01:07:07,095 ♪ What you do to me ♪ 1338 01:07:07,164 --> 01:07:08,998 ♪ What you do to me ♪ 1339 01:07:09,067 --> 01:07:11,403 ♪ What you do to me ♪ 1340 01:07:13,337 --> 01:07:16,604 ♪ Hey, what you do to me ♪ 1341 01:07:16,673 --> 01:07:19,942 ♪ Energy’s gettin’ through to me ♪ 1342 01:07:20,011 --> 01:07:22,811 {\an8}♪ And I got my eyes forward ♪ 1343 01:07:22,880 --> 01:07:26,181 {\an8}♪ And that’s how they ought to be ♪ 1344 01:07:26,250 --> 01:07:28,917 ♪ Baby, baby, I’m here ♪ 1345 01:07:28,986 --> 01:07:31,586 ♪ Where I need to be ♪ 1346 01:07:31,655 --> 01:07:34,556 ♪ Feelin’ fear, but no need to be ♪ 1347 01:07:34,625 --> 01:07:37,926 ♪ And I’ve been caught dead in my tracks ♪ 1348 01:07:37,995 --> 01:07:42,031 ♪ But that’s no way to be ♪ 1349 01:07:42,100 --> 01:07:44,832 ( crowd cheering ) 1350 01:07:44,901 --> 01:07:46,835 {\an8}Bianca Del Rio: It’s quite exciting to be here at Wigstock, 1351 01:07:46,904 --> 01:07:49,236 {\an8}and I know that there’s several old people that are up here 1352 01:07:49,305 --> 01:07:51,973 {\an8}that are gonna tell you about their memories and relive their moments 1353 01:07:52,042 --> 01:07:54,009 and flip through their purse and find Polaroids 1354 01:07:54,078 --> 01:07:55,610 of their dreams and aspirations, 1355 01:07:55,679 --> 01:07:58,380 but you realize, we all end up at this shitty event, 1356 01:07:58,449 --> 01:07:59,747 and that’s the magic of gay life. 1357 01:07:59,816 --> 01:08:02,184 It doesn’t get better, it gets awkward. 1358 01:08:02,253 --> 01:08:04,019 ( crowd cheering ) 1359 01:08:04,088 --> 01:08:07,722 ♪ Moments late at night ♪ 1360 01:08:07,791 --> 01:08:10,253 ♪ But I ain’t feelin’ right ♪ 1361 01:08:10,322 --> 01:08:13,528 Emcee: Ladies and gentlemen, boys as girls, 1362 01:08:13,597 --> 01:08:17,999 are you ready for excitement, glamor, and sophistication? 1363 01:08:18,068 --> 01:08:21,871 Then you have come to the wrong place, honey. 1364 01:08:21,940 --> 01:08:24,840 {\an8}This is Wigstock 2.0! 1365 01:08:24,909 --> 01:08:28,643 ( crowd cheering ) 1366 01:08:28,712 --> 01:08:32,543 Hi, Wigstock! How y’all doin’, honeys? 1367 01:08:32,612 --> 01:08:33,915 New York City! 1368 01:08:33,984 --> 01:08:35,320 ( cheering ) 1369 01:08:38,089 --> 01:08:41,793 Get out here and tear this stage up! 1370 01:08:44,428 --> 01:08:46,431 ♪ Burn down, take me on ♪ 1371 01:08:48,065 --> 01:08:50,833 ♪ Bend down, move along ♪ 1372 01:08:50,902 --> 01:08:55,240 ♪ I need a hot shot ♪ 1373 01:08:56,306 --> 01:08:58,173 ♪ Burn down with the proud... ♪ 1374 01:08:58,242 --> 01:08:59,903 Lady Bunny: Wig cannon! Get a wig! Go! 1375 01:08:59,972 --> 01:09:02,812 ♪ And the music’s loud ♪ 1376 01:09:02,881 --> 01:09:07,850 ♪ I need a hot shot ♪ 1377 01:09:07,919 --> 01:09:10,822 ( music continues ) 1378 01:09:21,931 --> 01:09:24,432 Lady Bunny: I just realized that this documentary 1379 01:09:24,501 --> 01:09:28,070 was being shot in HD. 1380 01:09:28,139 --> 01:09:30,973 Which at my age means "haggard dog." 1381 01:09:31,042 --> 01:09:32,508 ( laughter ) 1382 01:09:32,577 --> 01:09:34,243 Anyway, we’re back! 1383 01:09:34,312 --> 01:09:37,545 ♪ Ooh, baby, baby, baby, baby ♪ 1384 01:09:37,614 --> 01:09:39,981 ♪ I wanna feel it in my soul, come on and move it ♪ 1385 01:09:40,050 --> 01:09:43,318 ♪ You know you never, never, never gonna lose control ♪ 1386 01:09:43,387 --> 01:09:44,652 ♪ My fire’s burning ♪ 1387 01:09:44,721 --> 01:09:47,755 ♪ It’s getting real hot... ♪ 1388 01:09:47,824 --> 01:09:51,494 Lady Bunny: Let’s hear it for Javier Ninja! 1389 01:09:51,563 --> 01:09:54,194 ( crowd cheering ) 1390 01:09:56,867 --> 01:09:59,701 Lady Bunny: Ladies and gentlemen, Perfidia! 1391 01:09:59,770 --> 01:10:02,137 Was that bitch dynamite, or what? 1392 01:10:02,206 --> 01:10:03,473 Give her some more love! 1393 01:10:03,542 --> 01:10:05,775 ( crowd cheering ) 1394 01:10:05,844 --> 01:10:07,975 ( music playing ) 1395 01:10:08,044 --> 01:10:13,082 Bunny: You can never stop the spirit of Wigstock! 1396 01:10:13,151 --> 01:10:14,182 ( crowd cheering ) 1397 01:10:14,251 --> 01:10:15,983 Whoo! How we doing, Wigstock! 1398 01:10:16,052 --> 01:10:18,687 If you’re having a good time, make some noise! 1399 01:10:18,756 --> 01:10:19,955 ( cheering ) 1400 01:10:20,024 --> 01:10:23,891 Thank you, Wigstock! Thank you, Bunny! 1401 01:10:23,960 --> 01:10:26,996 ♪ That brought me out of my seat ♪ 1402 01:10:27,065 --> 01:10:31,937 ♪ I need a hot shot ♪ 1403 01:10:34,071 --> 01:10:36,071 Lady Bunny: I need to crank this music 1404 01:10:36,140 --> 01:10:40,608 {\an8}like it was a nightclub in 1993! 1405 01:10:40,677 --> 01:10:44,112 Can you hear it out there? Can you hear it out there? 1406 01:10:44,181 --> 01:10:46,481 - ( cheering ) - OK. 1407 01:10:46,550 --> 01:10:48,450 Everyone is always saying, "Bunny, 1408 01:10:48,519 --> 01:10:49,984 you and Ru are such good friends, 1409 01:10:50,053 --> 01:10:52,454 why don’t you get on that fuckin’ show?" 1410 01:10:52,523 --> 01:10:58,327 And I said, "Honey, by not wanting to be on that show, 1411 01:10:58,396 --> 01:11:02,401 I can read all their asses to filth." 1412 01:11:03,801 --> 01:11:07,202 Is Wigstock 2.0 audience ready to... 1413 01:11:07,271 --> 01:11:09,905 ( mocking ) ...spill some tea? 1414 01:11:09,974 --> 01:11:11,240 ( crowd cheering ) 1415 01:11:11,309 --> 01:11:15,547 ( music playing ) 1416 01:11:20,083 --> 01:11:24,019 ♪ Makes no difference if you’re butch or a femme ♪ 1417 01:11:24,088 --> 01:11:28,456 ♪ Or even look like a girl ♪ 1418 01:11:28,525 --> 01:11:31,759 ♪ Takes no talent to impress ’em today ♪ 1419 01:11:31,828 --> 01:11:35,863 ♪ You’re on "Drag Race" till you sashay away ♪ 1420 01:11:35,932 --> 01:11:39,501 - ♪ Come on and contour your nose ♪ - ♪ Nose ♪ 1421 01:11:39,570 --> 01:11:43,205 ♪ Lip sync for your life to the music ♪ 1422 01:11:43,274 --> 01:11:44,874 ♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪ 1423 01:11:44,943 --> 01:11:47,509 - ♪ Contour your nose ♪ - ♪ Nose ♪ 1424 01:11:47,578 --> 01:11:51,313 ♪ Find a catchphrase and overuse it ♪ 1425 01:11:51,382 --> 01:11:53,552 ♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪ 1426 01:11:55,353 --> 01:11:56,755 ♪ Pose ♪ 1427 01:11:58,355 --> 01:12:00,320 ♪ I said pose ♪ 1428 01:12:05,529 --> 01:12:08,397 ♪ Pose ♪ ( echoing ) 1429 01:12:08,466 --> 01:12:10,635 ( crowd cheering ) 1430 01:12:12,402 --> 01:12:17,009 ( music playing ) 1431 01:12:20,579 --> 01:12:22,847 {\an8}All: ♪ Hi ♪ 1432 01:12:25,716 --> 01:12:28,950 ( music plays, stops ) 1433 01:12:29,019 --> 01:12:33,021 What do Neal Patrick Harris and an ambulance have in common? 1434 01:12:33,090 --> 01:12:36,125 Both take it in the back and go, "Whoop! Whoop!" 1435 01:12:36,194 --> 01:12:39,761 ( music plays, stops ) 1436 01:12:39,830 --> 01:12:44,394 What’s the difference between Bianca Del Rio and a bag of trash? 1437 01:12:44,463 --> 01:12:47,402 Trash gets picked up every once in a while. 1438 01:12:47,471 --> 01:12:49,909 ( music playing ) 1439 01:12:54,112 --> 01:12:55,511 Thank you! 1440 01:12:55,580 --> 01:12:58,717 ( song outro plays ) 1441 01:13:01,017 --> 01:13:04,218 The Ladies of Lips! Clap for those bitches! 1442 01:13:04,287 --> 01:13:08,823 ’Cause if you’ve ever been to Lips, they’re never that entertaining. 1443 01:13:08,892 --> 01:13:12,293 What fuckin’ useless cunts! Get back to your shift, cunts! 1444 01:13:12,362 --> 01:13:13,594 ( laughter ) 1445 01:13:13,663 --> 01:13:16,902 Lady Bunny: All right, here we are! 1446 01:13:20,470 --> 01:13:24,272 {\an8}This is so funny, because I’m wearing Formika’s dress from ’94. 1447 01:13:24,341 --> 01:13:25,844 {\an8}- Man: Really? - Yeah, yeah. 1448 01:13:27,578 --> 01:13:28,778 {\an8}Have my morning cup of coffee, 1449 01:13:28,847 --> 01:13:31,613 {\an8}and I’m all ready for a drag show. 1450 01:13:31,682 --> 01:13:34,216 {\an8}Happy Wigstock ’94, everybody. 1451 01:13:34,285 --> 01:13:37,385 Hello, New York, how’s everybody doin’? 1452 01:13:37,454 --> 01:13:41,422 You all look so fuckin’ good! 1453 01:13:41,491 --> 01:13:45,426 I was born in ’94, so it’s like a full circle moment for me. 1454 01:13:45,495 --> 01:13:48,597 Mistress Formika: Wigstock is not about hate or fighting, 1455 01:13:48,666 --> 01:13:50,565 it’s about love. 1456 01:13:50,634 --> 01:13:52,500 It’s time for us to have some rights! 1457 01:13:52,569 --> 01:13:54,703 It’s time for us to take charge! 1458 01:13:54,772 --> 01:13:57,071 Take it away, baby. 1459 01:13:57,140 --> 01:13:59,741 {\an8}I know that a lot of us are down in the dumps these days, 1460 01:13:59,810 --> 01:14:02,044 {\an8}things are pretty crazy in this country, 1461 01:14:02,113 --> 01:14:04,813 and I just wanna say when you get real depressed 1462 01:14:04,882 --> 01:14:07,248 and you find yourself in a deep, dark valley, 1463 01:14:07,317 --> 01:14:10,986 it’s really, really important to remember 1464 01:14:11,055 --> 01:14:13,721 that I am coming out with a new album... 1465 01:14:13,790 --> 01:14:18,192 - ( laughter ) - and I would like to sing a track from that right now. 1466 01:14:18,261 --> 01:14:23,065 The name of the album is "Dina Martina: Mysteries of the Thyroid." 1467 01:14:23,134 --> 01:14:24,769 Thank you. Hit it! 1468 01:14:25,804 --> 01:14:28,740 ( keyboard playing intro ) 1469 01:14:39,349 --> 01:14:42,618 ♪ Some say love ♪ 1470 01:14:42,687 --> 01:14:48,093 ♪ Becomes the rose ♪ 1471 01:14:53,297 --> 01:14:55,665 Thank you. Off the charts. 1472 01:14:55,734 --> 01:14:57,937 ( crowd cheering ) 1473 01:15:02,205 --> 01:15:06,174 Wait. Can every drag queen from "Drag Race" take note? 1474 01:15:06,243 --> 01:15:08,571 That’s how you do an album, bitch! 1475 01:15:08,640 --> 01:15:10,979 That’s how you do a fuckin’ album! 1476 01:15:11,048 --> 01:15:14,349 The bitch started and left! 1477 01:15:14,418 --> 01:15:18,853 Girl, I was standing backstage going, "She finished?" 1478 01:15:18,922 --> 01:15:20,722 I thought, "That’s good." And there are six people 1479 01:15:20,791 --> 01:15:25,160 in a fuckin’ high tower over there going, "Liza looks horrible!" 1480 01:15:25,229 --> 01:15:27,363 ( all laughing ) 1481 01:15:27,432 --> 01:15:28,968 Oh, no! 1482 01:15:30,068 --> 01:15:34,136 The g-- ha ha ha! Look at you. 1483 01:15:34,205 --> 01:15:39,106 You look... consistently relic-like. 1484 01:15:39,175 --> 01:15:43,373 I know, I know. Usually the balls are on my chins. 1485 01:15:43,442 --> 01:15:46,281 To cover the hair. Yeah, it looks good. 1486 01:15:46,350 --> 01:15:48,483 Lady Bunny: You know, we joke around a lot, 1487 01:15:48,552 --> 01:15:51,219 but when I call her and say, "Your plane’s gonna crash," 1488 01:15:51,288 --> 01:15:52,448 I’m only kidding. 1489 01:15:52,517 --> 01:15:54,990 We’re good friends, it’s a joke. 1490 01:15:55,059 --> 01:15:58,393 When Bianca leaves here, she will arrive... 1491 01:15:58,462 --> 01:16:01,096 - safely and on time... - Thank you. 1492 01:16:01,165 --> 01:16:04,199 - in Syria. - Ha ha ha ha! 1493 01:16:04,268 --> 01:16:06,101 ’Cause I’ll work anywhere! I’m here! 1494 01:16:06,170 --> 01:16:08,938 Take it away, cunt! Here we go! 1495 01:16:09,007 --> 01:16:10,671 Lady Bunny: Ladies and gentlemen, 1496 01:16:10,740 --> 01:16:12,641 a New York City nightlife legend-- 1497 01:16:12,710 --> 01:16:15,948 Kevin Aviance! 1498 01:16:17,948 --> 01:16:19,882 {\an8}Kevin Aviance: ♪ I believe, I believe, I believe ♪ 1499 01:16:19,951 --> 01:16:23,085 {\an8}♪ I believe, I believe ♪ 1500 01:16:23,154 --> 01:16:27,355 ♪ I believe, believe, believe, believe ♪ 1501 01:16:27,424 --> 01:16:30,659 ♪ Believe, believe, believe, believe ♪ 1502 01:16:30,728 --> 01:16:34,296 ♪ Believe, aaaaah! ♪ 1503 01:16:34,365 --> 01:16:39,162 Background Singers: ♪ I believe, I believe, I believe ♪ 1504 01:16:39,231 --> 01:16:43,639 ♪ I believe, I believe ♪ 1505 01:16:43,708 --> 01:16:46,642 ♪ I believe ♪ 1506 01:16:46,711 --> 01:16:48,577 {\an8}♪ I believe ♪ 1507 01:16:48,646 --> 01:16:53,649 {\an8}Lady Bunny: Welcome the most famous transsexual in the world, 1508 01:16:53,718 --> 01:16:57,520 Amanda Lepore! 1509 01:16:57,589 --> 01:17:00,422 The incredible Raven O! 1510 01:17:00,491 --> 01:17:04,058 ♪ What is love if you got in between it ♪ 1511 01:17:04,127 --> 01:17:07,629 ♪ No one cares if you’re ever gonna achieve it ♪ 1512 01:17:07,698 --> 01:17:10,002 ♪ And nobody knows ♪ 1513 01:17:11,401 --> 01:17:14,402 ♪ Nobody knows ♪ 1514 01:17:14,471 --> 01:17:17,872 ♪ And what do we care if they always walk with us ♪ 1515 01:17:17,941 --> 01:17:21,710 ♪ They want us to break, but who cares, they don’t know us ♪ 1516 01:17:21,779 --> 01:17:23,782 ♪ And still we don’t know ♪ 1517 01:17:25,744 --> 01:17:28,417 ♪ So I say whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh ♪ 1518 01:17:28,486 --> 01:17:30,953 ♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh ♪ 1519 01:17:31,022 --> 01:17:32,955 ♪ Can you let us go ♪ 1520 01:17:33,024 --> 01:17:36,257 ( music continues ) 1521 01:17:36,326 --> 01:17:37,926 Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, 1522 01:17:37,995 --> 01:17:39,695 those undecided and those in between, 1523 01:17:39,764 --> 01:17:41,230 I just want you guys to know 1524 01:17:41,299 --> 01:17:43,398 how much of an honor it is for me to be here. 1525 01:17:43,467 --> 01:17:45,437 ( crowd cheering ) 1526 01:17:47,471 --> 01:17:49,669 ( music playing ) 1527 01:17:52,337 --> 01:17:54,879 ( crowd cheering ) 1528 01:17:57,280 --> 01:18:00,815 {\an8}Backup Singers: ♪ This is my hair, I don’t wear wigs ♪ 1529 01:18:00,884 --> 01:18:05,921 {\an8}- ♪ Everybody, this is my hair ♪ - Crowd: ♪ I don’t wear wigs ♪ 1530 01:18:05,990 --> 01:18:08,123 ♪ This is my hair ♪ 1531 01:18:08,192 --> 01:18:10,095 ( song continues, crowd cheering ) 1532 01:18:14,499 --> 01:18:16,398 ( song ends ) 1533 01:18:16,467 --> 01:18:17,999 Lady Bunny: Ladies and gentlemen, 1534 01:18:18,068 --> 01:18:21,436 give it up for Alaska Thunderfuck! 1535 01:18:21,505 --> 01:18:23,639 I love your vagina! Mwah! 1536 01:18:23,708 --> 01:18:25,407 ( crowd cheering ) 1537 01:18:25,476 --> 01:18:27,875 Neil Patrick Harris: Our next performer 1538 01:18:27,944 --> 01:18:31,379 taught me how to walk and how to cock a hip 1539 01:18:31,448 --> 01:18:34,416 when I was Hedwig in "The Angry Inch." 1540 01:18:34,485 --> 01:18:40,289 Please welcome the disgusting and the sexy Willam! 1541 01:18:40,358 --> 01:18:43,362 {\an8}( crowd cheering, music playing ) 1542 01:18:47,998 --> 01:18:51,136 Willam Belli: ♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ 1543 01:18:57,641 --> 01:19:01,480 Oh, the bubbles are tickling my rectum! I love it! Oh! 1544 01:19:03,213 --> 01:19:06,114 Wait, hold on, hold on one second. One second. 1545 01:19:06,183 --> 01:19:10,351 Ohh, ohh! Spin me around, I wanna do spin art. 1546 01:19:10,420 --> 01:19:12,021 Make me spin art. 1547 01:19:12,090 --> 01:19:14,956 Ohh. Oh, yeah. Uhh. 1548 01:19:15,025 --> 01:19:16,391 Show ’em my shart, please. 1549 01:19:16,460 --> 01:19:20,228 Put a big "B" on it for Bunny and me! 1550 01:19:20,297 --> 01:19:22,765 Yay! Look at me. 1551 01:19:22,834 --> 01:19:24,765 ( crowd cheering ) 1552 01:19:24,834 --> 01:19:28,173 That’s what I did with my pussy. You’re welcome. 1553 01:19:29,673 --> 01:19:32,408 Does anybody want a Coors? They’re not a sponsor. 1554 01:19:32,477 --> 01:19:33,676 Here, girl. 1555 01:19:33,745 --> 01:19:35,077 ( laughter ) 1556 01:19:35,146 --> 01:19:36,679 Michael Lynch: I’m here representing 1557 01:19:36,748 --> 01:19:38,413 the girls of Stonewall. 1558 01:19:38,482 --> 01:19:40,248 ( crowd cheering ) 1559 01:19:40,317 --> 01:19:42,952 {\an8}This piece was written by Mr. Jimmy Camicia. 1560 01:19:43,021 --> 01:19:45,653 {\an8}"Spare Change for a Dying Queen." 1561 01:19:45,722 --> 01:19:49,290 {\an8}Can you spare some change for a dying queen, darling? 1562 01:19:49,359 --> 01:19:52,661 Oh, I am dying. I know you don’t believe me. 1563 01:19:52,730 --> 01:19:55,497 But us queens know what we’re talkin’ about, yes, we do! 1564 01:19:55,566 --> 01:19:58,904 We’re from the liberation! Yes, we are. 1565 01:20:00,370 --> 01:20:03,505 Sometimes when I pass those gay bars 1566 01:20:03,574 --> 01:20:06,108 and I see my gay sisters and brothers havin’ a good time 1567 01:20:06,177 --> 01:20:08,804 and turning it out in all their liberated glory, 1568 01:20:08,873 --> 01:20:11,079 and I see that sign over that bar that says, 1569 01:20:11,148 --> 01:20:15,116 "No drunks, no dogs, no drags." 1570 01:20:15,185 --> 01:20:17,352 Could you imagine comparing me to a dog? 1571 01:20:17,421 --> 01:20:20,422 - Audience Member: No! - I just want to break down and-- 1572 01:20:20,491 --> 01:20:22,991 But that’s OK, darlin’, because I pay it no mind. 1573 01:20:23,060 --> 01:20:25,895 Because when they 86 me, I tip, 1574 01:20:25,964 --> 01:20:28,598 and when I tip, I stay tipped. 1575 01:20:28,667 --> 01:20:30,532 ( crowd cheering ) 1576 01:20:30,601 --> 01:20:32,901 Because I got my friends, that’s right, 1577 01:20:32,970 --> 01:20:34,903 and I know who my friends are! 1578 01:20:34,972 --> 01:20:38,473 My friends are people who got change to spare. 1579 01:20:38,542 --> 01:20:41,042 My friends are people who smile at me 1580 01:20:41,111 --> 01:20:46,347 and understand when I say, "Can you spare some change for a dying queen, darlin’?" 1581 01:20:46,416 --> 01:20:49,151 So if you’re in one of those bars 1582 01:20:49,220 --> 01:20:50,986 and you see that sign, 1583 01:20:51,055 --> 01:20:54,555 "No drunks, no dogs, no drags," 1584 01:20:54,624 --> 01:20:58,092 and you see them turning out on my of gay brothers and sisters, 1585 01:20:58,161 --> 01:21:00,896 I want you to dig real deep down in your pocket 1586 01:21:00,965 --> 01:21:02,930 and pull out some of that change 1587 01:21:02,999 --> 01:21:05,567 that you’re saving for your cold beer and your hot dogs, 1588 01:21:05,636 --> 01:21:10,038 and get over yourself and spare some change for a dying queen... 1589 01:21:10,107 --> 01:21:13,478 ( crowd cheering ) 1590 01:21:16,714 --> 01:21:19,147 ...darling. 1591 01:21:19,216 --> 01:21:21,683 Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, 1592 01:21:21,752 --> 01:21:24,553 whether you like it or not... 1593 01:21:24,622 --> 01:21:26,454 Hedwig! 1594 01:21:26,523 --> 01:21:28,660 - ( crowd roars ) - ( band plays into ) 1595 01:21:43,603 --> 01:21:46,075 ♪ Last time I saw you ♪ 1596 01:21:46,144 --> 01:21:48,443 ♪ We’d just split in two ♪ 1597 01:21:48,512 --> 01:21:50,579 ♪ You were lookin’ at me ♪ 1598 01:21:50,648 --> 01:21:52,247 ♪ I was looking at you ♪ 1599 01:21:52,316 --> 01:21:55,183 ♪ You had a way so familiar ♪ 1600 01:21:55,252 --> 01:21:57,119 ♪ I could not recognize ♪ 1601 01:21:57,188 --> 01:21:59,583 ♪ ’Cause you had blood on your face ♪ 1602 01:21:59,652 --> 01:22:02,157 ♪ I had blood in my eyes ♪ 1603 01:22:02,226 --> 01:22:04,788 ♪ But I could swear by your expression ♪ 1604 01:22:04,857 --> 01:22:07,196 ♪ That the pain down in your soul ♪ 1605 01:22:07,265 --> 01:22:10,833 ♪ Was the same as the one down in mine ♪ 1606 01:22:10,902 --> 01:22:13,668 ♪ Oh, that’s the pain ♪ 1607 01:22:13,737 --> 01:22:18,173 ♪ That cuts a straight line down through the heart ♪ 1608 01:22:18,242 --> 01:22:20,537 ♪ We call it love ♪ 1609 01:22:20,606 --> 01:22:23,446 ♪ The origin of love ♪ 1610 01:22:23,515 --> 01:22:25,113 ♪ Oh, yeah ♪ 1611 01:22:25,182 --> 01:22:27,316 ♪ The origin of love ♪ 1612 01:22:27,385 --> 01:22:32,154 ♪ Oh, oh, the origin of love ♪ 1613 01:22:32,223 --> 01:22:34,790 ♪ Love, love, love, love ♪ 1614 01:22:34,859 --> 01:22:38,561 ♪ The origin of ♪ 1615 01:22:38,630 --> 01:22:43,068 ( new song begins ) 1616 01:22:52,443 --> 01:22:54,876 ♪ Six inches forward and five inches back ♪ 1617 01:22:54,945 --> 01:22:57,578 ♪ I got, I got an angry inch ♪ 1618 01:22:57,647 --> 01:23:00,548 ♪ Six inches forward and five inches back ♪ 1619 01:23:00,617 --> 01:23:03,718 ♪ I got a, I got an angry inch ♪ 1620 01:23:03,787 --> 01:23:06,655 ♪ Six inches forward, five inches back ♪ 1621 01:23:06,724 --> 01:23:10,058 ♪ Stay under cover till the night turns to black ♪ 1622 01:23:10,127 --> 01:23:12,227 ♪ I got my inch, I’m set to attack ♪ 1623 01:23:12,296 --> 01:23:16,101 ♪ I got an angry inch, an angry inch ♪ 1624 01:23:28,546 --> 01:23:30,145 ( song ends ) 1625 01:23:30,214 --> 01:23:33,285 ( crowd cheering ) 1626 01:23:47,064 --> 01:23:51,233 Lady Bunny: Ladies and gentlemen, comin’ up next we have 1627 01:23:51,302 --> 01:23:53,434 one of the Bushwig favorites. 1628 01:23:53,503 --> 01:23:56,171 I want you to put your hands together 1629 01:23:56,240 --> 01:23:59,642 for the wild, the uncontrollable, 1630 01:23:59,711 --> 01:24:01,710 the unpredictable, 1631 01:24:01,779 --> 01:24:04,079 Charlene Incarnate! 1632 01:24:04,148 --> 01:24:06,381 ( crowd cheering ) 1633 01:24:06,450 --> 01:24:09,221 Her Wigstock debut! 1634 01:24:11,388 --> 01:24:13,658 ( band playing song intro ) 1635 01:24:17,360 --> 01:24:20,695 ♪ You’re struttin’ into town like you’re slingin’ a gun ♪ 1636 01:24:20,764 --> 01:24:25,533 ♪ Just a small town dude with a big city attitude ♪ 1637 01:24:25,602 --> 01:24:29,633 ♪ Honey, are you looking for some trouble tonight? ♪ 1638 01:24:29,702 --> 01:24:31,540 ♪ Well, all right ♪ 1639 01:24:31,609 --> 01:24:33,274 ♪ You think you’ll knock me off my feet ♪ 1640 01:24:33,343 --> 01:24:35,042 ♪ Till I’m flat on the floor ♪ 1641 01:24:35,111 --> 01:24:38,981 ♪ Till my heart is crying Indian and I’m begging for more ♪ 1642 01:24:39,050 --> 01:24:42,417 ♪ So come on, baby, come on, baby ♪ 1643 01:24:42,486 --> 01:24:45,620 ♪ Come on, baby, show me what that loaded gun is for ♪ 1644 01:24:45,689 --> 01:24:48,985 ♪ If you’re so tough, come on and prove it ♪ 1645 01:24:49,054 --> 01:24:50,625 ♪ Your heart is down for the count ♪ 1646 01:24:50,694 --> 01:24:53,628 ♪ And you know you’re gonna lose it ♪ 1647 01:24:53,697 --> 01:24:58,166 ♪ Tonight, you’re gonna go down in flames ♪ 1648 01:24:58,235 --> 01:25:01,406 ♪ Just like Jesse James ♪ 1649 01:25:06,377 --> 01:25:08,176 ♪ Well, you’ve had your way with love ♪ 1650 01:25:08,245 --> 01:25:09,912 ♪ But it’s the end of the day ♪ 1651 01:25:09,981 --> 01:25:11,579 ♪ Now a team of wild horses ♪ 1652 01:25:11,648 --> 01:25:13,581 ♪ Couldn’t drag your heart away ♪ 1653 01:25:13,650 --> 01:25:17,786 ♪ So come on, baby, come on, baby, come on, baby ♪ 1654 01:25:17,855 --> 01:25:20,355 ♪ You know there ain’t nothin’ left to say ♪ 1655 01:25:20,424 --> 01:25:23,224 ♪ If you’re so tough, come on and prove it ♪ 1656 01:25:23,293 --> 01:25:24,759 ♪ Your heart is down for the count ♪ 1657 01:25:24,828 --> 01:25:27,696 ♪ And you know you’re gonna lose it ♪ 1658 01:25:27,765 --> 01:25:32,000 ♪ Tonight you’re gonna go down in flames ♪ 1659 01:25:32,069 --> 01:25:34,602 ♪ Just like Jesse James ♪ 1660 01:25:34,671 --> 01:25:38,540 ♪ Tonight you’re gonna go down in flames 1661 01:25:38,609 --> 01:25:43,715 ♪ Just like Jesse James ♪ 1662 01:25:45,116 --> 01:25:46,616 ♪ I’m gonna shoot you down ♪ 1663 01:25:46,685 --> 01:25:48,720 ♪ Jesse James ♪ 1664 01:25:51,817 --> 01:25:54,459 ( crowd cheering ) 1665 01:25:59,162 --> 01:26:03,398 Lady Bunny: Let’s hear it for Charlene Incarnate! 1666 01:26:03,467 --> 01:26:06,571 ( crowd cheering ) 1667 01:26:13,845 --> 01:26:17,813 Thank you. Thank you. 1668 01:26:17,882 --> 01:26:20,452 Thank you, everyone. 1669 01:26:26,323 --> 01:26:28,693 ( crowd cheering ) 1670 01:26:31,095 --> 01:26:36,999 ♪ Goodbyes sound better ♪ 1671 01:26:37,068 --> 01:26:42,407 ♪ I wish you a good goodbye ♪ 1672 01:26:44,808 --> 01:26:47,008 Kevin Aviance: ’Cause you’re part of history. 1673 01:26:47,077 --> 01:26:49,710 This is gonna be one of those things years and years from now 1674 01:26:49,779 --> 01:26:51,580 when it’s long gone and the era has passed 1675 01:26:51,649 --> 01:26:55,917 that people are trying to relive and capture and hold onto. 1676 01:26:55,986 --> 01:26:58,720 So feel yourself special to be a part of it. 1677 01:26:58,789 --> 01:27:02,524 ♪ In all of the hours and times that I tried to be..." 1678 01:27:02,593 --> 01:27:04,492 Drag Queen: I’ve been to the deserts, 1679 01:27:04,561 --> 01:27:06,494 I’ve been to the seas, honey. 1680 01:27:06,563 --> 01:27:08,029 And there’s no other drag community 1681 01:27:08,098 --> 01:27:09,664 like New York City, darling. 1682 01:27:09,733 --> 01:27:12,067 Give it up for these queens, darling. 1683 01:27:12,136 --> 01:27:14,907 Up, up, up, up, up, up, up! 1684 01:27:17,669 --> 01:27:21,375 These girls now are watching us and they’re admiring us. 1685 01:27:21,444 --> 01:27:26,777 Girls, I want to tell you, there’s room for all of us. This is for you. 1686 01:27:26,846 --> 01:27:29,818 ( music playing ) 1687 01:27:29,887 --> 01:27:31,854 Lady Bunny: Thank you so much. 1688 01:27:31,923 --> 01:27:33,421 I live the life I love, 1689 01:27:33,490 --> 01:27:35,023 and I love the life I live, 1690 01:27:35,092 --> 01:27:38,830 and I love sharing it with all of you here. 1691 01:27:40,359 --> 01:27:42,064 Drag Queen: It’s the audience. 1692 01:27:42,133 --> 01:27:44,233 It’s you that is Wigstock, 1693 01:27:44,302 --> 01:27:47,102 and I lift my wigs to you all. 1694 01:27:47,171 --> 01:27:50,239 ♪ Goodbye-ay-ay-ay-ay ♪ 1695 01:27:50,308 --> 01:27:52,978 ♪ Sweet summer ♪ 1696 01:28:10,059 --> 01:28:14,563 {\an8}♪ I finally feel like I’m gonna be feeling this way ♪ 1697 01:28:14,632 --> 01:28:19,101 {\an8}♪ For a long time, baby ♪ 1698 01:28:19,170 --> 01:28:20,805 {\an8}♪ Yeah ♪ 1699 01:28:23,875 --> 01:28:26,912 {\an8}( no audible dialogue ) 1700 01:28:39,723 --> 01:28:44,292 {\an8}♪ Set me down and tell me you love me ♪ 1701 01:28:44,361 --> 01:28:46,261 {\an8}♪ Take me by the hand ♪ 1702 01:28:46,330 --> 01:28:49,230 {\an8}♪ In the cover of the trees ♪ 1703 01:28:49,299 --> 01:28:51,466 {\an8}♪ As we drive on this road ♪ ♪ 1704 01:28:51,535 --> 01:28:53,834 {\an8}♪ I can see you must know ♪ 1705 01:28:53,903 --> 01:28:58,406 {\an8}♪ How much, how much you mean to me ♪ 1706 01:28:58,475 --> 01:29:01,109 {\an8}♪ Come run and tell me you love me ♪ 1707 01:29:01,178 --> 01:29:03,306 {\an8}♪ Come on and hold my hand ♪ 1708 01:29:03,375 --> 01:29:05,848 {\an8}♪ Come run and take me for a long time ♪ 1709 01:29:05,917 --> 01:29:08,416 {\an8}♪ Until you leave this land ♪ 1710 01:29:08,485 --> 01:29:10,485 {\an8}♪ Tell me that we’re going to be ♪ 1711 01:29:10,554 --> 01:29:14,323 {\an8}♪ Together forever, baby ♪ 1712 01:29:14,392 --> 01:29:17,425 {\an8}♪ Forever ♪ 1713 01:29:17,494 --> 01:29:19,494 {\an8}♪ I finally feel like ♪ 1714 01:29:19,563 --> 01:29:22,430 {\an8}♪ I’m gonna be feeling this way ♪ 1715 01:29:22,499 --> 01:29:26,535 {\an8}♪ For a long time, baby ♪ 1716 01:29:26,604 --> 01:29:28,971 {\an8}♪ I finally feel like ♪ 1717 01:29:29,040 --> 01:29:32,107 {\an8}♪ I’m gonna be feeling this way ♪ 1718 01:29:32,176 --> 01:29:35,944 {\an8}♪ For a long time, baby ♪ 1719 01:29:36,013 --> 01:29:41,617 {\an8}♪ I finally feel like I’m gonna be feeling this way ♪ 1720 01:29:41,686 --> 01:29:45,988 {\an8}♪ For a long time, baby ♪ 1721 01:29:46,057 --> 01:29:47,459 {\an8}♪ Yeah ♪