Concluding the month of gay-themed Geek Out, I wanted to put forth The Rainbow Trilogy by Alex Sanchez—made up of Rainbow Boys, Rainbow High, and Rainbow Road. The books follow Jason, Kyle and Nelson through their senior year in high school and the summer before they...
The Broken Hearts Club came out in 2000 and immediately became one of my favorite gay movies. Officially subtitled “A Romantic Comedy,” the movie covers the gambit of gay characters—those looking for commitment, those afraid of commitment, newbies just coming out of...
“Mary Anne Singleton was twenty-five years old when she saw San Francisco for the first time.” That’s how Armistead Maupin kicked off Tales of the City back in 1978 when it was a column in the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1989 the last Tales of the...
This week’s Geek Out is a bit odd because it’s extremely rare to for me to Geek Out over a show I’ve never seen. This week, which keeps with our Pride Month theme, is about Bare, a pop opera, a musical set at St. Cecilia’s, a Catholic boarding school and focuses...
June is Gay Pride Month, so the five Geek Out’s this month focus on some of my favorite gay-themed movies, books and music. First up for the month is the 1996 film Beautiful Thing. This is the story of two working class boys from London who, over the course of a few...
I discovered Audra McDonald when she was in Ragtime in 1998. Initially it was just a performance on The Rosie O’Donnell Show and later Will and I saw the entire show on a trip to NYC. I was blown away by her voice and her acting. She’s won four Tonys–two for...
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