Getaway

Human after all

1994 was a huge year for cinema. Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, Speed, The Lion King… And also a small, off-beat Australian road-trip comedy, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

Camp as a row of tents, it centred on two gay men, one transsexual woman, and a big, shiny, silver 1976 Hino RC320 bus on a journey across the unimaginable vastness of the Australian outback, numerous quirky stops along the way.

For me, it seeded an obsession with a

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