Kyle Turner was one of those weird little kids whose tastes were more like those of a middle-aged gay man than those of his peers. He was raised on a steady movie diet of golden-age black-and-white comedies, and the resulting perspective that he g...
2022-08-25 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! I'm still traveling, but here's another bonus video for you. This week we've got a strange mystery about an NBC executive who was supposedly killed
by a male hustler --a mystery that actually has a SOLUTION, unlike the generally...
2022-08-21 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest this week was present for some of the earliest days of what we now recognize as reality TV — he helped produce Gay Riviera, a 2001 Bravo series about queer dating. Kevin Haddad never expected to find himself behind the scenes of a serie...
2022-08-18 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! I've got a whole bunch of fun stuff for you this week -- starting with a fabulous discovery about a Liberace biopic from the 1980s. You'll never GUESS who played his mother!!! Also I found some extremely fun interviews with Jonathan H...
2022-08-14 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest this week is Chris Steadman, an author and professor and podcaster whose childhood obsession was very grown-up books about disasters. Even as a kid, he took a very se...
2022-08-11 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! This week I've got a bit of a Seinfeld mystery, or a The Nanny mystery, or a little of each. At one point, Fran Drescher was hired to fill in for Estelle Harris, who played George's mother -- and although I'm very gl...
2022-08-07 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest this week — and apologies for the slightly late post, it’s been a busy week! — is Trung le Nguyen, author and illustrator of the award-winning book The Magic Fish, among many other graphic works. Trung’s family made their way to t...
2022-08-06 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostLast week I spoke with Bret Shuford, one half of the couple known as the Broadway Husbands. This week I’m talking to his husband, Stephen Hanna, about leaving home to purs...
2022-07-28 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! In this week's bonus video I've got some ~gossip~ about closeted public figures, and also EVEN MORE examples of gay Bruces -- including an interview where Stan Lee responds to the changing of Bruce Banner's name for the Hulk TV series...
2022-07-24 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest this week is Bret Shuford, one half of the couple that calls themselves the Broadwa...
2022-07-21 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! In this week's bonus video, I've got a few new clues about how "Bruce" became the name for all homosexual men. And also the story of the time that a group of lesbians got fed up with NBC airing a bunch of offensive stereotypes, and ha...
2022-07-17 18:23:07 +0000 UTC View PostBefore we start this week, I want to thank you for your patience — as you might’ve seen, I’ve been recovering from a balance issue that left me in a state of constant dizziness. As a result I had to cut back on editing for a few weeks, since...
2022-07-14 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! I had NO IDEA so many of you would be excited to talk about Charles Nelson Reilly after last week's video, but I'm so glad that you are. I've got a few more details about him for you this week -- I suppose I should put him on my list ...
2022-07-10 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! In this week's bonus video I have a real weird web of gay connections, from Ellen to The X-Files to The Simpsons and Seinfeld and Jack Benny shows of the 1940s. Also, another Seinfeld mystery to sta...
2022-07-03 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostMaybe you’ve seen the new animated series on Netflix entitled Dead End: Paranormal Park, featuring a cast of queer characters working at an amusement park that might be a portal to hell. I spoke to the show’s creator, Hamish Steele, s...
2022-07-01 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there!
Well, we're wrapping up Pride month, or at least, the first Pride month of the year. Now it's time to get ready for Second Pride, which is July; and then Third Pride Month in August, Fourth Pride Month in September, etc etc etc....
2022-06-30 17:55:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks! Hope you're holding up ok, it's been a tough couple of days.
This is Pride weekend in Seattle, and I've been wandering around through the noise & chaos & parties & protests -- all of which started, as I'm sure you know...
2022-06-26 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostMy Sewers of Paris guest this week set himself a goal many years ago — to bring RuPaul’s Drag Race to Sweden, with an all-Swedish production, Swedish queens, and a Swedish host. Now it’s finally happening, thanks to my guest’s dec...
2022-06-16 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there!
Well this sure has been a weird week. If you haven't heard, I've been dealing with a bout of vertigo that's forced me to push back some projects, including this week's episode of The Sewers of Paris and a Modern Fam...
2022-06-12 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Inquiring minds want to know: Is that big gay guy on Modern Family "swishy"? Is that okay to say? Better ask a heterosexual. A clip of her asking a very weird question (and also "what's it like to be homosexual?") await you in this week's...
2022-06-05 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to June, Sewers of Paris listeners. Every year for Pride month, I like to revisit my conversation with a man whose tales of old queer New York are absolutely captivating. He earned the nickname Tree thanks to his six-foot-five sta...
2022-06-02 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi hello!
Welp, here we are, just one day away from Pride month, and you know what that means: Only 30 shopping days left until Wrath month. (Related: It's also time to start taking stock of which corporations switch their logos to rainbows ...
2022-05-31 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! In this week's bonus video I've got a fun Popeye/Bluto romance (thanks to Trevor for sending that to me). Also a sneak peek at my upcoming video on Modern Family, including a very sweet speech from Jesse Tyler Ferguson, during which h...
2022-05-29 18:10:57 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is the fascinating Terrence Smith, also known as Joan Jett Blakk, a drag performer who ran for mayor of Chicago in the 90s, and after that, President. Terrence has some incredible stories ab...
2022-05-26 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! For this week's bonus video I'm visiting a place I've long heard of, The Outside, with my friend Ollie (a dog). I've got stories for you about a ~forbidden~ commercial that the cast of Will & Grace recorded; an interview with the ...
2022-05-22 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThere’s a new book out this month about the history of The Women’s House of Detention, a women’s prison that was located just across the street from The Stonewall Inn, that played a role in the 1969 uprising, and that for better or worse sha...
2022-05-19 18:46:41 +0000 UTC View PostWe’re in the midst of Eurovision right now, the extravagant celebration of over-the-top music and outrageous costumes and, every now and then, taste. Eurovision is a great big ball of fun, and it was the subject of the very first episode of The ...
2022-05-13 00:06:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Good afternoon or whatever! I'm chugging away on a video about Will & Grace and wanted to share some more fun discoveries with you, including the time the actor who played Will said that he wanted his character to date Brad Pitt, and ...
2022-05-08 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest on The Sewers of Paris podcast this week is Alejandro Varela, who was a mostly-closeted college student when he left the US for a semester in Spain. There he w...
2022-05-06 16:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Well hello! In his week's Bonus Video we're looking at the reasons why all four lead actors on Will & Grace initially declined their roles and we nearly had an EXTREMELY different show. Also: How David Hyde Pierce, fresh off an Emmy w...
2022-05-01 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post