Category: blogging a to z
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Blogging A to Z; Queer Media
I’m doing this Blogging A to Z challenge (http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/) for the month of April 2026. I did this 10 years ago – it was a last minute decision and pretty random. This month, I’m focusing on queer media – movies, TV, literature, etc. by, for, or about queer people. I’m…
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G is for God’s Own Country
Imagine if Brokeback Mountain was set in Yorkshire England and was a better movie. In God’s Own Country (2017), Josh O’Connor plays Johnny Saxby, a Yorkshire sheep farmer struggling to keep his family farm afloat. His father Martin has suffered a stroke, leaving Johnny to do all the work. What…
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F is for 4th Man Out
4th Man Out is a 2015 comedy about Adam (Evan Todd), an auto mechanic in a working class town somewhere in upstate NY, who comes out to his friends Chris (Parker Young), Nick (Chord Overstreet), and Ortu (Jon Gabrus) after a night of heavy drinking to celebrate his 24th birthday. …
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E is for Ellen
In 1994, a sitcom starring Ellen DeGeneres called These Friends of Mine debuted on ABC. To avoid confusion with the show Friends, it was renamed Ellen in its second season. The series revolved around Ellen Morgan, owner of an independent bookstore in Los Angeles, and her friends, coworkers, and family.…
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D is for Doing Time on Maple Drive
Doing Time on Maple Drive is a 1992 made for TV movie about a perfect American family imploding over the discovery that the golden child is gay. Matt Carter is the youngest sibling and golden child of the family. A student at Yale, Matt is recently engaged and brings his…
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C is for Call Me by Your Name
Call Me by Your Name, based on a novel of the same name, tells the story of a summer romance between 17-year old Elio Perlman, played by Timothee Chalamet in his breakout role, and 24-year old Oliver, who is not given a last name in the book or the movie,…
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B is for Brokeback Mountain
One night in the mid 90’s, Pulitzer Prize winning author Annie Proulx observed a middle-aged man watching other men play pool in a bar in Wyoming and began to imagine what life would be like for a typical gay ranch hand. I don’t know how she made the leap from…
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A is for The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and…
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian movie about three drag queens on a road trip from Sydney to Alice Springs in a silver, then pink tour bus dubbed Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar is a 1995…
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