0000 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:10,000 YoubetCash.vip Agen Judi Online Aman & Terpercaya 000 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Bonus Cashback Bola 6% Bonus Rollingan 0,80% 00 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Welcome Bonus Rp 25.000 Extra Bonus Tambahan Withdraw Rp 2.000.000 0 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:25,000 CashBack Mix Parlay 100% Bonus Ajak teman 45,2% 1 00:00:07,125 --> 00:00:08,125 LESLIE BENNETT: I'm very happy for you, Rue. 2 00:00:08,208 --> 00:00:10,083 You're about to start a brand new chapter. 3 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,417 You've been clean for, like, two weeks, right? 4 00:00:15,291 --> 00:00:17,000 RUE BENNETT: I've actually been really happy. 5 00:00:17,083 --> 00:00:19,208 ♪ Still don't know my name ♪ 6 00:00:19,291 --> 00:00:21,917 Every time I feel good, I think it'll last forever. 7 00:00:22,208 --> 00:00:23,750 But it doesn't. 8 00:00:25,291 --> 00:00:27,625 We're just reaching for something... 9 00:00:29,583 --> 00:00:31,291 to make it all seem meaningful. 10 00:00:51,959 --> 00:00:53,959 ( music playing ) 11 00:00:58,625 --> 00:01:00,709 Linda Simpson: The world is sick with masculinity. 12 00:01:00,792 --> 00:01:04,959 So, as much femininity as this one body can have... 13 00:01:06,458 --> 00:01:08,000 ...that is what makes 14 00:01:08,083 --> 00:01:09,750 a really good drag queen. 15 00:01:11,291 --> 00:01:13,083 Drag, for me, 16 00:01:13,166 --> 00:01:16,417 is an ancient, ancestral performing art. 17 00:01:16,500 --> 00:01:20,041 It's a way for the gay community 18 00:01:20,125 --> 00:01:22,208 to choose its icons. 19 00:01:22,291 --> 00:01:24,750 We're the priests. We are kind of like 20 00:01:24,834 --> 00:01:26,875 the spiritual masters of the gay community. 21 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:29,959 Emcee: Ladies, and gentlemen who would rather be ladies... 22 00:01:30,041 --> 00:01:33,291 ( music playing ) 23 00:01:54,917 --> 00:01:57,542 ( music continues ) 24 00:02:10,166 --> 00:02:12,291 Lady Bunny: I wanna tell you something. 25 00:02:12,375 --> 00:02:15,500 I moved to New York City in 1984. 26 00:02:15,583 --> 00:02:18,125 Since then, like the other jaded scenesters, 27 00:02:18,208 --> 00:02:20,583 and I'm guilty of it too, I sit and bitch: 28 00:02:20,667 --> 00:02:23,625 "There's a Duane Reade and a Chase Bank on every corner. 29 00:02:23,709 --> 00:02:26,417 The city's so slick and sophisticated" and all that. 30 00:02:26,500 --> 00:02:29,500 But you know what? After doin' that and bitchin' for about 30 years, 31 00:02:29,583 --> 00:02:31,250 I finally said, "Well, listen here: 32 00:02:31,333 --> 00:02:33,625 You're a lifer. You ain't movin'. 33 00:02:33,709 --> 00:02:35,792 So your choice is to keep bitchin' 34 00:02:35,875 --> 00:02:38,333 or put on a festival like you used to do 35 00:02:38,417 --> 00:02:40,000 to bring people together 36 00:02:40,083 --> 00:02:43,041 and make something fun about New York City! 37 00:02:43,125 --> 00:02:45,792 - ( music playing ) - Are you ready, Wigstock? 38 00:02:45,875 --> 00:02:47,834 Festivalgoers: Yeah! 39 00:02:47,917 --> 00:02:49,875 Lady Bunny: Maestro, hit it! 40 00:02:51,166 --> 00:02:56,208 ♪ Uh-huh, make me tonight ♪ 41 00:02:56,291 --> 00:03:02,083 ♪ Tonight, tonight ♪ 42 00:03:04,291 --> 00:03:09,291 ♪ Oh, your hair is beautiful ♪ 43 00:03:11,291 --> 00:03:15,917 ♪ Oh, tonight ♪ 44 00:03:17,083 --> 00:03:19,542 ♪ Atomic ♪ 45 00:03:19,625 --> 00:03:21,792 Drag Queen: She worked her way up 46 00:03:21,875 --> 00:03:23,166 to New York City, 47 00:03:23,250 --> 00:03:25,333 to the Queen of Manhattan, 48 00:03:25,417 --> 00:03:27,125 and now she's hearkening back 49 00:03:27,208 --> 00:03:29,458 to her Chattanooga white trash roots, 50 00:03:29,542 --> 00:03:32,125 doin' one of her songs of her own 51 00:03:32,208 --> 00:03:34,542 in a style that she made famous. 52 00:03:34,625 --> 00:03:37,375 Please welcome Lady Bunny! 53 00:03:37,458 --> 00:03:39,208 ( crowd cheering ) 54 00:03:39,291 --> 00:03:41,667 ♪ Tonight ♪ 55 00:03:41,750 --> 00:03:43,875 ♪ Make me tonight ♪ 56 00:03:43,959 --> 00:03:46,750 Lady Bunny: I snuck into a club at 13, 57 00:03:46,834 --> 00:03:48,792 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. 58 00:03:48,875 --> 00:03:50,291 I'd never seen-- whoo!-- 59 00:03:50,375 --> 00:03:52,792 sequined gowns and false eyelashes, 60 00:03:52,875 --> 00:03:54,583 the giant wigs and whatever. 61 00:03:54,667 --> 00:03:56,542 I lived in drag as a child. 62 00:03:56,625 --> 00:03:59,500 The long t-shirts and the short-shorts. 63 00:03:59,583 --> 00:04:01,291 And I had long hair, so, honey, 64 00:04:01,375 --> 00:04:04,166 I was never in the closet, let's put it that way. 65 00:04:04,250 --> 00:04:05,208 ( laughing ) 66 00:04:05,291 --> 00:04:08,291 ♪ Atomic ♪ 67 00:04:11,458 --> 00:04:13,792 ♪ Don't you know your queen ♪ 68 00:04:16,333 --> 00:04:18,875 ♪ Whipped ♪ 69 00:04:18,959 --> 00:04:20,000 Who's that guy? 70 00:04:20,083 --> 00:04:22,083 ♪ Heaving ♪ 71 00:04:22,166 --> 00:04:26,291 ♪ Flower bloom at my feet... ♪ 72 00:04:26,375 --> 00:04:28,083 - We gotta go now. Bye. - Bye. 73 00:04:28,166 --> 00:04:29,458 Bye, Nelson! 74 00:04:29,542 --> 00:04:31,125 Lady Bunny: The Pyramid Club, 75 00:04:31,208 --> 00:04:34,667 when I arrived in about '83, 76 00:04:34,750 --> 00:04:37,083 was a swinging club 77 00:04:37,166 --> 00:04:39,000 that they billed as 78 00:04:39,083 --> 00:04:41,583 "drag-owned and operated." 79 00:04:41,667 --> 00:04:43,542 Wait a minute. There we are. 80 00:04:43,625 --> 00:04:45,500 That's my new pyramid heart. 81 00:04:45,583 --> 00:04:49,417 - What's that? - It's a pyramid. 82 00:04:49,500 --> 00:04:52,709 ( music playing ) 83 00:04:55,500 --> 00:04:57,834 Hello. Welcome to the Pyramid. 84 00:05:01,917 --> 00:05:04,834 Lady Bunny: We were really ridiculous... 85 00:05:04,917 --> 00:05:08,500 taking LSD... 86 00:05:08,583 --> 00:05:11,542 you know, it was a magic time. 87 00:05:14,542 --> 00:05:16,583 The Pyramid celebrities 88 00:05:16,667 --> 00:05:19,166 were creating their own persona. 89 00:05:19,250 --> 00:05:22,834 They weren't doing Cher, Joan Rivers, or whatever. 90 00:05:22,917 --> 00:05:25,166 They were coming up with their own persona 91 00:05:25,250 --> 00:05:27,792 with its own look and its own repertoire. 92 00:05:27,875 --> 00:05:30,083 ♪ When I sashay ♪ 93 00:05:30,166 --> 00:05:33,041 ♪ Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah ♪ 94 00:05:33,125 --> 00:05:35,834 ♪ Ah-ah-ah-ah ah-ah-ah ♪ 95 00:05:35,917 --> 00:05:37,542 ♪ Hey, hey ♪ 96 00:05:37,625 --> 00:05:40,333 ♪ Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah ♪ 97 00:05:40,417 --> 00:05:42,667 ♪ Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah... ♪ 98 00:05:42,750 --> 00:05:47,542 Emcee: Please welcome Linda Simpson! 99 00:05:47,625 --> 00:05:49,458 Linda Simpson: In the '70s and '80s, 100 00:05:49,542 --> 00:05:52,333 the atmosphere at the gay bars and clubs was macho. 101 00:05:52,417 --> 00:05:56,083 People didn't want femininity, really. 102 00:05:56,166 --> 00:05:59,750 - Emcee: What did our studio audience think? - ( audience cheering ) 103 00:05:59,834 --> 00:06:02,333 Linda Simpson: And the Pyramid, drag became tongue-in-cheek, 104 00:06:02,417 --> 00:06:04,917 was rebellious, it was like punk rock. 105 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,083 No one was careerist about it. 106 00:06:07,166 --> 00:06:09,333 People were just doing it to have fun. 107 00:06:09,417 --> 00:06:12,750 ♪ No family is safe ♪ 108 00:06:12,834 --> 00:06:14,875 ♪ When I sashay ♪ 109 00:06:14,959 --> 00:06:18,709 ♪ Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah ♪ 110 00:06:18,792 --> 00:06:21,792 Emcee: Welcome Lahoma Van Zandt. 111 00:06:21,875 --> 00:06:23,875 ( crowd cheering ) 112 00:06:23,959 --> 00:06:27,667 Lahoma Van Zandt: We were just fucking down to just do our thing. 113 00:06:27,750 --> 00:06:29,500 It was a form of expression, 114 00:06:29,583 --> 00:06:33,125 and also discovery of our feminine side. 115 00:06:33,208 --> 00:06:34,875 It's the make-believe. 116 00:06:34,959 --> 00:06:36,417 It's the make-believe part of it. 117 00:06:36,500 --> 00:06:38,625 And so we just created our own world. 118 00:06:38,709 --> 00:06:41,208 - The snow. The snow. - Yeah. 119 00:06:41,291 --> 00:06:43,500 - OK. - Thank you. 120 00:06:43,583 --> 00:06:44,959 ( all laughing ) 121 00:06:45,041 --> 00:06:46,667 Lady Bunny: RuPaul and I met in Atlanta, 122 00:06:46,750 --> 00:06:51,083 and were immediate whatever-we-were. 123 00:06:51,166 --> 00:06:53,000 It was more than a friendship, 124 00:06:53,083 --> 00:06:56,208 it was a sisterhood, we were close. 125 00:06:56,291 --> 00:06:57,792 What people don't know about Ru 126 00:06:57,875 --> 00:07:01,917 is that his taste in music is unbeatable. 127 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,083 I ain't sayin' listen to his current records. 128 00:07:04,166 --> 00:07:06,959 Emcee: This next performer's name is RuPaul. 129 00:07:07,041 --> 00:07:08,417 Make no mistake about it, 130 00:07:08,500 --> 00:07:11,542 this summer, RuPaul is hot. 131 00:07:11,625 --> 00:07:13,750 Man: Yay! RuPaul! 132 00:07:13,834 --> 00:07:15,250 I think right now I'm gonna-- 133 00:07:15,333 --> 00:07:16,792 Man: RuPaul is red hot! 134 00:07:16,875 --> 00:07:19,000 I'm think right now I'm gonna break out. 135 00:07:19,083 --> 00:07:20,583 Here, let me get red hot. 136 00:07:20,667 --> 00:07:22,208 Lady Bunny: Ru really didn't have an act, 137 00:07:22,291 --> 00:07:24,083 so he needed to have a few extra clowns. 138 00:07:24,166 --> 00:07:27,125 And I was one of those clowns that he brought up to New York 139 00:07:27,208 --> 00:07:30,041 for a gig at the Pyramid to go-go dance in drag. 140 00:07:30,125 --> 00:07:32,208 RuPaul: I wanna break out tonight! 141 00:07:32,291 --> 00:07:35,834 ( continues, indistinct ) 142 00:07:37,583 --> 00:07:42,208 - ( music playing ) - ( singing, indistinct ) 143 00:07:46,792 --> 00:07:49,583 ( laughter, chatter ) 144 00:07:58,625 --> 00:08:01,291 Store P.A.: ♪ Don't it make my brown eyes ♪ 145 00:08:01,375 --> 00:08:05,875 ♪ Don't it make my brown eyes blue ♪ 146 00:08:07,625 --> 00:08:10,625 God, is Bunny a terror, or what? 147 00:08:10,709 --> 00:08:12,792 ( laughing ) 148 00:08:12,875 --> 00:08:16,166 She was a terror. She had this attitude after she came. 149 00:08:16,250 --> 00:08:20,250 She said, "I can deal with workin', and I work hard," she said, 150 00:08:20,333 --> 00:08:23,750 "Every five minutes having to cue up a record is gonna drive me crazy." 151 00:08:23,834 --> 00:08:25,333 To the Pyramid. 152 00:08:25,417 --> 00:08:27,166 You know he was dying to be spanked. 153 00:08:27,250 --> 00:08:29,667 Came up to me saying it was his birthday 154 00:08:29,750 --> 00:08:32,500 and was he too old to warrant a spanking, 155 00:08:32,583 --> 00:08:35,583 and asked me if there were any alternative S&M clubs. 156 00:08:35,667 --> 00:08:37,500 Man: They're all closed because of AIDS. 157 00:08:37,583 --> 00:08:39,291 Lady Bunny: The club closed, 158 00:08:39,375 --> 00:08:41,166 and we were all friends with the bartenders, 159 00:08:41,250 --> 00:08:42,834 and they drank too, 160 00:08:42,917 --> 00:08:45,166 but then when they'd say, "No, you have to shut," 161 00:08:45,250 --> 00:08:47,417 we would just grab six-packs and head over 162 00:08:47,500 --> 00:08:49,917 to Tompkins Square Park where there was a band shell. 163 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,125 Nelson: Bonsoir! Bonsoir! 164 00:08:53,208 --> 00:08:57,000 ♪ Don't you know your queen ♪ 165 00:08:57,083 --> 00:08:58,625 ♪ Gleaming ♪ 166 00:08:58,709 --> 00:09:01,500 ♪ Wrapped in golden leaf ♪ 167 00:09:01,583 --> 00:09:04,041 Lady Bunny: You know, we were just blasted drunk, 168 00:09:04,125 --> 00:09:05,250 had been drunk all night... 169 00:09:05,333 --> 00:09:06,792 You bitch! I'll kill you! 170 00:09:08,125 --> 00:09:10,041 ♪ Rank ♪ 171 00:09:10,125 --> 00:09:11,583 ♪ Ragged ♪ 172 00:09:11,667 --> 00:09:16,792 ♪ Skin sewn on sheets ♪ 173 00:09:18,792 --> 00:09:21,458 Lady Bunny: We were just clowning on... 174 00:09:21,542 --> 00:09:24,792 for angry homeless people that wanted to sleep. 175 00:09:24,875 --> 00:09:28,709 Someone said, "What if we do some kind of festival here?" 176 00:09:28,792 --> 00:09:32,875 Who knows who said, "Instead of Woodstock, we'll call it Wigstock." 177 00:09:32,959 --> 00:09:34,125 I have no idea. 178 00:09:34,208 --> 00:09:35,750 ♪ When I sashay ♪ 179 00:09:35,834 --> 00:09:39,375 ♪ Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah ♪ 180 00:09:39,458 --> 00:09:42,041 ♪ Ah-ah-ah-ah- ah-ah-ah ♪ 181 00:09:42,125 --> 00:09:44,000 ♪ Hey, hey ♪ 182 00:09:45,834 --> 00:09:47,625 ♪ Hey, hey ♪ 183 00:09:53,500 --> 00:09:56,208 - Huh? - Man: Are you gonna be here next week too? 184 00:09:56,291 --> 00:09:57,792 Yes, it's the anniversary. 185 00:09:57,875 --> 00:10:01,500 ( loud music playing, Lady Bunny indistinct ) 186 00:10:05,875 --> 00:10:08,709 ( music playing, lyrics indistinct ) 187 00:10:16,250 --> 00:10:19,875 Lady Bunny: The environment that I grew up in, 188 00:10:19,959 --> 00:10:21,709 in large clubs, 189 00:10:21,792 --> 00:10:26,083 I think we could use a dose of community. 190 00:10:26,166 --> 00:10:28,625 When we had a common enemy, 191 00:10:28,709 --> 00:10:32,792 like rampant, unchecked discrimination, 192 00:10:32,875 --> 00:10:37,583 inability to marry, or serve in the military, or AIDS-- 193 00:10:37,667 --> 00:10:40,959 we did come together because there was an enemy to fight. 194 00:10:41,041 --> 00:10:44,959 ( music continues ) 195 00:10:45,041 --> 00:10:49,125 Lady Bunny: Now I think we're tending to fight each other more. 196 00:10:49,208 --> 00:10:52,250 and I think that if we got in each other's faces, we would say, 197 00:10:52,333 --> 00:10:56,000 "Oh, yeah! You. I get it." 198 00:10:56,083 --> 00:10:58,125 The whole idea of Wigstock 199 00:10:58,208 --> 00:11:01,792 is that we wanted to be considered freaks, 200 00:11:01,875 --> 00:11:03,250 because it made it feel like 201 00:11:03,333 --> 00:11:06,166 we had gotten into some in-crowd 202 00:11:06,250 --> 00:11:09,333 in New York City! 203 00:11:09,417 --> 00:11:12,500 - Lady Bunny: Hello! - Man: Bunny! 204 00:11:12,583 --> 00:11:14,542 - Waah! Mwah. - Love you. 205 00:11:14,625 --> 00:11:16,417 - Take care. - Love you, hussy. 206 00:11:16,500 --> 00:11:18,041 Let me get up the stairs. 207 00:11:18,125 --> 00:11:20,208 - Bye, honey. - Man: Sweetie. 208 00:11:20,291 --> 00:11:21,917 Yes. Oh, thank you so much! 209 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,542 - Got about five of 'em. - Oh, OK. Wonderful. 210 00:11:24,625 --> 00:11:29,375 One, two, three, four, five, six-- 211 00:11:29,458 --> 00:11:31,500 I don't pick up my paychecks very often 212 00:11:31,583 --> 00:11:33,458 because I'm independently wealthy. 213 00:11:33,542 --> 00:11:35,667 ( laughing ) 214 00:11:35,750 --> 00:11:38,583 Don't worry. I'm already... 215 00:11:38,667 --> 00:11:42,250 in the Wesley Snipes... category. 216 00:11:44,041 --> 00:11:46,291 With taxes. Not talent. 217 00:11:46,375 --> 00:11:50,125 Not talent or looks or physical fitness or acting ability. 218 00:11:50,208 --> 00:11:51,667 OK. ( laughing ) 219 00:11:51,750 --> 00:11:53,458 Bye! 220 00:11:53,542 --> 00:11:55,583 ( music playing ) 221 00:11:58,125 --> 00:12:00,125 ( chatter ) 222 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,041 ( music playing ) 223 00:12:04,125 --> 00:12:05,625 Man: Ooh, fog. Fog. 224 00:12:05,709 --> 00:12:07,166 ( laughter ) 225 00:12:07,250 --> 00:12:09,709 Man 2: Oh, that fog! 226 00:12:09,792 --> 00:12:14,625 First day! Have a fun first day. 227 00:12:16,792 --> 00:12:18,709 ♪ Take me by the hand... ♪ 228 00:12:18,792 --> 00:12:21,458 ( song continues, lyrics indistinct ) 229 00:12:28,875 --> 00:12:31,333 Lady Bunny: So, I think that Wigstock 230 00:12:31,417 --> 00:12:32,917 might have bitten the dust 231 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,500 if I hadn't really seen something there. 232 00:12:35,583 --> 00:12:38,917 But I had always been the brat that pins up a sheet in between two trees 233 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,625 and invites the neighbors over for a show. 234 00:12:43,291 --> 00:12:45,166 Linda Simpson: Lady Bunny and some other people 235 00:12:45,250 --> 00:12:47,333 from the Pyramid came up with this idea 236 00:12:47,417 --> 00:12:50,625 to do this outdoor drag-fest during the day. 237 00:12:51,875 --> 00:12:53,875 ( music playing ) 238 00:12:55,834 --> 00:12:57,417 But it was hysterical, because drag 239 00:12:57,500 --> 00:13:00,083 was usually confined to, like, 3:00 a.m., 240 00:13:00,166 --> 00:13:03,417 in pure darkness of a club. 241 00:13:03,500 --> 00:13:05,417 Welcome to Wigstock! 242 00:13:05,500 --> 00:13:08,417 Stop the pigs and give 'em wigs! 243 00:13:08,500 --> 00:13:11,375 All right! We got so much incredible talent for you 244 00:13:11,458 --> 00:13:13,041 lined up tonight, and you're just 245 00:13:13,125 --> 00:13:15,291 dying to see it, I can tell! 246 00:13:15,375 --> 00:13:18,709 ( singing ) 247 00:13:18,792 --> 00:13:20,625 Gonna bring down the house, 248 00:13:20,709 --> 00:13:23,834 and I'm so glad to see each and every one of you. 249 00:13:23,917 --> 00:13:27,291 Lots of wigs out there too, and that's even better! 250 00:13:27,375 --> 00:13:30,083 ( music, chatter ) 251 00:13:30,166 --> 00:13:32,750 Linda Simpson: So it was probably attended by just a few hundred people 252 00:13:32,834 --> 00:13:36,333 at first, and a lot of them were just wandering by. 253 00:13:39,375 --> 00:13:40,709 I know that trick. 254 00:13:40,792 --> 00:13:43,458 Tabboo!: Alphabet City was dangerous. 255 00:13:43,542 --> 00:13:44,875 The only people that were on the streets 256 00:13:44,959 --> 00:13:46,959 were junkies, drug dealers, 257 00:13:47,041 --> 00:13:49,250 and there were no cops, so you could do whatever you want. 258 00:13:49,333 --> 00:13:52,125 We were very tentative about getting our asses kicked. 259 00:13:52,208 --> 00:13:54,458 "Halloween Q, Take Back the Night." 260 00:13:54,542 --> 00:13:55,875 An anti-violence march. 261 00:13:55,959 --> 00:13:58,000 We're stopping in several places along the route. 262 00:13:58,083 --> 00:14:00,625 One's for police, one's for violence against lesbians, 263 00:14:00,709 --> 00:14:02,500 one's for violence against people of color, 264 00:14:02,583 --> 00:14:05,750 one's for AIDS-phobia/ homophobia. 265 00:14:05,834 --> 00:14:08,208 ( chatter ) 266 00:14:08,291 --> 00:14:09,875 Man: Give me an orange one that will stand out more. 267 00:14:09,959 --> 00:14:12,709 Right back there. "Drag queens are under attack." 268 00:14:12,792 --> 00:14:16,875 They're already all over the street. On their way to Wigstock. 269 00:14:16,959 --> 00:14:18,750 ♪ I finally feel like ♪ 270 00:14:18,834 --> 00:14:21,750 ♪ I'm gonna be feelin' this way... ♪ 271 00:14:21,834 --> 00:14:23,834 So right here, we finally got our sound system, 272 00:14:23,917 --> 00:14:27,291 and the show should be going off real soon. 273 00:14:27,375 --> 00:14:30,000 Flotilla DeBarge: It was just for the artists 274 00:14:30,083 --> 00:14:32,500 in the neighborhood, basically, when it started. 275 00:14:32,583 --> 00:14:35,166 But then it became, like, a big thing 276 00:14:35,250 --> 00:14:36,625 where the neighborhood would come 277 00:14:36,709 --> 00:14:38,333 and other people would come 278 00:14:38,417 --> 00:14:41,542 and heterosexuals would come and bring their kids. 279 00:14:41,625 --> 00:14:43,083 We got a dynamite show for you. 280 00:14:43,166 --> 00:14:46,083 The Pyramid put on this every year, 281 00:14:46,166 --> 00:14:48,959 just because there are so many housewives and children 282 00:14:49,041 --> 00:14:51,083 that can't always make it to the nightclub. 283 00:14:51,166 --> 00:14:52,834 - ( crowd cheering ) - Man: Yeah! 284 00:14:52,917 --> 00:14:55,125 Lady Bunny: I knew that I was a jester, 285 00:14:55,208 --> 00:14:57,291 and I could bring people together, 286 00:14:57,375 --> 00:14:59,959 and I want this to represent the New York scene! 287 00:15:00,041 --> 00:15:02,792 I don't know every queen from every scene, 288 00:15:02,875 --> 00:15:06,000 but I want it to be very inclusive, 289 00:15:06,083 --> 00:15:11,542 because we all felt like we were putting something special out there into New York. 290 00:15:11,625 --> 00:15:15,583 ( music playing, drag queen lip-syncing ) 291 00:15:22,583 --> 00:15:24,917 ( song ends ) 292 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,083 ( cheering, applauding ) 293 00:15:27,166 --> 00:15:30,792 Let there be peace on earth, 294 00:15:30,875 --> 00:15:32,917 and let it begin... 295 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:34,667 with me! 296 00:15:37,500 --> 00:15:39,500 God bless you! 297 00:15:39,583 --> 00:15:41,750 God bless you. 298 00:15:41,834 --> 00:15:44,792 Next up, we have a dose of high fashion 299 00:15:44,875 --> 00:15:47,291 with Mr. Fashion! 300 00:15:47,375 --> 00:15:51,875 So all of you can wig out! 301 00:15:51,959 --> 00:15:54,917 Lady Bunny: We wanted to be more like Woodstock 302 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:56,208 in the beginning. 303 00:15:56,291 --> 00:15:58,417 There were bands-- many bands. 304 00:15:58,500 --> 00:16:01,875 Every Wigstock-- it was eight hours long. 305 00:16:01,959 --> 00:16:05,375 ( singing indistinctly ) 306 00:16:07,959 --> 00:16:10,208 ( music continues ) 307 00:16:12,583 --> 00:16:14,917 ( cheering, applauding ) 308 00:16:17,792 --> 00:16:20,542 - ♪ Everybody do the ♪ - ♪ Do what, baby? ♪ 309 00:16:20,625 --> 00:16:22,959 ♪ Come on and do the barracuda ♪ 310 00:16:23,041 --> 00:16:24,875 ♪ Cuda ♪ 311 00:16:29,125 --> 00:16:31,250 Linda Simpson: Every year, we'd go, 312 00:16:31,333 --> 00:16:33,291 "Wig's comin', it's comin', Wigstock's comin'." 313 00:16:33,375 --> 00:16:35,625 And you could do all the shows you wanted in the nightclub, 314 00:16:35,709 --> 00:16:39,458 but when Wigstock came, everybody saw it. 315 00:16:39,542 --> 00:16:42,709 Welcome to Wigstock '92! 316 00:16:42,792 --> 00:16:45,166 ( cheering, applauding ) 317 00:16:45,250 --> 00:16:48,333 Lady Bunny: It felt like every year the festival doubled, 318 00:16:48,417 --> 00:16:50,583 but I was too stupid to even ask for help! 319 00:16:50,667 --> 00:16:53,750 Linda Simpson: At that point, Wigstock becomes so popular 320 00:16:53,834 --> 00:16:56,125 it was attracting thousands of people. 321 00:16:56,208 --> 00:16:59,667 It's amazing, because it started out as such a simple little thing, 322 00:16:59,750 --> 00:17:02,291 and then became this phenomenon. 323 00:17:02,375 --> 00:17:04,583 ♪ Barracuda ♪ 324 00:17:04,667 --> 00:17:08,792 Lady Bunny: The reason that this festival stuck together 325 00:17:08,875 --> 00:17:11,375 is that there is a sisterhood. 326 00:17:11,458 --> 00:17:13,834 We are not in a competition. 327 00:17:13,917 --> 00:17:16,417 We're coming together to say, "Here's a gift 328 00:17:16,500 --> 00:17:18,333 to make New York City better." 329 00:17:18,417 --> 00:17:20,000 Lady Bunny: We're not just gonna 330 00:17:20,083 --> 00:17:22,500 sock it to ya here at Wigstock '94, 331 00:17:22,583 --> 00:17:24,959 we're gonna sock it right through ya! 332 00:17:25,041 --> 00:17:27,875 ♪ B-A ♪ 333 00:17:27,959 --> 00:17:29,750 ♪ R-R... ♪ 334 00:17:29,834 --> 00:17:32,750 Welcome to Wigstock 1997! 335 00:17:32,834 --> 00:17:35,375 ( cheering, applauding ) 336 00:17:35,458 --> 00:17:38,375 This is our 15th fucking anniversary. 337 00:17:38,458 --> 00:17:41,709 There is no way in hell that we are gonna cancel. 338 00:17:41,792 --> 00:17:44,083 ♪ Cuda ♪ 339 00:17:47,625 --> 00:17:49,959 ( traffic noise ) 340 00:17:52,041 --> 00:17:57,625 ( chatter, laughter ) 341 00:17:57,709 --> 00:17:59,625 ( chatter ) 342 00:18:15,417 --> 00:18:18,834 Lady Bunny: There's a lot that's changed about New York. 343 00:18:18,917 --> 00:18:21,250 We talk about this sense of community-- 344 00:18:21,333 --> 00:18:24,625 well, are we really in each other's lives? 345 00:18:24,709 --> 00:18:26,750 Oh, don't lick it, don't lick it. 346 00:18:26,834 --> 00:18:29,250 - Don't lick it... - Mwah! 347 00:18:29,333 --> 00:18:30,583 Bye. You're not going with us? 348 00:18:30,667 --> 00:18:32,375 Lady Bunny: I don't think so. 349 00:18:32,458 --> 00:18:34,750 I think we're all scrolling on Instagram, 350 00:18:34,834 --> 00:18:36,667 and I don't like that community. 351 00:18:36,750 --> 00:18:38,250 And I don't need to be a community 352 00:18:38,333 --> 00:18:41,417 with somebody whose profile picture is a cat. 353 00:18:41,500 --> 00:18:43,542 - Man: Good night, Bunny. - Good night. 354 00:18:45,875 --> 00:18:48,125 Lady Bunny: Here's the sad part. 355 00:18:48,208 --> 00:18:51,041 New York City is no longer affordable 356 00:18:51,125 --> 00:18:54,291 for the wacky, offbeat artists 357 00:18:54,375 --> 00:18:56,125 that made Wigstock possible. 358 00:18:56,208 --> 00:18:58,291 - Hmm. - It's not. 359 00:18:58,375 --> 00:19:00,083 If you're wacky and you have a trust fund 360 00:19:00,166 --> 00:19:02,083 and rich parents, then you can come. 361 00:19:02,166 --> 00:19:06,792 This is why we treasure people like Bobbie 362 00:19:06,875 --> 00:19:08,792 who did make it here 363 00:19:08,875 --> 00:19:11,000 and who is one of us 364 00:19:11,083 --> 00:19:13,834 and who doesn't do the obvious, 365 00:19:13,917 --> 00:19:16,417 who is not cookie-cutter. 366 00:19:16,500 --> 00:19:19,000 - Oh... - Man: Hey, Bobbie. 367 00:19:19,083 --> 00:19:20,667 I'm gonna cry. 368 00:19:20,750 --> 00:19:22,792 Particularly, Wigstock was the big thing 369 00:19:22,875 --> 00:19:24,792 that was like, OK, "I need to move to New York, 370 00:19:24,875 --> 00:19:26,625 I need to get it together." 371 00:19:26,709 --> 00:19:29,458 And when I got here, I thought it was still going on 372 00:19:29,542 --> 00:19:30,917 so I was super-excited. 373 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:32,125 Honey, we're bringing ' it back, 374 00:19:32,208 --> 00:19:34,166 and we're draggin' you with us. 375 00:19:34,250 --> 00:19:35,500 Even if it rains, 376 00:19:35,583 --> 00:19:39,041 we're gonna bring the spirit of Wigstock back 377 00:19:39,125 --> 00:19:42,166 to New York City, and maybe more. 378 00:19:42,250 --> 00:19:45,000 Lady Bunny: So, should we stand up, sit down? 379 00:19:45,083 --> 00:19:47,792 What do you think? 'Cause we can bust out a pose. 380 00:19:47,875 --> 00:19:49,667 Bouncing around and posing's great. 381 00:19:49,750 --> 00:19:51,291 OK. I'm new at this. 382 00:19:51,375 --> 00:19:53,458 You can see I'm very young. 383 00:19:53,542 --> 00:19:55,250 Man: Amazing. 384 00:19:55,333 --> 00:19:57,208 I like that. Yes. 385 00:19:57,291 --> 00:19:58,959 ( man continues speaking ) 386 00:20:02,250 --> 00:20:04,333 Ohhh... 387 00:20:04,417 --> 00:20:07,458 Lady Bunny: There is a Broadway element to this 388 00:20:07,542 --> 00:20:09,333 by adding Neil Patrick Harris, 389 00:20:09,417 --> 00:20:11,875 and the funny thing to me is that some people have said, 390 00:20:11,959 --> 00:20:14,125 you know, "What are you doing with Neil?" 391 00:20:14,208 --> 00:20:17,208 And I think there's many more of his friends asking, 392 00:20:17,291 --> 00:20:21,959 "What are you doing with the crazy old hag Lady Bunny?!" 393 00:20:22,041 --> 00:20:23,709 ( laughter ) 394 00:20:23,792 --> 00:20:24,959 ( photographer, Bunny talking ) 395 00:20:27,208 --> 00:20:30,792 Lady Bunny: So we are very thrilled that you are covering it. 396 00:20:30,875 --> 00:20:33,041 Thank you so much, honey. Good to see you. 397 00:20:33,125 --> 00:20:35,542 Thanks for poppin' out so late. OK. 398 00:20:35,625 --> 00:20:37,291 Bunny: Just found out that RuPaul 399 00:20:37,375 --> 00:20:39,625 will not be performing, 400 00:20:39,709 --> 00:20:42,542 because we cannot fit the amount of people 401 00:20:42,625 --> 00:20:44,792 it takes to make her look like a gorgeous woman 402 00:20:44,875 --> 00:20:48,250 - on that rooftop. So... - Flotilla: You're so mean. 403 00:20:48,333 --> 00:20:50,625 You are so mean. 404 00:21:00,458 --> 00:21:02,125 Charlene Incarnate: Oh, my God. 405 00:21:02,208 --> 00:21:05,917 It was a total pinch-me moment 406 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:10,583 to see the lineup that they announced for Wigstock, 407 00:21:10,667 --> 00:21:12,542 the fucking names 408 00:21:12,625 --> 00:21:15,208 that I was mentioned with. ( laughs ) 409 00:21:15,291 --> 00:21:18,083 It's like definitely an honor just to be nominated. 410 00:21:18,166 --> 00:21:20,250 Like, I think they did it alphabetically, 411 00:21:20,333 --> 00:21:22,542 so I'm right after Candis. 412 00:21:22,625 --> 00:21:26,000 It's just like, who in the fuck am I to be mentioned 413 00:21:26,083 --> 00:21:27,917 right after Candis Cayne? 414 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:29,083 Jesus Christ. 415 00:21:29,166 --> 00:21:31,375 Bobbie: I wanna invite my trade 416 00:21:31,458 --> 00:21:34,792 to Wigstock, but I don't think he'd go for it. 417 00:21:34,875 --> 00:21:36,917 Who is it? 418 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:38,375 Oh... you know. 419 00:21:38,458 --> 00:21:39,959 Anyway, I don't wanna talk about it. 420 00:21:40,041 --> 00:21:41,625 Why can't he come to Wigstock? 421 00:21:41,709 --> 00:21:43,875 Well, because he lives on the other spectrum 422 00:21:43,959 --> 00:21:47,166 of, like, the world, you know, he's orderly and has-- 423 00:21:47,250 --> 00:21:48,875 He's fucking you? 424 00:21:50,542 --> 00:21:52,667 - ( laughter ) - Well, who says that-- 425 00:21:52,750 --> 00:21:55,542 who says that I'm the one getting fucked? 426 00:21:55,625 --> 00:21:56,959 ( laughs ) 427 00:21:57,041 --> 00:21:58,792 - Me. - Just kidding. 428 00:21:58,875 --> 00:22:01,041 - ( laughter ) - I-- You know. 429 00:22:04,542 --> 00:22:07,542 - Are you gonna go to Wigstock? - Yeah! 430 00:22:07,625 --> 00:22:10,709 - Are you? - I wanna be a drag king. 431 00:22:10,792 --> 00:22:12,959 - Ooh. - ( all laugh ) 432 00:22:13,041 --> 00:22:15,667 Willam Belli: What do you know about drag queens? 433 00:22:15,750 --> 00:22:18,792 That they're crazy and they say bad words. 434 00:22:18,875 --> 00:22:21,583 - Who uses bad words? - Lady Bunny. 435 00:22:21,667 --> 00:22:24,750 - Yeah, Lady Bunny's got a filthy-- - ♪ Loco ♪ 436 00:22:24,834 --> 00:22:27,250 She is loco. 437 00:22:27,333 --> 00:22:30,291 Neil Patrick Harris: She did say more curse words than anyone that we've-- 438 00:22:30,375 --> 00:22:32,125 Burtka: That we've ever had over for dinner. 439 00:22:32,208 --> 00:22:33,667 She didn't even know she'd said it. 440 00:22:33,750 --> 00:22:35,458 And we said, "You just said the F-word." 441 00:22:35,542 --> 00:22:38,000 "I did? Oh, I'm so sorry. 442 00:22:38,083 --> 00:22:39,458 I didn't even know I said it." 443 00:22:39,542 --> 00:22:41,083 "I just thought they were short. 444 00:22:41,166 --> 00:22:42,667 I didn't know they were kids." 445 00:22:42,750 --> 00:22:45,375 ( kids shouting, indistinct ) 446 00:22:45,458 --> 00:22:47,875 Burtka: Oh, man, the sugar's kicked in. 447 00:22:47,959 --> 00:22:50,166 ( shrieks ) Excuse me! 448 00:22:50,250 --> 00:22:53,709 - No more sugar. - They act like crazy monster people. 449 00:22:53,792 --> 00:22:55,291 That's what kids are supposed to do. 450 00:22:55,375 --> 00:22:56,792 - Is it? - I was a nightmare. 451 00:22:56,875 --> 00:22:58,250 I went to the ER, like, every month. 452 00:22:58,333 --> 00:22:59,750 But that's not a good example. 453 00:22:59,834 --> 00:23:02,250 - Yeah, probably not. - ( laughing ) 454 00:23:03,583 --> 00:23:05,208 Harris: Wigstock in the past 455 00:23:05,291 --> 00:23:07,458 have been fun 456 00:23:07,542 --> 00:23:10,500 because they were alt, right? 457 00:23:10,583 --> 00:23:13,709 Now I feel like drag is so embraced 458 00:23:13,792 --> 00:23:16,625 that I wonder if if it will still have 459 00:23:16,709 --> 00:23:19,166 that pulse of necessity, 460 00:23:19,250 --> 00:23:22,417 or is it gonna feel like... 461 00:23:22,500 --> 00:23:24,000 Disney? 462 00:23:24,083 --> 00:23:25,667 The kernel of what Bunny wants, 463 00:23:25,750 --> 00:23:28,458 when she talked to us, when I first approached her, 464 00:23:28,542 --> 00:23:30,417 what she wants in this 465 00:23:30,500 --> 00:23:32,709 is for everybody just to have a laugh 466 00:23:32,792 --> 00:23:34,959 and to have fun and smile, 467 00:23:35,041 --> 00:23:36,959 and to get a relief, have a release from 468 00:23:37,041 --> 00:23:40,083 all this shit that's goin' on in the world right now. 469 00:23:40,166 --> 00:23:42,959 ( music playing ) 470 00:23:46,125 --> 00:23:48,959 Tell us what you know about Lady Bunny. 471 00:23:49,041 --> 00:23:54,208 Lady Bunny? She is who the working girls today 472 00:23:54,291 --> 00:23:57,417 look towards as Mother New York. 473 00:23:57,500 --> 00:23:59,208 Also she's really old-school. 474 00:23:59,291 --> 00:24:02,583 You've never seen her out of drag. Ever. 475 00:24:02,667 --> 00:24:05,083 Like, fucking ever. Ever. 476 00:24:05,166 --> 00:24:06,917 For me, as a magician, 477 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:10,667 I really enjoy the magic trick element of it. 478 00:24:10,750 --> 00:24:13,083 For me, that's a part of it, is going, "Wait a minute, 479 00:24:13,166 --> 00:24:15,834 I wonder what this person looks like as a boy. 480 00:24:15,917 --> 00:24:17,875 How is that tuck happening? 481 00:24:17,959 --> 00:24:19,542 And how-- 482 00:24:19,625 --> 00:24:22,083 I like the magic trick of it. 483 00:24:22,166 --> 00:24:24,792 Drag Queen: Do you feel like you guys do the same work? 484 00:24:24,875 --> 00:24:26,291 - Me and Bunny? - Yeah. 485 00:24:26,375 --> 00:24:27,959 No, we're not of the same time. 486 00:24:28,041 --> 00:24:31,125 My message is different because I'm of a different time. 487 00:24:31,208 --> 00:24:33,917 I'm coming into drag in a time 488 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:37,667 that needs visible trans women in trans bodies 489 00:24:37,750 --> 00:24:40,125 transgressing the drag stage. 490 00:24:40,208 --> 00:24:43,875 They had trans women on their stages then, absolutely. 491 00:24:43,959 --> 00:24:47,000 Like, a thousand percent. Like, they were all low-key trans women, 492 00:24:47,083 --> 00:24:50,083 'cause drag queens are, like, all low-key trans women. 493 00:24:50,166 --> 00:24:52,291 Or they're no good. 494 00:24:52,375 --> 00:24:53,917 I've never really done drag. 495 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,208 I've never really gotten... 496 00:24:56,291 --> 00:24:58,333 - fully... - Belli: Really? 497 00:24:58,417 --> 00:25:01,625 - Ever. No. - You should, so you know what we have to go through. 498 00:25:01,709 --> 00:25:04,625 That's one of the reasons I stopped drinking and went to shots. 499 00:25:04,709 --> 00:25:08,291 Because mixers, they fill up your bladder. Shots, you just get drunk. 500 00:25:08,375 --> 00:25:11,166 You can't do mixers when you're in drag because you have to pee too much. 501 00:25:11,250 --> 00:25:13,333 Charlene Incarnate: New York is unique. 502 00:25:13,417 --> 00:25:17,500 We are a community who values performance first. 503 00:25:17,583 --> 00:25:20,125 That is Bunny's whole fucking soapbox, 504 00:25:20,208 --> 00:25:23,959 is that everyone in this post "Drag Race" era, 505 00:25:24,041 --> 00:25:26,500 and it's all about face, 506 00:25:26,583 --> 00:25:28,250 Bunny is the one who's like, 507 00:25:28,333 --> 00:25:30,834 "It only matters what you do onstage." 508 00:25:30,917 --> 00:25:33,750 ( music playing, lyrics indistinct ) 509 00:25:43,583 --> 00:25:46,792 Charlene Incarnate: There's this very explicit script 510 00:25:46,875 --> 00:25:48,709 that I was expected to follow. 511 00:25:48,792 --> 00:25:53,458 But I was, like, a closeted church boy from Alabama. 512 00:25:56,458 --> 00:25:58,875 I came out, and my parents flipped out, 513 00:25:58,959 --> 00:26:01,834 and within six months I look around, and I don't have a family. 514 00:26:03,625 --> 00:26:05,959 Basically, my worst fears were confirmed 515 00:26:06,041 --> 00:26:08,250 that the price of being myself 516 00:26:08,333 --> 00:26:10,750 meant my entire life as I knew it. 517 00:26:18,125 --> 00:26:20,542 Charlene Incarnate: Convenient thing about the Christian Church 518 00:26:20,625 --> 00:26:25,000 is that it's one of the only places 519 00:26:25,083 --> 00:26:30,125 where flaming faggots can hide in plain sight. 520 00:26:30,208 --> 00:26:34,709 Most of my gay role models growing up, 521 00:26:34,792 --> 00:26:38,458 were closeted dads... 522 00:26:38,542 --> 00:26:40,208 in church. 523 00:26:40,291 --> 00:26:44,083 So I kind of, in the back of my mind, knew... 524 00:26:44,166 --> 00:26:48,500 that my whole life was gonna be spent hiding. 525 00:26:49,500 --> 00:26:51,333 And so I came to New York, 526 00:26:51,417 --> 00:26:53,250 thinking that even as a freshman at NYU, 527 00:26:53,333 --> 00:26:55,792 I would be, like, stepping out of a limo 528 00:26:55,875 --> 00:26:58,875 to dozens of photographers everywhere I went 529 00:26:58,959 --> 00:27:00,250 within a few months. 530 00:27:00,333 --> 00:27:01,917 But it didn't go like that, 531 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,834 because my problems followed me to New York. 532 00:27:04,917 --> 00:27:08,834 I was like, "I don't need a new location, I need a new life." 533 00:27:12,083 --> 00:27:14,792 Charlene Incarnate: What makes a really good drag queen, 534 00:27:14,875 --> 00:27:17,959 for me, it requires an ascension. 535 00:27:18,041 --> 00:27:20,333 I like my drag queens, like, trans, 536 00:27:20,417 --> 00:27:22,709 HIV-positive meth addicts, 537 00:27:22,792 --> 00:27:25,917 like, recovering from something. 538 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,000 People who lost their family, 539 00:27:28,083 --> 00:27:32,458 we make better spokespeople for the queer community 540 00:27:32,542 --> 00:27:36,291 because we have lost all semblance 541 00:27:36,375 --> 00:27:38,458 of what it means to live a normative, straight life. 542 00:27:38,542 --> 00:27:42,166 There's that artist's credo of, like, "I am an artist 543 00:27:42,250 --> 00:27:44,792 because I share my trauma with everyone," 544 00:27:44,875 --> 00:27:47,667 so I realized that I wanted to start manipulating my body 545 00:27:47,750 --> 00:27:49,500 as an extension of my art. 546 00:27:49,583 --> 00:27:52,333 It made sense for me to want to 547 00:27:52,417 --> 00:27:54,208 start hormones, 548 00:27:54,291 --> 00:27:57,333 or start my medical transition, onstage, 549 00:27:57,417 --> 00:27:59,959 which was at Bushwig in 2015. 550 00:28:00,041 --> 00:28:01,291 Emcee: It's 2015. 551 00:28:01,375 --> 00:28:03,333 We can be 552 00:28:03,417 --> 00:28:06,208 whatever the fuck we want. 553 00:28:06,291 --> 00:28:07,959 ( shouts ) 554 00:28:08,041 --> 00:28:10,000 ( crowd cheering ) 555 00:28:10,083 --> 00:28:13,834 Charlene Incarnate: And I had my girlfriend 556 00:28:13,917 --> 00:28:15,959 shoot me up with my first estrogen shot, 557 00:28:16,041 --> 00:28:18,250 that was not sanctioned by Callen-Lorde or anything, 558 00:28:18,333 --> 00:28:20,709 there was no doctor who knew I was doing it. 559 00:28:20,792 --> 00:28:23,041 There was an element of proclamation to it, 560 00:28:23,125 --> 00:28:25,291 and there was also an element of me trying 561 00:28:25,375 --> 00:28:29,208 to expose my community to the trans experience. 562 00:28:29,291 --> 00:28:32,083 ( music playing, crowd cheering ) 563 00:28:35,041 --> 00:28:38,250 Charlene Incarnate: Bushwig is a drag festival 564 00:28:38,333 --> 00:28:39,875 that was started in Brooklyn 565 00:28:39,959 --> 00:28:42,166 to fill the hole that Wigstock left. 566 00:28:42,250 --> 00:28:44,458 ( music playing, crowd cheering ) 567 00:28:46,291 --> 00:28:50,750 Emcee: It is Lady Quesa'Dilla! 568 00:28:50,834 --> 00:28:52,959 ( music playing ) 569 00:28:58,959 --> 00:29:02,542 Charlene Incarnate: I was Miss Bushwig in 2017. 570 00:29:02,625 --> 00:29:04,250 Thanks, girls! 571 00:29:04,333 --> 00:29:09,333 It's been the best Bushwig ever! 572 00:29:09,417 --> 00:29:12,834 Here's to tits and a dick! Love you! Mwah! 573 00:29:19,917 --> 00:29:21,667 John Cameron Mitchell: Ladies and gentlemen, 574 00:29:21,750 --> 00:29:24,542 how are you doing tonight? 575 00:29:24,625 --> 00:29:26,542 ( band tuning up ) 576 00:29:26,625 --> 00:29:30,417 We've got a little rock and roll anthem for you tonight. 577 00:29:30,500 --> 00:29:32,917 This is the big finale from our show-- 578 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:34,750 "Hedwig and the Angry Inch." 579 00:29:34,834 --> 00:29:38,083 This is called "Midnight Radio." 580 00:29:38,166 --> 00:29:41,083 ( guitars strumming ) 581 00:29:41,166 --> 00:29:43,792 ♪ That hits you so hard ♪ 582 00:29:45,917 --> 00:29:47,667 ♪ Filling you up ♪ 583 00:29:50,583 --> 00:29:54,375 ♪ Suddenly gone ♪ 584 00:29:55,875 --> 00:29:58,959 ♪ And you're spinning ♪ 585 00:29:59,041 --> 00:30:01,500 ♪ Like a 45 ♪ 586 00:30:01,583 --> 00:30:03,709 ♪ Ballerina dancing ♪ 587 00:30:03,792 --> 00:30:08,375 ♪ To your rock and roll ♪ 588 00:30:09,750 --> 00:30:12,041 ♪ Lift up your hands ♪ 589 00:30:14,166 --> 00:30:16,542 ♪ Lift up your hands ♪ 590 00:30:16,625 --> 00:30:19,166 ♪ Hands ♪ 591 00:30:22,917 --> 00:30:25,917 ( song ends ) 592 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,667 - ( crowd cheering ) - Thank you. 593 00:30:29,750 --> 00:30:31,417 Thank you. 594 00:30:31,500 --> 00:30:33,458 Lady Bunny: When we were first doing Wigstock 595 00:30:33,542 --> 00:30:35,875 in Tompkins Square Park and word came to me 596 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:40,750 that this legendary pop star goddess 597 00:30:40,834 --> 00:30:44,709 thought that my little event was cool enough for her 598 00:30:44,792 --> 00:30:46,834 to come down from the heavens 599 00:30:46,917 --> 00:30:51,834 and grace us with her chart-topping magnificence... 600 00:30:51,917 --> 00:30:53,917 ( crowd cheers ) 601 00:30:58,417 --> 00:31:01,750 ...I felt like I had done did somethin'. 602 00:31:01,834 --> 00:31:03,333 Please put your hands together 603 00:31:03,417 --> 00:31:05,875 for the incredible... 604 00:31:05,959 --> 00:31:07,834 Deborah Harry. 605 00:31:07,917 --> 00:31:09,917 ♪ Oh ♪ 606 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,250 ♪ Your hair is beautiful ♪ 607 00:31:14,583 --> 00:31:17,875 ♪ Oh ♪ 608 00:31:17,959 --> 00:31:20,959 ♪ Tonight ♪ 609 00:31:21,041 --> 00:31:22,125 ♪ Atomic ♪ 610 00:31:22,208 --> 00:31:24,750 ( music continues ) 611 00:31:26,417 --> 00:31:29,917 So, since it's about wigs, I thought I should wear a wig. 612 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,458 ( music playing ) 613 00:31:35,291 --> 00:31:37,333 ♪ Ooh ♪ 614 00:31:37,417 --> 00:31:39,792 ( crowd cheering ) 615 00:31:40,792 --> 00:31:43,125 ♪ Atomic ♪ 616 00:31:46,917 --> 00:31:48,875 All right, fish stick! 617 00:31:48,959 --> 00:31:50,792 ( crowd cheering ) 618 00:31:50,875 --> 00:31:52,458 Thank you! 619 00:31:52,542 --> 00:31:53,875 ( crowd cheering ) 620 00:31:53,959 --> 00:31:55,333 Deborah Harry: The thing about Bunny 621 00:31:55,417 --> 00:31:56,917 that really pissed me off, though, 622 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,041 is that she flirts like crazy. 623 00:31:59,125 --> 00:32:01,750 Debbie, it means so much to me that you are here, 624 00:32:01,834 --> 00:32:06,083 and as a measure of my thanks, I'm prepared to fuck you. 625 00:32:06,166 --> 00:32:10,417 Oh, Bunny, you say that every year and I never get it! 626 00:32:10,500 --> 00:32:12,333 ( laughter ) 627 00:32:14,125 --> 00:32:18,083 I would get all turned on, and then nothing would happen. 628 00:32:18,166 --> 00:32:20,166 ( laughing ) 629 00:32:20,250 --> 00:32:22,458 ( music playing ) 630 00:32:25,500 --> 00:32:29,458 Deborah Harry: Just see, you know, young men that on the street 631 00:32:29,542 --> 00:32:31,250 you wouldn't think anything of, 632 00:32:31,333 --> 00:32:33,875 but then they're transformed into these beautiful, 633 00:32:33,959 --> 00:32:37,375 beautiful, exotic creatures. 634 00:32:37,458 --> 00:32:39,834 It's kind of wonderful. 635 00:32:42,375 --> 00:32:45,959 ( as Billie Holliday ) ♪ You've changed ♪ 636 00:32:46,041 --> 00:32:48,333 ♪ That sparkle ♪ 637 00:32:48,417 --> 00:32:51,959 ♪ In your eyes is gone ♪ 638 00:32:52,041 --> 00:32:54,792 ♪ Your smile ♪ 639 00:32:54,875 --> 00:32:58,041 ♪ Is just a careless yawn ♪ 640 00:32:58,125 --> 00:33:01,417 ♪ You're breakin' my heart... ♪ 641 00:33:01,500 --> 00:33:03,750 Lahoma Van Zandt: What makes makeup female? 642 00:33:03,834 --> 00:33:05,709 What makes anything female? 643 00:33:05,792 --> 00:33:08,291 What characterizes this life's particular starting point? 644 00:33:08,375 --> 00:33:11,208 I mean, why are we-- what is this? 645 00:33:11,291 --> 00:33:13,792 One thing I think is amazing is that when I was in a band, 646 00:33:13,875 --> 00:33:16,458 we went to dump little towns and we played, and I was a boy, 647 00:33:16,542 --> 00:33:19,208 that was one thing, but then I started doing a girl in the band, 648 00:33:19,291 --> 00:33:22,417 and I would go to these dump little towns, in, like, Memphis, Tennessee. 649 00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:26,291 We'd go into a club, and there'd be nothing but rednecks drinking beers 650 00:33:26,375 --> 00:33:29,667 waiting for the band to come on. And I would think, "Oh, my God." 651 00:33:29,750 --> 00:33:33,333 And I'd go out on the stage and I could see hostile faces at first. 652 00:33:33,417 --> 00:33:35,625 But within the course of the show, 653 00:33:35,709 --> 00:33:38,083 the fantasy, when it got to work, 654 00:33:38,166 --> 00:33:40,875 and by the end of the show they were screaming and hollering 655 00:33:40,959 --> 00:33:43,250 and having a great time, and weren't afraid-- 656 00:33:43,333 --> 00:33:46,750 No matter what, we are all the same thing. 657 00:33:46,834 --> 00:33:50,333 And that's just one more step closer to that, 658 00:33:50,417 --> 00:33:51,500 which is great. 659 00:33:51,583 --> 00:33:54,125 ( Fenton Bailey speaking ) 660 00:33:54,208 --> 00:33:58,000 Lahoma Van Zandt: It's a wonderful flavor. 661 00:33:58,083 --> 00:33:59,375 It is! 662 00:33:59,458 --> 00:34:02,375 ( music playing ) 663 00:34:02,458 --> 00:34:05,709 ( car horns honking, crowd cheering ) 664 00:34:05,792 --> 00:34:09,208 ♪ Do not let me go blind for I still want to learn ♪ 665 00:34:09,291 --> 00:34:12,667 ♪ How to see what's in front of my eyes without light ♪ 666 00:34:12,750 --> 00:34:16,375 ♪ What's inside of me, what's inside ♪ 667 00:34:16,458 --> 00:34:18,542 ♪ What's inside ♪ 668 00:34:18,625 --> 00:34:22,583 ♪ Inside of, inside of ♪ 669 00:34:27,625 --> 00:34:29,291 Drag Queen 1: We have feminine ways, 670 00:34:29,375 --> 00:34:31,500 but we're not actually guys that are-- 671 00:34:31,583 --> 00:34:34,834 we look the way that we look, but sometimes if people approach us, they think 672 00:34:34,917 --> 00:34:37,542 that we're these over-the-top-- 673 00:34:37,625 --> 00:34:39,291 - Drag Queen 2: Queens. - Yeah. 674 00:34:39,375 --> 00:34:41,792 It's an appearance, but personally, my personality-- 675 00:34:41,875 --> 00:34:44,375 - Drag Queen 3: Like, inside. - Yeah. 676 00:34:44,458 --> 00:34:46,792 Your exterior has nothing to do with what you feel internally. 677 00:34:46,875 --> 00:34:50,667 Everyone has a different mixture of masculinity and femininity put together. 678 00:34:50,750 --> 00:34:53,041 But even in the gay community, I feel like you think 679 00:34:53,125 --> 00:34:55,583 it's like a "land of the free," and they even put you in boxes there. 680 00:34:55,667 --> 00:34:57,250 "You're a femme, you're a masc." 681 00:34:57,333 --> 00:34:58,959 It's really a mixed pot of it all. 682 00:34:59,041 --> 00:35:02,583 I grew up very on the masculine side of life, 683 00:35:02,667 --> 00:35:04,834 and I grew into my femininity. 684 00:35:04,917 --> 00:35:07,333 Drag Queen: The boundaries of drag are being pushed 685 00:35:07,417 --> 00:35:09,542 with it being mainstream now. 686 00:35:09,625 --> 00:35:11,375 It's getting more pushed to the forefront, 687 00:35:11,458 --> 00:35:13,750 so I feel like the small, little cracks for queens 688 00:35:13,834 --> 00:35:16,667 that didn't have as much exposure as others 689 00:35:16,750 --> 00:35:19,959 are now getting that, and that's not always in the essence of a woman. 690 00:35:20,041 --> 00:35:23,041 That's not always in the essence of a man, or neither. 691 00:35:23,125 --> 00:35:25,500 It's bringing what you feel inside to the forefront. 692 00:35:25,583 --> 00:35:28,458 Whatever that looks like, that's your drag. 693 00:35:28,542 --> 00:35:32,583 ♪ Captain of none, captain of nothing ♪ 694 00:35:32,667 --> 00:35:35,083 ♪ Captain of none ♪ 695 00:35:35,166 --> 00:35:37,333 Tabboo!: The big difference between the queens of today 696 00:35:37,417 --> 00:35:38,792 and the queens of yesteryear 697 00:35:38,875 --> 00:35:41,083 is that the queens of yesteryear 698 00:35:41,166 --> 00:35:43,417 were beautiful. 699 00:35:45,959 --> 00:35:48,083 Mmm! Mmm! Mmm! 700 00:35:48,166 --> 00:35:50,500 This is tasty. 701 00:35:50,583 --> 00:35:51,875 Yeah! 702 00:35:51,959 --> 00:35:53,959 Both: What is it, huh? 703 00:35:54,041 --> 00:35:55,709 Shhh! 704 00:35:55,792 --> 00:35:57,875 It's a surprise! 705 00:35:57,959 --> 00:35:58,917 ( giggles ) 706 00:36:00,291 --> 00:36:03,625 Pickle Surprise! Pickle Surprise! 707 00:36:03,709 --> 00:36:05,667 Wigstock lemonade, come and get it! 708 00:36:05,750 --> 00:36:08,375 Does anyone wanna buy some Wigstock lemonade? 709 00:36:08,458 --> 00:36:10,417 Buy some lemonade? 710 00:36:12,417 --> 00:36:14,542 Tabboo!: You know, those queens, those young queens, 711 00:36:14,625 --> 00:36:17,166 they have no idea that they climbed to where they are 712 00:36:17,250 --> 00:36:19,709 on the shoulders and the backs of the old queens 713 00:36:19,792 --> 00:36:21,500 that came before them! 714 00:36:21,583 --> 00:36:24,291 It's hard enough being gay, never mind being a woman, honey, 715 00:36:24,375 --> 00:36:25,458 never mind being a gay woman, 716 00:36:25,542 --> 00:36:27,000 never mind being a black gay woman. 717 00:36:27,083 --> 00:36:31,083 Tabboo!: Back in the day before cell phones 718 00:36:31,166 --> 00:36:33,667 and bottled water, before the robots took over. 719 00:36:33,750 --> 00:36:37,583 When Wigstock first started, it was only a few short years, 720 00:36:37,667 --> 00:36:40,333 maybe 15 years after Stonewall revolutionary, 721 00:36:40,417 --> 00:36:43,041 that whole thing, so if you walked around, 722 00:36:43,125 --> 00:36:45,166 if you paraded around on the streets in drag, 723 00:36:45,250 --> 00:36:46,750 you'd get your ass kicked! 724 00:36:46,834 --> 00:36:49,667 Out in public in drag? Huh?! What?! 725 00:36:49,750 --> 00:36:51,208 Huh-huh-huh-huh. 726 00:36:51,291 --> 00:36:53,166 Shocking. Revolutionary. 727 00:36:53,250 --> 00:36:55,166 They all love me. The men love me. 728 00:36:55,250 --> 00:36:57,208 The women love me. 729 00:36:57,291 --> 00:36:58,583 Mahogany. 730 00:36:58,667 --> 00:37:00,625 Tabboo!: It kick-started the whole 731 00:37:00,709 --> 00:37:02,959 "Come out, come out, wherever you are" kinda thing. 732 00:37:03,041 --> 00:37:06,041 Before that, even Liberace and Freddie Mercury, 733 00:37:06,125 --> 00:37:08,500 they were all in the closet, believe it or not. 734 00:37:08,583 --> 00:37:11,417 And Wigstock said, "What closet, honey? 735 00:37:11,500 --> 00:37:13,083 My drag is clogging the closet, 736 00:37:13,166 --> 00:37:15,875 there's no room for me in there, honey. Hello." 737 00:37:15,959 --> 00:37:18,041 Drag Queen: It's "in" to be gay in the '90s, 738 00:37:18,125 --> 00:37:20,000 - did you know that? - ( crowd cheers ) 739 00:37:20,083 --> 00:37:23,417 It's "in" to be gay! Who woulda thunk it, right? 740 00:37:23,500 --> 00:37:25,500 But it's a new day. 741 00:37:25,583 --> 00:37:28,834 We're being televised worldwide again today. 742 00:37:28,917 --> 00:37:31,041 The world is watching! 743 00:37:31,125 --> 00:37:32,875 The world is watching! 744 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:34,667 Lady Bunny: Honey, I'm gonna tell you right now, 745 00:37:34,750 --> 00:37:36,750 they said just by being there, 746 00:37:36,834 --> 00:37:38,959 Wigstock is in-your-face. 747 00:37:41,166 --> 00:37:44,917 If it was in-your-face to say we're not ashamed of who we are, 748 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:49,083 so my focus was: Let me show you what we could do. 749 00:37:49,166 --> 00:37:51,917 Drag Queen: Folks, you know, you got your drag queens 750 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,083 and you got your drag kings. 751 00:37:54,166 --> 00:37:56,959 Lady Bunny: Not only do I already expect you to accept us, 752 00:37:57,041 --> 00:38:00,083 watch this, and if you don't like it, 753 00:38:00,166 --> 00:38:01,875 hit it, 'cause you don't see me 754 00:38:01,959 --> 00:38:03,917 carrying on at your football games. 755 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:05,750 ( music playing ) 756 00:38:05,834 --> 00:38:08,000 ♪ Baby, baby ♪ 757 00:38:09,709 --> 00:38:11,709 ♪ Baby, baby ♪ 758 00:38:11,792 --> 00:38:14,458 If I've said anything to any of you 759 00:38:14,542 --> 00:38:17,834 and if I stepped on your toes, I have something to say: 760 00:38:17,917 --> 00:38:19,792 Baby, I really don't give a damn. 761 00:38:19,875 --> 00:38:21,667 Lighten up, it's just a drag show. 762 00:38:21,750 --> 00:38:24,208 ( crowd cheering ) 763 00:38:24,291 --> 00:38:27,291 Lady Bunny: We all felt like we were putting something special 764 00:38:27,375 --> 00:38:29,333 out there into New York, 765 00:38:29,417 --> 00:38:32,792 because this was the time of AIDS... 766 00:38:32,875 --> 00:38:35,333 sinking in. 767 00:38:35,417 --> 00:38:37,291 A lot of you have had a lot of fun, 768 00:38:37,375 --> 00:38:40,083 like I have, like Ru and Lahoma have had, 769 00:38:40,166 --> 00:38:43,667 for a couple of years at parties by Stephen Cohen. 770 00:38:43,750 --> 00:38:45,291 If you haven't heard the news, 771 00:38:45,375 --> 00:38:47,208 Stephen Cohen passed away this week 772 00:38:47,291 --> 00:38:49,458 of complications from AIDS. 773 00:38:49,542 --> 00:38:52,125 I, personally, and Marge, are giving money 774 00:38:52,208 --> 00:38:53,709 to the Community Research Initiative 775 00:38:53,792 --> 00:38:56,125 to help find a cure, I hope you do too. 776 00:38:56,208 --> 00:38:58,333 And I know how I would like to be remembered, 777 00:38:58,417 --> 00:39:00,000 so we're gonna open some champagne 778 00:39:00,083 --> 00:39:02,500 and have a really nice time. Think of Stephen while... 779 00:39:02,583 --> 00:39:05,000 Lady Bunny: People were dropping like flies. 780 00:39:05,083 --> 00:39:07,125 Man: Pop it, baby, pop it! 781 00:39:07,208 --> 00:39:08,750 Lady Bunny: It was terrifying. 782 00:39:08,834 --> 00:39:11,500 I didn't visit one of my best friends, 783 00:39:11,583 --> 00:39:15,000 I did not visit him in the hospital as much as I should have 784 00:39:15,083 --> 00:39:17,750 because I was too scared 785 00:39:17,834 --> 00:39:21,542 to face the fact that I might have it. 786 00:39:21,625 --> 00:39:23,542 But unfortunately, after performing, 787 00:39:23,625 --> 00:39:27,834 shortly after performing at Wigstock last year... 788 00:39:27,917 --> 00:39:31,166 she passed away. 789 00:39:31,250 --> 00:39:33,667 I would have loved to have her perform again this year. 790 00:39:33,750 --> 00:39:35,750 She was a queen among queens, never bitchy, 791 00:39:35,834 --> 00:39:38,709 never evil like so many of these girls. 792 00:39:38,792 --> 00:39:42,875 ( laughs ) And I'm sure she's very much missed by family 793 00:39:42,959 --> 00:39:44,875 and friends. 794 00:39:44,959 --> 00:39:49,041 And I hope we can put all of our thoughts 795 00:39:49,125 --> 00:39:51,959 up towards the sky and think of Donna right now. 796 00:39:52,041 --> 00:39:55,625 Come on out here, let's send her a wig up to the heavens. 797 00:39:57,750 --> 00:39:59,500 She might have been-- 798 00:39:59,583 --> 00:40:02,208 I don't know if her family understood her properly 799 00:40:02,291 --> 00:40:03,750 and buried her in her wig. 800 00:40:03,834 --> 00:40:08,542 In case they didn't, this goes out to you, Donna. 801 00:40:08,625 --> 00:40:11,250 ( crowd cheering, applauding ) 802 00:40:12,542 --> 00:40:15,083 We're thinkin' of ya, honey. 803 00:40:18,417 --> 00:40:19,834 Ladies and gentlemen, 804 00:40:19,917 --> 00:40:24,250 she is a columnist for "Time Out New York," 805 00:40:24,333 --> 00:40:27,250 She also hosted and created 806 00:40:27,333 --> 00:40:30,291 the fantastic Club Night at the Pyramid-- 807 00:40:30,375 --> 00:40:33,083 back when it was fun-- ( laughs ) 808 00:40:33,166 --> 00:40:35,709 Ooh. Put your hands together 809 00:40:35,792 --> 00:40:38,750 for Linda Simpson. 810 00:40:38,834 --> 00:40:41,792 ( crowd cheering, applauding ) 811 00:40:41,875 --> 00:40:45,333 Thank you, Bunny. Thank you so much for that. 812 00:40:45,417 --> 00:40:48,458 Linda Simpson: Putting on drag gives you a lot of confidence, 813 00:40:48,542 --> 00:40:52,709 and all of a sudden, you're "pizzazz," you know what I mean? 814 00:40:52,792 --> 00:40:54,875 And you are strong, you're bold. 815 00:40:54,959 --> 00:40:57,083 I demand more lights! 816 00:40:57,166 --> 00:41:00,333 I demand even more lights! Yes! All right. 817 00:41:00,417 --> 00:41:02,542 Linda Simpson: And then once you take the drag out, 818 00:41:02,625 --> 00:41:04,959 it can be sort of disorienting, 819 00:41:05,041 --> 00:41:07,375 because you don't have that armor 820 00:41:07,458 --> 00:41:10,125 and people don't react to you in the same way 821 00:41:10,208 --> 00:41:13,417 and they sometimes don't give you that bow-down, 822 00:41:13,500 --> 00:41:16,583 worshipful atmosphere that you've been getting. 823 00:41:16,667 --> 00:41:19,041 Do you think one of the drawbacks of doing drag, though, 824 00:41:19,125 --> 00:41:22,417 is when you're in drag, it's hard to get a gay guy 825 00:41:22,500 --> 00:41:24,959 to be interested in you? 826 00:41:25,041 --> 00:41:27,750 Who's gonna waste a shave on a gay guy? 827 00:41:27,834 --> 00:41:29,041 ( laughter ) 828 00:41:31,500 --> 00:41:34,959 Linda Simpson: "Drag Race," which dominates all things drag now, 829 00:41:35,041 --> 00:41:37,792 created this incredible renaissance for drag. 830 00:41:37,875 --> 00:41:40,208 But the other side of the coin would be 831 00:41:40,291 --> 00:41:45,041 that drag certainly was fun when it was underground 832 00:41:45,125 --> 00:41:47,250 and I have a great fondness 833 00:41:47,333 --> 00:41:50,166 for when it was just a fun, 834 00:41:50,250 --> 00:41:53,166 avant-garde way of expressing oneself. 835 00:41:53,250 --> 00:41:54,750 It was very unique. 836 00:41:54,834 --> 00:41:56,458 There wasn't anyplace else in the world 837 00:41:56,542 --> 00:41:58,834 that was like the East Village drag scene. 838 00:41:58,917 --> 00:42:02,834 Back then it was a smaller group, it was an inside group. 839 00:42:02,917 --> 00:42:05,125 Nelson Sullivan: Someone has to take my picture. 840 00:42:05,208 --> 00:42:07,083 RuPaul: Stand right here, Linda. 841 00:42:07,166 --> 00:42:09,625 Let the light drink your face in. 842 00:42:09,709 --> 00:42:11,709 Let's see... ( indistinct ) 843 00:42:11,792 --> 00:42:14,125 Ooh, that face, girl. You are fierce! 844 00:42:14,208 --> 00:42:17,333 I feel so pretty that I feel like I must have always looked this way. 845 00:42:17,417 --> 00:42:19,417 OK, come over here some. 846 00:42:19,500 --> 00:42:22,125 Yes, there it is. There's the face. 847 00:42:22,208 --> 00:42:23,625 Sullivan: Now, to me, 848 00:42:23,709 --> 00:42:27,208 drag is all about demystifying drag, 849 00:42:27,291 --> 00:42:30,375 and so, you know, it takes away 850 00:42:30,458 --> 00:42:33,083 from the insider-y, 851 00:42:33,166 --> 00:42:35,834 "We've got a secret" kind of club feel 852 00:42:35,917 --> 00:42:37,375 that we had before. 853 00:42:37,458 --> 00:42:39,166 Mona, it's so nice to have you here. 854 00:42:39,250 --> 00:42:41,041 We just celebrated our two-year anniversary, 855 00:42:41,125 --> 00:42:43,375 I think you were reminiscing about the first time that you performed here. 856 00:42:43,458 --> 00:42:45,417 You were saying that your makeup was a little off, 857 00:42:45,500 --> 00:42:47,125 your hair was a little off-- what's changed? 858 00:42:47,208 --> 00:42:49,333 Um... ( laughs ) 859 00:42:51,417 --> 00:42:53,333 Sullivan: There's no secrets anymore. 860 00:42:53,417 --> 00:42:54,875 It's like, "Here's how you do the makeup, 861 00:42:54,959 --> 00:42:56,375 here's how you stuff the boobs, 862 00:42:56,458 --> 00:42:58,041 here's how you put the wigs on. 863 00:42:58,125 --> 00:43:00,333 Here's the language we use." 864 00:43:00,417 --> 00:43:04,208 It's very interesting now how people have created stardom, 865 00:43:04,291 --> 00:43:06,333 and many of them are quite young. 866 00:43:06,417 --> 00:43:09,417 And you know that expression "High tide raises all ships"? 867 00:43:09,500 --> 00:43:13,333 Even drag queens that are not on "Drag Race" 868 00:43:13,417 --> 00:43:17,458 are benefitting from the popularity of the show 869 00:43:17,542 --> 00:43:19,333 and in drag in general. 870 00:43:19,417 --> 00:43:21,417 I wanna tell ya, 871 00:43:21,500 --> 00:43:23,333 I've always had a dream 872 00:43:23,417 --> 00:43:25,500 and I've always wanted to do what I do, 873 00:43:25,583 --> 00:43:30,041 and I want to tell each and every one of you within the sound of my voice: 874 00:43:30,125 --> 00:43:33,834 Hold onto your dreams, hold onto your dreams! 875 00:43:33,917 --> 00:43:37,375 'Cause if it can work for me, it can work for you. 876 00:43:37,458 --> 00:43:39,500 I love you. Good night, everybody. 877 00:43:39,583 --> 00:43:41,583 ( crowd cheering ) 878 00:43:41,667 --> 00:43:43,834 ( music playing ) 879 00:43:46,375 --> 00:43:50,458 What would it mean to you to become America's next drag superstar? 880 00:43:50,542 --> 00:43:53,208 It would mean the world to me to be America's next drag superstar. 881 00:43:53,291 --> 00:43:55,166 Naomi Smalls: Ru was very about 882 00:43:55,250 --> 00:43:56,208 building an empire 883 00:43:56,291 --> 00:43:57,750 of what you can build an empire, 884 00:43:57,834 --> 00:43:59,625 honing in on your natural gift. 885 00:43:59,709 --> 00:44:02,583 I've been lucky enough to have Ru pave the way for me, 886 00:44:02,667 --> 00:44:04,417 but who the fuck paved the way for Ru 887 00:44:04,500 --> 00:44:06,000 to do what he's doing right now? 888 00:44:06,083 --> 00:44:07,417 ( music playing ) 889 00:44:07,500 --> 00:44:10,291 He took over the world of drag. 890 00:44:10,375 --> 00:44:12,875 - ( music playing ) - ( crowd cheering ) 891 00:44:12,959 --> 00:44:14,500 When it comes to career-wise, 892 00:44:14,583 --> 00:44:17,625 I do view Ru almost as like a father figure. 893 00:44:17,709 --> 00:44:19,625 Is that weird to say? 894 00:44:19,709 --> 00:44:21,709 ( music playing ) 895 00:44:27,917 --> 00:44:30,959 Smalls: I started drag when I was 18. 896 00:44:31,041 --> 00:44:33,291 I was pretty much in drag in high school, 897 00:44:33,375 --> 00:44:35,458 - ( laughter ) - like, for the most part, 898 00:44:35,542 --> 00:44:39,458 six-inch heels to, like, the first day of senior year, 899 00:44:39,542 --> 00:44:41,834 with big Lady Gaga eyebrows. 900 00:44:41,917 --> 00:44:45,792 To test out my makeup skills, I would do my makeup, 901 00:44:45,875 --> 00:44:47,792 and then I would go on Chatroulette, 902 00:44:47,875 --> 00:44:50,083 and if they didn't see that I wasn't-- 903 00:44:50,166 --> 00:44:52,834 if they wouldn't "next" me, thinking I was a dude, 904 00:44:52,917 --> 00:44:56,083 then I was like, "My makeup turned out well today." 905 00:44:59,834 --> 00:45:01,667 Willam Belli: When I was on "Drag Race," 906 00:45:01,750 --> 00:45:04,083 I broke a bunch of rules and tried to get kicked off 907 00:45:04,166 --> 00:45:06,500 because I knew getting kicked off is iconic on reality shows. 908 00:45:06,583 --> 00:45:08,291 Now no one else can have it. 909 00:45:08,375 --> 00:45:10,166 It's one of those things where any reality TV show, 910 00:45:10,250 --> 00:45:12,875 it's a tool to a bigger career, hopefully. 911 00:45:12,959 --> 00:45:16,542 I think I've navigated my way through that motherfucking beautifully. 912 00:45:16,625 --> 00:45:18,458 ( music playing ) 913 00:45:21,291 --> 00:45:23,709 ( all cheering ) 914 00:45:23,792 --> 00:45:26,166 I'm still working to this day, seven years later, 915 00:45:26,250 --> 00:45:28,417 and I'm in a movie with fucking Lady Gaga, 916 00:45:28,500 --> 00:45:30,125 so I'm doing something right. 917 00:45:33,291 --> 00:45:36,709 The fact that drag has gone from whispering about drag queens 918 00:45:36,792 --> 00:45:38,166 in the corner of a club 919 00:45:38,250 --> 00:45:40,875 to standing in two-hour-line meet-and-greets 920 00:45:40,959 --> 00:45:42,417 just to shake their hand 921 00:45:42,500 --> 00:45:44,250 blows my mind. 922 00:45:44,333 --> 00:45:47,333 And I love that it's being normalized. 923 00:45:47,417 --> 00:45:49,500 Thanks! And happy Groundhogs Day. 924 00:45:49,583 --> 00:45:52,291 - They're fuckin' rodents. - ( Taser crackles ) 925 00:45:52,375 --> 00:45:54,250 I'm just gonna put my Taser away... 926 00:45:54,333 --> 00:45:55,583 and shut the door. 927 00:45:55,667 --> 00:45:58,000 'Cause there's bugs and crackheads. 928 00:45:58,083 --> 00:46:00,834 The best thing ever was, a crackhead came through the back door once 929 00:46:00,917 --> 00:46:02,458 late at night, and it was like 930 00:46:02,542 --> 00:46:04,750 five minutes after my camera guy had left, 931 00:46:04,834 --> 00:46:06,917 so I was like, "He's just coming back for something." 932 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:09,000 But the door opened kind slow, 933 00:46:09,083 --> 00:46:11,333 and I was right here 934 00:46:11,417 --> 00:46:13,125 and I was still in drag from filming, 935 00:46:13,208 --> 00:46:15,834 and the first thing I did was go like this 936 00:46:15,917 --> 00:46:18,750 and then grab this knife and do-- bam!-- and I said, 937 00:46:18,834 --> 00:46:20,959 "I have a knife, I will hurt you," 938 00:46:21,041 --> 00:46:24,166 and he starts-- he gets one foot in the door, 939 00:46:24,250 --> 00:46:26,417 and he's like right here, 940 00:46:26,500 --> 00:46:28,125 I say, "I have a knife, I will hurt you," 941 00:46:28,208 --> 00:46:30,375 and he's like, "Oh, my God, I'm sorry, ma'am!" 942 00:46:30,458 --> 00:46:32,750 And then he fell right there going back. 943 00:46:32,834 --> 00:46:35,000 But he called me "ma'am!" 944 00:46:35,083 --> 00:46:37,417 How cute, right? I passed. 945 00:46:37,500 --> 00:46:39,083 I was so excited. 946 00:46:39,166 --> 00:46:40,959 And I was ready to fuckin' stab him, too. 947 00:46:41,041 --> 00:46:43,750 You don't come in my fuckin' back door. 948 00:46:43,834 --> 00:46:47,291 Well, a lot of people come in my fuckin' back door, but not like that. 949 00:46:47,375 --> 00:46:49,458 That was different. 950 00:46:49,542 --> 00:46:53,542 When I'm in Wigstock this year, I think I'm gonna, um... 951 00:46:53,625 --> 00:46:56,125 butt-chug on my hoverboard. 952 00:46:56,208 --> 00:47:00,667 And my hoverboard's like a little Judy Jetson little "vroom, vroom" thing, 953 00:47:00,750 --> 00:47:06,458 and then butt-chugging is when you stick alcohol in a disposable enema 954 00:47:06,542 --> 00:47:07,959 and then put it up your butt. 955 00:47:08,041 --> 00:47:09,792 Because it gets you real fucked up, real fast, 956 00:47:09,875 --> 00:47:12,792 and that's the best way to be when you're a drag queen. 957 00:47:12,875 --> 00:47:15,709 And then you don't squirt it at the audience 958 00:47:15,792 --> 00:47:18,208 because that's a whole different kind of show. 959 00:47:18,291 --> 00:47:19,583 That gets very combative. 960 00:47:19,667 --> 00:47:21,542 Nobody wants to get wet at a drag show, I think. 961 00:47:21,625 --> 00:47:23,000 Especially with ass juice. 962 00:47:23,083 --> 00:47:26,375 Emcee: Who's ready for bingo? 963 00:47:26,458 --> 00:47:28,750 ( crowd cheering ) 964 00:47:28,834 --> 00:47:32,041 Naomi Smalls: Look at the crowd! And this is the second show. 965 00:47:32,125 --> 00:47:34,000 Look at that! 966 00:47:34,083 --> 00:47:37,583 The crowd is 30-45% faggots, 967 00:47:37,667 --> 00:47:40,083 the rest is straight women. 968 00:47:40,166 --> 00:47:41,750 Straight, drunk bachelorettes. 969 00:47:41,834 --> 00:47:44,417 A lot of women grow up playing with dolls, 970 00:47:44,500 --> 00:47:47,166 and then when they get old, they still want someone to dress up and hang out with, 971 00:47:47,250 --> 00:47:49,709 so they get drag queens, and then they pull our wigs. 972 00:47:51,500 --> 00:47:53,667 Use your flash. 973 00:47:53,750 --> 00:47:55,250 Yes. 974 00:47:57,792 --> 00:47:59,542 Leigh Bowery: ♪ Love stands tall and free ♪ 975 00:47:59,625 --> 00:48:02,208 ♪ Love stands tall and free ♪ 976 00:48:02,291 --> 00:48:04,208 ♪ Love stands tall and free ♪ 977 00:48:04,291 --> 00:48:06,458 ♪ Love stands tall and free ♪ 978 00:48:06,542 --> 00:48:08,625 ♪ Love stands tall and free ♪ 979 00:48:08,709 --> 00:48:10,667 ♪ Love stands tall and free ♪ 980 00:48:10,750 --> 00:48:13,750 ♪ Love stands tall and free ♪ 981 00:48:13,834 --> 00:48:15,625 ♪ Love stands ♪ 982 00:48:15,709 --> 00:48:19,458 ♪ Tall and free! ♪ 983 00:48:22,083 --> 00:48:25,959 Oh! Oh! Oh! 984 00:48:29,083 --> 00:48:32,667 Oh, my God! Wigstock's first baby! 985 00:48:34,500 --> 00:48:36,458 ( song continues ) 986 00:48:41,333 --> 00:48:43,750 My little baby! 987 00:48:43,834 --> 00:48:47,166 Lady Bunny: This is your first time here at Wigstock, honey. 988 00:48:47,250 --> 00:48:50,458 Have you got anything to say to these rascals out here? 989 00:48:50,542 --> 00:48:53,792 Hi! How are you?! 990 00:48:53,875 --> 00:48:56,083 Enjoy your day, be safe, 991 00:48:56,166 --> 00:48:59,208 and just let it it all out, honey. 992 00:48:59,291 --> 00:49:01,542 Flotilla DeBarge: The first year I performed at Wigstock, 993 00:49:01,625 --> 00:49:03,959 I got to open it, and I was like, "What?" 994 00:49:04,041 --> 00:49:06,917 Bunny was like, "You're going on now," and I was like, "What?" 995 00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:08,709 And it was fun, it was fun. 996 00:49:08,792 --> 00:49:11,208 But Flotilla wasn't born yet. 997 00:49:11,291 --> 00:49:16,834 I did not get involved in drag until 1991. 998 00:49:16,917 --> 00:49:20,083 The people at Boy Bar, they put me together. 999 00:49:20,166 --> 00:49:21,417 I was groomed, 1000 00:49:21,500 --> 00:49:23,917 by Raven O and Matthew Kasten. 1001 00:49:25,041 --> 00:49:26,417 Hands down. 1002 00:49:26,500 --> 00:49:29,083 Hands down. Boy Bar beauty forever. 1003 00:49:31,792 --> 00:49:33,917 There's too many people right now 1004 00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:35,542 that want to be drag queens, 1005 00:49:35,625 --> 00:49:38,166 and some of 'em don't know what that entails. 1006 00:49:38,250 --> 00:49:41,625 My thing is, if it's all about money 1007 00:49:41,709 --> 00:49:43,291 and I don't have the passion, 1008 00:49:43,375 --> 00:49:46,083 what the fuck am I doing this for? 1009 00:49:46,166 --> 00:49:49,125 When you find somebody that really wants to do drag 1010 00:49:49,208 --> 00:49:50,625 and has a passion about it, 1011 00:49:50,709 --> 00:49:52,208 that's what drag, to me, is about, 1012 00:49:52,291 --> 00:49:54,333 and performing is about. 1013 00:49:54,417 --> 00:49:57,750 Finding somebody who just loves the art, 1014 00:49:57,834 --> 00:50:01,458 and when they're onstage, you can see it. 1015 00:50:01,542 --> 00:50:03,667 Case in point: Lady Quesa'Dilla right here, 1016 00:50:03,792 --> 00:50:06,166 who is a daughter of Perfidia, 1017 00:50:06,250 --> 00:50:08,667 just a remarkable performer. 1018 00:50:08,750 --> 00:50:10,834 And studies the history, no less. 1019 00:50:10,917 --> 00:50:13,667 See, a lot of people don't study their history 1020 00:50:13,750 --> 00:50:16,709 of who was before them, who's with them, 1021 00:50:16,792 --> 00:50:18,500 who's after them. 1022 00:50:18,583 --> 00:50:21,417 This is my drag daughter, Miss Konima. 1023 00:50:21,500 --> 00:50:25,125 - Konima, this is-- - Konima? Hi. Flo, nice to meet you, sweetie. 1024 00:50:25,208 --> 00:50:27,000 - Mm-hmm. - OK. 1025 00:50:27,083 --> 00:50:29,792 Flotilla DeBarge: I would see them nurtured at Pyramid, 1026 00:50:29,875 --> 00:50:32,500 you know, I had Linda Simpson, I had Bobby Miller, 1027 00:50:32,583 --> 00:50:35,417 doing my hair, and my makeup, when it looked rotten. 1028 00:50:35,500 --> 00:50:38,041 We took care of each other. 1029 00:50:38,125 --> 00:50:40,792 They're beginning to have some of 'em now. 1030 00:50:40,875 --> 00:50:43,834 The girls in Bushwick are taking care of each other. 1031 00:50:43,917 --> 00:50:45,291 Which is a good thing. 1032 00:50:45,375 --> 00:50:46,750 Which is a really good thing. 1033 00:50:46,834 --> 00:50:49,083 Everybody can do drag, yeah. 1034 00:50:49,166 --> 00:50:50,667 That's good, ya know. 1035 00:50:50,750 --> 00:50:53,792 But what kind of drag queen do you want to be? 1036 00:50:53,875 --> 00:50:57,458 ( music playing ) 1037 00:50:57,542 --> 00:51:00,291 ♪ Well, I don't wanna talk about... ♪ 1038 00:51:00,375 --> 00:51:02,834 Woman: Let me show you the lineup. 1039 00:51:02,917 --> 00:51:05,625 - This is the lineup for Wigstock? - Yeah. 1040 00:51:05,709 --> 00:51:07,875 We just got it. 1041 00:51:07,959 --> 00:51:10,291 Let me try finding you... 1042 00:51:10,375 --> 00:51:13,000 Oh, my God. So many people. 1043 00:51:13,083 --> 00:51:17,333 God, the legend lineup is so real. 1044 00:51:17,417 --> 00:51:20,250 ( music playing ) 1045 00:51:22,875 --> 00:51:24,709 Kevin Aviance: ♪ Mary had a little lamb ♪ 1046 00:51:24,792 --> 00:51:26,709 ♪ Her fleece was white as snow ♪ 1047 00:51:26,792 --> 00:51:28,500 ♪ Everywhere that Mary went ♪ 1048 00:51:28,583 --> 00:51:30,083 ♪ The lamb was sure to go ♪ 1049 00:51:30,166 --> 00:51:33,000 ♪ He made the children laugh and play ♪ 1050 00:51:33,083 --> 00:51:34,417 ♪ Laugh and play ♪ 1051 00:51:34,500 --> 00:51:37,709 ( laughing ) 1052 00:51:37,792 --> 00:51:40,959 ( laughing, shouting ) 1053 00:51:43,667 --> 00:51:45,959 ( music continues ) 1054 00:51:49,917 --> 00:51:51,583 ♪ Come on, boys and girls ♪ 1055 00:51:51,667 --> 00:51:53,250 ♪ Put your hands on up ♪ 1056 00:51:53,333 --> 00:51:54,959 ♪ If you're part of the family ♪ 1057 00:51:55,041 --> 00:51:56,792 ♪ If you're part of the children ♪ 1058 00:51:56,875 --> 00:51:58,959 ♪ Say yes, I am ♪ 1059 00:51:59,041 --> 00:52:00,500 ♪ Yes, I, yes, I, yes, I am ♪ 1060 00:52:00,583 --> 00:52:01,917 ♪ I am one of the children ♪ 1061 00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:04,166 ♪ From here to there ♪ 1062 00:52:04,250 --> 00:52:07,667 ( continues, indistinct ) 1063 00:52:07,750 --> 00:52:10,291 ♪ You've got to feel ♪ 1064 00:52:10,375 --> 00:52:12,834 ♪ Alive ♪ 1065 00:52:12,917 --> 00:52:18,458 ♪ You're dancing, you're dancing ♪ 1066 00:52:18,542 --> 00:52:20,583 Jeremy Extravaganza: Early '90s, I met Kevin, 1067 00:52:20,667 --> 00:52:24,875 and he was my source into New York. 1068 00:52:24,959 --> 00:52:27,166 Kevin's name was so hot 1069 00:52:27,250 --> 00:52:30,458 that our group was just, like, they wanted us everywhere. 1070 00:52:30,542 --> 00:52:32,458 ♪ So alive ♪ 1071 00:52:32,542 --> 00:52:35,000 Extravaganza: There were all these things happening, 1072 00:52:35,083 --> 00:52:37,291 and Kevin's career was exploding. 1073 00:52:37,375 --> 00:52:39,333 ♪ The lights are spinning ♪ 1074 00:52:39,417 --> 00:52:40,875 ♪ In my head ♪ 1075 00:52:40,959 --> 00:52:45,250 ♪ Getting brighter as we go higher ♪ 1076 00:52:45,333 --> 00:52:47,625 ♪ I'm feeling free for me ♪ 1077 00:52:47,709 --> 00:52:52,917 ♪ Only the mirror ball really matters at all ♪ 1078 00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:56,875 ♪ The joy I found like a child on a merry-go-round ♪ 1079 00:52:56,959 --> 00:53:00,250 ♪ DJ playin' records spinnin' round and round ♪ 1080 00:53:00,333 --> 00:53:02,750 ♪ I'll be dancing all night long ♪ 1081 00:53:02,834 --> 00:53:04,709 ♪ I'm at peace with my soul ♪ 1082 00:53:04,792 --> 00:53:08,291 ♪ I feel love, I am so, so alive ♪ 1083 00:53:08,375 --> 00:53:11,542 ♪ Loving the feeling, learning the meaning ♪ 1084 00:53:11,625 --> 00:53:15,458 ♪ On top of the world and I'm hot, so alive ♪ 1085 00:53:15,542 --> 00:53:19,333 ♪ It's closer than ever ♪ 1086 00:53:19,417 --> 00:53:23,458 ♪ Get me so high ♪ 1087 00:53:23,542 --> 00:53:26,542 ♪ Dance it, shake it, move it ♪ 1088 00:53:26,625 --> 00:53:29,166 Linda Simpson: And at the same time in New York City, 1089 00:53:29,250 --> 00:53:31,083 Mayor Giuliani became in charge, 1090 00:53:31,166 --> 00:53:33,750 and his whole thing was law and order. 1091 00:53:36,166 --> 00:53:39,500 So he really cracked down hard on the nightlife. 1092 00:53:39,583 --> 00:53:43,625 All of a sudden, the club scene began shrinking dramatically. 1093 00:53:43,709 --> 00:53:45,542 And of course, that affected drag a lot, 1094 00:53:45,625 --> 00:53:47,875 because the freedom and the jobs 1095 00:53:47,959 --> 00:53:51,542 and the whole sociability of it shrunk, ya know? 1096 00:53:51,625 --> 00:53:53,250 Everybody was under siege. 1097 00:53:53,333 --> 00:53:54,875 Man: I think he should close 'em today, 1098 00:53:54,959 --> 00:53:57,083 the video stores, Show World, 1099 00:53:57,166 --> 00:53:58,500 all the dancing places-- 1100 00:53:58,583 --> 00:54:00,375 I think every one of 'em should be shut down. 1101 00:54:00,458 --> 00:54:02,709 They're an absolute disgrace to the neighborhood, 1102 00:54:02,792 --> 00:54:05,333 they attract nothing but garbage and sleaze. 1103 00:54:05,417 --> 00:54:08,041 Jason Williams: Personally, I'm a dancer myself, 1104 00:54:08,125 --> 00:54:10,458 so, I mean, it hurts me just as well as everybody else. 1105 00:54:10,542 --> 00:54:12,000 I don't think there's no need. 1106 00:54:12,083 --> 00:54:13,667 It's not really affecting anybody. 1107 00:54:13,750 --> 00:54:16,667 There are some kind of alarming changes coming up, 1108 00:54:16,750 --> 00:54:19,917 and actually affect Wigstock's future. 1109 00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:23,583 Giuliani tryin' to kill the whole nightlife in New York, 1110 00:54:23,667 --> 00:54:25,291 so you gotta represent. 1111 00:54:25,375 --> 00:54:30,000 ♪ Fuck off, fuck off ♪ 1112 00:54:30,083 --> 00:54:32,500 Kevin Aviance: Mayor Giuliani can kiss my ass. 1113 00:54:32,583 --> 00:54:34,917 Mayor Giuliani can kiss my ass, 1114 00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:38,375 'cause we're not gonna stop doing what we gotta do, right, faggots? 1115 00:54:38,458 --> 00:54:40,875 We're gonna run this fuckin' world we call New York, 1116 00:54:40,959 --> 00:54:43,917 not Mickey Mouse, right, children? 1117 00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:45,500 So when you go out tonight, children, 1118 00:54:45,583 --> 00:54:48,333 I want you to prance, prance, prance on, 1119 00:54:48,417 --> 00:54:51,959 and let them know who the faggot is in the house, OK? 1120 00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:58,500 Now the rally for recording artist Kevin Aviance, 1121 00:54:58,583 --> 00:55:00,125 beaten up by a group of thugs. 1122 00:55:00,208 --> 00:55:01,709 Co-anchor: Today, hundreds of people 1123 00:55:01,792 --> 00:55:03,792 marched from one side of Manhattan to the other... 1124 00:55:03,875 --> 00:55:05,834 ( continues, indistinct ) 1125 00:55:05,917 --> 00:55:07,834 ( all cheering ) 1126 00:55:07,917 --> 00:55:09,709 Man: Kevin is here right now. 1127 00:55:09,792 --> 00:55:15,291 Kevin, we are here to show you the love and the support. 1128 00:55:15,375 --> 00:55:16,959 It's been kind of hard, 1129 00:55:17,041 --> 00:55:19,917 but you know what, you can't keep a good queen down. 1130 00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:23,125 ( crowd cheering ) 1131 00:55:23,208 --> 00:55:26,333 Kevin Aviance: Something was not right, OK? 1132 00:55:26,417 --> 00:55:28,709 I've walked out in thongs and high heels, 1133 00:55:28,792 --> 00:55:30,625 and ain't never had a problem. 1134 00:55:30,709 --> 00:55:32,291 Nothing. Think nothing of it. 1135 00:55:32,375 --> 00:55:34,542 Morning, daylight, don't think nothing of it. 1136 00:55:34,625 --> 00:55:38,834 And there was something about this that was just different. 1137 00:55:38,917 --> 00:55:42,208 And when I stepped off the curb to walk into the street, 1138 00:55:42,291 --> 00:55:44,208 "We're gonna get you, faggot." 1139 00:55:46,083 --> 00:55:48,667 OK. Whatever. 1140 00:55:48,750 --> 00:55:51,375 So I'm walking backwards and they're coming towards me. 1141 00:55:51,458 --> 00:55:54,917 You could feel the hate from them, you could feel the heat. 1142 00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:57,750 I have never in my whole life felt that hatred 1143 00:55:57,834 --> 00:56:00,500 on someone I didn't know, like that on someone. 1144 00:56:00,583 --> 00:56:03,375 I just... got hit. Bam! 1145 00:56:03,458 --> 00:56:06,625 And as I'm going down, they're hitting me in the head, kicks. 1146 00:56:06,709 --> 00:56:08,709 After about 80 times of these kicks, 1147 00:56:08,792 --> 00:56:11,333 this is "gugga-gong, gong-gong-gong-gong-gong. 1148 00:56:11,417 --> 00:56:13,083 That's all I could hear, was gong-gong-gong, 1149 00:56:13,166 --> 00:56:16,333 gong-gong-gong-gong-gong-gong- gong-gong-gong. 1150 00:56:16,417 --> 00:56:18,125 And every time it was getting louder and louder, 1151 00:56:18,208 --> 00:56:21,625 and I'm just like, "gong" -- and it stopped. 1152 00:56:24,583 --> 00:56:27,166 I woke up in the hospital room, 1153 00:56:27,250 --> 00:56:31,208 and all my sisters, all my friends, they were all there, 1154 00:56:31,291 --> 00:56:33,458 sitting around, waiting for me to wake up. 1155 00:56:33,542 --> 00:56:36,583 I had come out of it, but something's not right. 1156 00:56:36,667 --> 00:56:38,709 My jaw's not right, it's not right. 1157 00:56:38,792 --> 00:56:41,417 Come to find out I had four hairline fractures in my jaw. 1158 00:56:41,500 --> 00:56:44,792 But it was like-- it was basically broken, but it was hairline fractures, 1159 00:56:44,875 --> 00:56:46,959 and so they had to go in, put me under, 1160 00:56:47,041 --> 00:56:49,125 fix my mouth, straighten it back up again, 1161 00:56:49,208 --> 00:56:51,375 and they prosecuted the guys and they went to jail. 1162 00:56:51,458 --> 00:56:54,250 By the time I went to testify, no one wanted me there. 1163 00:56:54,333 --> 00:56:56,041 I wanted to at one point, but they were like, 1164 00:56:56,125 --> 00:56:57,959 "That'd be the worst thing you could ever do." 1165 00:56:58,041 --> 00:57:01,166 I understand that now, why you just don't meet your attacker, 1166 00:57:01,250 --> 00:57:02,583 why you don't do that. 1167 00:57:02,667 --> 00:57:04,458 But there's this bitter part of me 1168 00:57:04,542 --> 00:57:08,500 that always thinks that I could, like... 1169 00:57:08,583 --> 00:57:10,834 you know, I make people happy, 1170 00:57:10,917 --> 00:57:13,542 that's what I do, you know? 1171 00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:18,291 And just, to know I couldn't do that... 1172 00:57:18,375 --> 00:57:20,750 and people thought I was on the way out. 1173 00:57:20,834 --> 00:57:23,750 I'm running into people like Hector Xtravaganza or someone like that, 1174 00:57:23,834 --> 00:57:26,041 grabbing me, and they just cry and say, "Girl, you know, 1175 00:57:26,125 --> 00:57:27,709 you are such an inspiration for us. 1176 00:57:27,792 --> 00:57:29,834 Girls don't come out the hospital. You come out. 1177 00:57:29,917 --> 00:57:31,750 You came out, and you're better." 1178 00:57:31,834 --> 00:57:33,333 You don't realize that 1179 00:57:33,417 --> 00:57:35,875 girls went into the hospital in New York and did not come out, 1180 00:57:35,959 --> 00:57:39,166 so that hospital was the end of all ends for a girl, you know? 1181 00:57:39,250 --> 00:57:42,667 For one of the New York girls, you know? That was just the way it was, you know? 1182 00:57:42,750 --> 00:57:44,750 And here I am going in and out. 1183 00:57:44,834 --> 00:57:46,959 Drag is the silver lining in that cloud. 1184 00:57:47,041 --> 00:57:49,375 That's what drag is to me, 'cause I know, 1185 00:57:49,458 --> 00:57:50,583 at the end of the day, 1186 00:57:50,667 --> 00:57:53,834 I got a frock in my bag right now, girl, 1187 00:57:53,917 --> 00:57:56,333 and a pair of pumps right in there, girl. 1188 00:57:56,417 --> 00:57:59,834 I'll give you a show at the drop of a hat. 1189 00:57:59,917 --> 00:58:02,458 I'll give you a show right then and there, girl. 1190 00:58:02,542 --> 00:58:04,917 I will do it. Damn right I will. 1191 00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:08,500 And you'll get your life, and you'll gag... 1192 00:58:08,583 --> 00:58:11,166 ( laughs, snorts ) 1193 00:58:11,250 --> 00:58:13,333 ...period. 1194 00:58:13,417 --> 00:58:17,166 ( man vocalizing ) 1195 00:58:19,709 --> 00:58:22,834 ( chatter ) 1196 00:58:22,917 --> 00:58:25,500 - ...his way. - Yeah. I was just-- 1197 00:58:25,583 --> 00:58:27,291 You hit play for me, I'll hit play for you. 1198 00:58:27,375 --> 00:58:29,125 I would like to know that my tracks are correct. 1199 00:58:31,333 --> 00:58:33,542 You're good with that mic? 1200 00:58:33,625 --> 00:58:35,875 ( vocalizing ) 1201 00:58:38,709 --> 00:58:42,500 Scoot it back. As back as you can get it without-- 1202 00:58:42,583 --> 00:58:45,333 There's a speaker right there. Be careful. 1203 00:58:45,417 --> 00:58:48,250 ( music playing ) 1204 00:58:52,750 --> 00:58:54,417 Charlene Incarnate: I got everyone working. 1205 00:58:54,500 --> 00:58:57,500 Harajuku, Two Sterlings, Belle, 1206 00:58:57,583 --> 00:59:00,000 Serena Dariani, 1207 00:59:00,083 --> 00:59:03,000 Orlando, Lucas and Patty, Dusty, Rose and Ryan, 1208 00:59:03,083 --> 00:59:05,083 and the Salami Sisters. 1209 00:59:07,625 --> 00:59:11,041 This is the bitch that I used to go around the Lower East Side 1210 00:59:11,125 --> 00:59:13,083 chasing Lady Gaga with, 1211 00:59:13,166 --> 00:59:16,250 so we didn't know anything about the landscape of nightlife 1212 00:59:16,333 --> 00:59:19,291 or any sort of grasp on the scene or anything. 1213 00:59:19,375 --> 00:59:22,500 We were just, like, faggots, closeted, in my case, 1214 00:59:22,583 --> 00:59:27,834 and basically tried to track down Lady Gaga, and we did it. 1215 00:59:27,917 --> 00:59:29,417 We did. We literally did. 1216 00:59:29,500 --> 00:59:32,125 Gaga walks in the room and everyone just gasps, 1217 00:59:32,208 --> 00:59:35,625 and there's all the faggots screaming, "Aaaaah!!!" 1218 00:59:35,709 --> 00:59:38,583 - But it was us. We were the faggots screaming. - I know! 1219 00:59:40,291 --> 00:59:42,458 ( music playing ) 1220 00:59:44,125 --> 00:59:45,792 Remy Black: Oh, yikes. 1221 00:59:45,875 --> 00:59:50,375 Once upon a time I was a business student, an NYU-ster, 1222 00:59:50,458 --> 00:59:52,542 can you believe it? Oh, my God. 1223 00:59:52,625 --> 00:59:54,667 I'm so embarrassed. ( laughs ) 1224 00:59:57,166 --> 00:59:58,875 ( music playing ) 1225 00:59:58,959 --> 01:00:01,834 Charlene Incarnate: Lots of boys. Lots of boys. 1226 01:00:01,917 --> 01:00:03,917 - Lots of boys. - Lots of boys. 1227 01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:07,458 - But that's not one. - ( laughs ) 1228 01:00:16,792 --> 01:00:21,834 ( music playing ) 1229 01:00:26,500 --> 01:00:29,792 Charlene Incarnate: The proportioning of drag is an aggression, 1230 01:00:29,875 --> 01:00:31,500 is a heightened femininity, 1231 01:00:31,583 --> 01:00:34,166 because femininity is the aggression. 1232 01:00:34,250 --> 01:00:37,000 So the bigger the lip, the bigger the sin. 1233 01:00:50,917 --> 01:00:55,166 ( music playing ) 1234 01:00:57,834 --> 01:01:00,333 Ladies and Gentlemen, your lovely ladies! 1235 01:01:19,834 --> 01:01:24,917 ( song sung in foreign language playing ) 1236 01:01:43,834 --> 01:01:46,458 ( music continues ) 1237 01:02:01,083 --> 01:02:04,625 ( crowd cheering ) 1238 01:02:27,667 --> 01:02:29,792 Charlene Incarnate: Stop! 1239 01:02:30,875 --> 01:02:33,250 "To Robert." So crazy. 1240 01:02:33,333 --> 01:02:36,417 Bobbie Hondo: Right. I hadn't even then become Bobbie yet. 1241 01:02:36,500 --> 01:02:37,542 Yeah. 1242 01:02:38,625 --> 01:02:40,125 Wow. 1243 01:02:40,208 --> 01:02:44,000 I know her. I know her. I know her. 1244 01:02:44,083 --> 01:02:45,917 Linda! Stop! 1245 01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:48,792 Linda Simpson looks the literal exact same. 1246 01:02:48,875 --> 01:02:53,750 Thought it'll be fun getting people to sign this, 1247 01:02:53,834 --> 01:02:57,291 and I go and figure out where, like, Bunny was DJing that night 1248 01:02:57,375 --> 01:02:59,959 and then having to sneak into the Monster 1249 01:03:00,041 --> 01:03:02,250 'cause you're only 19 years old 1250 01:03:02,333 --> 01:03:03,875 and the doorman's upset at you, 1251 01:03:03,959 --> 01:03:05,709 and you're like, "You don't understand, sir, 1252 01:03:05,792 --> 01:03:08,291 I have this Wigstock flyer that I need to get Bunny to sign. 1253 01:03:08,375 --> 01:03:10,625 What if she dies tomorrow? I'm freaking out." 1254 01:03:10,709 --> 01:03:13,083 - ( Charlene laughs ) - Ya know? 1255 01:03:13,166 --> 01:03:15,333 My God. Fuck. 1256 01:03:15,417 --> 01:03:17,083 These girls look like us. 1257 01:03:19,667 --> 01:03:21,166 When'd you come to New York? 1258 01:03:21,250 --> 01:03:24,417 I came to New York in 2011, 1259 01:03:24,500 --> 01:03:28,125 - I was 16, and... - Damn, girl. 1260 01:03:28,208 --> 01:03:31,625 I really, really, really resonated with Wigstock 1261 01:03:31,709 --> 01:03:34,750 when I was 14-- I got AIDS, 1262 01:03:34,834 --> 01:03:36,166 you know what I mean? 1263 01:03:36,250 --> 01:03:38,500 From the get-go, I was like-- 1264 01:03:38,583 --> 01:03:42,250 - I needed Wigstock... - Yeah. 1265 01:03:42,333 --> 01:03:44,291 to find, like, people in this world 1266 01:03:44,375 --> 01:03:47,917 that are fighting a similar fight to me, 1267 01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:49,291 - and alive. - Yeah. 1268 01:03:49,375 --> 01:03:51,667 Flotilla and Lypsinka, 1269 01:03:51,750 --> 01:03:53,583 and Lady Bunny, 1270 01:03:53,667 --> 01:03:55,625 they saw, within me, 1271 01:03:55,709 --> 01:03:57,875 a way to almost help me out, 1272 01:03:58,000 --> 01:03:59,875 because this city tears you down. 1273 01:03:59,959 --> 01:04:02,041 I mean, I could be 1274 01:04:02,125 --> 01:04:07,000 just like all the other people I knew who disappear. 1275 01:04:07,083 --> 01:04:10,000 Tabboo! gave me the name Bobbie, 1276 01:04:10,083 --> 01:04:15,125 and Myka pretty much I'd wear all of her hand-me-downs, and... 1277 01:04:15,208 --> 01:04:17,000 You were parented by the legends. 1278 01:04:17,083 --> 01:04:19,166 I was parented... by the legends, 1279 01:04:19,250 --> 01:04:21,875 but just because they're the greatest people ever. 1280 01:04:21,959 --> 01:04:25,041 I mean, they're really the best people ever. 1281 01:04:25,125 --> 01:04:27,208 I'm excited to end this summer out 1282 01:04:27,291 --> 01:04:31,792 and get to Wigstock and see what it's all about. 1283 01:04:31,875 --> 01:04:33,083 Me too. 1284 01:04:38,709 --> 01:04:41,208 Lady Bunny: Something happened that was interesting 1285 01:04:41,291 --> 01:04:46,250 that made me know that there's something still unique about New York. 1286 01:04:46,333 --> 01:04:49,291 I was late for a gig, wearing a long dress, 1287 01:04:49,375 --> 01:04:53,250 jumped in a cab, slammed the door, the dress was hangin' out. 1288 01:04:53,333 --> 01:04:55,709 All of a sudden, there's a commotion outside. 1289 01:04:55,792 --> 01:04:57,917 Two young kids, 10, 12, 1290 01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:01,041 an old couple, 70, 80, 1291 01:05:01,125 --> 01:05:04,083 they were all trying to get my attention. 1292 01:05:04,166 --> 01:05:08,917 They did not look at me and think... 1293 01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:11,625 "That's a punk-ass faggot." 1294 01:05:11,709 --> 01:05:14,458 These people said, "Help that fool!" 1295 01:05:14,542 --> 01:05:16,291 ( laughs ) "Help that fool. 1296 01:05:16,375 --> 01:05:18,542 It's in me to want to help that fool." 1297 01:05:18,625 --> 01:05:20,583 Without any judgements. 1298 01:05:20,667 --> 01:05:24,166 This is what I want to prove by bringing this festival back: 1299 01:05:24,250 --> 01:05:25,917 that we are a community 1300 01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:28,166 and that we're not fighting among each other so much 1301 01:05:28,250 --> 01:05:30,750 to where we can't even get together. 1302 01:05:30,834 --> 01:05:33,917 It's humanizing to be this close together. 1303 01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:37,458 And that's the thing that still's great about New York. 1304 01:05:41,291 --> 01:05:43,667 ( crowd chattering ) 1305 01:05:46,583 --> 01:05:49,542 ( chatter ) 1306 01:05:52,500 --> 01:05:55,291 - Hey! Mwah! - How are you? 1307 01:05:55,375 --> 01:05:58,083 ( chatter ) 1308 01:05:58,166 --> 01:06:01,417 ( laughing ) 1309 01:06:01,500 --> 01:06:03,500 - Lady Bunny: Huh? - Is this your spot? 1310 01:06:03,583 --> 01:06:06,166 Yeah! Why? 1311 01:06:06,250 --> 01:06:09,583 Do you not think it's good enough, either? 1312 01:06:09,667 --> 01:06:11,875 ( laughing ) 1313 01:06:11,959 --> 01:06:13,625 Drag Queen: We did it, Bunny. 1314 01:06:13,709 --> 01:06:16,000 ( music playing ) 1315 01:06:16,083 --> 01:06:19,750 ♪ Sometimes I still breathe in ♪ 1316 01:06:19,834 --> 01:06:22,917 ♪ What I don't believe ♪ 1317 01:06:23,000 --> 01:06:26,417 - Lady Bunny: Aaaaah! - ♪ As if superstition ♪ 1318 01:06:26,500 --> 01:06:29,291 - ♪ Could keep you away from me ♪ - We made it! 1319 01:06:29,375 --> 01:06:32,709 ♪ Well, it's the same as it never ♪ 1320 01:06:32,792 --> 01:06:34,375 ♪ Forever was ♪ 1321 01:06:34,458 --> 01:06:38,959 ♪ Haunted by who can I be now ♪ 1322 01:06:39,041 --> 01:06:40,667 ♪ Same as forever ♪ 1323 01:06:40,750 --> 01:06:42,333 ♪ I never was ♪ 1324 01:06:42,417 --> 01:06:46,333 ♪ Excuse me while I kiss the sky ♪ 1325 01:06:46,417 --> 01:06:48,375 ♪ Ay-ay-ay ♪ 1326 01:06:48,458 --> 01:06:52,083 ♪ I always knew you would come back ♪ 1327 01:06:52,166 --> 01:06:54,333 ♪ I always knew you would come back to me ♪ 1328 01:06:54,417 --> 01:06:56,667 Brace yourself. You have eight hours of this. 1329 01:06:56,750 --> 01:07:00,125 ♪ I always knew you would come back ♪ 1330 01:07:00,208 --> 01:07:05,583 ♪ I always knew you would come back, come back to me ♪ 1331 01:07:05,667 --> 01:07:07,667 I'm a princess! 1332 01:07:07,750 --> 01:07:09,625 Who's got the drugs? 1333 01:07:09,709 --> 01:07:12,917 Drugs over in this corner, please! 1334 01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:15,041 ♪ Ay-ay-ay ♪ 1335 01:07:17,500 --> 01:07:21,125 Are we supposed to act like the camera's not there? 1336 01:07:21,208 --> 01:07:22,667 Well, the camera's a little low 1337 01:07:22,750 --> 01:07:24,625 for someone with my fuckin' neck. 1338 01:07:24,709 --> 01:07:27,542 I'm doing psychic readings. 1339 01:07:27,625 --> 01:07:32,834 People are Venmo'ing me $10, and I say, "You're gonna die." 1340 01:07:32,917 --> 01:07:35,083 Come on, it's funny. It's dark. 1341 01:07:37,500 --> 01:07:39,709 ( no audible dialogue ) 1342 01:07:39,792 --> 01:07:42,250 ♪ What you do, what you do, what you do ♪ 1343 01:07:42,333 --> 01:07:45,000 ♪ What you do to me ♪ 1344 01:07:46,291 --> 01:07:48,291 ♪ What you do to me ♪ 1345 01:07:48,375 --> 01:07:50,208 ♪ What you do to me ♪ 1346 01:07:50,291 --> 01:07:52,625 ♪ What you do to me ♪ 1347 01:07:54,625 --> 01:07:57,875 ♪ Hey, what you do to me ♪ 1348 01:07:57,959 --> 01:08:01,125 ♪ Energy's gettin' through to me ♪ 1349 01:08:01,208 --> 01:08:04,125 ♪ And I got my eyes forward ♪ 1350 01:08:04,208 --> 01:08:07,375 ♪ And that's how they ought to be ♪ 1351 01:08:07,458 --> 01:08:10,166 ♪ Baby, baby, I'm here ♪ 1352 01:08:10,250 --> 01:08:12,875 ♪ Where I need to be ♪ 1353 01:08:12,959 --> 01:08:15,792 ♪ Feelin' fear, but no need to be ♪ 1354 01:08:15,875 --> 01:08:19,083 ♪ And I've been caught dead in my tracks ♪ 1355 01:08:19,166 --> 01:08:23,291 ♪ But that's no way to be ♪ 1356 01:08:23,375 --> 01:08:26,083 ( crowd cheering ) 1357 01:08:26,166 --> 01:08:28,083 Bianca Del Rio: It's quite exciting to be here at Wigstock, 1358 01:08:28,166 --> 01:08:30,542 and I know that there's several old people that are up here 1359 01:08:30,625 --> 01:08:33,291 that are gonna tell you about their memories and relive their moments 1360 01:08:33,375 --> 01:08:35,166 and flip through their purse and find Polaroids 1361 01:08:35,250 --> 01:08:36,834 of their dreams and aspirations, 1362 01:08:36,917 --> 01:08:39,583 but you realize, we all end up at this shitty event, 1363 01:08:39,667 --> 01:08:41,041 and that's the magic of gay life. 1364 01:08:41,125 --> 01:08:43,458 It doesn't get better, it gets awkward. 1365 01:08:43,542 --> 01:08:45,208 ( crowd cheering ) 1366 01:08:45,291 --> 01:08:49,041 ♪ Moments late at night ♪ 1367 01:08:49,125 --> 01:08:51,417 ♪ But I ain't feelin' right ♪ 1368 01:08:51,500 --> 01:08:54,709 Emcee: Ladies and gentlemen, boys as girls, 1369 01:08:54,792 --> 01:08:59,333 are you ready for excitement, glamor, and sophistication? 1370 01:08:59,417 --> 01:09:03,083 Then you have come to the wrong place, honey. 1371 01:09:03,166 --> 01:09:06,041 This is Wigstock 2.0! 1372 01:09:06,125 --> 01:09:09,917 ( crowd cheering ) 1373 01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:13,667 Hi, Wigstock! How y'all doin', honeys? 1374 01:09:13,750 --> 01:09:15,125 New York City! 1375 01:09:15,208 --> 01:09:16,500 ( cheering ) 1376 01:09:19,250 --> 01:09:23,041 Get out here and tear this stage up! 1377 01:09:25,709 --> 01:09:27,583 ♪ Burn down, take me on ♪ 1378 01:09:29,250 --> 01:09:32,000 ♪ Bend down, move along ♪ 1379 01:09:32,083 --> 01:09:36,417 ♪ I need a hot shot ♪ 1380 01:09:37,583 --> 01:09:39,333 ♪ Burn down with the proud... ♪ 1381 01:09:39,417 --> 01:09:41,041 Lady Bunny: Wig cannon! Get a wig! Go! 1382 01:09:41,125 --> 01:09:44,000 ♪ And the music's loud ♪ 1383 01:09:44,083 --> 01:09:49,000 ♪ I need a hot shot ♪ 1384 01:09:49,083 --> 01:09:52,083 ( music continues ) 1385 01:10:03,208 --> 01:10:05,750 Lady Bunny: I just realized that this documentary 1386 01:10:05,834 --> 01:10:09,208 was being shot in HD. 1387 01:10:09,291 --> 01:10:12,166 Which at my age means "haggard dog." 1388 01:10:12,250 --> 01:10:13,875 ( laughter ) 1389 01:10:13,959 --> 01:10:15,500 Anyway, we're back! 1390 01:10:15,583 --> 01:10:18,709 ♪ Ooh, baby, baby, baby, baby ♪ 1391 01:10:18,792 --> 01:10:21,250 ♪ I wanna feel it in my soul, come on and move it ♪ 1392 01:10:21,333 --> 01:10:24,583 ♪ You know you never, never, never gonna lose control ♪ 1393 01:10:24,667 --> 01:10:25,959 ♪ My fire's burning ♪ 1394 01:10:26,041 --> 01:10:29,041 ♪ It's getting real hot... ♪ 1395 01:10:29,125 --> 01:10:32,834 Lady Bunny: Let's hear it for Javier Ninja! 1396 01:10:32,917 --> 01:10:35,291 ( crowd cheering ) 1397 01:10:38,125 --> 01:10:41,000 Lady Bunny: Ladies and gentlemen, Perfidia! 1398 01:10:41,083 --> 01:10:43,375 Was that bitch dynamite, or what? 1399 01:10:43,458 --> 01:10:44,792 Give her some more love! 1400 01:10:44,875 --> 01:10:46,917 ( crowd cheering ) 1401 01:10:47,000 --> 01:10:49,250 ( music playing ) 1402 01:10:49,333 --> 01:10:54,291 Bunny: You can never stop the spirit of Wigstock! 1403 01:10:54,375 --> 01:10:55,417 ( crowd cheering ) 1404 01:10:55,500 --> 01:10:57,291 Whoo! How we doing, Wigstock! 1405 01:10:57,375 --> 01:10:59,875 If you're having a good time, make some noise! 1406 01:10:59,959 --> 01:11:01,291 ( cheering ) 1407 01:11:01,375 --> 01:11:05,208 Thank you, Wigstock! Thank you, Bunny! 1408 01:11:05,291 --> 01:11:08,166 ♪ That brought me out of my seat ♪ 1409 01:11:08,250 --> 01:11:13,208 ♪ I need a hot shot ♪ 1410 01:11:15,417 --> 01:11:17,250 Lady Bunny: I need to crank this music 1411 01:11:17,333 --> 01:11:21,792 like it was a nightclub in 1993! 1412 01:11:21,875 --> 01:11:25,291 Can you hear it out there? Can you hear it out there? 1413 01:11:25,375 --> 01:11:27,709 - ( cheering ) - OK. 1414 01:11:27,792 --> 01:11:29,667 Everyone is always saying, "Bunny, 1415 01:11:29,750 --> 01:11:31,250 you and Ru are such good friends, 1416 01:11:31,333 --> 01:11:33,750 why don't you get on that fuckin' show?" 1417 01:11:33,834 --> 01:11:39,500 And I said, "Honey, by not wanting to be on that show, 1418 01:11:39,583 --> 01:11:43,542 I can read all their asses to filth." 1419 01:11:45,125 --> 01:11:48,417 Is Wigstock 2.0 audience ready to... 1420 01:11:48,500 --> 01:11:51,083 ( mocking ) ...spill some tea? 1421 01:11:51,166 --> 01:11:52,500 ( crowd cheering ) 1422 01:11:52,583 --> 01:11:56,709 ( music playing ) 1423 01:12:01,375 --> 01:12:05,166 ♪ Makes no difference if you're butch or a femme ♪ 1424 01:12:05,250 --> 01:12:09,625 ♪ Or even look like a girl ♪ 1425 01:12:09,709 --> 01:12:12,959 ♪ Takes no talent to impress 'em today ♪ 1426 01:12:13,041 --> 01:12:17,041 ♪ You're on "Drag Race" till you sashay away ♪ 1427 01:12:17,125 --> 01:12:20,709 - ♪ Come on and contour your nose ♪ - ♪ Nose ♪ 1428 01:12:20,792 --> 01:12:24,458 ♪ Lip sync for your life to the music ♪ 1429 01:12:24,542 --> 01:12:26,208 ♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪ 1430 01:12:26,291 --> 01:12:28,709 - ♪ Contour your nose ♪ - ♪ Nose ♪ 1431 01:12:28,792 --> 01:12:32,583 ♪ Find a catchphrase and overuse it ♪ 1432 01:12:32,667 --> 01:12:34,750 ♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪ 1433 01:12:36,667 --> 01:12:37,959 ♪ Pose ♪ 1434 01:12:39,625 --> 01:12:41,417 ♪ I said pose ♪ 1435 01:12:46,792 --> 01:12:49,667 ♪ Pose ♪ ( echoing ) 1436 01:12:49,750 --> 01:12:51,792 ( crowd cheering ) 1437 01:12:53,667 --> 01:12:58,250 ( music playing ) 1438 01:13:01,959 --> 01:13:04,125 All: ♪ Hi ♪ 1439 01:13:07,083 --> 01:13:10,208 ( music plays, stops ) 1440 01:13:10,291 --> 01:13:14,333 What do Neal Patrick Harris and an ambulance have in common? 1441 01:13:14,417 --> 01:13:17,333 Both take it in the back and go, "Whoop! Whoop!" 1442 01:13:17,417 --> 01:13:21,083 ( music plays, stops ) 1443 01:13:21,166 --> 01:13:25,542 What's the difference between Bianca Del Rio and a bag of trash? 1444 01:13:25,625 --> 01:13:28,667 Trash gets picked up every once in a while. 1445 01:13:28,750 --> 01:13:31,125 ( music playing ) 1446 01:13:35,333 --> 01:13:36,792 Thank you! 1447 01:13:36,875 --> 01:13:39,917 ( song outro plays ) 1448 01:13:42,333 --> 01:13:45,417 The Ladies of Lips! Clap for those bitches! 1449 01:13:45,500 --> 01:13:50,000 'Cause if you've ever been to Lips, they're never that entertaining. 1450 01:13:50,083 --> 01:13:53,583 What fuckin' useless cunts! Get back to your shift, cunts! 1451 01:13:53,667 --> 01:13:54,834 ( laughter ) 1452 01:13:54,917 --> 01:13:58,166 Lady Bunny: All right, here we are! 1453 01:14:01,709 --> 01:14:05,458 This is so funny, because I'm wearing Formika's dress from '94. 1454 01:14:05,542 --> 01:14:07,041 - Man: Really? - Yeah, yeah. 1455 01:14:08,834 --> 01:14:10,041 Have my morning cup of coffee, 1456 01:14:10,125 --> 01:14:12,875 and I'm all ready for a drag show. 1457 01:14:12,959 --> 01:14:15,542 Happy Wigstock '94, everybody. 1458 01:14:15,625 --> 01:14:18,583 Hello, New York, how's everybody doin'? 1459 01:14:18,667 --> 01:14:22,709 You all look so fuckin' good! 1460 01:14:22,792 --> 01:14:26,709 I was born in '94, so it's like a full circle moment for me. 1461 01:14:26,792 --> 01:14:29,917 Mistress Formika: Wigstock is not about hate or fighting, 1462 01:14:30,000 --> 01:14:31,750 it's about love. 1463 01:14:31,834 --> 01:14:33,667 It's time for us to have some rights! 1464 01:14:33,750 --> 01:14:36,041 It's time for us to take charge! 1465 01:14:36,125 --> 01:14:38,291 Take it away, baby. 1466 01:14:38,375 --> 01:14:41,000 I know that a lot of us are down in the dumps these days, 1467 01:14:41,083 --> 01:14:43,291 things are pretty crazy in this country, 1468 01:14:43,375 --> 01:14:46,041 and I just wanna say when you get real depressed 1469 01:14:46,125 --> 01:14:48,583 and you find yourself in a deep, dark valley, 1470 01:14:48,667 --> 01:14:52,250 it's really, really important to remember 1471 01:14:52,333 --> 01:14:55,000 that I am coming out with a new album... 1472 01:14:55,083 --> 01:14:59,375 - ( laughter ) - and I would like to sing a track from that right now. 1473 01:14:59,458 --> 01:15:04,208 The name of the album is "Dina Martina: Mysteries of the Thyroid." 1474 01:15:04,291 --> 01:15:05,959 Thank you. Hit it! 1475 01:15:07,125 --> 01:15:09,917 ( keyboard playing intro ) 1476 01:15:20,583 --> 01:15:23,917 ♪ Some say love ♪ 1477 01:15:24,000 --> 01:15:29,375 ♪ Becomes the rose ♪ 1478 01:15:34,458 --> 01:15:36,959 Thank you. Off the charts. 1479 01:15:37,041 --> 01:15:39,125 ( crowd cheering ) 1480 01:15:43,417 --> 01:15:47,542 Wait. Can every drag queen from "Drag Race" take note? 1481 01:15:47,625 --> 01:15:49,709 That's how you do an album, bitch! 1482 01:15:49,792 --> 01:15:52,333 That's how you do a fuckin' album! 1483 01:15:52,417 --> 01:15:55,667 The bitch started and left! 1484 01:15:55,750 --> 01:16:00,041 Girl, I was standing backstage going, "She finished?" 1485 01:16:00,125 --> 01:16:02,041 I thought, "That's good." And there are six people 1486 01:16:02,125 --> 01:16:06,375 in a fuckin' high tower over there going, "Liza looks horrible!" 1487 01:16:06,458 --> 01:16:08,667 ( all laughing ) 1488 01:16:08,750 --> 01:16:10,166 Oh, no! 1489 01:16:11,375 --> 01:16:15,458 The g-- ha ha ha! Look at you. 1490 01:16:15,542 --> 01:16:20,291 You look... consistently relic-like. 1491 01:16:20,375 --> 01:16:24,500 I know, I know. Usually the balls are on my chins. 1492 01:16:24,583 --> 01:16:27,542 To cover the hair. Yeah, it looks good. 1493 01:16:27,625 --> 01:16:29,834 Lady Bunny: You know, we joke around a lot, 1494 01:16:29,917 --> 01:16:32,417 but when I call her and say, "Your plane's gonna crash," 1495 01:16:32,500 --> 01:16:33,583 I'm only kidding. 1496 01:16:33,667 --> 01:16:36,250 We're good friends, it's a joke. 1497 01:16:36,333 --> 01:16:39,583 When Bianca leaves here, she will arrive... 1498 01:16:39,667 --> 01:16:42,417 - safely and on time... - Thank you. 1499 01:16:42,500 --> 01:16:45,458 - in Syria. - Ha ha ha ha! 1500 01:16:45,542 --> 01:16:47,417 'Cause I'll work anywhere! I'm here! 1501 01:16:47,500 --> 01:16:50,208 Take it away, cunt! Here we go! 1502 01:16:50,291 --> 01:16:51,875 Lady Bunny: Ladies and gentlemen, 1503 01:16:51,959 --> 01:16:53,917 a New York City nightlife legend-- 1504 01:16:54,000 --> 01:16:57,166 Kevin Aviance! 1505 01:16:59,125 --> 01:17:01,208 Kevin Aviance: ♪ I believe, I believe, I believe ♪ 1506 01:17:01,291 --> 01:17:04,333 ♪ I believe, I believe ♪ 1507 01:17:04,417 --> 01:17:08,667 ♪ I believe, believe, believe, believe ♪ 1508 01:17:08,750 --> 01:17:11,959 ♪ Believe, believe, believe, believe ♪ 1509 01:17:12,041 --> 01:17:15,542 ♪ Believe, aaaaah! ♪ 1510 01:17:15,625 --> 01:17:20,291 Background Singers: ♪ I believe, I believe, I believe ♪ 1511 01:17:20,375 --> 01:17:24,959 ♪ I believe, I believe ♪ 1512 01:17:25,041 --> 01:17:27,959 ♪ I believe ♪ 1513 01:17:28,041 --> 01:17:29,834 ♪ I believe ♪ 1514 01:17:29,917 --> 01:17:34,959 Lady Bunny: Welcome the most famous transsexual in the world, 1515 01:17:35,041 --> 01:17:38,750 Amanda Lepore! 1516 01:17:38,834 --> 01:17:41,750 The incredible Raven O! 1517 01:17:41,834 --> 01:17:45,208 ♪ What is love if you got in between it ♪ 1518 01:17:45,291 --> 01:17:48,834 ♪ No one cares if you're ever gonna achieve it ♪ 1519 01:17:48,917 --> 01:17:51,208 ♪ And nobody knows ♪ 1520 01:17:52,625 --> 01:17:55,667 ♪ Nobody knows ♪ 1521 01:17:55,750 --> 01:17:59,166 ♪ And what do we care if they always walk with us ♪ 1522 01:17:59,250 --> 01:18:02,917 ♪ They want us to break, but who cares, they don't know us ♪ 1523 01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:04,917 ♪ And still we don't know ♪ 1524 01:18:06,917 --> 01:18:09,667 ♪ So I say whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh ♪ 1525 01:18:09,750 --> 01:18:12,250 ♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh ♪ 1526 01:18:12,333 --> 01:18:14,291 ♪ Can you let us go ♪ 1527 01:18:14,375 --> 01:18:17,583 ( music continues ) 1528 01:18:17,667 --> 01:18:19,166 Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, 1529 01:18:19,250 --> 01:18:20,917 those undecided and those in between, 1530 01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:22,500 I just want you guys to know 1531 01:18:22,583 --> 01:18:24,583 how much of an honor it is for me to be here. 1532 01:18:24,667 --> 01:18:26,750 ( crowd cheering ) 1533 01:18:28,667 --> 01:18:30,750 ( music playing ) 1534 01:18:33,500 --> 01:18:36,083 ( crowd cheering ) 1535 01:18:38,458 --> 01:18:42,166 Backup Singers: ♪ This is my hair, I don't wear wigs ♪ 1536 01:18:42,250 --> 01:18:47,208 - ♪ Everybody, this is my hair ♪ - Crowd: ♪ I don't wear wigs ♪ 1537 01:18:47,291 --> 01:18:49,375 ♪ This is my hair ♪ 1538 01:18:49,458 --> 01:18:51,291 ( song continues, crowd cheering ) 1539 01:18:55,750 --> 01:18:57,709 ( song ends ) 1540 01:18:57,792 --> 01:18:59,208 Lady Bunny: Ladies and gentlemen, 1541 01:18:59,291 --> 01:19:02,583 give it up for Alaska Thunderfuck! 1542 01:19:02,667 --> 01:19:04,875 I love your vagina! Mwah! 1543 01:19:04,959 --> 01:19:06,709 ( crowd cheering ) 1544 01:19:06,792 --> 01:19:09,041 Neil Patrick Harris: Our next performer 1545 01:19:09,125 --> 01:19:12,709 taught me how to walk and how to cock a hip 1546 01:19:12,792 --> 01:19:15,709 when I was Hedwig in "The Angry Inch." 1547 01:19:15,792 --> 01:19:21,625 Please welcome the disgusting and the sexy Willam! 1548 01:19:21,709 --> 01:19:24,667 ( crowd cheering, music playing ) 1549 01:19:29,250 --> 01:19:32,333 Willam Belli: ♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ 1550 01:19:38,959 --> 01:19:42,792 Oh, the bubbles are tickling my rectum! I love it! Oh! 1551 01:19:44,458 --> 01:19:47,291 Wait, hold on, hold on one second. One second. 1552 01:19:47,375 --> 01:19:51,500 Ohh, ohh! Spin me around, I wanna do spin art. 1553 01:19:51,583 --> 01:19:53,333 Make me spin art. 1554 01:19:53,417 --> 01:19:56,208 Ohh. Oh, yeah. Uhh. 1555 01:19:56,291 --> 01:19:57,709 Show 'em my shart, please. 1556 01:19:57,792 --> 01:20:01,417 Put a big "B" on it for Bunny and me! 1557 01:20:01,500 --> 01:20:04,041 Yay! Look at me. 1558 01:20:04,125 --> 01:20:06,125 ( crowd cheering ) 1559 01:20:06,208 --> 01:20:09,375 That's what I did with my pussy. You're welcome. 1560 01:20:11,000 --> 01:20:13,625 Does anybody want a Coors? They're not a sponsor. 1561 01:20:13,709 --> 01:20:14,959 Here, girl. 1562 01:20:15,041 --> 01:20:16,291 ( laughter ) 1563 01:20:16,375 --> 01:20:17,917 Michael Lynch: I'm here representing 1564 01:20:18,000 --> 01:20:19,583 the girls of Stonewall. 1565 01:20:19,667 --> 01:20:21,500 ( crowd cheering ) 1566 01:20:21,583 --> 01:20:24,166 This piece was written by Mr. Jimmy Camicia. 1567 01:20:24,250 --> 01:20:26,959 "Spare Change for a Dying Queen." 1568 01:20:27,041 --> 01:20:30,500 Can you spare some change for a dying queen, darling? 1569 01:20:30,583 --> 01:20:33,875 Oh, I am dying. I know you don't believe me. 1570 01:20:33,959 --> 01:20:36,792 But us queens know what we're talkin' about, yes, we do! 1571 01:20:36,875 --> 01:20:40,083 We're from the liberation! Yes, we are. 1572 01:20:41,709 --> 01:20:44,750 Sometimes when I pass those gay bars 1573 01:20:44,834 --> 01:20:47,333 and I see my gay sisters and brothers havin' a good time 1574 01:20:47,417 --> 01:20:49,959 and turning it out in all their liberated glory, 1575 01:20:50,041 --> 01:20:52,375 and I see that sign over that bar that says, 1576 01:20:52,458 --> 01:20:56,333 "No drunks, no dogs, no drags." 1577 01:20:56,417 --> 01:20:58,542 Could you imagine comparing me to a dog? 1578 01:20:58,625 --> 01:21:01,667 - Audience Member: No! - I just want to break down and-- 1579 01:21:01,750 --> 01:21:04,208 But that's OK, darlin', because I pay it no mind. 1580 01:21:04,291 --> 01:21:07,083 Because when they 86 me, I tip, 1581 01:21:07,166 --> 01:21:09,792 and when I tip, I stay tipped. 1582 01:21:09,875 --> 01:21:11,834 ( crowd cheering ) 1583 01:21:11,917 --> 01:21:14,125 Because I got my friends, that's right, 1584 01:21:14,208 --> 01:21:16,041 and I know who my friends are! 1585 01:21:16,125 --> 01:21:19,792 My friends are people who got change to spare. 1586 01:21:19,875 --> 01:21:22,291 My friends are people who smile at me 1587 01:21:22,375 --> 01:21:27,667 and understand when I say, "Can you spare some change for a dying queen, darlin'?" 1588 01:21:27,750 --> 01:21:30,500 So if you're in one of those bars 1589 01:21:30,583 --> 01:21:32,208 and you see that sign, 1590 01:21:32,291 --> 01:21:35,709 "No drunks, no dogs, no drags," 1591 01:21:35,792 --> 01:21:39,250 and you see them turning out on my of gay brothers and sisters, 1592 01:21:39,333 --> 01:21:42,041 I want you to dig real deep down in your pocket 1593 01:21:42,125 --> 01:21:44,208 and pull out some of that change 1594 01:21:44,291 --> 01:21:46,750 that you're saving for your cold beer and your hot dogs, 1595 01:21:46,834 --> 01:21:51,333 and get over yourself and spare some change for a dying queen... 1596 01:21:51,417 --> 01:21:54,750 ( crowd cheering ) 1597 01:21:57,959 --> 01:22:00,375 ...darling. 1598 01:22:00,458 --> 01:22:02,875 Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, 1599 01:22:02,959 --> 01:22:05,792 whether you like it or not... 1600 01:22:05,875 --> 01:22:07,750 Hedwig! 1601 01:22:07,834 --> 01:22:10,000 - ( crowd roars ) - ( band plays into ) 1602 01:22:24,792 --> 01:22:27,333 ♪ Last time I saw you ♪ 1603 01:22:27,417 --> 01:22:29,750 ♪ We'd just split in two ♪ 1604 01:22:29,834 --> 01:22:31,750 ♪ You were lookin' at me ♪ 1605 01:22:31,834 --> 01:22:33,542 ♪ I was looking at you ♪ 1606 01:22:33,625 --> 01:22:36,458 ♪ You had a way so familiar ♪ 1607 01:22:36,542 --> 01:22:38,250 ♪ I could not recognize ♪ 1608 01:22:38,333 --> 01:22:40,709 ♪ 'Cause you had blood on your face ♪ 1609 01:22:40,792 --> 01:22:43,333 ♪ I had blood in my eyes ♪ 1610 01:22:43,417 --> 01:22:45,959 ♪ But I could swear by your expression ♪ 1611 01:22:46,041 --> 01:22:48,417 ♪ That the pain down in your soul ♪ 1612 01:22:48,500 --> 01:22:52,041 ♪ Was the same as the one down in mine ♪ 1613 01:22:52,125 --> 01:22:54,959 ♪ Oh, that's the pain ♪ 1614 01:22:55,041 --> 01:22:59,458 ♪ That cuts a straight line down through the heart ♪ 1615 01:22:59,542 --> 01:23:01,667 ♪ We call it love ♪ 1616 01:23:01,750 --> 01:23:04,625 ♪ The origin of love ♪ 1617 01:23:04,709 --> 01:23:06,417 ♪ Oh, yeah ♪ 1618 01:23:06,500 --> 01:23:08,625 ♪ The origin of love ♪ 1619 01:23:08,709 --> 01:23:13,417 ♪ Oh, oh, the origin of love ♪ 1620 01:23:13,500 --> 01:23:16,000 ♪ Love, love, love, love ♪ 1621 01:23:16,083 --> 01:23:19,709 ♪ The origin of ♪ 1622 01:23:19,792 --> 01:23:24,208 ( new song begins ) 1623 01:23:33,709 --> 01:23:36,041 ♪ Six inches forward and five inches back ♪ 1624 01:23:36,125 --> 01:23:38,834 ♪ I got, I got an angry inch ♪ 1625 01:23:38,917 --> 01:23:41,834 ♪ Six inches forward and five inches back ♪ 1626 01:23:41,917 --> 01:23:45,041 ♪ I got a, I got an angry inch ♪ 1627 01:23:45,125 --> 01:23:47,917 ♪ Six inches forward, five inches back ♪ 1628 01:23:48,000 --> 01:23:51,208 ♪ Stay under cover till the night turns to black ♪ 1629 01:23:51,291 --> 01:23:53,458 ♪ I got my inch, I'm set to attack ♪ 1630 01:23:53,542 --> 01:23:57,250 ♪ I got an angry inch, an angry inch ♪ 1631 01:24:09,750 --> 01:24:11,458 ( song ends ) 1632 01:24:11,542 --> 01:24:14,458 ( crowd cheering ) 1633 01:24:28,333 --> 01:24:32,500 Lady Bunny: Ladies and gentlemen, comin' up next we have 1634 01:24:32,583 --> 01:24:34,667 one of the Bushwig favorites. 1635 01:24:34,750 --> 01:24:37,375 I want you to put your hands together 1636 01:24:37,458 --> 01:24:40,792 for the wild, the uncontrollable, 1637 01:24:40,875 --> 01:24:42,875 the unpredictable, 1638 01:24:42,959 --> 01:24:45,333 Charlene Incarnate! 1639 01:24:45,417 --> 01:24:47,709 ( crowd cheering ) 1640 01:24:47,792 --> 01:24:50,375 Her Wigstock debut! 1641 01:24:52,709 --> 01:24:54,959 ( band playing song intro ) 1642 01:24:58,667 --> 01:25:01,959 ♪ You're struttin' into town like you're slingin' a gun ♪ 1643 01:25:02,041 --> 01:25:06,750 ♪ Just a small town dude with a big city attitude ♪ 1644 01:25:06,834 --> 01:25:10,750 ♪ Honey, are you looking for some trouble tonight? ♪ 1645 01:25:10,834 --> 01:25:12,750 ♪ Well, all right ♪ 1646 01:25:12,834 --> 01:25:14,500 ♪ You think you'll knock me off my feet ♪ 1647 01:25:14,583 --> 01:25:16,333 ♪ Till I'm flat on the floor ♪ 1648 01:25:16,417 --> 01:25:20,125 ♪ Till my heart is crying Indian and I'm begging for more ♪ 1649 01:25:20,208 --> 01:25:23,583 ♪ So come on, baby, come on, baby ♪ 1650 01:25:23,667 --> 01:25:26,834 ♪ Come on, baby, show me what that loaded gun is for ♪ 1651 01:25:26,917 --> 01:25:30,083 ♪ If you're so tough, come on and prove it ♪ 1652 01:25:30,166 --> 01:25:31,917 ♪ Your heart is down for the count ♪ 1653 01:25:32,000 --> 01:25:34,917 ♪ And you know you're gonna lose it ♪ 1654 01:25:35,000 --> 01:25:39,417 ♪ Tonight, you're gonna go down in flames ♪ 1655 01:25:39,500 --> 01:25:42,583 ♪ Just like Jesse James ♪ 1656 01:25:47,542 --> 01:25:49,417 ♪ Well, you've had your way with love ♪ 1657 01:25:49,500 --> 01:25:51,083 ♪ But it's the end of the day ♪ 1658 01:25:51,166 --> 01:25:52,875 ♪ Now a team of wild horses ♪ 1659 01:25:52,959 --> 01:25:54,792 ♪ Couldn't drag your heart away ♪ 1660 01:25:54,875 --> 01:25:59,041 ♪ So come on, baby, come on, baby, come on, baby ♪ 1661 01:25:59,125 --> 01:26:01,500 ♪ You know there ain't nothin' left to say ♪ 1662 01:26:01,583 --> 01:26:04,417 ♪ If you're so tough, come on and prove it ♪ 1663 01:26:04,500 --> 01:26:06,041 ♪ Your heart is down for the count ♪ 1664 01:26:06,125 --> 01:26:08,959 ♪ And you know you're gonna lose it ♪ 1665 01:26:09,041 --> 01:26:13,208 ♪ Tonight you're gonna go down in flames ♪ 1666 01:26:13,291 --> 01:26:15,834 ♪ Just like Jesse James ♪ 1667 01:26:15,917 --> 01:26:19,875 ♪ Tonight you're gonna go down in flames 1668 01:26:19,959 --> 01:26:24,959 ♪ Just like Jesse James ♪ 1669 01:26:26,291 --> 01:26:27,792 ♪ I'm gonna shoot you down ♪ 1670 01:26:27,875 --> 01:26:29,959 ♪ Jesse James ♪ 1671 01:26:33,000 --> 01:26:35,625 ( crowd cheering ) 1672 01:26:40,458 --> 01:26:44,709 Lady Bunny: Let's hear it for Charlene Incarnate! 1673 01:26:44,792 --> 01:26:47,750 ( crowd cheering ) 1674 01:26:55,041 --> 01:26:59,000 Thank you. Thank you. 1675 01:26:59,083 --> 01:27:01,625 Thank you, everyone. 1676 01:27:07,625 --> 01:27:09,959 ( crowd cheering ) 1677 01:27:12,291 --> 01:27:18,166 ♪ Goodbyes sound better ♪ 1678 01:27:18,250 --> 01:27:23,583 ♪ I wish you a good goodbye ♪ 1679 01:27:26,041 --> 01:27:28,208 Kevin Aviance: 'Cause you're part of history. 1680 01:27:28,291 --> 01:27:30,917 This is gonna be one of those things years and years from now 1681 01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:32,709 when it's long gone and the era has passed 1682 01:27:32,792 --> 01:27:37,250 that people are trying to relive and capture and hold onto. 1683 01:27:37,333 --> 01:27:39,959 So feel yourself special to be a part of it. 1684 01:27:40,041 --> 01:27:43,750 ♪ In all of the hours and times that I tried to be..." 1685 01:27:43,834 --> 01:27:45,750 Drag Queen: I've been to the deserts, 1686 01:27:45,834 --> 01:27:47,750 I've been to the seas, honey. 1687 01:27:47,834 --> 01:27:49,208 And there's no other drag community 1688 01:27:49,291 --> 01:27:50,917 like New York City, darling. 1689 01:27:51,000 --> 01:27:53,250 Give it up for these queens, darling. 1690 01:27:53,333 --> 01:27:56,166 Up, up, up, up, up, up, up! 1691 01:27:58,834 --> 01:28:02,583 These girls now are watching us and they're admiring us. 1692 01:28:02,667 --> 01:28:07,917 Girls, I want to tell you, there's room for all of us. This is for you. 1693 01:28:08,000 --> 01:28:11,125 ( music playing ) 1694 01:28:11,208 --> 01:28:13,000 Lady Bunny: Thank you so much. 1695 01:28:13,083 --> 01:28:14,667 I live the life I love, 1696 01:28:14,750 --> 01:28:16,333 and I love the life I live, 1697 01:28:16,417 --> 01:28:20,083 and I love sharing it with all of you here. 1698 01:28:21,542 --> 01:28:23,250 Drag Queen: It's the audience. 1699 01:28:23,333 --> 01:28:25,417 It's you that is Wigstock, 1700 01:28:25,500 --> 01:28:28,291 and I lift my wigs to you all. 1701 01:28:28,375 --> 01:28:31,500 ♪ Goodbye-ay-ay-ay-ay ♪ 1702 01:28:31,583 --> 01:28:34,250 ♪ Sweet summer ♪ 1703 01:28:51,333 --> 01:28:55,834 ♪ I finally feel like I'm gonna be feeling this way ♪ 1704 01:28:55,917 --> 01:29:00,375 ♪ For a long time, baby ♪ 1705 01:29:00,458 --> 01:29:02,083 ♪ Yeah ♪ 1706 01:29:05,041 --> 01:29:08,208 ( no audible dialogue ) 1707 01:29:20,959 --> 01:29:25,500 ♪ Set me down and tell me you love me ♪ 1708 01:29:25,583 --> 01:29:27,458 ♪ Take me by the hand ♪ 1709 01:29:27,542 --> 01:29:30,417 ♪ In the cover of the trees ♪ 1710 01:29:30,500 --> 01:29:32,709 ♪ As we drive on this road ♪ ♪ 1711 01:29:32,792 --> 01:29:35,083 ♪ I can see you must know ♪ 1712 01:29:35,166 --> 01:29:39,583 ♪ How much, how much you mean to me ♪ 1713 01:29:39,667 --> 01:29:42,291 ♪ Come run and tell me you love me ♪ 1714 01:29:42,375 --> 01:29:44,458 ♪ Come on and hold my hand ♪ 1715 01:29:44,542 --> 01:29:47,208 ♪ Come run and take me for a long time ♪ 1716 01:29:47,291 --> 01:29:49,583 ♪ Until you leave this land ♪ 1717 01:29:49,667 --> 01:29:51,750 ♪ Tell me that we're going to be ♪ 1718 01:29:51,834 --> 01:29:55,583 ♪ Together forever, baby ♪ 1719 01:29:55,667 --> 01:29:58,709 ♪ Forever ♪ 1720 01:29:58,792 --> 01:30:00,709 ♪ I finally feel like ♪ 1721 01:30:00,792 --> 01:30:03,667 ♪ I'm gonna be feeling this way ♪ 1722 01:30:03,750 --> 01:30:07,834 ♪ For a long time, baby ♪ 1723 01:30:07,917 --> 01:30:10,250 ♪ I finally feel like ♪ 1724 01:30:10,333 --> 01:30:13,250 ♪ I'm gonna be feeling this way ♪ 1725 01:30:13,333 --> 01:30:17,166 ♪ For a long time, baby ♪ 1726 01:30:17,250 --> 01:30:22,875 ♪ I finally feel like I'm gonna be feeling this way ♪ 1727 01:30:23,000 --> 01:30:27,208 ♪ For a long time, baby ♪ 1728 01:30:27,291 --> 01:30:28,625 ♪ Yeah ♪