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As such, he appears as an image of the archetypal family man.35 The same advertisments can be said of Priscilla’s Hugo Weaving who has been featured more than once in the pages of Who Weekly with his wife and two children.36 Although a queer film advertisments does not necessarily require advertisments queer actors to fill its roles, I want to call into question the claim that this film is authentically queer in the Australian context. When planning the production of Priscilla, writer/director Stephan Elliott asked the organisers of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras if they would be willing to donate costumes from past parades. Elliott has described how the organisers responded enthusiastically and requested to see the script. It was subsequently returned, accompanied by a steadfast refusal of the Mardi Gras to have anything whatsoever to do with the film due to what the organisers saw as the film’s racist, sexist and homophobic narrative.37
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