The Champagne Room has been pulling an enviable guest list lately: queer punk cinema icon Bruce LaBruce, actor Jay Baruchel with his wife, designer Rebecca-Jo Dunham Baruchel, and award-winning author Téa Mutonji have all taken a seat, with DJ baddie Miss Bashful among the names still to come!
This week the chair goes to Canadian filmmaker Blake Mawson, who came ready to talk horror, queerness, and the pole and wig he worked long before any festival came calling.
What do strippers and independent filmmaking have in common? Both come down to protecting your autonomy and a healthy distaste for censorship. Oh, and he calls his mom mid-taping to get his birth time so the hosts can pull his big 3! 🤩 Check out the latest episode of The Champagne Room above!
For the uninitiated, Mortville is the gloriously grimy shantytown at the center of 1977’s Desperate Living, the Pope of Trash’s fairytale for perverts, ruled by the tyrannical Queen Carlotta, populated by wrestlers, murderesses, and a woman who eventually gets what’s coming to her in the most anatomically memorable way possible.
It remains the only Waters film without Divine, and somehow it out-filths the competition anyway. Iconic real estate. So the idea of him strolling back into that trash-heap kingdom, at 80, has us feral. Check it out above!
Siren, the baddest bookie in all of New York, tears through Manhattan and Brooklyn to get her money back. She’s gonna collect every last cent, and God help the guy who tries to stop her.
Trans actor/model Leyna Bloom stars in this grindhouse-quese short (clearly influenced by predecessor films such as COFFY) alongside Violet Chachki and Amanda Lepore and was directed by Klimovski. The retro-vibey revenge short has been official selection of Tribeca, BFI Flare, NewFest, OutFest, and Provincetown Film Festivals.
John talks about *when* exactly he knew his films became cult classics – and which films were hits instantly. John thinks all the Republican ladies look like ‘elderly p*rnstars’, and more of what he’s observed in his days.
Check his interview out with Las Culturistas above! One can only hope to be this great at 80.
» Posted By Igor On Tuesday, May 12, 2026 | category: Camp, Film
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A shirtless Joel McHale! All the controversial queens of the past 4 years and some who aren’t! None of which can act. Except Michelle Visage of course!
Check out a Behind The Scenes look at the hi-camp drag comedy on its way from RuPaul titled ‘STOP! THAT! TRAIN!’ above!
This week, Stripper News investigates what a “b i m b o” actually means in 2026 — and why the same people restricting gender expression in public are secretly funding it in private. In the studio, Ariel sat down and spoke to the
What does a BIMBO mean to you? Is it time to take back the word and speak power to it?
Check out Stripper News above! Who is *your* most iconic Bimbo?!
