The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert


The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian comedydrama film written and directed by Stephan Elliott. The plot follows the journey of two drag queens and a transgender woman, played by Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, and Terence Stamp, across the Australian Outback from Sydney to Alice Springs in a tour bus that they have named Priscilla, along the way encountering various groups and individuals. The films title is a pun on the fact that in English speaking cultures, queen is a slang term for a drag queen or female impersonator.

Anthony Tick Belrose, using the drag pseudonym of Mitzi Del Bra, is a Sydneybased drag queen who accepts an offer to perform his drag act at Lasseters Hotel Casino Resort managed by a female friend named Marion in Alice Springs, a remote town in central Australia. After persuading his friends and fellow performers, Bernadette Bassinger, a recently bereaved transgender woman, and Adam Whitely, a flamboyant and obnoxious younger drag queen who goes under the drag name Felicia Jollygoodfellow, to join him, the three set out in a large tour bus, which Adam christens Priscilla, Queen of the Desert for a fourweek run in the Australian Outback town.While on the long journey through remote lands bordering the Simpson Desert, they meet a variety of characters, including a group of friendly Aboriginal Australians for whom they perform, the less accepting attitudes of rural Australia in such towns as Coober Pedy, and are subjected to homophobic abuse, violence, including having their tour bus vandalized with the words AIDS fuckers go home. ........

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