00:00So if you want to talk about anyone indoctrinating your children...
00:08Whatever. You indoctrinate kids with religion all the time.
00:12Sorry, the you was proverbial.
00:15I'm not blaming you, the viewer.
00:17Unless...
00:20Hi, I'm Jinx Monsoon,
00:23and this is all the queer media that made me the anachronistic stage witch you see before you.
00:40Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers.
00:44Ch-ch-chip and Dale Rescue Rangers.
00:48Come on, Chip and Dale.
00:53Male friendships in the media are so tenuous.
00:58I guess I was watching Sesame Street at the same time,
01:02and Bert and Ernie are the same...
01:06Different side of the same koi, baby.
01:10At that age, I did not know that Bert and Ernie and Chip and Dale were queer-coded,
01:17but I was picking up on something from Batman and Robin.
01:20The first queer-coded character that I saw myself in was named Morgana on the show Darkwing Duck.
01:32And she was a goose who was styled after and based on Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.
01:39And I used to call myself Morgana.
01:41And that was until I saw Magicka dispel in DuckTales.
01:48Scrooge McDuck!
01:49And then I was like, oh wow.
01:52Because Morgana was chaotic neutral, I think.
01:57Whereas Magicka was chaotic bad.
02:00And I'm just a chaotic good.
02:02That's what I am.
02:05Eh.
02:06The first drag-coded character I saw on screen was Ursula.
02:09My aunt was like one of my three mothers.
02:12And she used to sing A Part of Your World with me, and I would do the...
02:20When she wanted to tease me, she would do the Ursula laugh, which was just...
02:25And then later, when I was a teenager, starting to secretly absorb John Waters' content, and I saw Divine, I was like, something.
02:41Something's clicking here.
02:42And I found out Ursula was based on Divine.
02:46And I was like, hey.
02:48Wow.
02:49Disney was...
02:50Working it in there.
02:52All the way back when.
02:54When I was in Divine.
02:56So if you want to talk about anyone indoctrinating your children!
03:04Whatever.
03:05You indoctrinate kids with religion all the time.
03:08Sorry.
03:09The you was proverbial.
03:11I'm not blaming you, the viewer, unless...
03:16Ursula inspires my drag to this day.
03:20I was picking up on something that felt like something wasn't fair about Ursula's setup.
03:27And then when Sherry Renee Scott played Ursula in the Broadway musical, they kind of fleshed out this character more.
03:36She was equally as powerful as her brother, but she had been dethroned.
03:41And she really does believe she's teaching a lesson about don't give up your agency as a woman.
03:49You know, I always wanted to know where the hell did Ursula come from?
03:53You know, why aren't we concerned with Ursula's origins?
03:57And they tried to touch on it in The Little Mermaid 2 by creating Ursula's sister named Morgana.
04:04They missed the mark, I think.
04:06I want Ursula's...
04:08That's the next live-action movie.
04:11And I'll play her.
04:13I'll play her.
04:15My first fictional crush has to be a toss-up between Batman and Aladdin.
04:27Okay, when I was very young, I had a Barbie, right? A red-headed Barbie.
04:31Her neck broke and I carried around the head because it was the hair that I cared about.
04:35But I also had a Batman figurine that I really loved.
04:40And I think people thought that I, you know, was just showing both sides.
04:44But I loved the Batman figurine because he was my boyfriend.
04:48He was my boyfriend.
04:49And I kept that secret.
04:50But in my mind, I was Catwoman having, you know, a torrid love affair with my Batman figurine.
04:58But Aladdin, I just loved Aladdin.
05:02I think Aladdin's responsible for my proclivity for bare feet.
05:07It's Aladdin and Gaston.
05:10Like, Aladdin started it, Gaston nailed it in.
05:16My longest fictional crush, because I think I've let go of those past ones.
05:21Merlin, young Merlin in the series Merlin.
05:25Oof.
05:28My first favorite drag queen was Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.
05:32Honestly.
05:33Like, she was my first taste of something that I knew was for me.
05:39I've just always been drawn to witches.
05:42So, Elvira just really spoke to me.
05:46And then I discovered Friarla Jean Merman early in life.
05:50As well as Peach's Christ.
05:52As well as RuPaul and Lady Bunny.
05:55And I started to see that drag was a spectrum.
05:57And not everyone did it the same.
06:00My introduction to RuPaul's Drag Race was season two.
06:04Because when season one came out, I was in college working at drag bars to try to scrounge together money.
06:12And my life was drag.
06:14And I said, the last thing I need to do is come home and watch drag on the television.
06:19And then season two comes out.
06:22And my friends insisted that I watch the Snatch Game episode.
06:26And from that point on I was hooked.
06:28I met Bibi Zahara Benet not having seen her season when she came to Portland.
06:33And I just knew something's different about her.
06:37She took the potion.
06:39A big thing that has shaped me into the drag queen that I am today is my friendships with drag queens.
06:46I just really believe that the best part about drag is doing it with friends.
06:51You know, doing drag alone feels weird.
06:55Obviously, Binda LaCreme and I, we are interwoven together.
06:59But I have strong relationships with so many people.
07:03Like, I wanted something that could get me and Dela and Bob and Monet all working together.
07:12Because Bob and Monet are two of my very favorite people to riff off of.
07:17It would get so loud in a room with all of you together.
07:20That sounds racist.
07:24Or queerphobic or something.
07:28No, we are very loud.
07:30And Bianca Del Rio.
07:33Okay, so if it would be the five of us, we'd break sound barriers.
07:38Because Bianca literally says when she wants to hang out with me, she says,
07:41let's get together and cackle.
07:43She doesn't say, let's talk, let's get together and catch up.
07:46She says cackle.
07:47Because when we get together, my laugh starts busting eardrums.
07:54The clip that plays in my mind rent-free from Drag Race
07:58is Pearl in the Shakespeare scene challenge.
08:03Just, I think about that a lot.
08:07When she like dropped the sword and just kind of sunk behind the thing.
08:11I think about that a lot.
08:13The first trans celebrity that I heard of, it was the talk shows on Ricky Lake.
08:27So I know if I went back, I'd recognize some friends.
08:31But I remember seeing that and it sparked a conversation between my mother and I.
08:40Because we watched it together and I basically asked, is that a possibility?
08:45And I was like six or seven.
08:47And my mom, that's when my mom and I first had our conversation about my gender identity.
08:52And we had conversations many times throughout my life.
08:54I had a conversation with my mother right before beginning my medical transition.
08:59Where I told her, I'm going to begin my medical transition.
09:02And she was like, by the way, I'm intersex.
09:04I was like, oh, wow.
09:07So we've been going on that journey together and it's been really cosmic and spiritual and beautiful.
09:13Gosh, I was just talking about Scar with Seaway and then everyone brought up Jafar.
09:20And I was thinking, well, yeah, Jafar, except when he tries to marry the princess,
09:27he gets real cis straight white man about it.
09:30If you catch my drift.
09:32Ah, so I have to say that lion without the lion's mane.
09:36Who is he? King Richard in Robin Hood.
09:38Oh, please.
09:41And all his rings and the crown that doesn't fit in his big robe.
09:45He's just like Scar Butt Nelly.
09:51I think my life is a Broadway show now.
09:54If it was a movie, I would want Tilda Swinton to play me.
10:00I'm not going to explain that further.
10:02If my life was a Broadway musical, I would want Jen Simard to play me, hands down.
10:07We have this joke whenever we see each other.
10:09She waves at me and goes, there's my friend.
10:12Hi.
10:13That's my friend.
10:14And then I go, there's my body double.
10:19She's about two feet shorter and we have other differences.
10:22The first queer scene on TV or film had to be when I first went to Hollywood Video and rented Queer as Folk and watched Daddy get it on with that twink.
10:36And I was like,
10:37And then my mom burst into the room and said, what are you watching?
10:41And I said, TV.
10:44My first Broadway show, it was a touring production of Rent.
10:53I saw it in Portland, Oregon.
10:55I was too young to understand it.
10:57So it all went over my head.
10:58But I saw that character Angel and I said, okay, okay.
11:02I'm paying attention.
11:03And then my first Broadway show I saw on Broadway was Fran Drescher's run in Cinderella.
11:11And I was enchanted.
11:18My first favorite Broadway character remains my favorite Broadway character to this day.
11:24Mrs. Lovett.
11:25Because she is the leading lady and she is a character.
11:30And I love when character actors get to be front and center because I was told that that wasn't gonna be the curse.
11:38But that was a lie.
11:42The theater archetype I was, when I was young, was the person who needed all the attention on them all the time.
11:49And then I found drag and that's where that went.
11:54The Broadway role I'm dying to play next.
11:57I've got two in my mind right now.
11:59Mame and The Witch and Into the Woods.
12:04But I feel like that just happened too.
12:07So I'm leaning more Mame this time.
12:09Because I think people need to be taught exactly what the chosen family is.
12:15Obviously Mame needs some updates.
12:17Let's not be.
12:20But I just did Pirates the Penzance musical and I think beautiful things happen when you bring period stories into the present time.
12:28The title of my one woman show would be...
12:31Ha!
12:33Well everyone, thank you for watching me recount my queer memories.
12:40Sorry I didn't break down into utter tears this time.
12:43Ha ha ha ha ha ha .
12:46And I fucking love her for it.
12:47I actually loves her.
12:48I actually loved her so much for doing that.
12:51But I love you all very much.
12:52This was lots fun.
12:53So keep watching this channel.
12:56Are my queer roots showing?
13:03Does everyone make that joke?
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