It's the shoes

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Little Richard reacts to Waters’s wonderful, irreducibly Catholic blurt of “I wish you had been pope” by admitting his childhood crush on the Vicar of Christ: “I liked the pumps he wore. I think the pope really dresses!”

If we ever set up the Church of Christ the Queen, for those who appreciate the similarities between vestments and drag, John Waters should be pope. He could take the name of a fallen comrade and be Pope Divine I.