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World of Wonder

World of Wonder also manages the global rights for all international versions of RuPaul’s Drag Race and consults on Drag Race Canada (BBC Three).

World of Wonder is the pioneering international entertainment creator of groundbreaking Emmy Award-winning feature and television programming, films, and unparalleled documentaries and series that give a voice to outsiders and marginalized communities. The world’s foremost LGBTQ+ and drag entertainment brand, World of Wonder is the multi-award-winning LA based media company that has been bringing

the best q***r talent, stories and counterculture to mainstream audiences for almost two decades. Founded in the UK in 1991 by executive producers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, World of Wonder produced pioneering and headline-grabbing programmes such as The Adam and Joe Show (CH4), Power Le****ns (Sky One) and Housebusters (CH5). Expanding state-side in 1994, the team went on to produce award-winning factual entertainment, reality television and documentary content to critical and commercial success; as well as launching a specialist SVoD service and producing popular live conventions, podcasts and merchandising. Television highlights include: Emmy® Award winning RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1/Logo), RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars (VH1), RuPaul’s Drag Race UK (BBC3), Million Dollar Listing LA & NY (Bravo), Dancing Queen (Netflix), Werq the World (WOW Presents Plus) and Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric (National Geographic). Nine of World of Wonder’s documentary films have premiered at the Sundance Film festival including Becoming Chaz, Party Monster and Whirlybird - which took home 2020's Sundance Institute | Amazon Studios Producers Award for Documentary Features. Other award-winning films and documentaries include, Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, Monica in Black and White, and Emmy Award-winning documentaries, The Last Beekeeper and Out of Iraq (all currently available to watch on WOW Presents Plus). Expanding its digital footprint, World of Wonder launched its specialist subscription on demand (SVoD) service, WOW Presents Plus. Landing in the UK in 2017, the SVoD is also available in America and 160 other countries and features World of Wonder content; including various titles across the Drag Race brand, digital series such as UNHhhh and Morning T&T and many of its documentary and film content. World of Wonder also produces RuPaul's DragCon, the world’s largest drag culture convention. Welcoming more than 100,000 attendees across LA and NYC in 2019 (with Vegas scheduled for January 2021), the company expanded internationally in 2020 with RuPaul’s DragCon UK taking place in London to a sold-out crowd. World of Wonder also co-produces the official RuPaul's Drag Race: Werq the World Tour, and the official RuPaul's Drag Race UK Tour. Co-founders Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey authored The World According to Wonder, celebrating decades of production and have been honoured with the IDA Pioneer Award, named on Variety's Reality Leaders List, and chosen for the OUT100 list for their trailblazing work in the LGBTQ+ community. World of Wonder was also selected for Realscreen's Global 100 list, which recognises the top international non-fiction and unscripted production companies working in the industry today. World of Wonder creates out of a historic building/gallery space in the heart of Hollywood.

02/09/2025

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."
Alice Walker
– February 9, 1944

Walker wrote the novel THE COLOR PURPLE (1982), bringing her a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. An avowed feminist, Walker coined the term "Womanist" for "Black Feminist".

Her parents were sharecroppers in Georgia. Walker was eight years old when her brother shot her with a BB gun, blinding her in one eye. The doctor who treated her swindled her parents out of what little money they had.

Walker graduated from college in 1965 and then traveled to Mississippi to join the Civil Rights Movement. In New York City in 1967, she married a liberal, white, Jewish lawyer and moved back to Mississippi with her husband and had a baby. The K*K made death threats against them. They divorced after nine years.

Male violence and exploitation of women are themes in Walker's 30 books of poems, stories, novels, and essays. In her tales, women forge strong, supportive relationships with one another, including romantic love, another recurring theme.

Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of THE COLOR PURPLE (1985) starring Whoopi Goldberg was mostly de-gayed. It's memorable for introducing Oprah Winfrey to the world as an actor. Nominated for 11 Academy Awards, it won none, yet many considered it the best film that year.

In 2005, a musical adaptation opened on Broadway produced by Quincy Jones and Oprah. It ran for three years and was nominated for 11 Tony Awards, winning one. A Broadway revival opened in 2015 and ran for two years, winning two Tonys. Winfrey and Spielberg produced a film version of the musical in 2023.

The novel incites outrage among the MAGA crowd. When first published, it was required reading for many high school English classes. Black same-s*x love is just too much for the MAGAs; the American Library Association ranks it 10th on the list of books most often banned from libraries.

Walker concentrates her energy on social justice instead q***r issues. In 2006, she finally spoke about dating musician Tracy Chapman.

02/08/2025

Lana Turner was a versatile and hard-working actor who made several films each year and who was nominated for an Academy Award for PEYTON PLACE in 1957. She gained equal notoriety because of her private life, which was marred by personal tragedy and seven, count 'em seven, disastrous marriages. Turner's performances personified the paradoxes in her personality. She was described as a cool, submissive beauty whose poise cloaked a wild, passionate soul. Not quite the lady, but never cheap; warm and friendly but unattainable; she held a fascination for both men and women.

As gay poet Frank O'Hara wrote in 1964:

Lana Turner has collapsed!
I was trotting along and suddenly
It started raining and snowing
And you said it was hailing
But hailing hits you on the head
Hard so it was really snowing and
Raining and I was in such a hurry
To meet you but the traffic
Was acting exactly like the sky
And suddenly I see a headline
LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED!
There is no snow in Hollywood
There is no rain in California
I have been to lots of parties
And acted perfectly disgraceful
But I never actually collapsed
Oh Lana Turner we love you
Get up

Ruth Orkin's (1921-1985) 1952 photo of Turner at a party given by Marion Davies with Esther Williams (back to the camera), Fernando Lamas and Ben Gage also in shot.

02/08/2025

"Forgive quickly, kiss slowly."
James Dean
– February 8, 1931

I had that iconic Dennis Stock photograph from 1955 as a poster in my dorm room in 1972. Because no other young male actor in the late 1960s and early 1970s was looking to James Dean for inspiration, original, huh?

Seven decades after his meteoric career, one thing now seems clear to me: this talented young man was gay. Just look at the outtakes from REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955) where the s*xual heat between Dean and Sal Mineo is undeniable. His affairs with men, often older father figures, are well documented now, even if they were smartly hidden during his lifetime.

Dean was made by the studios to appear as a vulnerable young innocent guy who was tormented, seeking freedom, and seeking the love of the right girl. They made sure that he acted the role in real life by letting the film execs set him up on dates with starlets to be seen with in public.

On a September day in 1955, while driving in his new Porsche 550 Spyder on US 101 near Salinas, Dean left this world. He was just 24 years old. Dean famously enjoyed driving fast cars. George Stevens, the director of GIANT banned him from driving during the shoot. In a public service announcement Dean filmed just two months before his car crash, he urged young drivers to practice highway safety, saying: "The life you save might be mine". That accident will forever be his legacy. There is no reality left to mess with the myth.

Dean has screen credits for just three films. He was the first actor to earn a posthumous Academy Award nomination and the only actor to earn two posthumous noms. He lost both times. He wasn't even nominated for his defining role.

It is because Dean lived a very short life that he has become a symbol for so many different things. If he had lived to enjoy the stardom that he achieved after his death; he probably wouldn't be such an enigma. Dean remains such a romantic and misunderstood figure. At least he never made a bad film. His death was tragic, ironic, and iconic.

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02/08/2025

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02/07/2025

"Why are you so afraid of the word 'Fascism'? Just a word… just a word! And might not be so bad, with all the lazy bums we got panhandling relief nowadays and living on my income tax and yours, not so worse to have a real strong man, like Hi**er or Mussolini, like Napoleon or Bismarck in the good old days, and have 'em really run the country and make it efficient and prosperous again. In other words, like a doctor who won't take any back chat, but really boss the patient and make him get well whether he likes it or not!"
IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE
Sinclair Lewis
– February 7, 1885

In 1930, Lewis became the first writer from the USA to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. He literally wrote the book on the fascist takeover of the USA.

IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE (1935) is a satirical novel published during the rise of fascism in Europe. It's about the rise of a politician who is elected POTUS after fomenting fear and promising drastic economic and social reforms while promoting a return to patriotism and "traditional" values. After his election, he takes complete control of the government and imposes totalitarian rule with the help of a ruthless paramilitary force.

MGM purchased the rights. By early 1936, screenwriter Sidney Howard completed an adaptation. But studio head Louis B. Mayer indefinitely postponed production after William Hays of the Motion Picture Production Code notified Mayer of potential problems in the German market, saying the script was too "anti-fascist".

From IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE: "He was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his ideas almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated humor the sly cynicism of a country store. Certainly, there was nothing exhilarating in the actual words of his speeches, nor anything convincing in his philosophy. His political platforms were only wings of a windmill."

1936 portrait by Edward Steichen

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02/07/2025

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02/06/2025

"I think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars. You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life."
Natalie Cole
– February 6, 1950

In addition to her music, she's an inspiration for overcoming her addictions to he**in, co***ne and alcohol in the 1980s.

Natalie Cole was the daughter of popular jazz artist Nat King Cole, himself a trailblazer. The release of her first album INSEPERABLE (1975), and its single THIS WILL BE (AN EVERLASTING LOVE), made her a huge star and a favorite of the g**s. Its success brought her the Grammy Award for Best New Artist that year, making Cole the first Black recipient as well as the first R&B act to win that award.

After releasing several albums, she moved away from her R&B sound and went Pop with the album EVERLASTING (1987) with its cover of Bruce Springsteen's PINK CADILLAC. In the 1990s, she started singing music recorded by her father, resulting in her biggest success, UNFORGETTABLE... WITH LOVE (1991), a huge hit that won the Grammy for Album of the Year, making Cole the first Black woman to win the award.

Cole received nine Grammys, was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award, and sold over 35 million records, and was posthumously inducted into the Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame (2021).

On DRAG RACE, Cole, a guest judge, was there to witness DiDa Ritz slay a lip synch of her THIS WILL BE.

Cole died on December 31, 2015

02/05/2025

"White liberals need to stop being liberals and become American radicals."
Lorraine Hansberry

The stories of Black Gay People are all too conveniently missing from the narrative of Gay History, much less plain ol' History.

Bayard Rustin was a principal planner of MLK's 1963 March on Washington, and he continued to work for Equal Rights for decades while having his contribution pushed aside by fellow leaders of the movement. Billy Strayhorn's contributions to Jazz History are mostly missing. Many of the artists who were major players in the Harlem Renaissance have had their gay lives ignored.

Lorraine Hansberry's parents fought and won a long legal battle against Chicago housing segregation. Her successful contractor-builder father bought a house on the South Side of the city to the indignation of the white neighbors, whose legal efforts to force the Hansberry family out resulted in the SCOTUS's decision in the groundbreaking Hansberry v. Lee case. Hansberry's father died in 1946, when she was 15 years old. Hansberry stated: "American racism killed him." These events are the inspiration for her play A RAISIN IN THE SUN.

Hansberry never used the term "le***an" because she, like many others, was still trying to develop the concept of such a clearly defined s*xual identity. She certainly had romances with several women, and more tellingly, she was a member of the first ever le***an political organization, The Daughters of Bilitis, during an era when doing so made you a target of the FBI.

In 1956 and 1957, Hansberry wrote a series of challenging commentaries while she was busy working on A RAISIN IN THE SUN. She was a prolific political writer and public speaker. She challenged the Black community to consider the Feminist cause and the fight against homophobia.

In the early 1960s, along with Harry Belafonte, Lena Horne, and James Baldwin, Hansberry met with then Attorney General Robert Kennedy to make the case for Civil Rights for all people.

02/04/2025

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."
Rosa Parks
- February 4, 1913

Rosa Parks, a Black American, stood up for what she believed, well actually she sat down for what she believed. On the evening of December 1, 1955, Parks refused to give up her seat to a white male passenger and she was arrested for disobeying an Alabama law requiring Black people to relinquish seats on public transportation to white people when the bus or train was full. Blacks also had to sit at the back of a bus.

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Park's arrest began a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system.17,000 Black citizens participated in the boycott, and it was successful because it caused the bus company to lose money. This led to a 1956 SCOTUS decision banning segregation on public transportation.

Her grandparents were slaves. Her grandfather was the son of a white plantation owner and a slave. As a child, she would stay up all night with her grandfather, guarding their home from the K*K with a shotgun.

Before the boycott, Parks had been active in the Montgomery Chapter of the National Association For The Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She served as the chapter's secretary. Denied the right to vote on at least two occasions, Parks also worked with the Voters League to help Black citizens to register to vote.

We've been taught a simple fable that on that December night a weary Black woman sat in the "Whites Only" front section of a bus in Montgomery and started the Civil Rights Movement. Parks never stopped explaining that this wasn't really what happened. Parks wasn't sitting in the white section, but behind it. When the white section filled and a white male passenger got on the bus, the driver demanded that she move further back. That's when she refused to move.

1963 photo by Gordon Parks (no relation)

1963 photo by Gordon Parks (no relation)

02/04/2025

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02/04/2025

"We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed."
Alberta Hunter

She was a Blues singer-songwriter who had a remarkably successful career from the early 1920s to the late 1950s, and then stopped performing to become a nurse.

She was the first in a long line of q***r Black female artists who had super success singing the Blues. The lyrics to one of her songs: "Don't try to tame me, let me have my fun. I'm having a good time living my life today because tomorrow I may die and I ain't passin' nothin' by!"

The USO (United Service Organization) was established to fill service members' need for little recreation and entertainment, addressing the perceived threat of too many servicemen with nothing to do. Over 3,000 USO clubs opened during World War II, places where sailors and soldiers could find coffee, a meal, books, conversation, dancing, and entertainment. The USO forbade racial discrimination, but its policy was never enforced. The USO wasn't willing to go against local laws or fight community opposition to integrated clubs, so Black USO clubs were built in many cities. The USO also had a "camp show division" of entertainers with some of the biggest Black stars supporting all the troops.

Hunter signed up with the USO in 1944. She was put in charge of Unit 342, "The Rhythm Rascals", the first All-Black USO unit. They entertained in hospitals and bases, and the unit's small size meant they could do their thing at the most isolated bases. The Rhythm Rascals loved their work and were proud of what they did, but they faced discrimination everywhere, something Hunter, as the leader of the band, never accepted. In India, the group was told to eat in the kitchen instead of the officers' mess, even though as USO entertainers they were supposed to be treated with the same respect due an Army Captain. In Europe, Hunter overheard a racial slur spoken in French by an American soldier and she called him out. In both cases, she not only protested openly, but also reported the incidents up the chain of command.

Hunter and her unit returned to the USA in late 1946.

02/03/2025

"My only aversion to vice is the price"
Victor Buono
– February 3, 1938

As in Alfred Hitchcock films, it is suspense, rather than mayhem, that drives WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962), an iconic piece of camp embraced by generations of g**s. A tale of an aging former child star who holds her paraplegic ex-movie star sister captive in their creaky Hollywood mansion, it combines some powerful hammy acting with rich atmosphere and gripping melodrama. It works as a taut thriller and a dark comedy. Produced and directed by Robert Aldrich, the film stars Gay Icons Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. It was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning for Best Costume Design. Besides Davis, the only other actor to receive an Academy Award nomination for the movie wasn't Crawford, but Victor Buono.

Buono plays pianist Edwin Flagg, who is hired by Davis's Jane to relaunch her career. It's an odd relationship in the 1962 film, but in FEUD, they form a fast friendship offscreen. When Flagg is arrested in a police raid at a gay movie theatre for performing oral s*x on a young man, he calls Jane to get him out of jail. After she springs him from the joint, she scolds him not for his behavior, but for being so careless knowing it would ruin his career. This was reality for many gay men of the era.

I couldn't find out a lot about Buono's gay life. In the 1940 and 1950s, gay actors were pressured by their studios into marrying women to conceal their q***reness, but in the 1960s, there was bit of a pushback. It is known that Buono lived with a series of young men throughout his life. Tellingly, THE NY TIMES obituary for Buono ends with: "Private services were being arranged for the actor, who was not married."

Buono told an interviewer: "I hear about actors being asked the immortal question 'Why have you never married?'. They answer with the immortal excuse 'I just haven't found the right girl'. Because I'm on the hefty side, no one's asked me yet. If they do, that's the answer I'll give. After all, if it was good enough for Monty Clift or Sal Mineo." Buono was never really out of the closet, yet he was rather radical for not pretending to be straight.

02/02/2025

"Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress."
Liz Smith
– February 2, 1923

Smith mixed banter, barbs, and bon mots about celebs, and climbed to the top of the same A-list that she covered in her syndicated column. During the apex of her career in the 1980s and 1990s, she broke big stories like the divorces of a certain mango-hued grifter from Queens, from wife number one, Ivana Zelníčková, and number two, Marla Maples. She was the authority on all things Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. She covered all of Liza Minnelli's weddings. And she kept it light and fun.

She dubbed herself the "Dame of Dish", a nicer version of the gossip columnists from the Golden Age including Hedda Hopper, Louella Parsons, and Walter Winchell. Unlike them, Smith succeeded by staying away from cheap shots.

Smith: "I reserved my punches for people who really deserved it."

One of the biggest scoops of Smith's career was when she broke the story of a special 1990 divorce in the NY DAILY NEWS. She knew them as a couple but was chummy with Ivana who spilled the beans that her husband didn't want her anymore. Smith said: "Get yourself a PR person who's respectable and defend yourself against him." Rapey von Tinyfingers raged that he was going to purchase the DAILY NEWS just so he could fire her (he didn't).

Smith was outed in 1992, and she quipped: "Who am I, the great le***an of the Western world? They want me to go out, and I want them to go in! " In 2000, she published a memoir and officially came out as bis*xual, or as she put it "gender neutrality". She was married twice to men, but Smith' great love was Iris Love, the famed archaeologist. It was her only long-term relationship.

She advised Elaine Stritch to have s*x with Marlon Brando and rescued Rock Hudson from a blackmailer who threatened to out him. She moved easily between Richard Nixon, Roy Cohn, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Ann Richards, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Roger Ailes.

Smith was 94 years old when she left us in 2017. Even at the end, she was still churning out a column.

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02/02/2025

"Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress."
Liz Smith
– February 2, 1923

A columnist who chronicled the triumphs and trespasses in the soap opera lives of the rich, the famous, or the merely beautiful, Smith mixed banter, barbs, and bon mots about celebs, and climbed to the top of the same A-list that she covered in her syndicated column.

During the 1980s and 1990s, she broke big stories like the divorces of a certain mango-hued real estate developer, from wife number one, Ivana Zelníčková, and number two, Marla Maples. She was the authority on all things Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. She covered all of Liza Minnelli's weddings. And she kept it light and fun.

One of the biggest scoops of Smith's career was when she broke the story of a special 1990 divorce in the NY DAILY NEWS. She knew them as a couple but was chummy with Ivana who spilled the beans that her husband didn't want her anymore. Smith said: "Get yourself a PR person who's respectable and defend yourself against him." The short-fingered vulgarian raged that he was going to purchase the Daily News just so he could fire her (he didn't).

Smith was outed in 1992, and she quipped: "Who am I, the great le***an of the Western world? They want me to go out, and I want them to go in! " In 2000, she officially came out as bis*xual, or as she put it "gender neutrality". She was married twice to men, but Smith' great love was Iris Love, the famed archaeologist. It was her only long-term relationship.

Before her successful column, Smith wrote for nine different newspapers and dozens of magazines, but it was her time writing for COSMOPOLITAN that was her big break. She started her DAILY NEWS column in 1976. In 1978, during the newspaper strike, Smith helped define a new era of celebrity journalism on television by joining WNBC-TV three nights a week with her commentary. Ten years later she moved to Fox, and then E!.

02/01/2025

"Democracy will not come/Today, this year/Nor ever/Through compromise and fear"
Langston Hughes
– February 1, 1902

He was a q***r man who, because of his era and his community, stayed deeply in the closet.

Both of his grandfathers were white slave owners. His father left his family, fleeing to Cuba to escape the enduring racism they faced every day. Hughes left Cuba when he was accepted at Columbia University where he proved to be an excellent student. He dropped out because of the pressure of prejudice. He became entranced by the world of Jazz and nightclubs in nearby Harlem, an amazing time in that New York City neighborhood, an era of unprecedented creative, artistic energy that we now have dubbed "The Harlem Renaissance".

Many claim that Hughes was "ambiguous" or "androgynous" to explain Hughes' gayness. I think it is rather obvious from his writing that Hughes was q***r, with plenty of codes in his poems written in the manner of Walt Whitman, Hughes' major influence. Poor Hughes had to have felt a demand to remain in the closet. He desired the respect and support of Black churches and Civil Rights organizations.

Hughes had a fascination with dark-skinned sailors and soldiers. He worked for a while as a crew member on a ship, where he had his first s*xual experience. It might have been with any of the guys in his cabin: a boy from the Philippines, or the Puerto Rican guy who admitted to not liking girls, or the funny Black kid from Kentucky who had been a dresser for a drag queen; all are figures in Hughes' stories.

Hughes wrote about the fight against Fascism in Europe, and he spent time in the USSR. He was accused of being a Communist by the right wingers, but he always denied it. In 1953, he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) led by closet-case Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy. After his testimony, Hughes distanced himself from anything having to do with Communism, but then he was shunned by the Radical Left who had previously supported him. When choosing pieces to be published for his SELECTED POEMS (1959), he excluded all his politically inspired pieces from the 1930s.

01/31/2025

"I think the Republican Party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom."
Tallulah Bankhead
– January 31, 1902
I am a gay man of a certain age; in my time, in my tribe, telling Tallulah Bankhead stories and imitating the famed personality was de rigueur at brunches and parties.

Bankhead lived a singular, spontaneously combustible life, brimming with panache. She loved men, women, ci******es, liquor, and co***ne.

The Bankheads were a prominent Alabama political family, her grandfather and uncle were Senators and her father served as Speaker of the House of Representatives. Bankhead's support of liberal causes, especially Civil Rights broke with the segregationist Southern Democrats of her era, and she often opposed her own family publicly.

As an actor, she mostly worked on stage, but Bankhead also gave a few excellent performances in some great films including Alfred Hitchcock's LIFEBOAT (1944).

There are so many great anecdotes about her. Here's a favorite: It was 1931 and Bankhead was traveling to Hollywood for the first time. Riding with her on the train were Joan Crawford and her handsome husband, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Bankhead quipped: "Joan, Dahling… you're divine. I've had an affair with your husband, and watch out, you'll be next."

Bankhead was always frank and forthcoming about her s*xual appetites. She was quite open about having lovers of all genders: "My father warned me about men and booze, but he never said anything about women and co***ne."

Among her many conquests were Billie Holliday, actors Eva La Galliene, Dietrich, Hattie McDaniel, Beatrice Lillie, and Alla Nazimova, plus writer Mercedes de Acosta. She had a decades long thing with fellow actor Patsy Kelly. Bankhead never publicly described herself as bis*xual. She did, however, describe herself as "ambis*xtrous".
Bankhead lived a life of audacious adventure and sensual sprees, and she never wasted a moment of it.

Some Bankhead Quotes, Dahling:

"Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once."

"I'm as pure as the driven slush."

"If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."

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01/30/2025

"If I could work with the q***r community and trans people on every film, I'd have the happiest life. Also, I learned more about myself."
Olivia Colman
– January 30, 1974

She was born Sarah Caroline Colman; she had to change her name because there was already a Sarah Colman in Equity, the UK's acting union. Colman has received an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, two Emmys, and three Golden Globes.

Later this year, she stars in the film JIMPA with John Lithgow, where she plays the mother of a trans nonbinary teenager. The two travel to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather Jim (known as Jimpa).

Colman won her Oscar for playing bis*xual Queen Anne of England in THE FAVOURITE (2019) who has affairs with the characters played by Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz. Colman plays a sweet, sympathetic mother of a bis*xual son in the Netflix series HEARTSTOPPER (2022- 2025), and she is a butch maid to Judi Dench in MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (2017).

She played Queen Elizabeth II in the third and fourth seasons of THE CROWN and in HYDE PARK ON HUDSON (2012). Colman described herself as a "leftie monarchist". In 2020, she signed an open letter condemning violence and discrimination against trans women.

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Dive into the most twisted season in herstory! 👑💦 Here’s your first look at #DragRace Season 17, premiering 4 January with extra-special premiere guest judge @katyperry! https://hubs.la/Q02_n4Gr0 ‼️ Sign up to watch Episode 1 for FREE on @wowpresentsplus Jan 4th, link in bio @rupaulsdragrace Season 17 premieres Saturdays starting 4 January: 🌎 2:30AM UTC @wowpresentsplus worldwide outside USA, Canada, Australia 🇺🇸 Fridays 8PM EST @mtv

Looking for the perfect gift? How about 200 QUEENS? 🎁‼️ Give your friends what they really want this Christmas - tickets to RuPaul's DragCon UK! 🎟️ #DragCon UK tickets on sale now: https://hubs.la/Q02_lJkb0 🗓️ 10

Looking for the perfect gift? How about 200 QUEENS? 🎁‼️ Give your friends what they really want this Christmas - tickets to RuPaul's DragCon UK! 🎟️ #DragCon UK tickets on sale now: https://hubs.la/Q02_lctp0 🗓️ 10 & 11 January 📍 @excellondon

Who ISN’T beefing on the bus? 😩🚌 @morphinelovemua The queens of #DragRace S16 are BACK for Part 1 of their official #BringBackMyGirls reunion, filmed LIVE at #DragCon LA! 🏁 Now streaming worldwide on @wowpresentsplus: https://hubs.la/Q02Z0bpx0

Who ISN’T beefing on the bus? 😩🚌 @morphinelovemua The queens of #DragRace S16 are BACK for Part 1 of their official #BringBackMyGirls reunion, filmed LIVE at #DragCon LA! 🏁 Now streaming worldwide on @wowpresentsplus: https://hubs.la/Q02-RLDN0

She came to the mandatory meeting, b-tch! 📈🤭 The queens of #DragRace Season 16 are BACK for Part 1 of their official #BringBackMyGirls reunion, filmed LIVE at #DragCon LA! 🏁 #BringBackMyGirls premieres Wednesdays only on WOW Presents Plus worldwi

She came to the mandatory meeting, b-tch! 📈🤭 The queens of #DragRace Season 16 are BACK for Part 1 of their official #BringBackMyGirls reunion, filmed LIVE at #DragCon LA! 🏁 #BringBackMyGirls premieres Wednesdays only on WOW Presents Plus worldwide: https://hubs.la/Q02-PRVG0

Lemme stand up! 😤💛 The queens of #DragRace Season 16 are BACK for Part 1 of their official #BringBackMyGirls Season 4 reunion, filmed LIVE at #DragCon LA: https://hubs.la/Q02Z0bqn0 🏁 #BringBackMyGirls hosted by Ts Madison premieres Wednesdays at

Lemme stand up! 😤💛 The queens of #DragRace Season 16 are BACK for Part 1 of their official #BringBackMyGirls Season 4 reunion, filmed LIVE at #DragCon LA: https://hubs.la/Q02-C-5_0 🏁 #BringBackMyGirls hosted by Ts Madison premieres Wednesdays at 1PM PT / 9PM UTC only on WOW Presents Plus worldwide

Get ready for the splashiest season in HERSTORY! 🌊 Meet The Queens of #DragRace Season 17 on @wowpresentsplus in available territories! https://hubs.la/Q02-j0dg0 @rupaulsdragrace S17 premieres Sat 4 January: 🌎 2:30AM UTC @wowpresentsplus worldwide e

Get ready for the splashiest season in HERSTORY! 🌊 Meet The Queens of #DragRace Season 17 on @wowpresentsplus in available territories! https://hubs.la/Q02-qqfX0 @rupaulsdragrace S17 premieres Sat 4 January: 🌎 2:30AM UTC @wowpresentsplus worldwide ex. USA, Canada, Australia 🇺🇸 Fridays 8PM EST @mtv

This season, we’re making MAJOR waves! 💦 The queens of #DragRace Season 17 are making a SPLASH on @wowpresentsplus and @mtv today! 💧 Find out when it drops: https://hubs.la/Q02-j0dg0

This season, we’re making MAJOR waves! 💦 The queens of #DragRace Season 17 are making a SPLASH on @wowpresentsplus and @mtv today! 💧 Find out when it drops: https://hubs.la/Q02-kcGG0

Wetter is better, henny! 💦 The queens of #DragRace Season 17 are making a SPLASH on @wowpresentsplus and @mtv today! 💧 Find out when it drops: https://hubs.la/Q02-j0dg0

Wetter is better, henny! 💦 The queens of #DragRace Season 17 are making a SPLASH on @wowpresentsplus and @mtv today! 💧 Find out when it drops: https://hubs.la/Q02-jZHD0

Listen up, turkeys! 🎁 Black Friday + Cyber Monday sales drop TONIGHT, don’t miss your chance to snatch the best #DragRace and @wowpresentsplus deals of the year 👀 💌 Sign up for all the tea on our Black Friday deals: https://hubs.la/Q02ZfJhg0 @t

Listen up, turkeys! 🎁 Black Friday + Cyber Monday sales drop TONIGHT, don’t miss your chance to snatch the best #DragRace and @wowpresentsplus deals of the year 👀 💌 Sign up for all the tea on our Black Friday deals: https://hubs.la/Q02ZLsbw0 @trixiemattel @katya_zamo #UNHhhh

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WETTER is BETTER, henny! 💦🏁 A new season of #DragRace is making MAJOR waves! 🌊 RuPaul's Drag Race Season 17 premieres this January: https://hubs.la/Q02Z7ZQY0 🌍 WOW Presents Plus

WETTER is BETTER, henny! 💦🏁 A new season of #DragRace is making MAJOR waves! 🌊 RuPaul's Drag Race Season 17 premieres this January: https://hubs.la/Q02Z7VQW0 🌍 WOW Presents Plus worldwide ex. USA, Canada, Australia 🇺🇸 MTV

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Cheers to the girl’s weekend! 🥂⛷️ Slaycation follows 6 legendary Drag Race franchise queens on a week's vacation in a snowy Canadian winter chalet! 🏔️ 👑 All six episodes of Slaycation premiere New Year’s Eve (Dec 31) on WOW Presents Plu

Dive into the most twisted season in herstory! 👑💦 Here’s your first look at #DragRace Season 17, premiering 4 January with extra-special premiere guest judge @katyperry! https://hubs.la/Q02-j0dg0 ‼️ Sign up to watch Episode 1 for FREE on @wowp

Looking for the perfect gift? How about 200 QUEENS? 🎁‼️ Give your friends what they really want this Christmas - tickets to RuPaul's DragCon UK! 🎟️ #DragCon UK tickets on sale now: https://hubs.la/Q02_lJkb0 🗓️ 10

Who ISN’T beefing on the bus? 😩🚌 @morphinelovemua The queens of #DragRace S16 are BACK for Part 1 of their official #BringBackMyGirls reunion, filmed LIVE at #DragCon LA! 🏁 Now streaming worldwide on @wowpresentsplus: https://hubs.la/Q02Z0bpx0

She came to the mandatory meeting, b-tch! 📈🤭 The queens of #DragRace Season 16 are BACK for Part 1 of their official #BringBackMyGirls reunion, filmed LIVE at #DragCon LA! 🏁 #BringBackMyGirls premieres Wednesdays only on WOW Presents Plus worldwi

Lemme stand up! 😤💛 The queens of #DragRace Season 16 are BACK for Part 1 of their official #BringBackMyGirls Season 4 reunion, filmed LIVE at #DragCon LA: https://hubs.la/Q02Z0bqn0 🏁 #BringBackMyGirls hosted by Ts Madison premieres Wednesdays at

Get ready for the splashiest season in HERSTORY! 🌊 Meet The Queens of #DragRace Season 17 on @wowpresentsplus in available territories! https://hubs.la/Q02-j0dg0 @rupaulsdragrace S17 premieres Sat 4 January: 🌎 2:30AM UTC @wowpresentsplus worldwide e

This season, we’re making MAJOR waves! 💦 The queens of #DragRace Season 17 are making a SPLASH on @wowpresentsplus and @mtv today! 💧 Find out when it drops: https://hubs.la/Q02-j0dg0

Wetter is better, henny! 💦 The queens of #DragRace Season 17 are making a SPLASH on @wowpresentsplus and @mtv today! 💧 Find out when it drops: https://hubs.la/Q02-j0dg0

Listen up, turkeys! 🎁 Black Friday + Cyber Monday sales drop TONIGHT, don’t miss your chance to snatch the best #DragRace and @wowpresentsplus deals of the year 👀 💌 Sign up for all the tea on our Black Friday deals: https://hubs.la/Q02ZfJhg0 @t

WETTER is BETTER, henny! 💦🏁 A new season of #DragRace is making MAJOR waves! 🌊 RuPaul's Drag Race Season 17 premieres this January: https://hubs.la/Q02Z7ZQY0 🌍 WOW Presents Plus

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