Ogilvy enjoyed working with Price, finding him to be "very funny, in a "queeny" sort of way."

"You do that queeny thing, and then that floozy thing, and this is a girl-group turn," Mr. Wolfe said.

Rajesh Khera as Maddy (Gulmohar's queeny fashion designer)

Although it doesn't skimp on gore, Monsters centers on the queeny fashionista antics of the transsexual Brandy Alexander.

Jerome, a gifted draftsman, rooms with a queeny fashion-design major (Nick Swardson) and a boorish film student (Ethan Suplee).

Even the neighborhood's queeny transvestite (Brian Tarantina)--until that point a target of harassment--joins the lynch mob, greedy to go after someone who's even more of an Other.

Where Mr. Lane gave Buzz's flamboyant campiness a scenery-chewing edge, Mr. Alexander makes him a playfully self-effacing teddy bear whose queeny antics don't seem so desperately show bizzy.

Queeny intent was to audio record and film African wildlife and native culture, and produced several documentaries from the footage he took while with Ker, including Indicator Indicator and the Pagan Sudan.

The comments from Ben Brantley's (admittedly queeny) review appear to refer to Hugh Jackman's sexual appeal to both male and female audience members, and his ability to play on the masculine and feminine aspects of his stage persona.

Mr. Gutierrez's beginnings as a dancer were typical enough, except that he was a boy ("a queeny little boy," he said) and the powerful ambition his Columbian-émigré parents harbored for him - their only, American son - didn't happen to include dancing.