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Sewers of Paris: Wear a Cute Top and Beat up a Man (Ep 492 - X-Men/Carlos)
🕑 Added 2024-10-31 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is Ian Carlos Crawford, who you may know from the podcasts Slayerfest 98 and My Bloody Judy. As a youngster Ian felt something awakened in him by powerful women like Storm and Buffy — but it wasn’t until moving to New York that he discovered it was a fandom he shared with a lot of other queer folks. And while that was a pleasant discovery, New York had some other less pleasant surprises in store for him, especially when he landed a job at Buzzfeed at possibly the worst possible time.
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Jim
Thanks. Even though I’m much older, I grew up reading X Men in the 60’s and was into Buffy with my younger gay friends. It was really the gayest show on TV at the time. As an aside, my husband and I recently streamed a 2016 series, The Night Manager starring Tom Hiddleston. Among the parade of despicable villains was an overtly bitter queen, Corky, played by Tom Hollander. I was immediately repulsed by this character because at his core, he seemed like all the awful stereotypes of gay men I would see portrayed in movies and in media in the 60’s! But, this character was accepted, in some ways, by all the other straight villains, and he was powerful. I mean, I know there are plenty of bad gays like Peter Thiel and Richard Grenell and I should chill, but it still raises my hackles.
