Drag and cabaret performers from near and far travel to Australia’s red centre to celebrate a special anniversary of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Narrm king Freddie Merkin travelled to Alice Springs to appear at the town’s FabAlice festival, a four-day rainbow festival celebrating love, diversity and glitter. Photograph: manda Parkinson
“To know that I was coming to Lasseters and performing in the same areas that the movie was filmed really hit a nerve that I hadn’t felt before,” says the Darwin-based queen. Miss Ellaneous has been performing at the festival since it began in 2019, but this was her first year as a co-curator. Electric Fields’ lead singer, Zaachariaha Fielding, says performing their song for the first time was like having a thousand Wikipedia tabs open in his mind. “It’s releasing our baby into the world … but I could absolutely feel the audience with us last night,” he says.
There is a long history of queer, women’s and First Nations rights intersecting in the red centre. In 1983, a decade before Priscilla was shot in Alice Springs, a global movement called Women for Survival, which was largely represented by queer women, bussed into town to join traditional owners protesting against the American army base Pine Gap.
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