This year's Thanksgiving seems like a particularly important time to reflect back on the good things in our lives, the positive advances we've made, and the people we love and trust -- in fact, times ...
2016-11-24 14:00:34 +0000 UTC View Post
At this point, we're all very familiar with the foundational queer story that many of us have lived: feeling like outcasts, fleeing from small towns to big cities, and searching for our tribe.
If you're like me, right now you're searching for something -- anything -- to lend you comfort. We've just ended a horrifying election season, and are about to embark on four years that will likely be...
2016-11-10 17:16:36 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest this week is Austin Bull, also known as the performance artist The Bearded Femme. His stage persona is eye-catching and weird, from vibrant green beards to dressing up as sexualized religious...
2016-11-03 16:56:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Why is food so important? I mean, other than the whole keeping-you-alive thing. My guest this week found his life forever changed by food when he won the first season of The Great British Bake-Off. Ed...
2016-10-27 16:42:11 +0000 UTC View Post
How do you know when it's time to stop wandering and put down roots? This week's guest is Robert Roth, who spent years looking for the right place to call home. After he ran away from home, his journe...
2016-10-20 16:45:14 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's guest has seen the end of the world. Enrique's favorite game growing up gave players a choice about who they could save before an impending apocalypse -- and of course, you can't save ever...
2016-10-13 17:03:11 +0000 UTC View Post
For many of us, going home to the place where you grew up can be, at best, stressful. But what if you could recreate just the good parts of your childhood home -- the TV shows that kept you company an...
2016-10-06 16:41:57 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest this week is Jason Merrell, who was desperate to leave his repressive religious community. Finally, he thought he'd found a way -- it just required that he make a deal with his parents. That ...
2016-09-29 08:17:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Who can you trust to keep your secrets safe? Well that might depend on the secret. Jonathan Federico wasn't sure the people in his life could handle the truth about him, so he entrusted the truth to f...
2016-09-15 05:24:18 +0000 UTC View Post
We all have alter egos -- most of us more than one. There's the person you are at work, the person you are online, the fun person you are when splashing around at the beach, the responsible person you...
2016-09-08 05:24:36 +0000 UTC View Post
What happens to fussy little boys who love musical theater and have lots of feelings? If they're lucky, they grow up to be fearless women. My guest this week is the fabulous Miss Coco Peru, who you've...
2016-09-01 16:12:15 +0000 UTC View Post
How far can passion take you? My guest this week is Ted Biaselli, a TV development executive who's had a hand in shows from My Little Bony to Elvira's Movie Macabre. I've had the lovely pleasure of kn...
2016-08-25 15:54:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Why do villains get to have all the fun? Surely you've noticed that Darth Vader has a better time than Luke Skywalker, that the Joker relishes his misdeeds, and that Skeletor lives in a party house. O...
2016-08-18 16:48:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Would you rather travel the world to seek out new experiences, or create new experiences in your own home town? My guest this week is Chicago theater person AK ...
2016-08-11 15:19:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Is it better to hope for the best and risk disappointment, or expect the worst and be pleasantly surprised? My guest this week is Daniel Krolik, one of the ...
2016-08-04 15:49:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Do you ever find yourself engaging in self-sabotage? Maybe you avoid important work or important people. Or you dismiss your potential. Or you lie about yourself to yourself. Or you surround yourself ...
2016-07-28 16:31:06 +0000 UTC View Post
You know that saying about finding a job where you love what you do, and you'll never work a day in your life? My guest this week did just that when he became a cou...
2016-07-21 17:06:35 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the most generous gifts you can give someone is listening to them. It's a habit that some people just never picked up. But others have refined it to an art form. My guest this week is Dennis He...
2016-07-14 17:00:28 +0000 UTC View Post
What is it about strong women that gay men find so irresistible? Whether it's a golden girl or Bayonetta or, as is the case for this week's guest, Madonna, there's something extra inspiring to us abou...
2016-07-07 16:06:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Many of us grew up with some kind of authority who kept us from exploring gay culture -- it might've been a parent, or a priest, or school. Now imagine if that authority was a military dictator. And i...
2016-07-01 16:13:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Before Pride, before gay marriage, before disco, before most of what we recognize today as gay culture, there was Greenwich Village. It's the gay enclave that invented gay enclaves, a place where you ...
2016-06-23 17:22:18 +0000 UTC View Post
How far would you go to find your chosen family? Some of us are lucky enough to find our tribe in the town where we grew up. Others had to travel to the nearest big city. And my guest this week moved ...
2016-06-16 16:55:24 +0000 UTC View Post
As a flamboyant kid in Texas, humor was Bryan's protection in situations where standing out might otherwise have been risky. He escaped to the big city he'd always dreamed of to become an actor, and f...
2016-06-09 14:13:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi friends! Thanks to everyone who nominated The Sewers of Paris for a podcast award, it's made the list of finalists. Hooray! But I need your vote to win. If you have a moment, could you go give it y...
2016-06-06 16:20:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Listener Alert! The Sewers of Paris is up for a Podcast Award, hooray! But I need your help to win. 2016-06-02 14:33:45 +0000 UTC View Post
You may think you already know a lot about Conner, given that you've probably seen him naked in such films as Dad Goes to College, Hot House Backroom Volume 18, andBrief Encounters.
But Co...
2016-05-26 15:03:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Patrons! There was a little posting snafu with the May 5 episode and it didn't go live here on Patreon. Sorry it's coming to you a bit late! But here it is. Hope you enjoy it!
What wou...
2016-05-23 14:39:03 +0000 UTC View Post
You might be familiar with the work of this week's guest. Terry drew a comic that everyone was passing around a few months ago called 2016-05-19 15:23:52 +0000 UTC View Post
