Priscilla
Home has a lot to do with it. The three main characters: Mitzie, Bernadette, and Felicia left their home, where they were accepted for being homosexual/bisexual and went off to travel through rural areas to get to Tick/Mitzie's wife and son. The idea that the rearview mirror shows where they have been, home, and new experiences. In this movie, the road was seen as a way to leave home for a while, with the intentions of coming back sooner or later. I believe that the presence of the other groups, that may be portrayed in an offensive way, makes the focus not solely on the transsexual, or transgender individuals but shifts the attention to the other minorities in the rural areas like the butch woman, Filipino woman and aboriginal man. Priscilla herself fits into the stereotype of transsexuals or homosexual men, it was painted pink, and full of glitter and colorful clothing, to match the thought of the flamboyant, energetic, colorful men. I believe that the whole movie presented stereotypes because every type of person that was shown in the movie, was portrayed as and acting like the stereotype of the ethnicity or community that they belonged to. For example, the butch woman had short hair and manly features to fit the stereotype of a "butch" lesbian. Also, like Felicia, the homosexual man was was very colorful, loud and flamboyant which fit the stereotype of the "fem" gay man. Stereotypes float throughout this movie, and Priscilla passes through as she conquers the desert.