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Hollywood Pride (Ep 475: Queer Hollywood History/Alonso Duralde)
🕑 Added 2024-07-04 16:00:11 +0000 UTCMy guest on this week's Sewers of Paris is Alonso Duralde, author of the new book Hollywood Pride, a fascinating historical tour through queer Hollywood history. If Alonso’s name sounds familiar, you might recall him from several past Sewers of Paris conversations, or from the movie and TV podcasts he hosts with his husband Dave White — two men of excellent taste and encyclopedic knowledge of entertainment history.
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Jim
Thanks! I enjoyed that talk. When Alonso was talking briefly about bad depictions of gay people, I remember when I was in High School in 1970 and seeing a dreadful film with my friends at the theater. It was called No Blade of Grass, and it was supposed to be a film that was environmentally conscientious, but the only thread of that was a brief scene that would pop on screen occasionally showing a polluted stream. Anyway, the reason it stuck in my closeted craw was that the protagonists got involved somehow with a couple of lisping, limp wristed criminals who were screaming, "Shut the fuck up Mary!" or some such nonsense. I remember riding in the car on the way home listening to my straight friends laughing and imitating that scene. Ugh!
