The Birdcage’s 25th Anniversary Brings Back Fond Memories
The Birdcage’s 25th Anniversary reminds me of an uncomfortable night sitting in a darkened movie theatre on a hot and steamy evening in Cairns, Far North Queensland in 1996 – with my parents of all people, sitting next to me.A total accident that could only have happened in regional Queensland in the mid 90’s when the internet wasn’t really a thing yet and researching a movie you hadn’t heard about but had free tickets to just wasn’t a thing you could do! If you had free tickets to the movies, you went to the movies!And so that’s how the three of us ended up at the Cairns premier of The Birdcage and by the end of the first minute… I’m tense, to say the least. I mean, I’m watching six drag queens absolutely slay their performance of the