Bonus video! Rock references, Spencer Tracy blows a kiss, and one hundred missing gay movies

Late in getting to you, but here's a super bulky hat I did a few years ago: https://www.ravelry.com/projects/cam295/cozy-popcorn-hat

Jeffrey (1995) didn't disappear, you can stream it on Amazon, but I'm surprised it didn't have a lasting cultural presence. In theaters it was a cult favorite for both for the up front male love story and Patrick Stewart's big shift from Star Trek. Today it would be called meme worthy but you quote Sterling and no one gets it.

Vegas rec: the Drag Brunch at Senor Frog's!

The only queer Las Vegas history I can think of is the Liberace Museum, but I'm not sure it still exists. Random queer related thoughts: I just finished watching the new mini-series "Archie" about the life of Cary Grant. I found it somewhat disappointing and very depressing, as he had a terrible childhood. Disappointing because they completely glossed over his relationship with Randolph Scott. Nothing at all unusual about 2 guys sharing a house For 12 Years! Anyway, it reminded me of Cary in drag in the movie "I Was a Male War Bride", 'cause why not. While checking Cary's info on IMDB I ran across one of those user lists, Gay Actors of Golden Age Hollywood, and who should I see on it but Cesar Romero! I had never heard any gay rumors about him, but checking his bio I found that he had no wife or significant other and no children. So maybe??? Speaking of old gay actors, I'm sure you're aware of Jack Larson, who played Jimmy Olsen on the George Reeves Superman series in the 1950s. He supposedly dated Montgomery Cliff and became a successful composer and playwright. Definitely a step up from Jimmy Olsen!

Straight Jacket is streaming free on Tubi.

Okay, I don't have any Las Vegas recommendations, but last video you were asking about queer stuff from the silent era, and I have been having some thoughts about that, so... here goes! First off, Alla Nazimova's Salome (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXDoeDD9h64). An adaptation of a play by Oscar Wilde, with sets and costumes closely based on the Aubrey Beardsley illustrations, made by a woman who was probably a lesbian, and rumoured to have had a largely or exclusively gay cast and crew. Also, though, there is some stuff going on around that time that isn't exactly queer, but is kind of queer-adjacent. For example, the silent slapstick comedies, which mark the first time that a significant element of popular story-telling featured small, wimpy men winning the girl - frequently from under the nose of bigger, more traditionally masculine guys. Chaplin and Keaton, the most popular slapstick stars, were both short and skinny. Then you get the very earliest badass female leads, in things like The Hazards of Helen (one of the most long-running of the early film serials, with more than 100 episodes; clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gaips9GaxZQ), and Two Little Rangers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DB-5a2qwFM - I can't find a version with English intertitles, but the basic plot is more or less still decipherable, or you could use Google Translate). Before this, female lead characters were allowed to be emotionally spunky, but not physically tough or good at fighting. To the best of my awareness, at least, and I'd be interested if you know anything to the contrary! So, male leads being allowed to be wimpy, female leads being allowed to be tough; these things point to a bit of a loosening of rigid rules on gender-based behaviour, which often goes hand in hand with queerness also being seen as perhaps a bit more okay. I have no idea if any of this is what you were after, but I thought I'd weigh in just in case! Anyway, Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays/Io Saturnalia!