Events

LGBTQ+ Pride Month is technically over, but our celebration continues! Our July movie night is the 1995 comedy film, "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar," starring Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, and John Leguizamo.

Two New York drag queens, Vida Boheme (Swayze) and Noxeema Jackson (Snipes), win a Hollywood trip to take part in the "Miss Drag Queen of America Pageant." Selling their two tickets and buying a Cadillac, they take the inexperienced drag "princess" Chi-Chi Rodriguez (Leguizamo) under their wings and set off cross-country. Due to a racist sheriff and their car breaking down, they end up stranded for a weekend in a rural small town...

Out of films we considered for a queer feature, "To Wong Foo" rose to the top of our list as a hometown favorite. Much of the rural scenes were shot on location in Lincoln, Omaha, and Loma, Nebraska. An impressive local legacy, to have our state as the home of the first Hollywood production to have drag queen leads!

As always, we recommend www.doesthedogdie.com to review any potential content that might be upsetting. But since these are prominent sources of conflict in this film, we want to warn of the following: queerphobia, racism (and specifically anti-Black and anti-Latine slurs), domestic abuse, threats of sexual violence, and abuses by cops.

Discussion will follow the movie.

This event is free and open to the public. The Black Cat House welcomes all ages, and is a drug and alcohol-free venue. To help keep everyone safe and healthy, we ask that all guests wear face masks in our space. We are wheelchair accessible.