Short Film: Playing at the LGBT Short Film Festival – December 11, 2017
Two hilarious and eccentric old drag queens living in Cape Town, South Africa remember their lives and how they survived years of brutal and terrifying discrimination. The fifty year old drag queens remember the apartheid years, where up till 1994 in South Africa it was illegal to “masquerade” as the opposite sex. Both the drag queens did hard labor in a prison as punishment for “masquerading”. The one drag queen, Sandra Dee, writes a bitter sweet letter to her best friend, Samantha Fox celebrating their remarkable friendship and reminiscing about the struggle to survive the Apartheid regime. She believes they paved the way for the younger generation. They both remember the misfortune and “hell” that was unleashed on them because of their transgender identity and because of their race and color being Cape Colored. The letter takes…View original post 169 more words
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