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We interrupt your normal whiny, bitchy, queentastic weblog for a bit of good old-fashioned star-buggery: Former New Orleanian Wash West has made a double-play at the Sundance Film Festival, winning both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award in the Dramatic category for Quinceañera, a film he co-wrote and co-directed with his boyfriend, Richard Glatzer! Though born across the pond in Leeds, Wash got his professional start here in the Marigny/Bywater, conceiving, writing, and filming the cult classic Squishy Does Porno, which had a terrifically insane and insanely glamorous premiere in 1995 at the Cine Royale, Canal Street’s last full-on porn theater. (Sadly, the world may never see that combination of sequins, glitter, and M. C. Tracheotomy in a centaur costume again.) The video is out of print, but I’ve got copies, in case you’re interested…