Midnight movies aren’t really a thing any more. Why do you think younger gay guys haven’t heard about Divine? As time went on, I thought that kids growing up today didn’t really have the firsthand experience of seeing those movies as they were coming out-Divine wasn’t known around the younger kids. Jeffrey Schwarz: I’ve always worshipped at the altar of John Waters and Divine since I was a teenager. VICE: What made you decide to make this movie? This week, I spoke to Jeffrey over the phone to talk about the making of the movie, why today’s gay youth needs Divine, and the difference between John Waters’s films and today’s reality TV–centric trash culture. Directed by Jeffrey Schwarz, the movie chronicles how Harris Glenn Milstead, originally a chubby kid from suburban Baltimore, created the Divine persona and reinvented drag in the process.
