Muslim Drag Queens
- Director: Marcus Plowright
- Producer: Neil Crombie; Joe Evans
CGiii Comment
The controversy surrounding this film is not that the drag queens are muslim...
Channel 4 stole this film from an earlier short...and the question has to be asked: Why?
Does anyone really care what religion a drag queen is? Does it make any difference?
Okay...there's alot to be said for...stand up and be counted!
But...when that stance endangers your life...it's not very prudent.
This is a parade - replete with double-standards (praying in the pub!) - of rubbing salt into wounds...dangerous Islamic wounds versus drag queen wounds...you know how this one is going to end.
They are drag queens - not exactly ambassadors for the United Nations. Get real. Keep it real.
A rather pointless, self-endangering film.
No trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
"I'm gay, I'm Muslim, I'm a drag queen, I'm British and Pakistani," said Asif Quraishi, Britain's first out and proud Muslim drag queen who performs under the glamorous alter ego, Asifa Lahore. "People say these things shouldn't fit together but hey, here I am." Now Quaraishi and his fellow artistes have been promised police protection amid fears that a Channel 4 documentary shining a spotlight on the "hidden" community of gay British Asians could provoke a violent response. Quraishi, 33, from Southall, West London, performs a provocative act in which he strips off a Burka and has received death threats from fellow Muslims.
Cast & Characters
Ian McKellen as Narrator