Starring Rupaul, Wesley Snipes, and Patrick Swayze, To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar! is a comedy about a trio of drag queens who embark on a road trip to compete in a national pageant. However, when their car breaks down the queens find themselves stranded in a small town. Widely considered the American answer to The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, the comedy generated a lifetime box office gross revenue of US $47.8 million worldwide and was No. 1 at the box office in the U.S. its first two weeks in theatres.
While To Wong Foo didn't receive favourable reviews at the time of its release, the film is widely celebrated today as one of the few pieces of queer media in the '90s where the Black and brown femme characters triumph in the film instead of being persecuted or killed off.