Matt Baume

It's hard to believe this was only about ten years ago... but as various states and finally the Supreme Court let same-sex couples get married, there was a big cluster of TV shows with episodes about queer folks getting married. There was Brooklyn 99, there was Modern Family, and one of the cutest w

I'm hitting the road this week, or hitting the rail, to do some talks and some research overseas! I'm looking for the great queer sitcoms of Europe and discovering ... wait a minute, why are there so few compared to the US? I've found a few theories about why European countries take a very different

Hello there! For my most recent YouTube video, I did some research into the early days of PBS (and its predecessor, NET), and came across a lot of fun Julia Child stuff that I didn't have room for in the final video. But I thought you'd get a kick out of a couple of clips in which she screws things

Hello there! For this week's bonus video, we're plucking Fred Rogers out of his neighborhood and sending him to Washington to scold a senator about giving PBS more money. But wait, there's more! Years later, Fred returns -- this time, to court, where he testifies in favor of our very good friend, th

Hello there! My travels continue this week, and for this week's bonus video I have a story about a big fight between a writer and an actor. At issue: Writer Armistead Maupin was FURIOUS that the actor in Tales of the City was pretending to be straight. But who was the actor??? It's a mystery, but pe

Hello there! I'm coming to you from the road this week, with a bonus video about two very different topics: First, from my most recent YouTube video, some details about the very 90s fashion on My So-Called Life (and the unlikely career of the show's wardrobe guy); and second, as a preview of my next