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difficult to qualify or quantify.
That brings us to the T, which, in a month commemorating the Stonewall riots, is the most important letter in the alphabet soup that is our community.
It would be difficult to transition in 1945's Britain, and 1880s Russia was not the place to try on a frock if you were possessed of a penis. The glam rock that suffused much of Buddha of Suburbia lent itself more to messing about with gender roles, but in the end, it was the drag queens and transsexuals at the Stonewall Inn in 1969 that sparked the LGBT civil rights movement.
Not coincidentally, the next Pride Month release from BBC Home Video is Stonewall, director Nigel Finch's fi-
Inal film. While it marked the end of his career (he died in 1995 from AIDS), it marked out actor Guillermo Diaz' rise to fame.
Diaz plays La Miranda, a Puerto Rican transvestite who hangs out with her friends at the Stonewall Inn, occasionally breaking out into Bollywood-esque lip-syncing numbers.
When she meets Matty Dean, an overeducated country boy new to the city, she takes him under her wing, even helping him get bailed out when the bar is raided by the cops.
The two feel those first stirrings of love, but Matty is also being pulled by the assimilationist forces of the Mattachine Society, whose goals of acceptance for gay folk are noble, but their insistence on a nonthreatening face for the movement marginalize La Miranda and her friends.
The film climaxes with that dark day in 1969 when Judy Garland lay dead, and that bright night when a drag queen stood up and said, "No more."
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Of course, there are other letters that often get tossed into the mix-A for allies, I for intersex, Q for queer or questioning or both.
In the interest of full inclusion, the BBC also released Absolutely Fabulous: Absolutely Everything, a boxed set with every
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season of the seminal comedy and every special, along with outtakes, bloopers, the sketch that spawned the show and two additional pieces from French and Saunders.
It's massive, and among those nine discs are just about every gradation and permutation of queer that one could imagine. Patsy alone covers half the alphabet, having undergone gender reassignment, dating men and women, practically being married to Edwina.
Saffron only once makes her mother Eddy happy, when she lies and says she's lesbian. Interestingly enough, while Edwina would be happy with a lesbian daughter, she doesn't seem as pleased with her gay ex-husband and his partner.
For fans of the show, and that seems to be much of the gay community, this is the ultimate present to get yourself for Pride Month. The damned thing is even in a silver quilted jacket, just like Jennifer Saunders wore in an episode! What more could one ask for?
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