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The result of “RuPaul's Drag Race” becoming an international franchise pop phenomenon is that drag performance has moved firmly from the LGBTQ fringes to the mainstream: as an art form with an audience that now spans all ages. demographic groups, it follows that it will become more inclusive on stage as well. That's the moral, at least, of "Dancing Queens," a lively, youth-oriented Swedish comedy that, in more ways than one, epitomizes the cultural broadening of drag in the post-RuPaul era. Actress-turned-filmmaker Helena Bergström brings the joy of sequins and the free spirit of being you and me to this story of a young cisgender dancer who gets an unlikely break by hiding her gender identity to perform in a sick Gothenburg drag. . club, and should find a sizeable global audience when it debuts on Netflix at the start of Pride month. However, in its eagerness to please, the film ends up sidelining its own queer characters and narratives, a paradox it never quite reso...