Matt Baume

Hello there! I've got a real whale of a bonus video for you this week. In my research into the movie Victim, I noticed that a lot of the queer roads kept leading back to -- for some reason -- Disney's Mary Poppins. A lot of the women in this film have astonishingly adventurous lives, from the people

Hello there! In this week's bonus video, we're diving into the coded double-talk in some 50s-era tabloids. What's the REAL agenda behind these magazines? It's not always as it seems, and I have a hunch that some articles about hunky himbo Tab Hunter were designed more to manipulate the star than sha

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

Hello there! In this week's bonus video we're taking a little peek at the love life of Tab Hunter -- and some of the very expensive lengths to which he went to keep those loves hidden. Tab's boyfriends include actor Anthony Perkins and ice skater Ronnie Robertson, as well as a blackmailer or two, an

Hello there! In this week's bonus video, we're taking a look at some highlights from the life & career of Anthony Perkins -- in particular, how guarded he had to be while being interviewed by Mike Wallace in the 1950s. On the outside, he was a young 20-something heartthrob, but secretly he was roman

(Hello! I'm trying something different video video embeds this week. Let me know if this works better or worse, and in case the videos are still giving you trouble, here's the backup link that should work: https://youtu.be/mbbzKYX0ais) Nathan Lane just gave a new interview where he talks about the t