![]() I feel his story shows that there is a light at the end of the tunnel if you love yourself. ![]() He threw everything that people made fun of him for back in their faces and empowered himself. He was able to take all his teenage rage and channel it into the Divine character. After meeting John Waters and the Dreamland crew he found a group that accepted him, loved him, and encouraged him. JS: When he was growing up, Divine was picked on, teased and abused mercilessly. He would never have been able to do that as Glenn, but as Divine he could do that. It was political for Divine to walk down the street in downtown Baltimore in full drag. Vito had the same message, although he was doing it in a more explicitly political way. He really did encourage people to be who they were no matter what society was telling them. Divine would never have considered himself an activist, but at the same time, just being who he was, he inspired so many people. People like Vito Russo, Divine and Jack Wrangler were able to ride this wave, this explosion of queer sexuality, but to also help to create the environment. That’s the main motivation – helping to secure the legacy of people I feel have been neglected or unappreciated by the mainstream culture.I’m attracted to this period where everything was starting to open up in this incredible way, after so many years of repression. He’s someone that I felt had been marginalized over the years and I wanted to reinvigorate his memory. My previous film, Vito, was about the beloved gay activist and film scholar Vito Russo.
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