A bisexual countess seeks a psychiatrist to cure her craving for blood. Dracula's Daughter is an unusual film. Anne R...

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....

Isaac, an awkward college student, meets Beauford, his high school crush, on the ferry to Provincetown. Summer Kiss aired on Connect...

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 ...

 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...

 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 ...

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 ...

A reporter investigates the disappearance of a famous glam rocker. Todd Haynes’s Velvet Goldmine explores a movement that al...

 A teenager falls for a predatory teacher at her French finishing school. Olivia is based on the novel by Dorothy Strachey....

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...

Rainbow Colored Glasses starts season four with a look at Paul Oremland’s 1998 film Like It Is. A boxer from Blackpo...

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

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...

 An author investigates the death of a young woman. Hasse Ekman's Girl with Hyacinths has been affectionately called "The Lesbian Citizen Kane." 

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...

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. 

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...

In 1987 two TV specials dealt with the challenges of coming out in your teens. What if I'm Gay? aired on CBS in the afternoon. Two of Us was pushed to a late night spot by the timid BBC. My guests and I look at ...

 In 1984 French Canadian flight attendant Gaétan Dugas was falsely accused of bringing H.I.V. to America. He was dubbed “Patient Zero.” In 1993 John Greyson wrote and directed a movie musical about the myth.

In Our Sons Julie Andrews and Ann-Margret play the disapproving mothers of a gay couple (Hugh Grant and Zeljko Ivanek). Zeljko’s dying of AIDS so the women go on a road trip to visit them. Cue fights, tears and a sprinkling of camp. Th...

William Wyler first adapted Lilian Hellman’s play The Children’s Hour to the screen in 1936. In 1961 he produced an uncensored remake. My guests had contrasting resp...

The Fruit Machine (aka Wonderland) is an ambitious, frustrating film. Two gay teens witness a murder and go on the lam. One falls in love with a se...

Patrick Wilde's Get Real follows a teen writer who falls in love with a closeted jock. My guest had a rosier view of the romance in 1998 than he does now.&n...

Welcome to Season Two! Basil Deardon’s Victim pits a closeted barrister against a blackmailer. The film bravely denounced the UK’s

Our season concludes with a look at Beautiful Thing. Jonathan Harvey's gay teen romance is as charming today as it was in 1996.