Matt Baume

Hello there! Whew, lots to talk about in this week's bonus video. Thanks to everyone who weighed in on my question last week about Dirk Bogarde not publicly coming out -- I really appreciate all your insights. And big thanks to patron James for the link to Dirk's fascinating interview with Russell H

My guest this week is Professor Paul Baker, a writer and linguist whose work includes some FASCINATING explorations of Polari, the secret 19-century queer language that existed in England a century ago. He’s also delved deep into the history of British don’t-say-gay laws, gay seafarers, and in an up

Next week would have been the 96th birthday of Kenneth Williams, an incredible British performer who hid queer culture in plain sight on the BBC back in the 1960s. For this week’s episode of The Sewers of Paris podcast, we’re diving all the way back into the archives to one of my very first episodes

This week on the Cozy Pants podcast, James and I have a bone to pick with Sir Andrew Lloyd Weber about this Love Never Dies musical -- a sequel to Phantom of the Opera that has everyone saying, "why?" We muse about a handful of other musicals, some of which are actually good. Listeners have written