The Lady In Question Is Charles Busch

In his heyday, Charles Busch was one of the few contemporary drag performers (rivaled only by the late Charles Ludlum) able to elevate cross-dressing from campy female impersonation to actual theater. As longtime Busch cohort Julie Halston says in John Catania and Charles Ignacio's adoring documentary, Busch's plays were undeniably campy, but they transcended camp by speaking in universal terms to anyone who ever felt marginalized by the mainstream. Catania and Ignacio's film works best on the level of straightforward biography told through the reminiscences of friends, family, members of Busch's Lost-in-Limbo theatrical troupe and, best of all, Busch himself. The de...