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WATCH: Universal releases trailer for Panti Bliss documentary The Queen of Ireland
The official trailer for a documentary about one of the Republic of Ireland’s most famous drag act has been released.
Panti Bliss is the leading lady of Ireland’s drag queen scene; in October, her story will hit the big screen.
Financed completely through a crowdfunding campaign which exceeded the €50,00 (£36,860.56, $55,952.50) goal, The Queen of Ireland looks at how Panti became a national treasure and an accidental activist.
‘My job as a drag queen is to commentate from the fringes,’ she says in the trailer.
‘To stand on the fringes, looking in, shouting abuse.’
It covers her beginnings in London as well as Pantigate – in which she called members of the Irish press homophobic during a radio interview – and what happened afterwards.
The interview lead to broadcaster RTÉ being threatened with legal action, forcing them to remove that section of the interview and offer a public apology; the incident and its implication for free speech were also discussed in the European Parliament and the Panti gave her celebrated Noble Call speech.
Including Panti’s role in the Irish Marriage Equality referendum, where she was one of the figureheads of the Yes campaign, the film also looks at ‘the man behind the woman’, Rory O’Neill.
The Queen of Ireland will hit Irish cinemas on 21 October; international release dates have not yet been confirmed.
Watch the full trailer below:
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