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- Episode 51: The Happy Prince (2018) · 25 min. · Sæson 7 Episode 51Rupert Everett’s The Happy Prince portrays the final years of Oscar Wilde. After two years in prison, he is exiled to France. My guests and I discuss his messy relationships with…
- Episode 50: Dorian Gray (2009) · 28 min. · Sæson 7 Episode 50Dorian Gray is an immortal twink with a deadly secret. Oliver Parker’s film drains most of the queerness from Oscar Wilde’s novel. My guest and I examine what remains. Podcast…
- Episode 49: Apartment Zero (1988) · 26 min. · Sæson 7 Episode 49In Apartment Zero a neurotic cinema owner (Colin Firth) grows obsessed with his sketchy flat mate (Hart Bochner). My guest and I discuss the messy characters in this strange mix…
- Episode 48: A Single Man (2009) · 27 min. · Sæson 7 Episode 48In A Single Man, Colin Firth plays a professor grieving the loss of his lover. Julianne Moore and Nicholas Hoult play admirers who offer him a way forward. My guests and I debate…
- Episode 47: Another Country (1984) · 28 min. · Sæson 7 Episode 47In Another Country a Russian spy recounts the bullying he endured at his English Boarding School. Writer Julian Mitchell’s story was inspired by the Cambridge Five, a group of…
- Episode 46: Cthulhu (2007) · 26 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 46A gay professor learns there’s something fishy happening in his hometown. Cthulhu is a loose adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth. The film understands that…
- Episode 45: Turn of the Screw (1985) · 22 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 45A tutor fears his students are being hunted by evil spirits. Eloy de la Iglesia's Turn of the Screw gender swaps the protagonist of Henry James’ ghost story. Then cranks up the…
- Episode 44: That Certain Summer (1972) · 25 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 44Hal Holbrook and Martin Sheen play a gay couple living in San Francisco. When Hal’s teen son comes for a visit, Hal debates whether to come out to him. That Certain Summer was…
- Episode 43: Torch Song Trilogy (1988) · 26 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 43In 1983 Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy won him Tony Awards for Best Actor and Best Play. In 1988 his performance was preserved on film. Fierstein plays Arnold, a New York…
- Episode 42: To Wong Foo (1995) · 22 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 42To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar was a commercial hit in 1995. Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes and John Leguizamo play a trio of drag queens stranded in a small…
- Episode 41: The Boy and the Wind (1967) · 22 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 41The Boy in the Wind was called Brazil's first gay film. A teen vanishes. A witness has a supernatural explanation. Filmmaker Carlos Hugo Christensen managed to sneak a queer…
- Episode 40: Making Love (1982) · 27 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 40A closeted doctor has an affair with a man. Should he tell his wife? Critics dismissed Making Love as boring. My guests gave me a new appreciation for the film.
- Episode 39: Xenia (2014) · 21 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 392014’s Xenia follows two Greek-Albanian brothers on a search of the father who abandoned them. Filmmaker Panos H. Koutras uses the story to examine the treatment of immigrants…
- Episode 38: In & Out (1997) · 25 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 38Matt Dillon outs Kevin Kline in his Oscar speech. Kline insists he's not gay. Is he, or isn't he? We revisit Paul Rudnick's coming out comedy.
- Episode 37: The Leather Boys (1964) · 26 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 37The Leather Boys follows Reggie, a naive biker, who's torn between his brassy wife and his gay best friend. Homosexual behavior was still illegal in the UK but the gay character…
- Episode 36: People in the Summer Night (1948) · 27 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 36People in the Summer Night (aka Ihmiset suviyössä) follows the members of a farming community in rural Finland. Among them is Nokia, a closeted man who tries to blend in with a…
- Episode 35: Dracula's Daughter (1936) · 21 min. · Sæson 5 Episode 35A bisexual countess seeks a psychiatrist to cure her craving for blood. Dracula's Daughter is an unusual film. Anne Rice cites it as an inspiration for Interview with the Vampire.
- Episode 34: A Very Natural Thing (1974) · 20 min. · Sæson 5 Episode 34A New York school teacher searches for love in A Very Natural Thing. Christopher Larken's work is one of the first positive film depictions of queer romance.
- Mini-sode: Summer Kiss (1987) · 4 min. · Sæson 5Isaac, an awkward college student, meets Beauford, his high school crush, on the ferry to Provincetown. Summer Kiss aired on Connecticut Public Television in June of 1987. This…
- Episode 33: Latter Days (2003) · 24 min. · Sæson 5 Episode 33In Latter Days an L.A. party boy attempts to seduce a Mormon missionary. My guest and I discuss this dramedy and take a brief look at the career of ex-Mormon singer David…
