Matt BaumeArts
Matt BaumeArts

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Revealing stories about the books, movies, tv, music and more that have changed the lives of gay men. Each week, a guest plucks a piece of entertainment from their past, and answers the question: how did it change your life?

  • The Weirdest Possible Fellowship (Ep 548 Flipper/Tom)
    Flipper, La Cage Aux Folles, and TED Talks
  • The Wonderful Queerness of Oz (Ep 547 - Terry Blas, Josh Trujillo, Emma McMahan, and Dee Michel)
    The Wizard of Oz
  • Fairies and Mortals Can't Get Married (Ep 546 The Wizard of Oz/Dee)
    The Wizard of Oz, gay folk dances, and Communism
  • Give Yourself a Little Pleasure (Ep 545 - Christmas film noir/Alonso Duralde)
    holiday films, Christmas film noir, and butter
  • It Makes Every Gay Bone in my Body Vibrate (Ep 544 - Broadway/Stephen Oremus)
    Annie, Grease, Xanadu, and Alice Cooper
  • Janky and Dark: (Ep 543 - Maurice Sendak/Trung)
    Maurice Sendak, The Snow Queen, and Grave of the Fireflies
  • I Was Born This Way (Ep 542 - Bewitched/Wellington)
    Bewitched, Star Trek, and I Was Born This Way
  • It Scared the Sh*t out of Me (Ep 541 - Halloween/Jim)
    Halloween, The Harvey Milk Show, and awards season
  • Swept Away by Dracula (Ep 540 - Frankenhooker/Jeffrey)
    Grease, horror films, and Frankenhooker
  • It Was Really Dark and Kind of Scary (Ep 539 - The Neverending Story/Mark Waddell)
    The Neverending Story, Narnia, and Dr. Who
  • Demons & Ghosts (Ep 538 - The Addams Family/Hamish Steele)
    Dr Who, Queer as Folk, and Addams Family Values
  • I Bluffed (Ep 537 - David/Winter Kept us Warm)
    French New Wave and the Canterbury Tales
  • The Lure of London (Ep 536 - Dr Who/Lee and David)
    Dr. Who, Eastenders, and Prisoner in Cell Block H
  • Feeding the Hungry & Getting Close to the Naked (Ep 535 - Next to Normal/Joseph)
    My guest this week is the Reverend Joseph Peters-Mathews, the vicar of St. Hilda St. Patrick Episcopal Church in Lynnwood Washington. Joseph’s path to the clergy took him from the small-town South to New York City, along the way developing a love for musical theater that he puts to work in his sermons … and that inspired him and his husband to propose to each other.We’ll have that conversation in just a minute. First — if you’re enjoying The Sewers of Paris, I hope you’ll consider supporting the show on Patreon at Patreon.com/mattbaume. You may also enjoy my YouTube videos about the making of iconic movies and TV shows. I have a new one out about why the X-Men are so very gay. And check out my weekly livestreams on Twitch where we’re about to start a watch-along of Victor/Victoria, starring Julie Andrews; my book Hi Honey, I’m Homo!; and my email newsletter full of stories about the making of gay movies and TV. There’s links to all that in the episode shownotes, and at MattBaume.com.
  • What makes X-Men so Queer? (Ep 534 - JP Karliak & Anthony Oliveira)
    The X-Men
  • Thirst Trap Daddies (Ep 533 - Star Trek/David)
    Star Trek, the distant future, and the distant past
  • It was a Rock Concert (Ep 532 - A Star is Born/Jon Kinnally)
    A Star is Born, All in the Family, and Uncabaret
  • Old Enough to be a Geek (Ep 531 - Star Trek/Seán)
    Star Trek and When Love Comes to Town
  • Your Secret Would be Out (Ep 530 - Planet of the Apes/Bill)
    Tarzan, Murphy Brown, and My So-Called Life
  • The Great Movie Ride (Ep 529 - Turner Classic Movies/Christian)
    The Wizard of Oz, Turner Classic Movies, and The Great Movie Ride at Disneyland