Five Reasons "The Wiz Live!" Was The Gayest Thing On TV This Year

From: Queerty

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 Queen Latifah Does Drag

Whether she comes out or not (and who cares?), Queen Latifah has been a lesbian icon for years, and playing the Wiz as a Drag King is only the latest in a long line of queer-positive choices. She snagged an Emmy nod for playing the bisexual blues singer Bessie Smith in HBO’s Bessie (and won one for producing it), and of course she’ll always be known as the gun-toting lesbian badass Cleo in Set It Off, which would be a bold role to take on now let alone nearly 20 years ago when she did it. She tipped her hat to all of her lesbian fans again last night, who now have a new Halloween costume they can wear in honor of the Queen.