Bonus video! A Saucy Gay Song From 1935, and Cinema's First Gay Dads
Added 2022-09-11 20:21:36 +0000 UTCHello there! I was doing some research into the history of sissies and came across this fantastically suggestive gay song from the mid-1930s that I think you will enjoy very much indeed. Also, a little more information about how "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay" would have been (or might not have been) a German code book. I've dug up some interesting stuff about the queerness and gender-flippery of Interview with the Vampire, with more to come. And a question for you: What is the first American theatrical film to feature same-sex parents?
Backup link to the video: https://youtu.be/O9agqu5lFmI
Listen to all of "My Doctor": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkk88iQh6W0
Comments
Oh wow this is great, thank you!
Matt Baume
2022-09-19 05:14:04 +0000 UTCThis is an interesting compilation of queer/sissy music including unlikely artists you’ve heard of https://lightintheattic.net/releases/131-queer-noises-1961-1978-from-the-closet-to-the-charts
KEVIN MEADE
2022-09-16 23:16:16 +0000 UTCYay thanks! Hope you like it! :D
Matt Baume
2022-09-16 19:02:57 +0000 UTCJust what I'm looking for, thank you!!!
Matt Baume
2022-09-16 19:02:49 +0000 UTCFor upcoming queer indie games, I'm following "I Just Want To Be Single!", an "anti-dating sim" where you play an ace girl who wants to be just friends with a bunch of girls who want to date her. It currently has a banner on its Steam page for Gayming Online Indie Festival, which has about 30 upcoming queer games listed, and it says it goes through September 16, so if you see this comment soon enough, you can look through those there or at the website gayming DOT live.
Bryan C
2022-09-16 02:53:43 +0000 UTCHi Matt, pre-ordered your book today. Keep up the good work! :)
Jason Pagano
2022-09-15 22:16:55 +0000 UTCThe closest I could come up (and I realize it isn't the answer you're looking for) with is the final scene from Some Like it Hot when Osgood proposes to Daphne (Jack Lemmon) and Daphne says "I can't have kids.) Osgood: "That's okay, we'll adopt" Daphne: I'm a man! Osgood: Well no one's perfect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mHhr-aaLnI
Kris Olsen
2022-09-14 01:07:45 +0000 UTCHoly cow this is so much more interesting than I even imagined!
Matt Baume
2022-09-13 19:43:02 +0000 UTCAh this list is exactly what I'm looking for, thank you!
Matt Baume
2022-09-13 19:37:30 +0000 UTCI have a few upcoming queer games in my wishlist that may interest you! -Spirit Swap is a match-3 action puzzler with a strong narrative thread made by a queer cooperatively owned studio -Thirsty Suitors is a game about fighting your exes of all genders in Bollywood-style over-the-top battles, and is steeped in diaspora South Asian culture -Midautumn is a roguelike dungeon crawler centred around diaspora East Asian culture with a nonbinary protagonist -ValiDate is a very millenial visual novel, with a diverse cast, set in the modern-day US -Pen Pal Princess is another visual novel, this time a queer romantic comedy, set in a medieval fantasy world but with email and IM -Mask Of The Rose is sort of a visual novel as well, made by the creators of Fallen London and Sunless Sea, set in an alternate underground Victorian London, with lots of strange creatures, a murder mystery, love stories to make or sell, and great writing I'm sure given the studio's previous work - And as a bonus, We Are OFK is not upcoming but it only came out last month and is a musical, serialised story about a very queer semi-fictional band! Hope some of these are of interest!
Siddharth M
2022-09-13 13:42:00 +0000 UTCOMG yes please!!!
Matt Baume
2022-09-12 04:18:57 +0000 UTCI have an old Disney Magazine that had an interview with Kirsten Dunst about her role as claudia. I need to try to find it and get the article to you somehow.
Jamie haDov
2022-09-12 02:53:32 +0000 UTCIts the cheekbones.
Marsia Powers
2022-09-12 00:45:35 +0000 UTCIn 1974, A Very Natural Thing ends with the main character in a committed relationship with a man who shares custody of his son with his ex wife.
Fred Maxon
2022-09-11 23:10:07 +0000 UTCStill looking, but this may be a contender for first American same-sex parent couple in feature film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_Design
Fred Maxon
2022-09-11 22:55:40 +0000 UTCOh WOW, amazing. I thought it was Spike from Buffy at first!
Matt Baume
2022-09-11 22:29:28 +0000 UTCAbout that Broadway show, Washington Post critic Peter Marks aptly remarked “Lestat‘s contribution to art and equality is demonstrating that a gay vampire with a two-octave range can be just as dull as a straight one.”
Steve McLean
2022-09-11 21:38:18 +0000 UTCAre you familiar that this existed? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiPhc5KD50A&t=30s
Steve McLean
2022-09-11 21:37:12 +0000 UTCLa Cage aux Folles had an English dub and had a US release. I know because I saw it on cable (The Movie Channel) in the early 80s. Speaking of "the pansy craze", I'd love to see you do a retrospective on Victor/Victoria and how progressive it was for 1982 (I know it's a remake of a 1933 movie). It's amazing how much that movie got right and how well it has aged (especially compared to Tootsie which came out the same year).
TBoneSF
2022-09-11 21:13:53 +0000 UTCGoogle offers a lot on Bruz Fletcher: http://www.tyleralpern.com/bruz.html https://queermusicheritage.com/fletcher.html etc.....
HenryG
2022-09-11 21:08:41 +0000 UTCOh “Interview” had such an effect on me as a kid. At the time I thought it made me want to be a vampire, now I realize I probably just wanted to wear frilly shirts and be around a lot of hot men.
James Higgins
2022-09-11 20:49:22 +0000 UTC
