Matt Baume

Hello there! For this week's bonus video, I'm recovering from a bit of laryngitis but that can't stop me from chattering away about some intriguing queer films that you almost definitely have never heard of! As I've mentioned before, there are around 100 queer and queer-ish films, produced between 2

Well hello there! I've got a great big hour-long video about Rock Hudson coming your way next week, but in the mean time here's a video about his incredible agent -- the notorious Henry Willson, one of the sleaziest creeps in Hollywood history. Henry's specialty was representing unbelievably handsom

Hello there! I took a quick research-trip down to Los Angeles this week to visit the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' archives, and did my best to untangle all the lies, myths, and misdirections surrounding the marriage of Rock Hudson -- a closeted film star whose career began in the 1950s

Hello there! In this week's bonus video we're exploring the fairy-tale wedding of Rock Hudson, and by "fairy-tale" I mean that it was largely imaginary. In the 1950s, queer people had to go to extraordinary lengths to hide in plain sight, and Rock (and his unpleasant agent, Henry Willson) did everyt