Let's Celebrate Being Gay This Pride Week, With.............The Dog From "Pink Flamingos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                          I tried, girls, really, I tried to get a more tasteful representation of this canine creature, who, through no fault of its own, is forced into Gay Icon History.  I was looking for the shot of the dog looking at Divine, which is what saves the viewer from vomiting during this entire scene, but this was the best I could do.

                            As some of you may know, in "Pink Flamingos," (a film I have seen only once, and plan to keep it that way!!!!!!!!) Divine claims to be "The Filthiest Person Alive!," and goes about trying to prove it!  The film is brightened by a pair, The Marbles, (played by David Lochary and Mink Stole) who go around licking furniture, and by the great Edith Massey, who plays most of her scenes in a playpen, dressed in a diaper, delivering the famous line, "Oh, Babs, I don't know when the egg man's coming!!!!!!!!!"  The whole thing builds to a climax, in the final scene, when Divine, as Babs Johnson, performs coprophagy, on the fresh product of the dog.  In other words--he eats dog shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                         This could have been done with the actual stuff being fake.  But the scene makes it clear that this is real, especially when Divine opens his mouth, with the stuff inside, and swallows on camera.  I can't imagine!  It is bad enough having to swallow that stuff one takes to prep for a colonoscopy!!!!!!!!!  But this!!!!!!!!!!

                         As I said, when Divine pops the stuff into his mouth, there is a cut of the dog, who is looking up at Divine, which must be strange enough, let alone the action, with a look that seems to be asking, "What the hell are you doing?"  It saves anyone watching this scene from throwing up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                       So, now that I have ruined your appetites for the day, remember what this poor dog went through!  How disrespectful!  But it earned him (or her) a spot in Gay History!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                         This definitely comes under the rubric, "Don't try this at home!"  Cathy Mitchell's dump cakes and dinners may look like shit, but they are safer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                          Happy Pride, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!