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"Fairfax": Woke Teens Strive to Become Influencers on Fairfax Avenue
The animated series Fairfax, on Amazon Prime, caught my attention because Fairfax Boulevard is traditionally the eastern edge of West Hollywood. According to the trailer, it's about four 13-year...
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Lou Ferrigno and Bill Bixby: Bodybuilder and Buddy
Speaking of bodybuilder buddies, when Bill Bixby finished his gay subtext series My Favorite Martian and The Courtship of Eddie's Father, he cashed in on the 1970s superhero craze in The Incredible...
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Champaign, ILL: Lack of Heterosexual Interest is Enough Inclusivity
Champaign, ILL: When a famous rapper (Jay Pharaoh) dies, his two best friends must deal with their grief as well as the sudden loss of fame and fortune. With no jobs and no prospects, they are forced...
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60 Movies I Will Never See (Or Saw and Regretted)
There are 6 basic emotions, 1 positive (happiness), 3 negative (sadness, anger, and disgust), and 2 which could be either (surprise, fear) The function of a movie, book, song, or other work of art is...
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"Child's Play": The Latest in a Long Line of LGBTQ-Inclusive Slasher Movies
On the Plains, there is no Halloween parade, and very few adult Halloween parties (at least, none that we've been invited to). So we turn on the porch light, stream a horror movie, and pass out candy...
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"Locke and Key":: Redrum Boy, Hot Brother, and Incessant Stupidity
I was drawn to the Netflix series Locke and Key, based upon the comic book series by Joe Hill (son of horrormeister Stephen King, but he'd rather you not know that), because I heard that there were...
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The Top 10 Gay, Bi, and Non-Labeled Boys of "Degrassi: The New Class"
I'm not a big fan of soap operas, unless they involve aliens or zombies, so I never saw the various incarnations of of teen angst in a closeted-Toronto high school. In case you are interested, they...
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"The Little Vampire 3D": An Inch Away from a Fully Open Gay Romance
The Little Vampire (2000) had a strong gay subtext (plus Jonathan Lipnicki, who grew up into a super-hunk), so I was interested in seeing what would happen with the new anmiated adaption, The Little...
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Is Nickelodeon Still Stuck in Gay-Subtext Territory?
Nickelodeon was once the premiere place for gay-subtext children's programs, like Drake and Josh and The Fairly Oddparents. Within the last few years, subtexts have been replaced by gay-and out best...
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"Lovehard": A Christmas Romcom with a Gay Porn Title
Halloween is barely over, but the Christmas barrage has begun. The Disney Channel is offering a dozen movies with Santa Claus suit icons, Hulu has a lot of male-female couples standing in front of...
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"The Claus Family" A Pretty Princess Doll for Tommy, and a Shirtless GI Joe...
The Claus Family (2020): A boy who hates Christmas, discovers that he is the grandson of Santa Claus, and will have to take over when Grandpa dies. Whoops, there goes his singing career!Sounds a bit...
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The Nutcracker: Men in Tights
When I was a kid, our church forbade movies, theater, carnivals, circuses -- basically anything that had a plot. And my working-class parents disapproved of anything "long hair." So ballet and opera...
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"Attack of the Demons": Gay Horror Fans Save the World in Cut-Out Animation
Attack of the Demons (2019): An amateur homage to horror fandom, with cut-out animation reminiscent of South Park. And set in Colorado, like South Park. It doesn't sound promising, but as the...
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The DC Comics Jungle
When I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s, DC Comics were not known for their beefcake -- Batman, Superman, and their superhero coworkers were fully clothed all the time. You had to go to Gold Key to...
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"Father Christmas is Back". And he brought the heterosexism with him.
An arguing extended family stuck together for Christmas is almost as cliched as the "big city girl finds love in a small town" romcom, but they keep churning them out. The Return of Father Christmas...
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"I See You": Come for the Gay Subtext, Stay for the Plot
I never expect much from Amazon Prime movies. I started watching I See You (2019) because it starred the cute Judah Lewis (below), who I thought was gay. It turned out to be an interesting thriller...
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The 39 Dumbest Things You See on TV
I've watched a lot of tv, mostly sci-fi and sitcoms. The set was on all the time when I was a kid. In adulthood, it's like comfort food, warm, predictable, mildly amusing. But is it really necessary...
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"Adventure Beast": We Live on a Queer Planet
Big bear Bradley Trevor Greive, the "Tasmanian Grizzly," has sold over 25 million copies of his self-help and inspirational books like Dear Dad, Friends to the End, and The Simple Truth about Love....
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"Difficult People": Gay and Straight Stand-Up Partners Insult Celebrities and...
I feel like I've reviewed Difficult People, on Hulu, before: an amoral straight woman- gay man couple (Julie Klausner, Billy Eichner) try various scams and manipulations. It's probably just a common...
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"Home Economics": Gay and Straight Siblings Obsess over Money.
That 70s Show ended 15 years ago. The cast is now in their 40s. Are you as shocked as I am? Ashton Kutcher, who played prettyboy Kelso, has retained his youthful vitality and hunkiness, but Topher...
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