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08/26/2026

The part almost didn't exist the way we know it.

Richard O'Brien first wrote Frank-N-Furter as a German scientist in a lab coat — it was Curry who helped rebuild him into the creature in the corset who spoke like the Queen, originating the role in a tiny room above London's Royal Court Theatre before carrying it to Broadway and the 1975 film.

The movie flopped.

Then the midnight crowds found it, dressed as him, threw the toast, did the Time Warp — and never stopped.

Fifty-one years later it's still playing, a weekly ritual that gave generations of people the same message from the man in the fishnets: come in, sit down, you're home.

And he was never just Frank.

He was Wadsworth in Clue, Pennywise in It, Darkness in Legend, Miss Hannigan's rat of a brother in Annie, the concierge chasing Kevin through the Plaza.

After a stroke in 2012 took his ability to walk, he kept right on working — voice roles, conventions, and a 50th-anniversary celebration of Rocky Horror just last year, still meeting the fans who'd found themselves in his shadow.

Losing him right after Dolly is almost too cruel.

Two people who spent fifty years telling the odd ones out that they were exactly right as they were.

The midnight movie never ended. Neither will his legacy.

08/26/2026

Dolly always said it cost a lot of money to look that cheap — and she loved telling the story of quietly entering a drag queen look-alike contest as herself and losing.

She never treated the queens as imitators. She treated them as colleagues.

So there's something almost scripted about what happened Tuesday.

Hours after her death was announced, Judge David Hittner — appointed by Ronald Reagan — declared Texas Senate Bill 12 unconstitutional, writing that its definitions were so vague and sweeping they could reach Elvis's hips, cosplayers, or athletes.

And yes, anyone who ever shamed Dolly Parton for the hair, the clothes, the silhouette.

He even named her in the ruling right next to Miley Cyrus. Her actual goddaughter. In a federal opinion.

The case was brought by the ACLU of Texas on behalf of performers and venues, led by Brigitte Bandit — the Austin queen who testified against the bill at the Capitol in full Dolly regalia, and who owns a rhinestone guitar the woman herself sent her in 2023.

Her reaction to the ruling: "Drag is free speech, b----."

She's performing as Dolly in Austin on Saturday, in her honor.

The full picture, though? This is the second time this law has been struck down — Paxton already appealed once and can appeal again, and he's currently running for Senate on exactly this kind of grievance.

The fight isn't over.

But right now, tonight, the ban is unenforceable.

Somewhere a woman with big hair is smiling. Offended? Then you don’t HAVE to go to a fabulous drag show. But it’s your loss.

08/25/2026

"I think gay people should be able to marry. They should be allowed to suffer just like the heterosexuals" 😉
- Dolly Parton.

08/25/2026

Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80 - the Queen of Country, the woman who once entered a Dolly Parton drag contest and lost, and one of the fiercest allies we ever had.

Her family confirmed the news this afternoon in a video posted to her Instagram. She died peacefully in Nashville. No cause was given. She had been unwell since the death of Carl Dean, her husband of 59 years.

About that contest. It was a Halloween night on Santa Monica Boulevard, a room full of men done up as her, and Dolly walked in with her own look cranked up to eleven. "I didn't win," she told Good Morning America. "I didn't even come in close."

She never got tired of that story. She told the New York Times she was proud of her gay following, and that some of them looked more like her than she did.

She backed it up when it cost her something. She wrote "Travelin' Thru" for Transamerica, a film about a trans woman, and said the song brought death threats to her door. She never walked it back.

Her production company was behind Common Threads, the Oscar-winning documentary about the AIDS Memorial Quilt, made in 1989 when most of Hollywood wanted nothing to do with it.

And to the Christians who came for us, she had one answer: the sin of judging is just as bad as any other sin.

08/25/2026

When the K*K tried to block Gay people from entering Dollywood, Dolly Parton had one answer.

“Am I going to say they’re not welcome here? Of course not.”

In 1991, when thousands of Gay men were dying of AIDS and country music barely acknowledged we existed, Dolly released one of the earliest country songs to say the word “gay.”

“Some are preachers, some are gay… But not a one is turned away when it’s family.”

Years later, when transgender musician Our Lady J needed surgery her insurance wouldn’t cover. She organized a benefit to raise the money herself.

When Dolly was asked to write a song for Transamerica, a movie about a transgender woman fighting to finally live as herself, she watched an unfinished version of the film.

She woke up the next morning and wrote “Travelin’ Thru.” It earned her an Oscar nomination.

And sometimes Dolly’s love was simply joyful…

She once secretly entered a Dolly Parton look-alike contest at a gay bar filled with drag queens.

She made her hair bigger. Her makeup heavier. Her beauty mark darker.

Nobody recognized her.

Dolly Parton lost.

In 2023, when Tennessee passed laws targeting trans people and drag performers, Dolly was asked what she thought.

She mentioned the Gay, le***an and trans people in her own family and life.

“I know and love them all, and I do not judge.”

She said she had watched how deeply it hurt them to be attacked simply for being who they were.

“They cannot help that any more than I can help being Dolly Parton.”

Rest in Power, Dolly 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

08/19/2026

In an interview with The Advocate in 2013, Busy Philipps said: "I believe sexuality is fluid, and women can have a deep love and affection for other women."

📷 Getty