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Bonus Video! Unexpected Allies at the Top of the Disney Corporation
Hello there! For this week's bonus video, we're taking a look at how the Disney corporation went from being surprisingly debauched in the 1920s ... to pretty intolerant of gays ... to a place that (compared to other companies) was relatively welcoming by the 1990s. So, why did Disney executives star
Aug 25, 2024 0
Bonus video! The gay activist who caught a real-life murderer in The Exorcist
Hello there! I've got some more fun artifacts from my Yale research trip to share with you -- this time, some scribbles in scripts and early drafts from the sitcom Ellen. Plus! A group of very effective lesbians shutting down a particularly homophobic & antifeminist speaker on the Dick Cavett show.
Apr 21, 2024 0 1
June Q&A! Uhura's Improv, Cowboy Poets, & a "My Mother the Car" Mystery
Backup link in case the video doesn't play: https://youtu.be/428j8ljRpVs Hello there! I'm adding something new this month! Lately, a lot of Patrons have been sending me clips & questions & observations & whatnot, so I've decided to do a once-a-month Q&A video where I respond to some of the things yo
Jun 1, 2023 0
Bonus Video! The Mystery of the Ellen DeGeneres Robot
Backup link in case the video doesn't play: https://youtu.be/qOXWIbCL0m0 Hello there! In this week's bonus video, we're exploring the SUPER bizarre saga of the animatronic robot that Disney built in the 90s to promote both ABC sitcoms and the Exxon oil company. Why does it look SO terrible? I think
May 28, 2023 0 1
New video! The Story of Ellen's Coming Out
May 20, 2023 0
Bonus video! The lost Ellen DeGeneres Variety Show
Backup link in case the video doesn't play: https://youtu.be/35PzSd3xf1Y Hi there! In this week's bonus video, we're exploring the mystery of the Ellen DeGeneres Variety Show -- a program that was filmed but never broadcast in the late 90s. We're also looking at how Ellen's comedy career was nearly
May 7, 2023 0 1
Bonus video! Ellen versus the network executives
Backup link in case the video doesn't play: https://youtu.be/h0rDx-Fqq-E Hello! In this week's bonus video, I've got some fascinating clips of a TV executive speaking more frankly than he probably should have about the unfair "double standard" that they applied to Ellen's sitcom after she came out.
Apr 30, 2023 0 1
Bonus video! George Takei's big gay multiverse
Backup link if the video doesn't play: https://youtu.be/01-MXyE7-xk I'm trying something new with video embeds this week, but I'm not sure if it'll have any effect. Let me know if this works better/worse/the same! Hi there! For this week's video, we're diving into a few of the multiversal appearance
Apr 23, 2023 0 1
Trust it & Thrust it (Ep. 250 - Showgirls & Ellen/Patrick Bristow)
Sep 5, 2019 0