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The 2021 Netflix "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" Reboot: Any LGBTQ...
I have reviewed He-Man and the Masters of the Universe twice. first in July 2016. Then again a couple of years later. That's a lot of reviews for a program I never actually watched. In case you...
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"Deadbeat": Slackers See Dead People, Hate Gay People
The icon for the Hulu tv series Deadbeat shows two guys recreating the pottery scene from Ghost, but they looked shocked rather than romantic. A bit of homophobic panic going on, or a gay subtext...
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Doogie Kamealoha, MD: "Is Kai Gay?" Update
When I reviewed the first episode of the Disney Channel's Doogie Kamealoha, MD, about a teenage doctor in Hawaii, I noticed that Lahela's older brother Kai (Matt Sato, right) was not interested in...
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"A Million Little Things": A Million Little Tearjerkers, One Gay Kid
"They say that friendship isn't a big thing -- it's a million little things." I never heard that saying until it was used as the title of a tv series on Hulu about a group of elite, entitled,...
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The Decline and Fall of "Dear White People"
Dear White People (2017) highlighted the microaggressions (and some macro-aggressions) faced by black students at a "liberal" Ivy-League college. The title comes from a radio program run by undergrad...
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"Just Beyond": And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird
The Disney Channel has dropped Just Beyond, an anthology of scary stories for kids, based on the work of R. L. Stine. In search of gay representation or subtexts, I watched the episode "Parents are...
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"Misfits": Teasing that It's Science Fiction, with Gender-Atypical...
A group of teenagers is forced to enter a "Transformation Station," which calculates their male and female percentages. One is 55/45; another, 83/17. They emerge wearing sky-blue school uniforms. Is...
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Kalevipoeg: Gay Epic Hero of Estonia
When I was visiting Estonia in the summer of 1998, I couldn't go anywhere without hearing about Kalevipoeg. There were a dozen public statues of him, a naked, muscular god carrying small people.There...
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"I Know What You Did Last Summer": LGBTQ Representation. For Two Episodes,...
In the original I Know What You Did Last Summer movie (1997), four teens driving along the North Carolina coast accidentally hit and kill a pedestrian. Instead of, say, calling the police, they throw...
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Danny Greene: Professional Hunk of the 1980s
During the 1970s and early 1980s, producers started realizing that heterosexual women like to look at men, so they began marketing male physiques to them -- Playgirl magazine, the Chippendale Dancers,...
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"The Magnificent Seven": Actually Nine, Including a Gay Couple
Movie night this week was The Magnificent Seven (2016), a remake of the 1960 movie, which was in turn a remake of The Seven Samurai (1954), neither of which I have seen. Apparently I'm not missing...
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"In the Arms of My Enemy": A Gay Romance in 19th Century Russia, Sort Of
Which of these Amazon Prime "movies we think you'll like" would you actually click on?Obviously In the Arms of My Enemy (2007), originally titled Voleurs de chevaux (Horse Thieves). It has a barely...
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"Voltaire High": GIrls Arrive at an All-Boys School, and the Boys Want Them Out
Mixte (Co-Ed), aka Voltaire High (2021), a French tv series streaming on Amazon Prime: "It's 1963, and Voltaire High has just gone...gasp..coed!" Sounds like it will be extremely heterosexist, all...
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"Inside Job": Conspiracy-Theory Workplace Comedy
In the Netflix animated series Inside Job (2021), every conspiracy theory you ever heard of is real, from reptilians controlling Congress to the Moon Landing being faked. Cognito Inc. operatives...
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9 Shirtless Pictures of Daniel Sharman, Probably
Someone identified Picture #5 on the list of random photos I got while searching for Michael J. Fox, star of Family Ties, Back to the Future, Teen Wolf, and Spin City."Daniel Sharman. The pic is from...
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1 Shirtless Picture of Michael J. Fox and 10 Pics of Other Guys
Other than "that character can't be gay! He said hello to a girl in Scene 12!", the most common complaint I get is "that photo isn't of the obscure actor you're writing about!"I don't understand the...
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Fear Street Part 2: Don't Go Near a Summer Camp in 1978
This week's movie nights involved the Fear Street series, three movies based on the teen horror books by R. Stine. In the first, some teens discover that a witch named Sarah Fier (pronounced "fear"),...
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Pretending to be Gay in "Head Count"
Head Count (2018) just showed up on my Netflix recommendations, and I had an hour to kill, so:College student Evan (Isaac Jay) rejects an invitation to go away for the weekend with his friends. "I...
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An Astrological Guide for Broken Hearts: Can a Heterosexual Gay Guy Find...
Single girl looks for love with the help of a gay bff, who has no life of his own. Sounds like the plot of 99% of romcoms, and now the Italian tv series, An Astrological Guide for Broken Hearts. The...
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"The Man Who Killed Don Quixote": Killing Your Enjoyment of the Miguel...
Everything you have been told about Miguel Cervantes' iconic novel Don Quixote is a heterosexist myth. Don Quixote is not a hero, his quest is not to win the heart of Dulcinea del Toboso (the barmaid...
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