{"id":27316,"date":"2015-11-02T20:26:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T01:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/a-conversation-with-john-waters-the-pope-of-trash\/"},"modified":"2015-11-02T20:26:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T01:26:22","slug":"a-conversation-with-john-waters-the-pope-of-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/a-conversation-with-john-waters-the-pope-of-trash\/","title":{"rendered":"A Conversation with John Waters, the Pope of Trash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A Conversation with John Waters, the Pope of Trash<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Enjoying that outrageously funny movie, politically incorrect comic, or zingy retort from a friend? Then you should send a thank-you to John Waters, the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a> who started shaking up the culture in the 1970s with his subversive, hilariously campy, deeply influential &ldquo;midnight movies&rdquo; like <em>Pink Flamingos<\/em> and <em>Female Trouble.<\/em> Waters&rsquo;s impact hardly ended there. He went on to write and direct two films (<em>Hairspray<\/em> and <em>Cry-Baby<\/em>) that were turned into Broadway musicals, and he&rsquo;s also an author, speaker, and &eacute;minence grise who continues to cast a wacky spell on a society that needs him. From November 29 through December 23, the bard of Baltimore travels to 18 cities with <em>A John Waters Christmas&mdash;Holier and Dirtier.<\/em> I called him in Baltimore to ask about that, and about whether our community may have lost something as it hurtles toward acceptance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hello, John. Obviously, Christmas means a lot to you.<\/strong><br \/>Nowadays, it&rsquo;s when I work. It started when I wrote &ldquo;Why I Love Christmas&rdquo; in my book <em>Crackpot,<\/em> and then I did a show of that, and it mushroomed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&rsquo;ve always wanted to ask if the <em>Female Trouble<\/em> scene of the Christmas tree landing on Dawn Davenport&rsquo;s ma was inspired by the tree falling in the original <em>Poseidon Adventure<\/em>.<\/strong><br \/>No, because what really happened was that a Christmas tree fell on my grandmother. I forgot that happened in <em>The Poseidon Adventure<\/em>. That movie did inspire me, though. When the lights come on [in his Christmas show] and I see the audience, I say, &ldquo;Oh, <em>The Poseidon Adventure<\/em>!&rdquo; because it feels like the whole thing is going to tip over. People have told me stories in their cities. Usually, cats or liquor are involved. I recommend everybody rig their own tree so it tips over at the height of opening the presents. I&rsquo;m rigging everything to go wrong at Christmas so no one can be disappointed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When people say &ldquo;John Waters must love this movie,&rdquo; do you?<\/strong><br \/>They&rsquo;re usually wrong. I think of all the terrible, 150 million&ndash;dollar, bad Hollywood gross-out comedies. I have had no way of causing them. Or maybe I have been a bad influence, with these terrible comedies that aren&rsquo;t funny. The <em>Jackass<\/em> movies are the only ones&hellip;I love those movies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where do you stand in the movie-making business these days?<\/strong><br \/>I don&rsquo;t think I even do that right now. My last two books did great, and I&rsquo;m involved in a TV project that might happen. I&rsquo;m going to London for a big tribute at the British Film Institute.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And you&rsquo;re a public speaker.<\/strong><br \/>About 50 times a year. And I had an art show in New York this year. I have lots of careers and no hobbies. That&rsquo;s the only thing I get furious about in an interview &mdash; if someone dares to ask if I have a hobby. The other worst question is, &ldquo;Is there anything else you&rsquo;d like to say?&rdquo; Hold on, if I have to ask the questions too, give me part of your paycheck. And I hate when people say, &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s have fun with it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>They mean well.<\/strong><br \/>I know. In Baltimore, we use the term &ldquo;hate&rdquo; much more freely. Here, it just connotes mild discomfort or vague disliking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of mild discomfort, did your fabulous drag star Divine have any angst problems, as some authors suggest?<\/strong><br \/>I think Divine, when he died, was very, very happy. We got along great. <em>Hairspray<\/em> was a big hit, he got great reviews, and he was about to play a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">male<\/a> part on <em>Married With Children.<\/em> Did he have moments of angstiness? Sure &mdash; when he was young, he was bullied and beaten up, and that&rsquo;s where all that anger came from that he used for his characters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And he wasn&rsquo;t <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a>.<\/strong><br \/>He didn&rsquo;t want to be a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">woman<\/a>. He wanted to pass as a monster.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trans is so trendy now, it&rsquo;s like the new navy blue of India. Is that worrisome?<\/strong><br \/>It doesn&rsquo;t worry me. I think maybe the refugee situation in Europe worries me more than transgender acceptance. By the way, I love drag kings &mdash; I think they look great. They show me their mastectomy scars and ask me to sign them and I love that. And I love radical feminists, even though I sometimes don&rsquo;t agree with them. I don&rsquo;t like <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a>-hating <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>, but I don&rsquo;t mind <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> that hate <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>. They have more reason.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Could you ever go back to basics and shoot a midnight movie with an iPhone?<\/strong><br \/>No. I have no desire to be a 70-year-old faux underground filmmaker. And I&rsquo;m not 70 yet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You&rsquo;ve been quite articulate about what we&rsquo;ve lost as a community as we veer toward acceptance.<\/strong><br \/>I always make fun of any kind of rules. But we&rsquo;ve gained a huge amount. I was touched when I saw that Obama lit up the White House in <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> colors [in June, to celebrate gay marriage]. Do I have my house in <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> colors? Hell, no. It would seem corny in my house, but at the White House, it&rsquo;s a radical political statement and something I wildly approve of.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But is there a price for assimilation?<\/strong><br \/>I don&rsquo;t want to hang around with just <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> people. From the very beginning, I&rsquo;ve thought of separatism as defeat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Would you eliminate some <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> people?<\/strong><br \/>[<em>Laughing<\/em>] Some should be suspended. I want to give out <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> deficiency slips. People that make <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> people look like such clich&eacute;s &mdash; Well, I guess they have the right to do that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your thoughts on Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who was jailed for refusing to issue same-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> marital licenses in view of her religious beliefs?<\/strong><br \/>I&rsquo;ve applauded that kind of civil disobedience when it happens on the other side, but when you work for the government, it&rsquo;s different. If she wanted to quit because of that, I&rsquo;d applaud that because she&rsquo;s standing up for what she believes in. But if you work at a job for an employer, you can&rsquo;t just make up the rules. I think she&rsquo;s a moron and an idiot and people should picket her home, but she has the right to quit.&nbsp; I&rsquo;d send her to beauty school, though.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can any good come from all this?<\/strong><br \/>Anita Bryant [a homophobic singer who stirred trouble in the 1970s] was one of the best things to happen to the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> movement. [She helped mobilize activism.] Well, we got a new villain!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you long for the days before we became so mainstream?<\/strong><br \/>I don&rsquo;t long for anything. But I hope the main thing we don&rsquo;t lose is self-parody and a sense of humor, because then we become just mall walkers. There&rsquo;s nothing the matter with wanting to be a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>, middle-class mall walker &mdash; though it&rsquo;s different values than I have &mdash; but so what? That&rsquo;s the whole point &mdash; you should have the right to be whatever kind of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> you want. Gay people can be bad mothers just like straight ones. You have a right to be a bad mother!<\/p>\n<p>I<strong>s there anything else you&rsquo;d like to say? Kidding!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MICHAEL MUSTO\" src=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/sites\/advocate.com\/files\/michael-mustox100.jpg\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>MICHAEL MUSTO is the author of <\/em>Manhattan on the Rocks, Downtown,<em> and <\/em>Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back,<em> and a weekly columnist for <a href=\"http:\/\/OUT.com\" class=\"autohyperlink\">OUT.com<\/a>.<\/em><br \/>\nMichael Musto<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/current-issue\/2015\/11\/02\/conversation-john-waters-pope-trash\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.advocate.com\/current-issue\/2015\/11\/02\/conversation-john-waters-pope-trash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Conversation with John Waters, the Pope of Trash Enjoying that outrageously funny movie, politically incorrect comic, or zingy retort from a friend? Then you should send a thank-you to John Waters, the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a> who started shaking up the culture in the 1970s with his subversive, hilariously campy, deeply influential &ldquo;midnight movies&rdquo; like Pink Flamingos &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/a-conversation-with-john-waters-the-pope-of-trash\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Conversation with John Waters, the Pope of Trash<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Conversation with John Waters, the Pope of Trash - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/a-conversation-with-john-waters-the-pope-of-trash\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Conversation with John Waters, the Pope of Trash - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Conversation with John Waters, the Pope of Trash Enjoying that outrageously funny movie, politically incorrect comic, or zingy retort from a friend? 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