Please note: This was screened in Feb 2026
As Slapstick 2026 continues its exploration of comedy that challenges convention and pokes fun at society’s sacred cows, this collaboration with Switch and Queer Vision celebrates one of the most subversive satires of modern times.
In But I’m a Cheerleader, Natasha Lyonne plays Megan, a wholesome all-American girl whose picture-perfect life implodes when her parents suspect she’s gay and ship her off to “True Directions,” a pastel-coloured conversion camp run by the hilariously zealous Cathy Moriarty, with RuPaul as the reformed ex-gay counsellor in high heels.
Gloriously camp, defiantly funny, and deeply compassionate, Jamie Babbit’s film turns religious moralism and societal constraint inside out. A perfect companion to this year’s Slapstick strand examining hypocrisy, resistance and rebellion from W.C. Fields to the modern day.