“Okay, who in here’s a freak?!” drag entertainer Emerald Van Cartier asked while surveying an eager lunchtime crowd at this city’s legendary gay bar, Oilcan Harry’s, and towering above it all in high heels, a flirty red plaid gown and a bouffant Tracy Turnblad ’60s flip.

Hands with long glittery nails flew into the air as the whole room screamed and jumped up and down. This was, after all, the celebration for the world premiere of “Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror” — a documentary about arguably the most enduring rock musical of all time, directed by Linus O’Brien, son of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” creator Richard O’Brien — in a city whose slogan is about keeping it weird.

It was unanimous: Proud freaks, one and all.

“You would hope that ‘Rocky’ would be obsolete or quaint right now and that we will just be explaining how in the past, like, ‘Oh yeah, people used to be scared of a woman in a suit or a man in a dress, but times have changed, and isn’t that nice?’” Linus O’Brien told The Washington Post.

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