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This Week's Guest: Conor Patrick

Do you know all of your family secrets? And is it possible that you might be one of them? My guest this week is Conor Patrick, whose work you can catch right now on on Cinemax -- he's a script coordin...

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Join us for a Sewers of Paris Live Video Chat About Drag!

Chat with us live: Saturday, May 7, at noon PST

We're back with another super homosexual live vide...

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Listener Alert: Nominate The Sewers of Paris for a Podcast Award!

Hey friends! The annual podcast awards are accepting nominations right now, so if you've been enjoying The Sewers of Paris, now's the time to 2016-04-29 14:37:41 +0000 UTC View Post

I'm in the Whore Houses and the Leper Colonies (Ep. 58 - Robbie Turner)

Who taught you how to be beautiful? My guest this week made a lifelong study of the most beautiful woman he knew, his mother, even going so far as to transform into a character who bears an uncanny re...

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I Needed to Feel at Home in my Home (Ep. 56 - Matilda)

How old were you when you first realized that no adult has any idea what they're doing? When you're a kid, it's easy to look up to your parents and teachers and bank tellers and taxi drivers like they...

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My Cat Makes Me Laugh a Lot (Ep. 55 - Bette Midler)

My guest this week is writer and comedian H. Alan Scott, whom you may know as co-host of the fabulous Out on the Lanai podcast. But he first came to my attention when I was working as a nightlife phot...

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Don't Follow Rules (Ep. 54 - Indie Rock, Chiptunes, and Video Games)

How can you tell the difference between a rule that's best followed and a rule that's best broken? Some guidelines are there to help, like, stay out of the lion pit. But others are just rules for the ...

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My Land's Only Borders Lie Around my Heart (Ep. 53 - Chess, Mariah, and Wicked)

My guest this week is Jean-Paul Bevilacqua, who's probably best known for appearing on the show One Girl Five Gays. But he's more than just a fifth of a panel. He's a bundle of raw emotions. Despite t...

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If You Can Survive it, do it (Ep. 52 - Gay New York in the 70s & 80s)

My guest this week is Mark Finley. Again. I spoke to Mark last week about his career as an actor and talent coordinator, fleeing his small town and meeting his heroes. Mark shared so many incredible m...

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That's a Life in the Theater (Ep. 51 - Lily Tomlin, Carol Burnett)

"There was an incident and I was found to be insane," Mark reveals on this week's episode, "because my flamboyant behavior was disruptive."

Mark's been around long enough to remember when being gay ...

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I Embrace Being High-Strung (Ep. 50 - Louis Virtel & Jeopardy!)

"For trivia people, Jeopardy! is The Hajj," Louis Virtel says on this week's episode of The Sewers of ...

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Join us for a musical theater live-chat this Saturday!

Hey hi! If you liked hearing about fabulous lady actresses on this week's Sewers of Paris, you'll definitely want to join us for this Saturday's live video chat. We'll be talking all about musical the...

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You've Got to Appeal to the Queens (Ep. 49 - Judy Garland, Shelly Duvall, Golden Girls)

My guest this week has been putting out a podcast of his own for years, and yet listeners have never heard his voice. Or at least not his real voice. They've heard him as Judy Garland, or as Carol Cha...

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Being Gay is Hilarious (Ep. 48 - Dawson's Creek)

"I didn't come out," says comedian David Morgan on this week's episode of The Sewers of Paris. "I confirmed rumors."

British listeners will know David from the show Safeword, where a panel of co...

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It's the Sewers of Paris Valentine's Day Special!


On most episodes, we're on a search for entertainment that changed the lives of gay men. But this week, for Valentine's Day, I'm doing something special. This week's episode is a little ro...

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Doing Cosplay my Whole Life (Ep. 46 - X-Men & Cosplay)

What part of your body are you the most self-conscious about? For me, it's my forehead, which every time I look in a mirror seems to be bulging out over my face like it's trying to tear itself away fr...

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The Joke of Being Gay (Ep. 45 - Polyester & Arrested Development)

So many of us grew up in a sub to some city's urb. Close enough to know that there's life beyond the split-level ranches and strip malls, but not close enough to know what that life actually is.
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Join our Queer as Folk live video chat this Saturday!

It's a Sewers of Paris live video chat! Featuring past-guest Raymond Millerand future-guest 2016-01-27 22:37:06 +0000 UTC View Post

The Person I was in Namibia and the Person I am Now (Ep. 44 - Desperate Housewives)

Suburban housewives, high school choruses, moving away to college -- these are all icons of normalcy. Nothing could be more ordinary and boring and familiar. But what if things were flipped, and the t...

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Join me for a live video chat today!

Hey there friends and patrons! Please join me today, Saturday, at 12pm pacific time for a live video chat.

When I started this Patreon last month, I wasn't sure if anyone would support the show ...

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The Best Smut You'll Ever Read (Ep. 43 - Anais Nin)

On any average day, how many people are you? There's morning-you, when your eyes are just barely open and your mood is grumpy. There's work-you, proficient and capable. There's going-out-you, relaxed ...

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I'm Not an Expert, Except that I Have a Heart (Ep. 42 - Captain Kirk)

What's the biggest chance you ever took? In a perfect world, risk would be unnecessary, and we'd know the outcome of every action before we took it. But as the saying goes, nothing ventured, nothin...

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My Mom Had to Look up "Homosexual" at the Library

You have no doubt seen Jack in dozens of roles already, whether it's as Barrett on Ellen or as an alien in a milk commercial. But one of my favorite characters is a nervous little twink in the movie G...

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Happiest of the Holidays from the Sewers of Paris Podcast!

Happiest, merriest, most magical of holidays to you from the Sewers of Paris podcast! Check out the full holiday special to hear a cavalcade of guests sharing memories of their favorite holiday entert...

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The Sewers of Paris Holiday-Special Special

Oh dear, I'm spending Christmas all alone in the sewers with no one to keep me company -- but wait! What's this? Santa seems to have delivered me a sack full of guests to talk all about their favorite...

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Thanks for joining me in the Sewers of Paris

Well hello! I'm thrilled beyond words that you're helping to make The Sewers of Paris possible. With your help, I can focus on keeping the show humming along without worrying about ads or payin...

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