Discrimination and Prejudice are all around us. – Even in the small town of Key West, Florida, a place known for it’s openness and “live and let live” attitude, as well as the local slogan “one human family”, many of the local drag queens performers have had hate spewed at them more than once, both by locals and tourists alike. The well know and incredibly funny, entertaining and leading community fundraiser, RV Beaumont, who’s now deceased, the queen of the ever popular Sunday afternoon Bingo, had a man chase her down the street with a knife. Destiny, a star of the film who also has passed away, was in a street fight with some local teens that harassed her and called her vile and vicious names…It happens, it’s sad, but it happens! Locally in our small City as well as most other cites in the world. Drag Queens as well as several other gay and minority groups that are discriminated against by society on a daily basis. It’s sad because many of us think that type of behavior is in the past but it’s still very much a part of daily life for many gays and other groups that are labeled “different” by society.
One of the many issues the documentary filmabout the lives of a performing troupe of DVD about Drag Queens,about several Drag Queen performers living and working in small town Key West, “Audience with the Queens”, brings out in the open is that drag queens are like the rest of us in society. They hurt, they cry, they bleed, they laugh, oh do they laugh, ….and they love, just like the rest of us. Yes, they’re not quite like the rest of us, they definitely have a different approach on the outside but on the inside they’re just like the rest of us… The film’s portrayal of them, onstage and off, gives a great deal more understanding to a genre of that has been very much misunderstood and discriminated against by a good part of our society for many years…make sure and see this film, it gives you an inside look at drag queens ….and it’s really entertaining !!