Hello and welcome to Queer as Fiction where we talk about the history of queer representation

in the media. I'm Jason and I'm Eli and today we're here to talk about the 1994 road trip

comedy from Stephen Elliott Priscilla Queen of the Desert.

We have some content warnings for this episode, including racism, homophobia and transphobia,

including acts of violence, deadnaming, misgendering, and the use of slurs.

This is a road trip comedy.

Yep, it sure is.

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We have many episodes, some of which don't have many content warnings at all.

Others have different content warnings, so...

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So, yeah, as I said earlier, Priscilla is a 1994 road trip comedy from director Stephen Elliott,

who hasn't directed much else that I think you will have heard of, a lot of films in the 90s,

and it stars Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce and Terrence Stamp as three drag performers,

two cis, queer men named Tick and Adam, and a trans woman named Bernadette.

And it follows their adventure across the Australian Outback, from Sydney to Alice Springs,

in order to reach the Lassado Casino, where they will do a drag show.

They've been hired by Tick's wife, Marion.

That's basically the story?

Yeah, there's not like a whole lot of plot, really.

I guess Road Trip, novels in films aren't really known for, like, convoluted plots at the best of times.

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