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Blogging A to Z; Queer Media
I’m doing this Blogging A to Z challenge for the month of April 2026, focusing on queer media – movies, TV, literature, etc. by, for, or about queer people. I’m using WordPress’ AI image generator. Some of the results are terrible and I’m using them anyway.
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Z is for Pedro Zamora
Pedro Zamora was a Cuban-American AIDS educator who appeared in MTV’s The Real World: San Francisco, its third season, in 1994. Zamora was the first person with AIDS to appear regularly on television. Diagnosed with HIV in 1989, Zamora shortly became a full-time AIDS educator, speaking to community groups, appearing…
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Y is for Yossi
Yossi Gutmann is a character, played by Ohad Knoller, at the center of two films from gay Israeli director Eytan Fox, one the end of a love story, the other the beginning of one. In the 2002 film Yossi & Jagger, Yossi is a company commander in the Israeli Defense…
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X is for X-Men
“Have you tried not being a mutant?” Bobby Drake’s (Iceman) mother in the 2000 movie X-Men, when she learns that he and the other kids at Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters have super powers. According to some stories, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created the X-Men as an allegory for…
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W is for Witches and Wizards
Considering the vast number of queer vampires in movies and TV, I expected to find something similar for witches and wizards, but there are surprisingly few. On TV, The Magicians, Agatha All Along, Shadowhunters, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Owl House, the Charmed reboot, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, American…
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V is for Vampires
In the late 18th, early 19th centuries, vampirism began to move from horrific folklore to romantic literature, through the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Christabel), Lord Byron (The Fragment), John Polidori (The Vampyre) and others. Its hard to say what the authors intended because of restrictions of the times, but…
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U is for Umbrella Academy
Umbrella Academy is a sci-fi superhero comedy drama series that ran on Netflix for four seasons. Based on the comic book series of the same name, (written by Gerard Way, lead singer of My Chemical Romance), it tells the story of the Hargreaves family: seven adopted siblings who were all…
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Aging in America
I fucked up my knee a few years back; you can google ruptured quadriceps tendon for the gory details. Full recovery was never on the table, but it’s fine most of the time. Though I am better off on flat sidewalks than lawns or hills or unpaved paths. Today I…
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T is for Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City is the first in a series of ten novels (the series is also referred to as Tales of the City) chronicling the lives of a group of friends in San Francisco from the 1970s into the 1990s. The first five books were originally published…
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S is for Sense8
Sense8 is a science fiction series created by Lana and Lilly Wachowski (the Matrix films) and J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5) about eight people all over the world who suddenly find themselves telepathically linked, able to communicate as well as share each other’s knowledge and skills. Born sensates, they don’t…
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R is for Rope
In 1948, Alfred Hitchcock directed a film adaptation of English playwright Patrick Hamilton’s 1929 play Rope, which was based on the 1924 murder of 14-year old Bobby Franks by University of Chicago graduate students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. In Hamilton’s play, two university students in Mayfair, London kill a…
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