Matt Baume

Hello there! Did you hear the one about the time Wayne Newton threatened to beat up Johnny Carson over some gay jokes? Or the one about Rodney Dangerfield's gay brother? Or how about the comic who got cut from the show for being too gay? Johnny had an often-contentious relationship with queer viewer

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

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

Hello there! In this week's bonus video, we're diving into some of the more obscure work by Victor Buono, the gay actor you may recognize as King Tut on Batman or as the uncomfortable pianist in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? As it turns out, in addition to being an excellent campy villain, he was

Hello there! I'm still traveling, but here's another bonus video for you. This week we've got a strange mystery about an NBC executive who was supposedly killed by a male hustler --a mystery that actually has a SOLUTION, unlike the generally wild speculation about Fran Drescher's connection to Seinf

When you look back on your life, who are the adults who were wiser than you realized at the time? My guest this week is NPR's Sonari Glinton. He grew up in Chicago, surrounded by amazing artists and curators who managed to steer him in the directions that were exactly what a little queer kid needed.