"Queer Duck! He's intellectual! Queer Duck! He's homosexual!"

So goes the catchy theme song (sung by RuPaul) that introduced TV audiences to Queer Duck--America 's first cartoon series to feature homosexuality as its main motif.

To that list, you can now add “Queer Duck! He's the star of his own summer movie!”

The ultra-campy gay romp that is Queer Duck waddled on to the internet in 1999 as an animated series of cartoon shorts on Icebox.com. In 2002, Showtime acquired the rights, pairing it with the American version of Queer as Folk .

Now, Paramount Home Video is releasing a feature-length Queer Duck: The Movie on DVD.

The new film received its world premiere screening on June 4th at the Newfest GLBT film festival in New York City.

The movie opens with Adam Seymour “Queer Duck” Duckstein and his partner Stephen Arlo “Openly” Gator entering their second year of wedded bliss. But all is not well as Adam begins suffering from a gay-identity crisis, suddenly fancying himself in love with Lola Buzzard, the somewhat floozy, veteran stage starlet.

The love-struck Adam decides to “straighten” himself out. First, he breaks up with Openly Gator. Then he gets involved with “Homo No Mo”, a crazed ex-gay movement that promotes all kinds of nefarious gay-shock treatments and cures.

Meanwhile, the ditched and distraught Openly Gator tries to make Adam see the error of his ways. This involves the hiring of a garishly mythic Liza Minnelli impersonator to lure Adam back into the gay fold where he belongs.

Can the self-deluded Adam, on the verge of marrying the wacky Lola, be saved and returned to his own true homosexual nature before it's too late?

Queer Duck is lucky enough to have some well-known voice talent bringing its characters to life. Openly gay actor Jim J. Bullock (Too Close for Comfort, Hollywood Squares, Hairspray national tour) creates the voice behind Queer Duck's Adam Duckstein.

The voice of shy, insecure, and indigent Stephen Arlo "Openly" Gator is that of Kevin Michael Richardson (Lilo & Stitch, Star Wars:Clone Wars, Lionheart).

Billy West (Ren & Stimpy, Futurama) provides the Paul Lynde-styled voice for Bi-Polar Bear while Maurice LeMarche, (Ed Wood, The Critic) creates the voice for the refined Oscar Wildcat.

Over a dozen original, razzmatazz-filled, Broadway/Cabaret styled musical numbers pop up during Queer Duck's outlandish storyline.

Many (perhaps too many) celebrity spoofs also pop in and out of Queer Duck--often with little or no relation to the film's plot.

For example, the head of Barbra Streisand suddenly appears out of nowhere--her nose grows to a humongous size--and then she vanishes. Later a female character sings and just happens to sound like Ethel Merman. Then there is the Baby Jesus (played by the X-Files' David Duchovny).

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