Bonus video! A Saucy Gay Song From 1935, and Cinema's First Gay Dads
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 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
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This 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
Oh wow this is great, thank you!
For 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.
Just what I'm looking for, thank you!!!
Hi Matt, pre-ordered your book today. Keep up the good work! :)
Yay thanks! Hope you like it! :D
The 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
I 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.
OMG yes please!!!
Still looking, but this may be a contender for first American same-sex parent couple in feature film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_Design
In 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.
About 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.”
Are you familiar that this existed? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiPhc5KD50A&t=30s
Oh WOW, amazing. I thought it was Spike from Buffy at first!
La 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).
Google offers a lot on Bruz Fletcher: http://www.tyleralpern.com/bruz.html https://queermusicheritage.com/fletcher.html etc.....
Holy cow this is so much more interesting than I even imagined!
Oh “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.