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I'm surprised you never mentioned Shere Khan from the Jungle Book. (sorry for the thread necro)

Anyone know where i can get that jacket he’s wearing it goes crazy

I have always loved this show, being half Polish & it came out at my new school I was so ashamed of being a girl who was regularly called a Pollack!, I would cry in the bathrooms at the cruelty! But after "All in the Family " I started to defend myself & call them all a bunch of Archie Bunkers!" This immediately stopped the bigotry! I was originally from New York & I had never been put down for being of Polish ancestry! But thanks 🙏 to Norman Lear I never had to deal with being called a dumb Pollack again! I ❤love your podcasts! Be PROUD!

You mentioned the Stonewall. Are you familiar with the Compton Cafeteria "riots" in San Francisco that occurred in San Francisco 3 years before Stonewall? There was an excellent documentary about it in 2005, titled: Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria. Please consider making an episode about this?

Hi Matt-I am a new subscriber so just watched this AITF episode. You did a superb job of the actors and history. In my view, your comments are right on about the importance of the show to TV history. I am 70, but I still think it is maybe the most important (and funny) show of all time. Fantastic job on your part-I found myself nodding my head in agreement dozens of time. Thank you!

Matt, as a cis, white, 51 yr old Protestant male, born and raised in the South (I know, hell of a way to open, right?) I just gotta say, God bless you. I love your vids and your tireless efforts to bring the past struggles to the consciousness of the young generation. They need to know how much fight it took to get to the modern era. My daughter is gender fluid and is always reminding me of how the pronouns now are saving lives…and I’m reminding her of how I took my life in my hands just being a 125 lb weakling musician showing up to school with an earring in EACH ear in 1988. Don’t ever stop what you’re doing. I love these shows and your special take on each one.

Doesn't polari have another name? Polidori? I don't know how to talk it - it's a kind of cockney playfulness and I only heard about it as polidori maybe 25 years ago. Nobody talks like that anymore anyway. I wonder if there are still British people who remember how to speak cockney? 50 years ago there were street stall owners on Portobello road who still could. It's ironic but I knew an older gay men about 35 years ago I'm 73 and I think he was about that age then. We weren't very close. He remembered the restrictive and coded gay life of the 50s and he claimed he liked the entertainment better then. By the time I came out in the 70's gay entertainment in bars was really only disco music and some lip-syncing drag acts if any acts at all. He loved Provincetown and he thought the gay community was far more talented and creative. And maybe that because it took more commitment to be gay. Persecution sometimes has the ability to bring out the best in people. They have to be brave. Maybe that was true but the threat of extortion is really too high a price for a live act especially if all the persecution did was appease coded hypocrisy and make a lot of money for it at the same time..

Great job.Very informative.

This guy's UA-cam channel is like hanging out with your gay friend that hasn't figured being gay isnt the same thing as having a personality. Typical self obsessed white Guy.

Rumor has it that Agnes Moorehead was also gay! Paul said it once

Julian crushed on Jadzia, then slept with Ezri. At one point, Garak declared his love for Cardassia. Julian was a brother to Miles and a student of Garak's... Two similar, yet also different, relationships.

Video tip I learned from Second Thought; when you have to put in a cut; you can disguise it with a simultaneous crop and "zoom" so viewers don't spot the sudden shift in position. Then you eliminate the crop and keep on going and everything looks seamless.

What a delightful and exciting story. A ready-made plot for a television series. I even found and watched the very footage of lesbians protest NBC 1974.

just followed your Instagram!! I've been a fan of this Halloween special for years. but your behind-the-scenes on Paul IS BRILLIANT!!

Great memories with that excellent show still very entertaining to this day.

Thank you. That's why I don't buy this 'Old good times when world was simple and peaceful and everybody love each other with soul' bul*$hit. Especially about 80's. Peaceful my @$$

My father, who was a secular Jew, worked for the ABC-TV network during the 60s; and though my Dad was different from most Jews in that he wasn't a rabid leftwinger, he hated Christians and straight Christian morality. There is an agenda, not exclusive to, but strongly supported by the Godless Jews in the media (who comprise most of Bnai Israel) to undermine straight Christian morality and instead promote 'alternative lifestyles'. Because of my Dad, I was one of the first people in the country to see 'Bewitched'. And yes, subliminally, not overtly, homosexuality was being promoted. Dick Sargent was the one originally slated to play 'Darren', but was replaced with Dick York when Tammy Grimes (also originally slated to play the 'Samantha role) rejected the pilot script and opted instead for her own TV show (also on ABC, and one of the worst failures in TV show). Dick Sargent was favored especially because he was 'gay', and Paul Lynde, too. Both Tammy Grimes and Liz Montgomery were (like Barbra Streisand and Liz Taylor) what was then commonly called-'fag hags'. Someday, someone will write something authoritative about the phenomena of the 'fag hag'; women who are not 'gay' themselves but are drawn, and sometimes very profoundly and deeply, to 'gay' guys. There is a kind of peculiar 'magic' that happens between these men and women. But I digress: Anyway, Dad and I, and the rest of my brood lived in Westport, Ct.; which is fitting when you realize that the original title for the TV show 'Bewitched' was 'The Witch Of Westport'. And there I was, as a young, still innocent lad, in the 60s, in Westport, watching the original episode of 'Bewitched'; AND-who was living in Westport at the same time (drum roll, please): LINDA BLAIR! Nowadays, I'm a born again Christian, and I have fundamentalist views, involving sex, too. BUT-I must confess I still have a taste for split pea soup! True.

How could you not love such a wonderful person.

Who were the morons in the test audience?

Now children are encouraged to be gay

I enjoyed your high jink <3

These activist were freaking brilliant!

Thanks for the tip about Kanopy. I joined. This movie is not available in Canada on that platform OR Tubi. The politics behind these excessive restrictions on cross border PERSONAL viewing is staggering. Usually, it's because one of our 3 major carriers has it on one of their channels. They have the CRTC in their back pocket and can therefore dictate what the CRTC allows to be viewed in this country. This forces you to subscribe to their service. Further searching shows me that Straight Jacket "IS" for purchase or rent on Google Play or UA-cam. I may do that if only to support the carrying of such content. XoXo

Closest we ever got to Al and Homer sharing a couch.

Jerry was a mediocre 80's comic and has remained so his entire career. He's now 40 years out of touch and angry that no one thinks he's funny anymore.

Could you do a video on John Inman? He played a fairly openly gay character in the UK in the 70s on a show called 'Are you being served'

That dress Marilyn wore! Oh la la! I love playing this gem for friends that have never seen it and watch their eyes pop! Guys and gals!

I believe he had a heart attack while driving ended up crashing.

Nerds change the world

I was a teen when this show was new. All my friends called my Dad, "Archie". LOL

I heard this line said a lot on the WWF/E and thought it came from there because I didn't watch Seinfeld until recently. Any time a wrestler would do something a little queer, a commentator would mention something about it and then they would say "Not that there's anything wrong with that".

This has to be one of your top stingers. That ACTING tho…

Amazing

❤ ED HIM

Charles was @ his best in Match Game..

Whenever leadership looks to divert attention from failed policies or corruption, or anything that could be seen in a bad light, a scapegoat is needed to rile up the public. Same thing in Jim Crow Era, where rich white property owners set the poor whites and blacks against each other, about how black men were gonna steal your jobs and women. Here its how gay men were gonna corrupt your children and possibly infect even you! Anytime a group is singled out, be sure to check behind the curtain. When I think of my gay ancestors, my heart breaks for what they went through, and I realize any comfort I have now is because they suffered. Its very hard the keep the hate and bitterness tamped down.

I guess I prove your point because I’m straight as they come, and I never would’ve considered any of these characters “beloved “. They are all odious caricatures, to me. So perhaps you are onto something. here.

If Trump gets in the White House or any GOP candidate this will again be a reality in America. See Project 2025.

@ 7:00 the sugar daddies were LINED all the way up. channelin luigi in that pic.

Thanks Matt. I am 70 years old but I always learn so much history from you. Thank you for everything you do. I hate the way MAGA is trying to reverse all of our gains and I hope the truth tellers, like you, prevail. Good luck in all your future endeavors. I very much look forward to seeing them. BTW, the Stonewall riots were in 1969. I'm just sayin'. Still love you to Reeses Pieces.

Great source material!, Thank you Matt!

Can we stop saying England when we mean Britain?

I have loved watching Angela in everything I've seen her in, but wish you had metnioned her as Princess Gwendolyn in The Court Jester, with Danny Kaye, I would have loved to see an interview with her about that :)

What's interesting is that you get to the 70's and you have a show like Are You Being Served on BBC with a very out character Mr Humphries played by John Inman. Things can move/change fast once the ball gets rolling.....

Love you Matt.

This makes a lot of sense, honestly. Plus, let's be honest, Endora was pretty much a grand high drag queen....

Out of curiosity where were you able to find your research? I’m doing a school essay and it’s unbelievably difficult to find any information on this subject

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Oh my. This was so well put together. You got teared up. :) (no sarcasm).

When this show just came out, I went to IMDB to read the reviews. Like always people would put a lot of time and effort in writing down their opinion. A few weeks back, I went there to find out when the second season is going to start. Found a lot more new reviews, but most of them were incredibly tedious and infuriating ... the same LGBTQ+ conspiracy bs. People are constantly b*tching about how there is nothing really good and innovative out there to watch, but then something truly brilliant like this show is coming along and they are trying to tear it down. We all are so lucky that more and more studios and producers are willing to invest in such risky projects. The reason why so many people disliked the 1994 movie is, because it depicted some of Hollywood's finest as GAY vampires ... that movie is a f*cking masterpiece, the special effects, the requisites, the acting - top notch, it deserved way more recognition. IMDB and so many others aren't just websites for fans by fans anymore, people care increasingly about the score on those pages ... that's why fans like us need to engage more actively (social media!) to help these kind of projects to succeed.