In 2008, he took part in a television programme which researched his family's past. [45] Parish records revealed that his great-granduncle, also called John Waters, died of starvation during the Great Famine. [45] Waters advocated for the parole of former Manson family member Leslie Van Houten, writing in his 2010 book Role Models, "Her crime was a long, long time ago and she has paid her dues to society". [65] [66] [67] [68]

Brady, Tara. "Divine times: Mink Stole, the über-fabulous Dreamlander, recalls the heyday of trash". The Irish Times . Retrieved October 11, 2021. a b c Calnan, Denise (28 March 2014). "Columnist John Waters 'stops contributing' to the Irish Times". Irish Independent . Retrieved 29 March 2014. Is Hot Press still cool?". Marketing Magazine (Ireland). Archived from the original on 29 October 2013 . Retrieved 26 June 2013.Waters ran under the banner of Gemma O'Doherty's far-right group, "Anti-Corruption Ireland", in the 2020 Irish general election, in the Dún Laoghaire constituency. [2] [12] In his pre-election writings he referred to the great replacement conspiracy theory and referred to The Strange Death of Europe. [12] As Anti-Corruption Ireland is not a registered political party, he appeared on the ballot paper as an independent. Waters received 1.48% of first preference votes and was eliminated on the first count. [3] [12] [28] High Court action against COVID-19 legislation [ edit ]

Waters's films became Divine's primary star vehicles. All of Waters's early films were shot in the Baltimore area with his company of local actors, the Dreamlanders—which, in addition to Divine, included Mink Stole, Cookie Mueller, Edith Massey, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Susan Walsh, and others. Waters met Edith Massey while she was a bartender at Pete's Hotel. [20]

Cinema and Media Studies

You decide. Shift, with an “f.” I’m happy at the social change, the craziness of it. The main difference, though, is when I was young — and I hate people that say that; it means you’re old — we used political incorrectness as a weapon against our enemies, but we made fun of ourselves first. The trigger-warning crowd does not make fun. I’m actually for going further: We should have fecal mobs go out and perform turd terrorism to prove that we’re serious about policing pronouns. The Jan. 6 people, they [expletive] in Nancy Pelosi’s office. So maybe we should go even crazier politically correct the other way and have fecal flash mobs going out there. Waters is a bibliophile, with a collection of over 8,000 books. In 2011, during a visit to the Waters house in Baltimore, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson observed: Waters, John; Hainley, Bruce (2003). Art: A Sex Book. New York: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-28435-0.