Directed by Stephan Elliot

1994 - Rated R

“I hereby christen this budget barbie camper Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.”

Full of enough feathers and fabulousness to make RuPaul jealous, you could be fooled for forgetting the historical and cultural importance this film holds. Following the AIDS epidemic of the Eighties, homophobia continued to infect society in the Nineties. That said, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert brought us a joyous, must-see classic of a film that put drag culture on the map in an era of TV and cinema that consistently misrepresented this marginalised community.

Two drag queens (Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce) and a transgender woman (Terence Stamp) road trip across Australia in a tour bus (which they soon pimp out with some pink paint and christen Priscilla) to take their drag show to a resort in the middle of the Outback. Along the way they encounter hilarity and mishaps, but also homophobic abuse, all while uncovering new secrets about each other. See the film first, then catch the musical version that first graced the West End in 2011.