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"Diary of a Future President": Bobby's Coming Out Story, Part 2
When we last saw Bobby Cañero-Reed (Charlie Bushnell), older brother of future president Elena Cañero-Reed in the Disney channel series Diary of a Future President, he was having trouble saying...
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"Cruella": Everybody is Queer in the Iconic Character's Origin Story
In One Hundred and One Dalmatians (novel 1956, Disney animated movie 1961), Cruella DeVille is an evil fashion designer who kidnaps the 15 Dalmatian puppies belonging to the sentient dogs Pongo and...
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The Gay-Free Provincetown of "American Horror Story: Double Feature"
There was no new episode of American Horror Story: Double Feature last night because producers think everyone spends holiday weekends rushing madly from barbecues to picnics to beach blanket bonfires...
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Bewitched, Bewildered, and Gay
You can always distinguish between gay and heterosexual Boomer boys by asking: Bewitched orI Dream of Jeannie?Jeannie (1965-70) offered the sexist fantasy of a man whose semi-nude, subservient genie...
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Michael Forest: Playing a God of Masculine Beauty
The September 22nd, 1967 episode of Star Trek had the cryptic title "Who Mourns for Adonais?"Even when I grew up and studied English literature, the title was still cryptic. It comes from "Adonais,"...
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Gay American Renaissance
During my junior year in college, I took Modern American Literature, Modern British Literature, Introduction to German Literature, and several other heterosexist courses. But Dr. Ames, who taught...
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"On the Verge": Boys Who Wear Lipstick and Try on Mom's Shoes, but No Boy...
The trailer for the "gal pal" sitcom On the Verge had Mom dropping off her kids at Dad's apartment for what is apparently the first weekend visit after a breakup. Daughter says that she showed Gaga...
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Kid Cosmic, Season 2: Is Stuck Chuck Gay?
I reviewed the first season of the Nickelodeon cartoon Kid Cosmicearly in 2021. I hated the awful, low-budget animation -- unchanging background, all in washed-out yellow -- and found the setting...
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"Godzilla v. Kong": Fights, Explosions, Boredom, and Maybe a Gay Subtext
Nazarenes weren't allowed to go to movies, but my Cousin Buster's parents were either unaware of the rule or didn't care, so occasionally -- very occasionally -- they took us to a drive-in...
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"Doogie Kamealoha": A Fierce Doctor, a Gay Brother, and Lots of Hawaiian Hunks
A show called Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. just dropped on the Disney Channel, an homage to the 1990s drama Doogie Howser, M.D. Doctors were complaining about the ridiculous premise the first time. No...
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"Clickbait": Gay Representation on the "Non-Stop Thrill Ride" about a...
My viewing schedule is rather crowded with Korean soap operas, Disney Channel teencoms, and awful action-adventure movies, so I'm leery of giving the Netflix thriller series Clickbait (2021) a try.The...
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Fafhrd and Grey Mouser
When I was in college, the Bookstore Gang was all wild over Fafhrd and Grey Mouser, a sword-and-sorcery duo that Fritz Leiber had been writing about since the 1930s. Their adventures were being...
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See Here, Private Hargrove: To Be Young Was Very Heaven
When I was an undergraduate at Augustana College (1978-1982), there was a metal book rack in the foyer of the library marked "Take a book, leave a book." There wasn't usually much of a selection:...
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"Q-Force": Spy Spoof Staring Gay Stereotypes from the 1950s
I heard that Q-Force, the new animated series on Netflix, was horribly homophobic, brashly portraying screaming-queen stereotypes from 50 years ago, girlfriend. One would expect blatant homophobia in...
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"Chicago Party Aunt": A Halloween Party at the Best Gay Bar in Chicago
Free spirit paired with stick-in-the mud, "life is a banquet" paired with "that's not a good idea", "it's only 2:00 am" paired with "I have a big test tomorrow," has been traditional comedy since the...
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"Reservation Dogs": Queer, Nonbinary, Quirky Delinquents on the Rez
Someone recommended Reservation Dogs, on Hulu. I doiubt that there will be any gay characters, but I wouldn't mind seeing some Native American beefcake.Scene 1: In Indian Country, Oklahoma, some...
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"Mortal Engines": Ridiculous Premise, Star Wars Rip-Off Plot, Heterosexism to...
We postponed movie night from Friday to Saturday due to a party -- social life is gradually returning. It wasn't worth the wait. Mortal Engines (2018) has the most ridiculous premise I have ever...
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Charles Addams/The Addams Family
The 1950s was obsessed with marriage and reproduction. Movies, tv programs, presidential speeches, school textbooks, and Sunday morning sermons all pushed the heterosexual nuclear family with...
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Letterkenny: A Small Town in Ontario Overrun by Homophobes
I heard that the Canadian sitcom Letterkenny was "quietly queer," with a variety of pansexual characters whose shenanigans were "no big deal." It's apparently about a small town where "there's not a...
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Grading the Beefcake of "American Horror Stories"
American Horror Stories is a horror-story anthology produced by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, whose American Horror Story series often has significant gay representation. Here, after the first story,...
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