
Rainbow Colored Glasses
A podcast that looks at LGBT+ cinema of the past and asks what it means today.
Episodes
42 episodes
Episode 41: The Boy and the Wind (1967)
The Boy in the Wind was called Brazil's first gay film. A teen vanishes. A witness has a supernatural explanati...
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Season 6
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Episode 41
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21:52

Episode 40: Making Love (1982)
A closeted doctor has an affair with a man. Should he tell his wife? Critics dismissed Making Love as boring. My guests gave me a ne...
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Season 6
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Episode 40
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26:43

Episode 39: Xenia (2014)
2014’s Xenia follows two Greek-Albanian brothers on a search of the father who abandoned them. Filmmaker Panos H. Koutras uses the story to examine the treatment of immig...
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Season 6
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Episode 39
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21:28

Episode 38: In & Out (1997)
Matt Dillon outs Kevin Kline in his Oscar speech. Kline insists he's not gay. Is he, or isn't he? We revisit Paul Rudnick's coming out comedy.
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Season 6
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Episode 38
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25:16

Episode 37: The Leather Boys (1964)
The Leather Boys follows Reggie, a naive biker, who's torn between his brassy wife and his gay best friend. Homosexual behavior was still illegal in the UK but t...
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Season 6
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Episode 37
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25:57

Episode 36: People in the Summer Night (1948)
People in the Summer Night (aka Ihmiset suviyössä) follows the members of a farming com...
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Season 6
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Episode 36
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27:11

Episode 35: Dracula's Daughter (1936)
A bisexual countess seeks a psychiatrist to cure her craving for blood. Dracula's Daughter is an unusual film. Anne R...
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Season 5
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Episode 35
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21:01

Episode 34: A Very Natural Thing (1974)
A New York school teacher searches for love in A Very Natural Thing. Christopher Larken's work is one of the first positive film depictions of queer romance....
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Season 5
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Episode 34
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20:06

Mini-sode: Summer Kiss (1987)
Isaac, an awkward college student, meets Beauford, his high school crush, on the ferry to Provincetown. Summer Kiss aired on Connect...
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Season 5
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4:15

Episode 33: Latter Days (2003)
In Latter Days an L.A. party boy attempts to seduce a Mormon missionary. My guest and I discuss this dramedy and take a brief look at the career of ex-Mormon singer ...
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Season 5
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Episode 33
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24:10

Episode 32: Staircase (1969)
In Staircase Rex Harrison and Richard Burton play a squabbling gay couple. The film was marketed as a "sad gay story." The stage play was a success in London. The film w...
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Season 5
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Episode 32
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23:50

Episode 31: G.B.F. (2013)
When a gay teen is outed, he is taken under the wing of the school's queen bees. They're convinced a Gay Best Friend (G.B.F.) will increase ...
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Season 4
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Episode 31
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24:26

Episode 30: The War Widow (1976)
We discuss The War Widow , one of the first lesbian films to feature a happy ending. It premiered on PBS on October 28, 1976 as part of the Visions ...
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Season 4
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Episode 30
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23:43

Episode 29: Velvet Goldmine (1998)
A reporter investigates the disappearance of a famous glam rocker. Todd Haynes’s Velvet Goldmine explores a movement that al...
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Season 4
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Episode 29
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21:36

Episode 28: Olivia (1951)
A teenager falls for a predatory teacher at her French finishing school. Olivia is based on the novel by Dorothy Strachey....
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Season 4
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Episode 28
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24:40

Episode 27: Coming Out (1979)
Coming Out aired in 1979 as part of the BBC’s Play for Today series. A closeted writer and his friends debate whether the LGBT+ community should assimilate or rebel. The discuss...
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Season 4
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Episode 27
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26:07

Episode 26: Like It Is (1998)
Rainbow Colored Glasses starts season four with a look at Paul Oremland’s 1998 film Like It Is. A boxer from Blackpo...
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Season 4
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Episode 26
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16:59

Episode 25: Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
Harry Styles recently starred in My Policeman. A film about a man juggling relationships with a woman and another man. This inspired me to revisit John Schlesinger’s classic
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Season 3
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Episode 25
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20:44

Episode 24: It Is Not the Homosexual… (1971)
We discuss a short film with a long title: It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives. Activist Rosa von Praunheim read Berlin’s gay...
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Season 3
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Episode 24
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20:48

Episode 23: Girl with Hyacinths (1950)
An author investigates the death of a young woman. Hasse Ekman's Girl with Hyacinths has been affectionately called "The Lesbian Citizen Kane."
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Season 3
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Episode 23
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26:42

Episode 22: Edge of Seventeen (1998)
Todd Stephens’ feature debut, Edge of Seventeen, was a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama. A gay teen in Sandusky, Ohio struggles to hold on to his old friend...
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Season 3
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Episode 22
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22:14

Episode 21: Gods and Monsters (1998)
Gods and Monsters examines the unlikely friendship between Hollywood director James Whale (Ian McKellen) and his naïve yard man (Brendan Fraser). My guest and I revisit Bill Condon’s ambitious tragicomedy.
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Season 3
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Episode 21
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24:55

Episode 20: Penda's Fen (1974)
Penda's Fen aired on the BBC on March 21, 1974. David Rudkin's screenplay follows a gay teen on an Alice in Wonderland style journey through England's pagan past. We attempt to parse Rudkin's thoughts on religion, sexuality, s...
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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17:31
