Regularly think about the way Paris is Burning ends with Venus like, talking about her hopes and dreams and you're like "aww, I hope it works out for that kid" and then puts up a title card like "months later, Venus Xtravaganza's corpse was found stuffed under the bed of a seedy hotel room"
Actually I forget, would Venus even have used “her” or am I reading contemporary identities into the past here? I talked about the rare depictions of gender transition in the era, but back then RuPaul-style “female impersonation” drag was actually fairly prominent and the idea of “crossdressing” as a fetish (weirdly often w/r/t J. Edgar Hoover) was more in play