To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)

After jointly winning a local drag queen pageant in New York City, Noxeema Jackson and Vida Boheme win the right and are given the round trip airfare to compete in the Drag Queen of America pageant in Hollywood, California. Noxeema sees herself as the next Dorothy Dandridge, who bucked the trend of most black American movie actresses of her time by never playing the slave house maid. Vidas style reflects her past of growing up in upper class suburban Pennsylvania. One of their fellow New York contestants, ChiChi Rodriguez, is a straighttalking but naive and inexperienced drag queen. Seeing that ChiChi needs some drag queen confidence (despite her bravada), Vida and a reluctant Noxeema decide to cash in their plane tickets and buy an older model Cadillac convertible and drive to Hollywood with ChiChi. Their drive takes them through much of the country where alternate lifestyles are less tolerated than they may be in New York or Los Angeles. The three have an extended stay in small...