00:00Amanda Screetley is living her childhood dream of performing in drag across the country.
00:07Oh that works really well actually.
00:10Amanda, aka Tom Henderson, grew up between Bourke and Wilcannia on a working station as one of four boys.
00:18But after watching Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, life was never the same.
00:22It made it not a thing that happened in the cities or something that happened overseas or something like that.
00:29It was like people like that are here and I can be like that here.
00:33That was pretty, that was a pretty big important part of it for me.
00:37Scenes of the main street and the Palace Hotel put Broken Hill in the spotlight
00:42with the outback city embracing this fame in recent years alongside all things Priscilla.
00:47In 1994 that was the only movie that I ever saw that was queer.
00:51You know being belted up by cops and whatever. I could identify with it.
00:57After almost a decade, this year's Broken Hill festival is being billed as the last
01:02so organisers can turn their attention to other projects.
01:05And 30 years on from the film's release, some are asking whether the film still holds up
01:10particularly the way it depicts gender and race.
01:13I love the fact that the film puts our trans brothers and sisters and family right at the centre of our queer community.
01:21We've learned, we've learned how to do better.
01:24Whatever its flaws, Priscilla still holds a special place in Amanda's heart.
01:28There are still kids out there who are finding it and realising how big their community is.
01:34That's like why it's still relevant today.
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