Drive-in Movie with Pre-Show Drag Bingo
‘To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
About the Event:
Doors open at 7pm at the Meriam Park Drive-In Movie Theater on Thursday, June 10th and you’ll want to get there early! Buy a card for the Drag Bingo game which starts at 7:30 (broadcast through the FM radio transmitter*, just like the film will be) and grab some refreshments and Chico Pride merchandise from the Barn onsite before the movie starts at 8:30. We’ll have some wild prizes lined up for our Drag Bingo winners!
*Make sure your vehicle can receive FM radio. If not, many free apps can be downloaded onto your cell phone to receive the signal.
About the movie:
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
It’s the perfect drive-in movie for Pride: three glamorous drag stars take a road trip across the U.S. to deliver a message scrawled on a note in a Chinese restaurant. On the way they find adventure, love, trouble, friendship, and people who need them.
Starring Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, and John Leguizamo, this film certainly has its flaws (most notably, starring three cisgender men as Trans women.) Even so, it was groundbreaking in portraying Trans women as leading characters with complexity, strength, grace, intelligence, and heroism. Produced in 1995, To Wong Foo tackles topics like racism, misogyny, assault, classism, and abuse of power with incredible awareness and articulation for its time. Moreover, it does so with such a sense of humor and rollicking adventure that the audience is left laughing and cheering for these iconic heroes.
