This week’s guest is Noah Adams, a researcher investigating the experiences of people who are trans and autistic. Noah’s understanding of himself began with cartoons in childhood, with characte...
2022-12-01 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! In this week's bonus video I've got the story of Leslie Jordan's ~incident~ at a Starbucks, when he stood up to a literally-raging homophobe. Also the unfortunate time he was on Star Trek an...
2022-11-27 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest this week is Ben Sander, creator of the character Brini Maxwell, a drag hostess who’s helmed shows about crafting, cooking, and homemaking, for decades. It all started with a little cabl...
2022-11-25 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we’re concluding the United Federation of Style podcast with one of my favorite episodes, “City on the Edge of Forever,” which features some particularly unusual set decora...
2022-11-23 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest this week is Edgar Gomez, author of the book High Risk Homosexual. Edgar spent years trying to figure out who he was, bouncing from one group to another — which took him from skater cliq...
2022-11-18 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons! Welcome once again to United Federation of Style, a podcast miniseries with me and fashion expert Samantha Rei in which we dissect the bonkers attire of Star Trek. This week...
2022-11-16 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! Welcome to another bonus video. This week I'm responding to feedback about last week's weird Rosalind Russell joke, and also sharing some more fun stories about the great Leslie Jorden...
2022-11-13 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Here we go! It was only a matter of time before we got to “Space Seed,” the episode of Star Trek in which a group of frozen criminals from the 1990s are awakened and decide to conquer ...
2022-11-09 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! Oh wow do I have a fun clip for you in this week's bonus video. An interview with Angela Lansbury where she reveals the director who cast her because he had a THING for pretty actress'...
2022-11-06 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest this week is Josh Weed, who ten years ago became a minor online celebrity after writing a blog post about how he was gay, Mormon, and happily married to a woman. Well, things have changed ...
2022-11-03 02:48:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! Time once again for United Federation of Style, a podcast miniseries with me and my friend, fashion icon Samantha Rei. This week’s romp is the episode “Court Marial,” in which Ki...
2022-11-02 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Patrons! Time for episode three of United Federation of Style, a podcast adventure that I recorded with fashion expert and designer Samantha Rei. We’re taking a rollicking journey through the ...
2022-10-26 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! In this week's bonus video we're diving even deeper into the amazing life of Angela Lansbury, including the incredible lengths she went to in order to beat out Bea Arthur for the lead ...
2022-10-23 21:05:42 +0000 UTC View PostThis week I’m talking to Mayor John Bauters — yes that’s right the actual mayor of Emeryville, which are the words on the sash that was made for him by Pixar studios, just one of the constitu...
2022-10-20 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons! We’re back with another episode of United Federation of Style, a podcast miniseries I did with fashion expert and designer Samantha Rei where we dissect the strange outfits of ...
2022-10-19 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! I am in nature for this week's bonus video, briefly. Let's talk about some of the incredibly highlight's of Angela Lansbury's career, including her gay husband, a forgotten gay-romance film ...
2022-10-16 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest this week is Professor Paul Baker, a writer and linguist whose work includes some FASCINATING explorations of Polari, the secret 19-century queer language that existed in England a century...
2022-10-13 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! I’ve got something new and nifty and a little different from my usual fare to share with you:
Earlier this year, my friend 2022-10-12 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
When Anne Rice originally submitted the manuscript for Interview With the Vampire to her editor, it had a COMPLETELY different ending -- in this week's bonus video, I'm sharing the plot twists that...
2022-10-09 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostOver on YouTube, I just released a new video about the long queer history of vampire lore — from Victorian novels about killer lesbians and undead seamen to early motion pictures and then the gro...
2022-10-06 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostFor this week’s episode, I couldn’t decide if I wanted to run an interview about horror movies, since October’s about to begin — or about romantic comedies, in recognition of Billy Eichner...
2022-09-29 18:25:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! In this week's bonus video I've got a quick update about my book Hi Honey I'm Homo (yes it will be available internationally, yes there will be an audiobook, yes we're working on a way...
2022-09-25 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest this week has two lives — his theater life and his law life. By day, you may know Chris Geidner for his reporting...
2022-09-22 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostYou might know my guest this week from his saucy art on Twitter, but there’s much more to his work than X-Men in Speedos. Josh Cornil...
2022-09-15 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello 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 li...
2022-09-11 20:21:36 +0000 UTC View PostTJ Klune’s childhood grew up reading books in a forest under the trees, which sounds idyllic … minus the part about how he was mercilessly bullied. Literature and libraries were his safe haven,...
2022-09-08 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Here she is, world: I am very pleased to reveal the title & cover of my new book, hitting shelves next year!
2022-09-06 17:07:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! In this week's bonus video, I break down a strange mystery involving a hit novel, a hastily un-gayed sitcom from the 1950s, and a secret German code book. Also, the saucy story behind ...
2022-09-04 18:10:49 +0000 UTC View PostFifty one years ago this month, a strange and beautiful art film called Pink Narcissus had its San Francisco debut, and went on to forever change the life of my guest Ian MacKinnon. I spoke to Ian ...
2022-09-01 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! This week I (and my assistant, Molly the dog) have some stories for you about the time that Charles Nelson Reilly got his revenge on NBC for cancelling his show by running up a HUGE bi...
2022-08-27 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post