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Hello! In this week's bonus video, I've got some fascinating clips of a TV executive speaking more frankly than he probably should have about the unfair "d...
2023-04-30 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-04-23 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week's Sewers of Paris podcast, we’re diving into the archives to revisit my 2020 interview with Max Miller. He’s the creator of the Tasting History YouTube channel, and author of the new book Tasting History, which comes out this week. In Maxâ...
2023-04-20 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Oh hello! In this week's bonus video, I'm tackling what's always been a bit of a mystery to me: Why is George Takei such a frequent guest on the Howard Ste...
2023-04-09 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is Andrew Rimby, host of the Ivory Tower Boiler Room podcast. Andrew’s career as an entertainer began at an early age as a stage performer, but then he took an unexpected swerve into academia, and he’s spent the ...
2023-04-06 22:09:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-04-02 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Christopher Rice is known for a lot of things, from his thrillers to his podcast to collaborations with his mother Anne Rice to his more recent foray into novels abou...
2023-03-30 19:07:53 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hello there! This week I've got some ~thrilling~ news about my book (audiobook recording has commenced, and we've announced a few tour dates at 2023-03-26 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris is Harvey Brownstone, who in 1995 became Canada’s first openly gay judge. Focusing his career on family law, Harvey helped shine a spotlight on Canada as a destination for same-sex couples to wed before it was legal in the US. But before all that, he was a young gay kid who’d been thrown out o...
2023-03-16 20:22:46 +0000 UTC View Post
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Next Sunday (the 19th), I'll be releasing a video about the TV movie That Certain Summer, and how it transformed the way that te...
2023-03-12 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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In this week's bonus video, I want to show you some very clever visual effects in the opening shot of The Birdcage -- some craf...
2023-03-05 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostIf you happen to be in Toronto this weekend, you may want to find your way down to Massey Hall on Saturday night for a one-night-only performance called Och and Oy!, starring actor Alan Cumming and NPR correspondent Ari Shapiro. Their collaborative...
2023-03-02 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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The time has come when we must discuss the fias...
2023-02-26 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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Looking for bonus videos on a particular topic? Here's an index of popular subjects so you can click right over to them. (Bonus videos are available to Patrons at $2/month and up.) Send me a DM if there are other topics you want me to dig into, or if you have difficulty accessing the videos so I can troublesho...
2023-02-23 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we’re concluding my conversation with filmmaker David Weissman (We Were Here, The Cockettes, Conversations With My Elders) with part 3 of our talk. Previously we talked about his background in hippie enclaves of Los Angeles in the 1960s...
2023-02-16 18:12:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! In this week's Bonus Video, we're taking a look at a trapeze that Broadway legend Jerry Herman had installed in his home, and how Harvey Fierstein paid tribute to this bizarre decorating choice in La Cage Aux Folles. And speaking of Harvey, I've got a goofy story to share about how a wig reveal (well, technically, a failed wig revea...
2023-02-12 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! In this week's bonus video, we're diving into some of the more obscure work by Victor Buono, the gay actor you may recognize as King Tut on Batman or as the uncomfortable pianist in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? As it turns out, in addition to being an excellent campy villain, he was also a very charming poe...
2023-02-05 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThis week we’re picking up my previous conversation with filmmaker David Weissman, who started off in hippie enclaves of Los Angeles in the 1960s before moving up to San Francisco for the particularly adventurous 70s. In this part of our chat, we touch on SF’s countercul...
2023-02-02 19:31:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! In this week's bonus video, we're taking a loooooong historical look back at a gay (or I guess gay-affected) French hairdresser whose appearance in a 1966 film inspired the femme drag star of La Cage Aux Folles and, in turn, Nathan Lane's character in The Birdcage. Also: I'd like to introduce you to Doctor Doolittl...
2023-01-29 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! This week we're diving into the ~rumors~ about Cary Grant, from his relationships with fashion icon Orry Kelly and actor Randolph Scott to his flirtation with Arthur Laurents to the denials and confirmations from his family and friends. Also! A little peek at my next video, which is about the strange 20-year journey of a sweet littl...
2023-01-22 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest this week is documentary filmmaker David Weissman, who was in exactly the right place at the right time to have a front-row seat to one of the most revolutionary periods in American culture. In fact, he wasn’t just an observer of the Venice Beach LSD scene in the 60s, or of San Francisco’s chaotic drag cauldron in the 70s — he was...
2023-01-19 17:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! Thanks to everyone who suggested leads for where I could find the restored version of Pleasure Garden -- the hunt is still underway! In this week's video, we're taking a look at some of Hitchcock's other queer characters, including Emlyn Williams in the lesser-known Jamaica Inn, in which the bisexual actor plays a ...
2023-01-08 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest this week is Andrew Farrier, a New Orleans tour guide and podcaster who began his career in a small Louisiana town, giving tours of haunted houses as a kid. A child of hippies, Andrew was given wide latitude to explore creative pursuits, and it wasn’t long before h...
2023-01-05 17:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello and welcome to 2023! Let's get down to business.
In this week's video, we're taking a closer look at some of Hitchcock's most notorious queer killers -- and also one gay character who's often overlooked, a somewhat mysterious but highly fashionable gentleman from Hitch's very first film, Pleasure Garden, in 1925. We're also ...
2023-01-01 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Look what you've done! No, wait, I mean that in a good way.
As 2022 comes to a close, I just wanted to thank you for making so many videos, podcast episodes, livestreams, and newsletter issues possible. Literally none of it could have happened without you -- yes, you personally!!! Every bit of your membership here allows m...
2022-12-30 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! This week we're taking a peek a some fun Christmas specials and commercials, spanning celebs from Bea Arthur to David Bowie. Also, after last week a few folks suggested I say a few more words about the show Gargoyles, and you don't need to ask me twice.
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2022-12-25 17:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello there! In this week's bonus video, we're taking a look at a ~mystery~ surrounding Batman: The Animated Series. Why did they replace Tim Curry with Mark Hamill to play the Joker? Well, that depends on who you ask. Also: how the team behind the show Gargoyles wanted to make their show more like Batman: TAS, and the very sma...
2022-12-18 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWe’re doing something a little different on this week’s episode — we’ve got TWO guests. Kaela Joseph and Tanya Cook are the authors of the new book 2022-12-15 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This week my guest is J.P. Der Boghossian, and I’m also his guest. JP’s the host of the podcast This Queer Book Saved My Life, where he talks to queer folks about their favorite books. And we’re doing a sort of podcast exchange — for the first half of the episode I’ll interview him about the entertainment that impacted him the most, an...
2022-12-08 22:14:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! Well, I've tracked down the story of the time Kevin Conroy (the voice of Batman) got into a physical fight with Brian Bedford (the voice of Disney's Robin Hood) live on stage during a production of the play Deathtrap... and you'll be happy to hear that the story is even wilder than we could have hoped. Also in this week's b...
2022-12-04 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post