Watch: The quiet Baltimore boy who became America’s most shocking drag queen

Divine entertained and scandalized audiences

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1 min readJun 2, 2017

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Harris Glenn Milstead was just a regular kid from a conservative Baltimore family. That is, until he became Divine, one of the most outrageous — and beloved — drag performers in American history. Through his lifelong collaboration with far-out filmmaker John Waters, Divine played a range of wild, grotesque characters. He may be best known for his most mainstream role, as Edna Turnblad in the 1988 classic Hairspray.

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