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How to Ruin Jules Verne in 12 MIntues
Jules Verne wrote stories about men having science-fiction adventures and buddy-bonding, with barely a woman mentioned: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island, From the Earth to the...
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Michael Strogoff: Jules Verne's Gay Couple
Jules Verne is most famous today for his science fiction novels, like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island, but during his lifetime his biggest fame came for a romance, Michel...
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"Gemini Man": Assassin and Clone Discover the Meaning of Life
For Friday's Movie Night, we watched Gemini Man (2019): a standard plotline about a professional assassin (Will Smith) who is trying to retire, when suddenly the Agency sends 23,345 agents to kill him....
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"Summer Heat": Not Much Heat, But a Tragic Gay Guy Named Malcon
Summer Heat (Tempora da Verao) is a Brazilian teen soap set in a "paradisical resort." I don't understand why anyone would want to watch except to see young adult muscles glistening in the sun. I'll...
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The Top 10 Hunks of "Brassic"
Brassic (slang for "insolvent") follows a gang of working-class lads in the town of Hawley, in the north of England. Their escapades involve mostly thefts that go wrong, marijuana deals that go...
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The Bob Cummings Show: Uncle Bob and Chuck
Dwayne Hickman (right) of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis and 1960s beach movies started his tv career as Chuck, a high school boy who lives with his widowed mother and sleazy photographer uncle Bob...
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"Archive 81": Aren't You Glad Those Pesky Gays Don't Exist? With Time Travel
Archive 81, a sort of high-concept paranormal thriller, is #2 on Netflix this week. It stars a cute guy, and there's no hetero-romance in the trailer, so let's take a look.Scene 1: Flatiron Building,...
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"The Woman Getting Drunk in the Stalking Chair in the House Across the Street...
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window. An absurdly long title, but after years of 1-word Netflix titles, it comes as something of a relief. With two women in the...
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"The Eternals": The First Gay Character in a Marvel Movie, Plus Conversations...
I have seen The Eternals (2021), the first movie in the Marvel Universe to depict a gay character (although the comic books have been doing it for years). It is a very plot-heavy movie, with...
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Sean and the World of Gay Leathermen
During the 1960s and 1970s, gay men carved niches for themselves, separate neighborhoods where they could be free from homophobic harassment, separate social institutions to replace those they were...
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Gay Comics of the 1980s
When I moved to West Hollywood in 1985, I was astonished. There were no gay characters in any comic book or comic strip I had ever seen before, even in gay magazines, except for an occasional Donelan...
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"Legend of Vox Machina": Late to the Dungeons and Dragons Party
I have always found Marvel and DC comics immensely frustrating. Each issue you buy is an installment in an ongoing story that lasted for 1,000 issues, across multiple titles, with references to...
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James Whitcomb Riley: Even Dull, Depressing Poets Can Be Gay
When I was growing up in Rock Island, teachers thought it their duty to lecture incessantly on local writers and artists, like Carl Sandburg, gay jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke, and Isabel Bloom. My...
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Harold Monro: Lost Gay Poet
The 1960s was all about heroic fantasy; hippies were all agog over The Lord of the Rings and its precursors and imitators. But by the 1970s, we preferred stories about big, bright spaceships hurling...
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"The Student Prince": Cop and Prince Fall in Love. Or Not.
The Student Prince (1997), on Amazon Prime: a BBC "comedy-romance" about a police officer assigned to look after a young prince attending Cambridge University. His duties "soon go beyond...
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"Catfish Mexico": Antonio Gets a Text From the Mysterious Jauvier Every Night...
I don't usually watch reality tv, but I was drawn to Catfish Mexico on MTV, about snooping out lying and misrepresenting social media profiles, because two of the nine episodes seem to be about...
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"Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings": Martial Arts Hero with...
I've been avoiding Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, on Disney Plus, because I heard that it had that old, tired, uber-heterosexist cliche of a dead wife. And it does; but worshipping the...
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"The Bravest Knight": A Gay Knight-in-Training Has Adventures and Learns...
The Bravest Knight (2019) is advertised as the first children's animation to have an "openly gay main character." Actually, that would be Paranorman (2012). I wanted to see how "open" the gay main...
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"Kid Cosmic Season 3": Fry and Hamburg are Gay. So is Dumbledore.
Season 3 of Kid Cosmic, about the staff and random customers at an isolated diner in the desert who suddenly become superheroes, dropped on Netflix on February 3, 2022. In a Twitter post on February...
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"The Privilege": Teen Skulduggery at an Elite Private School, for the 385th Time
The Privilege: "a wealthy teen and his friends attending an elite private school uncover a dark conspiracy while looking into a series of strange supernatural events." Somebody never took Creative...
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