Movies That Made Us Gay

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74. Earth Girls Are Easy with special guest Moranne Klassen Nov 20, 2020

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Do you guys have margaritas on your planet? We watched Earth Girls Are Easy (1988) with our friend Moranne Klassen and you guys are so lucky you crashed in the valley. It's the baddest place on earth! Take a trip with us to SoCal's San Fernando Valley of the 1980's. It was a theme park filled with leggy nail technicians, night clubs inside observatories and dayglow aliens in retro 50's spaceships. The soundtrack featuring songs by Julie Brown is worth the price of admission. They lyrics to 'Cause I'm a Blonde belong in the Library of Congress. Sit back, have a mental margarita and enjoy episode 74 of Movies That Made Us Gay.

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73. Muriel's Wedding with special guest Devin Lotfi Nov 13, 2020

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You're terrible Muriel. Or is it Mariel? We watched Muriel's Wedding (1994) with our friend Devin Lotfi (I Don't Want to Hear That Podcast) and our lives are just as good as an Abba song. Get ready to listen to some questionable Aussie accents as we recount this mid-90's gem that introduced the world to ICON Toni Collette. Muriel (Collette) yearns to leave her oppressive family, evil friends and and boring town of Porpoise Spit for the big city life in Sydney. She just happens to steal thousands to get there. Hey, if my mom handed me blank check to kick off my burgeoning MLM business I just might embezzle a grand or two to start a new life myself. Some of you might mis-remember this as a lighthearted comedy but we're here to tell you it gets dark - but only right before Muriel gets her happy ending. Indeed her life is just as good as Dancing Queen.

72. The Women with special guest Dennis Griffin Nov 08, 2020

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Looks like it's back to the perfume counter for me! We watched The Women (1939) with our friend Dennis Griffin and we're all getting our nails done - Jungle Red! This screwball comedy from the golden age of Hollywood has everything we love - quotable female characters, a fabulous wardrobe and a super gay fashion show that stops the movie in its tracks. The only thing its missing is MEN! Famously there are NO males in this movie - actors, extras, or photos. Even the animals were all female (allegedly). If you thought The Golden Girls was the archetype for Sex and The City think again. Watch The Women then get back to us.

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72. The Bride of Frankenstein with special guest Mitchell Ralston Oct 30, 2020

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To a new world of gods and monsters! We watched The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) with our good friend Mitchell Ralston and we forever Stan Elsa Lanchester as "The Monster's Mate." We take a trip through the "Universal Classic Monsters"catalogue and find out what makes this entry so queer. Mincing mad scientists, screeching hausfraus and ersatz domestic partnerships fill this gothic masterpiece, but it's Lanchester's brief performance that cements this movie in queer cinema history. The Bride did more for gays, goths and cholas with nothing more than 5 minutes of screen time, a shake and go wig and an eyebrow pencil than any of us could muster in a lifetime. They may belong dead but that face will live forever.

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70. Practical Magic with special guest Allison Levitan Oct 23, 2020

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Hang on to your husbands, girls! We watched Practical Magic (1998) with our friend Allison Levitan and the nudity is entirely optional, as you well remember! This movie has more wicked witchery than Stevie Nicks - and she's heavily featured on the soundtrack. Sandy (Bullock) and Nic (Kidman) are serving major lewks as the bewitching Owens sisters and Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing are giving us major Agnes Moorhead as Endora vibes as their wacky aunts. Tonal issues aside, this movie is a ton of fun and we forever Stan Sandy playing a no-nonsense empowered woman and Nic playing a flighty waif in an auburn wig. Remember, theres a little witch in all of us.

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69. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master with special guest Jacob Randall Oct 16, 2020

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The Dream Master? Sounds like a game show host to me. We watched A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master with our pal Jacob Randall (Crime of Your Life) and we have matching luggage again. Smack in the middle of a mini-trilogy within a 7 movie franchise (we don't count Freddy vs. Jason or the remake) Dream Master breathes new life into Elm Street with "fresh meat." Legendary Lisa Wilcox plays Alice Johnson and helped little horror loving gay boys across the land recognize their queerness when we all figured out we wanted to BE Alice when we grow up. Starting the movie meek and insecure, Alice grows into a kick ass, back flipping, nunchuck spinning, laser beam wielding beyotch! Not to mention she gets to bang "Major League Hunk" Dan Jordan (Danny Hassel) in the sequel. Goals!! This movie has everything; body horror rivaling the best of Cronenberg, wall to wall cute boys and a killer soundtrack.

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68. Halloween with special guest Matt Emert Oct 09, 2020

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Isn't that Devon Graham? I think he's cute! We watched Halloween (1978) with our friend and MTMUG all star Matt Emert and we hate a guy with a car and no sense of humor. This is the mother of all slasher movies (we see you Black Christmas) and our guest Matt is an aficionado of all things Haddonfield. This is a horror movie for people who LOVE the genre - we defy you to count the Psycho references sprinkled in by legendary director John Carpenter (who also composed one of the creepiest movie scores in history). Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) has become the template for the "final girl" and her horny friends gave way to the basic "Scream" rules to survive a horror film (never have sex, drink or do drugs or say "I'll be right back"). Poor Laurie. Scared another one away.

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67. Fright Night with Kevin and Chris from Homos on Haunted Hill Oct 02, 2020

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We watched Fright Night (1985) with our friends Kevin Jones & Chris Moore but you may know them as the Homos on Haunted Hill. Apparently the filmmakers didn't include the glaring queerness on purpose but the cast alone betrays its homo tendencies. Roddy McDowall, Amanda Bearse and future adult film star Stephen Geoffreys turn up the camp in this tale of a sexy vampire moving to the suburbs. William Ragsdale is cute but harmless as our hero Charley who is so enthralled by the sexy Jerry Dandrige (Chris Sarandon) he's constantly fighting off his perfectly willing (and horny) girlfriend (Bearse). Geoffreys' over the top performance as Evil Ed may have been intended as comic relief but his Bobcat Goldthwait on Four Loko delivery comes across somehow as charming. If you have a bootleg of the 1988 sequel, slide into our DMs.

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66. Ghost World Sep 25, 2020

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If you like authentic blues you really gotta check out Blues Hammer. We watched Ghost World (2001) and no we don't want a biscotti with that. If you ever want a peek behind the veil of Scott and Pete's inner (and outer) monologue - look no further than this movie. We too can't relate to 99% of humanity and mostly want to poison rude customers. Since poisoning is out of the question, we simply troll them under our breath like our heroes Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson). While we're nowhere near as upfront as Enid or dry as Rebecca, we feel we've modeled a decent part of our wit off of these two fringe dwelling icons. Much like Enid, we too "just like Don Knotts."

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65. Cruising with special guest Mike Toscano Sep 18, 2020

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NYC's Meat Packing District has a long way to go until Samantha Jones moves in. We watched Cruising (1980) with returning guest Mike Toscano and we're still clutching our pearls! This infamous movie follows Al Pacino as a police officer who goes undercover in the gay leather & S&M scene in early 80's era New York City. What we get is a snapshot of a gay subculture from a long-gone time, when all we had to worry about was serial killers, getting busted for walking in front of the wrong bar and getting roughed up by giant muscle men in jock straps in the interrogation room. Director William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The Boys in the Band) is up to his old tricks - inserting "subliminal" frames of adult films into the murder scenes! Pacino learning about the hanky code should be required viewing for gays of every age - know your history people!

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