ABSTRACT
The trio’s act in a small township pub is upstaged by a Filipino woman, Cynthia (Julia Cortez). Cynthia makes a grotesque spectacle of herself doing a striptease and shooting ping-pong balls out of her G-string, to the horror of the drag artists and the delight of all the straight men in the bar, except her white husband, Bob (Bill Hunter). Cynthia’s act succeeds with the diegetic audience whereas the drag act bombs. The film spectator’s point of view is already aligned with the drag queens and against the unappreciative rednecks. We must, therefore, find her act – and the redneck straight male response to it – grotesque and embarrassing.
