Get your cha cha heels ready! Because we are finally showing the absolute mayhem that is John Waters’s Female Trouble!! And the occasion couldn’t be more apt: not only is April 22nd the 4th anniversary of Queer Cinema Club and our 69th (!) screening, but it’s also John’s 80th birthday!!

So join us at the Paradise to celebrate the Pope of Trash himself with a screening of what is arguably his magnum opus. Starring Waters muse Divine as the iconic Dawn Davenport (in what John has called the very best showcase of Divine’s talents), Female Trouble is a hilariously sordid pseudomelodrama that skewers everything from fame and beauty standards to abortion and capital punishment.

Made in 1974 for just $25,000, we cannot think of a better way for us to both turn 4 years old and raise a glass to John turning 80 than showing this masterstroke of trash. And by inviting the wild talents of Allysin Chaynes on stage to give us all a little John Waters drag tribute before the movie. There also will be a John Waters lookalike contest with some really perfect prizes judged before the show (although we are sorry: none of those prizes are cha cha heels). So save that date!

Thank you so much Keight MacLean for this gorgeous poster, which will be available for purchase at Paradise before and after the movie. Tickets now available here.