8 films that celebrate drag
http://www.azcentral.com/ent/movies/articles/0131trocks0127side.html
by Kerry Lengel
01/30/2008
"The drag queen suddenly becomes a kind of extraterrestrial, a person from another culture who comes in and solves people problems," says Laurence Senelick, author of The Changing Room: Sex, Drag, and Theatre. "It is the exceptional figure, something powerful - not subversive but hopeful."