A Piece of Pie: The Queer Film Podcast
Episodes
Something’s Gotta Give & The Family Stone
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Click here to send us a message!This week we're celebrating the late, great Diane Keaton. Contributor and playwright Keegon Schuett returns to th...
Django Unchained & Inherent Vice
26 Nov 2025
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Click here to send us a message!With Paul Thomas Anderson's newest One Battle After Another in theaters and heavily favored in the Awards convers...
All of Us Strangers & Queer
14 Nov 2025
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Click here to send us a message!This week we're discussing two of cinema's most celebrated queer filmmakers, Luca Guadagnino and Andrew Haig...
From Dusk Till Dawn & The Faculty
31 Oct 2025
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Click here to send us a message!Just in time for Halloween, we're revisiting two of our favorite classic 90's horror flicks. Fresh off an Ac...
Love Lies Bleeding
18 Jul 2025
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Click here to send us a message!This week we’re joined by Raina Deerwater, Associate Director and Research Analysis at GLAAD! She joins to discuss t...
Angels in America
04 Jul 2025
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Click here to send us a message!This week we're finally discussing Tony Kushner's masterpiece, Angels in America. As Chicago's own Invi...
The Matrix & John Wick
20 Jun 2025
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Click here to send us a message!This week, Brian is joined by writer Sezin Devi Koehler, who quite literally wrote the book on Keanu Reeves. Her book,...
Y Tu Mama También & Challengers
24 May 2025
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Behind the Candelabra & Bohemian Rhapsody
09 May 2025
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Click here to send us a message!This week we’re taking a look at two very different queer icons. Musical geniuses Freddie Mercury and Liberace each ...
The Doom Generation
25 Apr 2025
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Click here to send us a message!This week we’re joined by film scholar Syd Wrigley, who joins the podcast to discuss Gregg Araki’s famed Teen Apoc...
1-800-ON HER OWN (with director Dana Flor)
04 Apr 2025
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Click here to send us a message!This week we have an interview with director Dana Flor discussing her new documentary, 1-800-ON-HER-OWN, an intimate l...
Yentl
21 Mar 2025
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Click here to send us a message!This week we're joined by writer Alonso Duralde, author of Hollywood Pride to discuss Barbra Streisand's dir...
Oscars 2025
07 Mar 2025
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Click here to send us a message!We only have one tradition here at Piece of Pie, and that's our annual Oscar episode. We started this little podc...
All That Heaven Allows & Polyester
21 Feb 2025
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Click here to send us a message!This week we're joined by Chicago's Joan Waters, local drag queen and John Waters super fan, and we're ...
The People's Joker (with director Vera Drew)
24 Jan 2025
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Click here to send us a message!Brian interviews filmmaker, writer and actor Vera Drew about her debut film, The People's Joker. Produced on a sh...
Wicked
12 Dec 2024
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Click here to send us a message!We're saying goodbye to a tumultuous 2024 by discussing one of the year's biggest, and arguably gayest, box ...
Terms of Endearment & Steel Magnolias
01 Nov 2024
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Click here to send us a message!We’re closing out spooky season with a couple of tear-jerkers. In one of our most poignant episodes, Brian opens up ...
Megalopolis
19 Oct 2024
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Click here to send us a message!Brian and Max went to the Alamo Drafthouse to catch one of the year's most talked about films of the year, Franci...
Point Break & Speed
05 Oct 2024
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Click here to send us a message!By now, Keanu Reeves is an accomplished action star with two multi-billion dollar franchises to his name. But this wee...
Crash (1996) & Titane
29 Aug 2024
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Click here to send us a message!This week we're joined by "The Horror Dyke," Heather O. Petrocelli as we take a look at David Cronenber...
The Hateful Eight & Phantom Thread
08 Aug 2024
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Click here to send us a message!Our newest contributor Paul rejoins the podcast as Max and Brian revisit their series pairing off the films of Quentin...
Smiley Face & Kaboom
26 Jul 2024
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Click here to send us a message!This week we’re taking a look at two films from Gregg Araki. One of the architects of the New Queer Cinema movement ...
A Night to Remember & Titanic
11 Jul 2024
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Click here to send us a message!This week we're joined by film scholar Paul T. Klein, as he brings a queer appraisal to one of the biggest box of...
Pride & Stonewall
28 Jun 2024
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Click here to send us a message!As we head into the final stretch of #Pride2024 we’re taking a look at a couple of movies that attempt to dramatize ...
Pink Flamingos
14 Jun 2024
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Click here to send us a message!We're celebrating Pride 2024 by introducing Pink Flamingos to a contributor who'd never seen a John Waters m...
The Talented Mr. Ripley
16 May 2024
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Click here to send us a message!With the recent release of Ripley on Netflix, Brian welcomes Max and Nick to discuss all things Tom Ripley. Since the ...
Midnight Cowboy & Beach Rats
03 May 2024
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Click here to send us a message!With celebrated out filmmaker John Schlesinger at the helm, 1969's Midnight Cowboy has entered the queer canon, f...
D.E.B.S. & Bottoms
29 Mar 2024
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Click here to send us a message!We're joined this week by writer Casey Snow, who brings her love of the lesbian spy comedy D.E.B.S. and we pair i...
Oscars 2024
12 Mar 2024
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Click here to send us a message!We don't have many yearly traditions here at The Queer Film Podcast, but we always make time for the Academy Awar...
The Love Witch
22 Feb 2024
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Click here to send us a message!Is the director of The Love Witch a cult visionary, or a TERF Tommy Wiseau? This week we're joined by Raphael Mar...
Maestro & Rustin
10 Feb 2024
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Click here to send us a message!With Oscar season in full swing, Brian and Chris are once again looking at the Best Actor race. This year, Bradley Coo...
There Will Be Blood & Inglorious Basterds
25 Jan 2024
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Click here to send us a message!We're revisiting our Quentin Tarantino / Paul Thomas Anderson series with two films that many would say are their...
Heathers & Mean Girls (2004)
11 Jan 2024
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Click here to send us a message!With a new Mean Girls in theaters, what better time to revisit the 2004 film that's become a classic. It's a...
The Long Kiss Goodnight & Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
15 Dec 2023
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Click here to send us a message!For our final episode of 2023, Brian and Max are celebrating a Shane Black Christmas!
Chocolate Babies (with director Stephen Winter)
30 Nov 2023
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The Social Network & The Wolf of Wall Street
19 Nov 2023
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Click here to send us a message!Two of Brian's favorite filmmakers have movies coming out in the last few months of 2023, so for this episode we ...
Christine & The Dead Zone
13 Oct 2023
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Click here to send us a message!Just in time for Halloween, Brian and Max return to discuss Stephen King adaptations! Back in 1983, when he was the ho...
Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed & Pillow Talk
29 Jul 2023
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Click here to send us a message!When Rock Hudson died of AIDS in 1985, it shocked much of the world. In Hollywood, his homosexuality was an open secre...
Pecker & Cecil B. DeMented
15 Jun 2023
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Click here to send us a message!For Pride month 2023, we're taking a look back at two of John Waters' later movies, Pecker & Cecil B Dem...
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
02 Jun 2023
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Click here to send us a message!We're kicking off Pride 2023 with a look at the ABBA-centric sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again! Host Brian had ...
Knife + Heart
04 May 2023
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Click here to send us a message!This week, we're joined by special guest Kyle Turner, writer of the new book, The Queer Film Guide. Brian and Mat...
Super Mario Bros. (1993) & The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
20 Apr 2023
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Click here to send us a message!In 1993, Hollywood adapted Super Mario Bros., then a hit Nintendo video game, into a live-action movie starring Bob Ho...
Punch-Drunk Love & Jackie Brown
30 Mar 2023
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Click here to send us a message!We're re-visiting a project we started a couple years ago, pairing the films of auteurs Paul Thomas Anderson and ...
The Oscars 2023
13 Mar 2023
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Click here to send us a message!It’s our sixth annual Oscar episode! Brian and Chris are talking about Hollywood’s biggest night!
Philadelphia & Dallas Buyers Club
02 Mar 2023
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Click here to send us a message!It's Oscar season, so we're taking a look at two controversial Academy Award winning movies! In 1993, Philad...
Fire Island & Bros
16 Feb 2023
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Click here to send us a message!Last year, the gay community was gifted not just one but TWO romantic comedies given release by major studios. Fire Is...
The Whale
12 Jan 2023
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Click here to send us a message!Another year, another straight actor playing queer in a quest for Oscar gold! This year, it's Brendan Fraser, the...
Episode 100
15 Dec 2022
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Click here to send us a message!We’re celebrating 100 episodes! To commemorate, Brian asked his contributors to come on and discuss their favorite q...
Frosty the Snowman & Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
01 Dec 2022
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Click here to send us a message!This year we're celebrating the holidays by taking a look at two of the most beloved Christmas movies of all time...
The Ice Storm & The House of Yes
17 Nov 2022
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Click here to send us a message!This year we’re celebrating Thanksgiving with Parker Posey, Sigourney Weaver and many more! Two films where dysfunct...
It Follows & X
27 Oct 2022
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Click here to send us a message!This Halloween season, we're taking a look at two recent horror films, 2014's It Follows and this year'...
Dog Day Afternoon & I Love You Phillip Morris
16 Sep 2022
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Click here to send us a message!Our two movies this week are based on real-life criminals who went to great lengths for love and lived the catch-phras...
A Streetcar Named Desire & Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
01 Sep 2022
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Click here to send us a message!This week we're taking a look back to the 1950's, the Hays Code, and repressed homosexuality. Tennessee Will...
Hairspray (1988 & 2007)
19 Aug 2022
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Click here to send us a message!In 1988, John Waters, the Sultan of Sleaze himself, released what might be called his sweetest movie, Hairspray. Starr...
Top Gun
19 May 2022
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Click here to send us a message!To celebrate the upcoming sequel, we asked contributor Rob to check out the original 1986 Top Gun, starring the newly ...
Romeo + Juliet & 10 Things I Hate About You
05 May 2022
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Click here to send us a message!Writer and contributor Lauren Emily Whalen returns to the podcast to discuss her new novel, Take Her Down, a YA re-tel...
Shortbus
21 Apr 2022
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Click here to send us a message!To celebrate the arrival of Shortbus to digital platforms, after being hard to find for over a decade, we are taking a...
Oscars 2022
31 Mar 2022
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Click here to send us a message!The very first episode of this podcast was focused on the 2018 Oscars and in this, our fifth annual look at Hollywood’...
The Power of the Dog
25 Mar 2022
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Click here to send us a message!This week we're taking an early look at an Oscar front-runner, Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog. Chris, f...
The 90’s Batman Movies
10 Mar 2022
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Click here to send us a message!To commemorate the release of an all-new Batman movie, we at Piece of Pie decided to take a look back! This time we’...
Flawless & Capote
27 Jan 2022
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Click here to send us a message!Phillip Seymour Hoffman was one of the greatest actors of his generation, and he tragically left us far too soon in 20...
Female Trouble
23 Dec 2021
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Click here to send us a message!To celebrate the holidays, Brian and Max slip on their cha-cha heels and take a look at John Waters’ Female Trouble!...
As Good as It Gets
09 Dec 2021
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Click here to send us a message!For this episode, we were joined by the hosts of the podcast "Gayest Episode Ever," Drew and Glen! Their pod...
The Scream Movies (1-4)
28 Oct 2021
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The Lost Boys & Flatliners
14 Oct 2021
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Click here to send us a message!Just in time for scary movie season, we are back with a look at two horror classics. In 1987, gay filmmaker Joel Schum...
Drop Dead Gorgeous & Miss Congeniality
16 Sep 2021
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Click here to send us a message!This week we're joined by Chicago's own drag queen Coco Sho-Nell to discuss movies about beauty queens! 1999...
When Harry Met Sally... & Sleepless in Seattle
02 Sep 2021
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Click here to send us a message!This week we're taking a look at two classic romantic comedies! Lauren joins Brian as they discuss When Harry Met...
Magnolia & Kill Bill
19 Aug 2021
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Click here to send us a message!We’re continuing our look back at the careers of Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson, as we pair up their two...
Rope & Strangers on a Train
05 Aug 2021
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Click here to send us a message!This week we’re putting on our film nerd caps and re-examining the legendary Alfred Hitchcock. With both Rope and St...
Marvel Cinematic Universe #3
22 Jul 2021
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Click here to send us a message!For this episode we're taking another look at the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and this time we have a special gues...
Identity & Serenity (2019)
15 Jul 2021
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Click here to send us a message!We're abandoning all pretensions for this episode, as we cover two beloved shlock-fests, 2003's Identity and...
Mala Noche & Poison
24 Jun 2021
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Click here to send us a message!We’re wrapping up Pride Month 2021 with a look back at two films that are now seen as precursors to the New Queer Ci...
Cruising & Basic Instinct
17 Jun 2021
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Click here to send us a message!Continuing our celebration of queer cinema for Pride 2021, we're turning our attention to some controversial film...
Trick & The Broken Hearts Club
10 Jun 2021
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Click here to send us a message!We're continuing our look back at formative gay films from the late-90's, as we look back at Trick and The B...
The Opposite of Sex & But I'm A Cheerleader
03 Jun 2021
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Click here to send us a message!For Pride 2021, Brian and Max are revisiting the seminal queer films of their teenage years, better known as the 1990’...
The Oscars 2021
26 Apr 2021
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Click here to send us a message!It's our fourth annual Oscar episode! We started this podcast discussing the 2018 Oscars so every year we make su...
Blade Runner & Blade Runner 2049
15 Apr 2021
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Click here to send us a message!For the first time ever, we're covering a film and it's sequel. The Ridley Scott classic Blade Runner redefi...
Promising Young Woman
01 Apr 2021
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Click here to send us a message!For the first time ever, we scrapped a planned pairing because one of the movies gave us enough to talk about. An Acad...
Showgirls
19 Mar 2021
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Click here to send us a message!We’re celebrating our 69th episode with the least sexy film of all time, the cult classic Showgirls! Is it a cutting...
My Own Private Idaho & The Living End
04 Mar 2021
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Click here to send us a message!After a few episodes in a row featuring queer adjacent stories made for straight audiences, we’re taking a look back...
My Best Friend’s Wedding & The Object of My Affection
12 Feb 2021
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Click here to send us a message!We’re continuing our look back at 90’s queer films made for straight audiences with My Best Friend’s Wedding and...
The Birdcage & In & Out
28 Jan 2021
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Click here to send us a message!This week we're finally covering two of the 1990's most iconic gay films; The Birdcage and In & Out. Arr...
Pulp Fiction & Boogie Nights
14 Jan 2021
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Click here to send us a message!For the second edition of our Quentin Tarantino/Paul Thomas Anderson pairings we’re discussing their second films Pu...
Happiest Season
25 Dec 2020
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Click here to send us a message!In our final episode of 2020, we take a look at Happiest Season, Hulu's new queer holiday movie! Directed by a le...
Contact & Interstellar
13 Nov 2020
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Click here to send us a message!We’re leaving the planet this week and taking Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey with us! We’re covering the 199...
Closet Monster & You’re Killing Me
30 Oct 2020
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Click here to send us a message!With just a few days left in October, we take a look at two horror-adjacent queer films. Closet Monster takes coming o...
The Descent & Jennifer's Body
22 Oct 2020
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Click here to send us a message!Even though 2020 has been plenty terrifying, we’re getting into the Halloween spirit! We’re joined by Lauren to di...
The Boys in the Band (2020)
07 Oct 2020
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Click here to send us a message!We covered the original queer classic, The Boys in the Band, back in June in celebration of pride. This month, Netflix...
Reservoir Dogs & Hard Eight
25 Sep 2020
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Click here to send us a message!Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson are two of their generation's most celebrated filmmakers. But, everyon...
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert & To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
27 Aug 2020
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Click here to send us a message!This week we're finally covering two of queer cinema's most famous road trips; To Wong Foo and Priscilla Que...
Romeos & The Skin I Live In
13 Aug 2020
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Click here to send us a message!We’re back! After a month off, we’re joined by activist Len DeWilde, who brings with him the transgender German ro...
Mary, Queen of Scots & The Favourite
02 Jul 2020
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Click here to send us a message!We're wrapping up Pride 2020 with a long look back, way back, to the sixteenth century with Mary, Queen of Scots....
9 to 5 & The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
18 Jun 2020
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Click here to send us a message!Continuing our celebration of Pride Month, this week we take a look at a couple of 1980's classics, each starring...
Milk & The Times of Harvey Milk
11 Jun 2020
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Click here to send us a message!Pride events are canceled all over the world; but pride can never truly be canceled. To celebrate our community, we&ap...
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? & The Boys in the Band (1970)
28 May 2020
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Click here to send us a message!We’re heading to Broadway this week, as we cover two queer classics based on plays. First, Elizabeth Taylor and Rich...
Ed Wood & Gods and Monsters
15 May 2020
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Click here to send us a message!This week, Max and Matt join Brian to discuss films about queer filmmakers! Ed Wood tells the tale of the titular dire...
Quarantine Special, Part 2
30 Apr 2020
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Click here to send us a message!Our celebration of fifty episodes continues into our 51st! To commemorate the milestone, Brian reached out to his cont...
Quarantine Special, part 1
24 Apr 2020
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Click here to send us a message!It's our 50th official episode!!! To celebrate, Brian used Zoom to get a hold of every single contributor to chec...
Safe & Contagion
24 Mar 2020
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Click here to send us a message!Just before our home state put us on Shelter in Place orders, Max and Brian got together to talk about the movie on ev...
The Others & A Quiet Place
19 Mar 2020
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Click here to send us a message!With the coronavirus putting the world in lockdown, it was only appropriate that we cover two horror films with isolat...