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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?
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Lisa Loeb is Following Me (Reality Bites/Damian) (opens the original)
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My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris is Damian Pelliccione , who started his career as an actor — if you watch closely, you can catch him on a 2005 episode of Gillmore Girls . Twenty years later, he’s in a very different role, as the co-founder and CEO of the streaming video service Revry . That service hosts an eclectic mix of queer-themed movies, shows, and original web series (including King of Drag , which just launched its second season). But despite having dedicated the last decade of h
The Go-Out Girls (Ep 582 - Alaska Thunderf*ck/Rocky Horror) (opens the original)
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Like everyone on Earth, I’ve been looking back at the work of both Dolly Parton and Tim Curry, in absolute awe of everything they gave us. For this week’s episode of The Sewers of Paris , we’re revisiting an interview that touched on both Dolly and Tim: My 2018 conversation with the drag performer who now goes by Alaska, and her longtime friend and collaborator Jeremy Mikush. We talk about all about their early influences, watching Rocky Horror together on a little laptop screen, and also the cr
Watching Two Porcupines Mate (The Thomas Crown Affair/Mike) (opens the original)
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My guest this week has a track record of going viral — whether he wanted to or not. Mike Aylesworth’s first brush with fame was as a teenager in the late 90s when he challenged the Boy Scouts’ ban on gay members… then in adulthood when he dreamed up an invention in the bathtub that changed his life, first for the better and then for the worse. He’s written about his work with the Scouts (and how that turned into work against the Scouts for awhile) in an upcoming book entitled Boy Pageant . As yo
I Came Out with the Latinos (Ep 580 - The Birdcage/Tony Rodriguez) (opens the original)
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You might recognize the voice of this week’s Sewers of Paris guest — Tony Rodriguez plays Julio on The Simpsons , a role originated by Hank Azaria. This part didn’t come to Tony in the way you might expect. It was a combination of talent, training, taking some very bold initiative, and an intercession from the podcast Gayest Episode Ever . As you can imagine, being cast on The Simpsons was the opportunity of a lifetime … and it was fitting, since Tony’s initial inspiration to become an actor cam
Horny is a Response (Ep 579 - Batman & Robin/Jack) (opens the original)
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My guest this week is writer and historian Jack Shoulder. You might know him from his daily social media posts focusing on butts from across art history, or for his upcoming book Museum Hotties… which is about exactly what it sounds like. As a kid, Jack’s interest in classical sculpture was inspired, in part, by the muscular contours of superhero costumes… and much of his work today is an exploration of how that’s an interest shared by many folks over thousands of years. And sometimes, that mean
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