Matt Baume

I knew that the book Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask might be a little dated, but I wasn't prepared for the sheer VOLUME of misunderstandings, ignorance, and outright lies! First published in the late 60s, it's probably one of the most widely-read sex education

I've recently come across a FASCINATING movie artifact from the mid-60s, a film called "Billie" that's based on a play about a girl who wants to try out for the boys' football team. Not only is it an oddly modern concept (including its depiction of stuffy adults who are OUTRAGED by the idea of young

Happy mother's day, let's talk about the horniest mom in the galaxy! I've dug up some fascinating behind-the-scenes details about Star Trek, the character Lwaxana Troi, and the real-life saucy shenanigans going on behind the scenes of the show from the 1960s to the 1990s. Plus! If you're as excited

Hello there! I'll have a great big new video for you next weekend about An American Family, but in the mean time here's some more fun stories about another unscripted show, Candid Camera. We'll start with the time the producer was involved in an airplane hijacking that was assumed at first to be a p

Hello there! For this week's bonus video, I thought you might like a closer look at some of the movies that followed through the door that Victim opened: Brave films that included even more queer content like Taste of Honey, The Leather Boys, If..., and Sunday Bloody Sunday. (One little correction:

This week, March 17, marks 54 years since the premiere of the groundbreaking film The Boys in the Band. Set in a New York apartment in the 1960s and based on the play by Mort Crowley, it was one of the first major movies to feature majority-queer characters. And to mark that 54th birthday, for this

A new biopic just debuted on Netflix entitled Rustin, about the incredible life of Bayard Rustin — a civil rights leader who worked with Martin Luther King Jr. And this week, we’re diving into the Sewers of Paris archives to hear my 2017 interview with Bayard’s surviving partner, Walter Naegle, as w

Hello! As of this week, all of the Patreon bonus videos should be transferred from Vimeo to YouTube -- which should mean an end to the "video not found" errors. Now that the change-over is done, everything ought to play normally. But if you run into any errors or weird behavior, please let me know s

My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast left his old life behind to chase dreams of freedom with the love of his life. Buck Jones was working a corporate job with a homophobic boss when he and his then-boyfriend, now-husband sold their home and moved overseas to open a little café in Paris.

My guest this week is Rob Urbanati, a New York playwright and director. He had a unique upbringing — he grew up openly gay in a small suburb in the 1960s, and people were generally accepting. That gave him an unusual freedom to explore the gay scene, the hippie scene, the club scene, and the drug sc

As we reach the conclusion of a particularly busy Pride month, I wanted to dive back into the Sewers of Paris archives for a conversation with someone who knew Greenwich Village in the years before Stonewall. The Village is the gay enclave that was the model for many of the enclaves we know today, a