Amen Pink Flamingos Happy Pride Month, queers! Or as I’ve been thinking of it lately, happy Liberation Month. What’s the difference? Oh, just a little filth, crime, and shamelessness. I recently oozed my way through a rewatch of John Waters’ early films, a trinity of trash from the ’70s composed of the notorious movies Pink […]
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This Week’s Comics: Tea Dragons, Runaway Monsters, and Moody Boys in Love
The last year has given many of us a sort of social jetlag, a disorientation around the people we choose to spend time with and what we choose to do with that time. It’s a perfect opportunity to reconfirm your social circle, or remake it, starting with the friends you’re relieved to see and the […]
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Queer Superheroes Arriving in Time for Pride
“Imagine the gay Avengers,” says comic artist Joe Glass, and I am happy to oblige. His new book, The Pride Omnibus, is a collection of queer superhero stories that he’s published over the last decade, and it’s a thrill for any nerd tired of the relentless (and, let’s be honest, implausible) heterosexuality of the spandex […]
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This Week’s Comics: Wrestling Revenge, Vacation Superheroes, and Corporate Mutants
Were you one of those weird kids who had obsession-media? You know, that thing where a child has a limited selection of entertainment to choose from, and so they’ll just listen to the same songs, or watch the same movie, or read the same book over and over and over and over? One of the […]
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This Week’s Comics: Detachable Limbs, Superhuman Strength, and Asian-American Noir
Look, I just really like shrimp, okay? So when I got one of those $10 shrimp trays from QFC, I thought I was going to enjoy a nice little treat, with a wedge of lemon and that little cup of red sauce. Instead, within a few hours, I thought I might actually be dying; symptoms […]
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The Gay Magic of The Nanny
One of many sweaters I need to own The Nanny Let’s begin with my terrible confession: For decades, I’ve been wrong about The Nanny. (And also about Steve Urkel, but we’ll get to him later.) Long, long ago, when The Nanny was originally on the air, I considered myself more of a Frasier gay than […]
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This Week’s Comics: Bar Fights, Bee Battles, and Ponies + Transformers
I used to work at a summer camp where one of the kids had a VHS copy of Fight Club and another had one of those fancy TV/VCR combo machines, and by their powers combined they were the most popular teenagers for miles around. I don’t think any of the campers who gathered around the […]
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This Week’s Comics: Renegade Gardening, Kinky Roommates, Gays vs Nazis
I have decided to support the underdog. Right outside my apartment building, there’s a dirty patch in the sidewalk with a lone bedraggled tree in the middle, and nothing has ever grown there until a few weeks ago when I noticed a few optimistic tiny leaves poking through for the first time. I love an […]
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Gay TV History: The Straightening of Chandler Bing
We all know this gay couple. Friends This weekend Friends finished filming a reunion episode, slated to appear on HBO Max at some point, which has me thinking about just how close the show came to featuring what could have been the most prominent gay sitcom character in history. Showrunners came this close to making […]
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This Week’s Comics: Nuclear Dad, Disco Death, and an Adorable Cat Demon
I was around eight years old, rummaging through old comics that my cousin had left behind in a box, when I came across a ‘70s-era pulp retelling of The Monkey’s Paw illustrated in lurid neon with hysterical characters who constantly spoke in bolded italics!!! In the story, a brilliant surgeon finds the dismembered hand and […]
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This Week’s Comics: A Shadow Comes to Life, Monsters Fall in Love, and Pretty Flowers
The correct thing to do in the fall is to watch The Addams Family in October, then Addams Family Values in November. And then, if you’re plagued by awkward family around the holidays, a re-watch of One Normal Night from the musical. But of course, an embrace of the macabre needn’t be limited to the […]
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This Week’s Comics: Ghost Hunting, Alien Invasion, and Your Own Personal Robot
There’s an episode of The Simpsons in Season 7 called “Summer of 4 Ft. 2” where the family goes on summer vacation in a beach town, and Lisa is shocked to discover that within her dwells the potential of being liked. I vividly remember when it first aired, in the middle of my teenage years […]