Who better to spend a September evening with than Vida Boheme, Noxeema Jackson and Chi-Chi Rodriguez!? These are the queens of To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar, as played to perfection by Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes and John Leguizamo in this 1995 classic (which holds up way better than you’d expect).

These are the queens of To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar, as played to perfection by Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes and John Leguizamo in this 1995 classic (which holds up way better than you’d expect).

One of the big films from the period in the “gay 1990s” when Hollywood briefly decided it was ready to make gay movies (see also In & Out, our September film from last year), To Wong Foo finds Vida, Noxeema and Chi-Chi on a madcap road trip across America. They’re on their way to the "Miss Drag Queen of America Pageant" in Los Angeles, but as anyone who has seen this film is aware, things don’t quite work out as planned.

We’ll be pulling out all the stops for this screening (as one should!), which will be hosted by drag novice Petra Knegtikova. Petra will be shown how it’s done on stage before the show thanks to a performance from Ms. Diana Sauss, and we might have another special guest up our sleeve too.

Get your tickets here, and also pick up this absolutely gorgeous poster by Toronto artist Doug Rodas, which will be for sale in the lobby before and after the screening.