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I hope you're having a delightful holiday season, which will hopefully be made even more delightful by this week's bonus video in which we take a look at a (possible) Rock Hudson reference in the movie Hail, Caesar! ......
2023-12-24 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostAs we veer ever closer to Christmas, this week's episode of the Sewers of Paris podcast is a dive into the archives for a chat with Scott Shoemaker. Along with his partner Freddie, Scott’s great passion is live weird theater, which mani...
2023-12-21 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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Time once again for the monthly feedback video! This is a video series that is free to everyone on Patreon, and that started as a way for me to respond to questions ... and has now sort of morphed into Patrons trading their reco...
2023-12-20 18:21:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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In this week's bonus video, I'm going to show you some clips that were a little too salacious for my Rock Hudson video: A recording of a call where he (apparently) is arranging an amorous encounter, and some VERY frank language ...
2023-12-17 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is New York comedian Justin Randall, who was a very different person when he moved to the big city a few years ago...
2023-12-14 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostWe have two guests on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast: Filmmakers Melina Maerker and David Miller are the co-creators of a new documentary entitled 2023-12-07 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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I've got a great big hour-long video about Rock Hudson coming your way next week, but in the mean time here's a video about his incredible agent -- the notorious Henry Willson, one of the sleaziest creeps in Hollywood histo...
2023-12-03 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is Lucas Hilderbrand, author of the new book 2023-11-30 21:16:54 +0000 UTC View Post
As I'm sure you're aware, Rock Hudson is probably best known for the romantic comedies he made in the 1950s and 1960s with Doris Day (and a bunch of other actresses). But something kind of peculiar about these movies, which are all about heterosex...
2023-11-26 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostA new biopic just debuted on Netflix entitled Rustin, about the incredible life of Bayard Rustin — a civil rights leader who worked with Martin Luther King Jr. And this week, we’re diving into the Sewers of Paris archives to ...
2023-11-23 19:57:31 +0000 UTC View Post
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I took a quick research-trip down to Los Angeles this week to visit the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' archives, and did my best to untangle all the lies, myths, and misdirections surrounding the marriage o...
2023-11-19 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is historian Eric Gonzaba, whose fascinating work includes the 2023-11-16 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! In this week's bonus video, we're diving into the coded double-talk in some 50s-era tabloids. What's the REAL agenda behind these magazines? It's not always as it seems, and I have a hunch that some articles about hunky himbo Tab Hunt...
2023-11-12 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest on this week's Sewers of Paris is an old friend. I first met Tim Sheridan about a decade ago, when we were both writers trying to figure out how to make a living doing what we loved. Well, it took some time, but we both figured i...
2023-11-09 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is Jon Ginoli, who started the band Pansy Division in the early 90s. Jon was responding to a lack of queer music in the punk scene and a lack of punk music in the queer scene, and with the h...
2023-11-02 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! In this week's bonus video we're exploring the fairy-tale wedding of Rock Hudson, and by "fairy-tale" I mean that it was largely imaginary. In the 1950s, queer people had to go to extraordinary lengths to hide in plain sight, and Rock...
2023-10-29 18:19:16 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest on The Sewers of Paris podcast this week is actor Ray Stewart, who first came to my attention in the role of Darryl Driscoll on the '70s sitcom Barney Miller. Ray played half of a same-sex couple at a time when such char...
2023-10-26 22:01:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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In this week's bonus video we're taking a little peek at the love life of Tab Hunter -- and some of the very expensive lengths to which he went to keep those loves hidden. Tab's boyfriends include actor Anthony Perkins and ice s...
2023-10-22 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is Karel Bouley. Back in the 90s, Karel and his partner Andrew Howard were the first openly queer couple to host a major market drive time radio show in the US. And after Andrew unexpectedly...
2023-10-19 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostI’m speaking this week with Wilson Paulino, who co-hosts the Wilferland podcast with his partner Fernando. Wilson grew up in a pretty idyllic tourist town in the Dominican ...
2023-10-13 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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Time once again for the monthly feedback video, a series that is free to everyone on Patreon and that started as a way for me to respond to questions ... and has now sort of morphed into trading recommendations for great s...
2023-10-11 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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In this week's bonus video, we're diving into the tub with Alfred Hitchcock to explore the famous shower sequence in Psycho -- how he made it, why it looks so good, and why the numerous imitators never quite measure up. 2023-10-08 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
In honor of the start of October, the spookiest month, for this week's Sewers of Paris podcast we’re diving into the archives to hear my 2015 interview with Jamie Mauer ... whom you may also know as Rantasmo, the creator of the Need...
2023-10-06 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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In this week's bonus video, we're exploring the wild, creative, often-cutthroat party games invented by puzzle-masters Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins. Stephen of course you know from West Side Story, Into the Woo...
2023-10-01 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is Frank Abate, who’s about to open the first shelter and community center for queer youth in the Dominican Republic. He’s been working on this project for a long time, with the help of ...
2023-09-28 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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In this week's bonus video, we're taking a look at some highlights from the life & career of Anthony Perkins -- in particular, how guarded he had to be while being interviewed by Mike Wallace in the 1950s. On the outside, he...
2023-09-24 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest on this week's Sewers of Paris is Scott Mainprize, a two-spirit author, lawyer, and instructor based in Ottawa. Scott’s been walking in multiple simultaneous worlds his whole life, and he’s always found himself drawn to stori...
2023-09-21 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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Have you heard heard about Orry-Kelly, the man who swaddled Bette Davis' chest while (maybe) stealing Cary Grant's heart? Orry is responsible for some of the most memorable costumes of the 20th century, and also some of the juci...
2023-09-17 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is Tate Barkley, whose new memoir comes out next week and is entitled 2023-09-14 16:01:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! This week Ollie and I have QUITE a bonus video for you: This is the story of Joani Hannon, a queer woman whose name isn't widely known today, though it absolutely should be.
Joani and her brother David were gay siblings who ran ...
2023-09-10 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post