Video Queens

Cameron Crookston and Patrick Murray

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Video Queens is a pop culture podcast where two queens take a look back at the movies that made them. Queer academic, Cameron Crookston and comedian, Patrick Murray dig into the best bits, cultural significance, and problematic moments in your favorite LGBTQ+ movies.

07/12/2021

14. Another Gay Sequel- Season 1 Finale

It’s the season finale of Video Queens, and we’re taking you back to the beginning with the sequel to our pilot episode, Another Gay Sequel. Is this the worst movie we’ve watched? Patrick certainly thinks so, and goes through the five stages of grief over having watched it. Cameron tries to rescue the core concept and finds a silver lining in a few of the film’s cameos. There’s lots to unpack in the problem attic and make sure you stick around till the end because we’re giving out Oscar style awards to the best and brightest performances in the movies we’ve watched this year.

58 min
06/30/2021

13. To Wong Foo/ Priscilla Queen of the Desert – Drag Double Feature

It’s the last day of pride month so the queens are watching two drag movies! To Hollywood Cult Classic To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything Julie Newman, and the Aussie Indie hit The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Patrick tries to reconcile which drag road trip movie is which and Cameron connects To Wong Foo to the history of selling gay culture to straight audiences. The problem attic and the history corner are in full swing this week.

1h 1m
06/26/2021

12. Torch Song Trilogy - Fierstein Chat

This week the Queens watch Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy. The episode is pretty much a thin pretext for Cameron and Patrick to work on their Harvey Fierstein voices, but it really pays off! There’s also lots of good history stuff about the history of drag. Up in the problem attic we’re more interested what’s not in the boxes: bi phobia and dead queer characters.

56 min
06/18/2021

11. Outrageous!- A One Man Snatch Game

Our Pride Drag-a-thon continues! This week the queens watch the Canadian drag cult classic Outrageous! Patrick learns how to use Wikipedia to look up facts about a Canadian celebrities and basically renders Cameron useless. Cameron unpacks some time capsule moments about drag in the 70s and sees himself in a bedroom queen. Up in the problem attic… actually we’re not sure. Can psychosis be problematic? We’ll talk.

52 min
06/09/2021

10. Pink Flamingos- Hard to Swallow

Its week two of our pride month drag movie marathon! This week we watched John Water’s classic Pink Flamingos, staring the legendary Divine. Cameron struggles with his vanilla sensibilities and his appreciation for the impact of John Waters. Patrick explains his take on the egg man and spends most of the movie waiting for the famous poo scene. We’re not sure where the problem attic begins and ends with this one but we’re going to give it a try.

46 min
06/02/2021

9. The Queen- Fish on the Wall

Its Pride month! This week the queens kick of their pride drag movie marathon with the 1968 documentary The Queen. Patrick is staunchly team Crystal and wants to introduce a scoring system for real life. Cameron can’t help talking about Drag Race and gives us a little history lesson on drag before Stonewall. Up in the problem attic we’re taking a little at white beauty standards and racial biases in drag competitions.

52 min
05/26/2021

8. But I'm a Cheerleader- Touching Up Your Roots

This week the Queens watch cult classic, fan favorite, But I’m a Cheerleader. Cameron is obsessed with the colour pallet and gets into the history of blue and pink baby colours. Patrick is searching for his own root and finds it on Broadway. Up in the problematic we’re trying to figure out what happened to Jan and unpacking a light comedy about conversation therapy.

53 min
05/19/2021

7. Shortbus- Is the Bus Still Running?

This week the Queens watch John Cameron Mitchel’s Shortbus. Patrick is so excited that we finally get full frontal nudity and talks about the controversial non-simulated sex scenes in this movie. Cameron comes up with a new drag name and assigns an undergrad term paper. Not much in the problem attic this week but Patrick reveals a secret about a personal connection to one of the actors.

48 min

Video Queens is a pop culture podcast where two queens take a look back at the movies that made them. Queer academic, Cameron Crookston and comedian, Patrick Murray dig into the best bits, cultural significance, and problematic moments in your favorite LGBTQ+ movies.

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Cameron Crookston and Patrick Murray
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