Broken Hill is quite possibly the drag queen capital of the Outback thanks to the 1994 movie ‘Priscilla, Queen of the Desert’.
If you haven’t seen it, three drag queens go on a road trip from Sydney to Alice Springs and Priscilla is the bus they travel in. It’s a road trip full of bitching, sequins, prejudice, mechanical problems and Abba. The trio stopped at the Palace Hotel in Broken Hill for the night despite a hostile reception from the locals.
The hotel was already famous for the murals that cover its walls and ceilings but now attracts visitors with quirky Priscilla events such as drag queen bingo on Tuesdays with Shelita Buffet and the annual Broken Heel Festival in September when drag queens from far and wide descend on the town.
