Gayest Episode Ever

Back in the day, a major sitcom doing a gay episode was a big deal. A proper gay episode would get headlines, but it would get the attention of two young guys who were still figuring things out — sexuality-wise and culture-wise. Gayest Episode Ever has screenwriter Glen Lakin and stay-at-home journalist Drew Mackie going through the great and not-so-great gay episodes of sitcoms past.

Rose Nylund vs. the Stigma of AIDS 01/26/2022

Rose Nylund vs. the Stigma of AIDS “72 Hours” (February 17, 1990) We figured the only proper way to start this season would be to say goodbye to Betty White — and a great way to do that would be to discuss a Golden Girls episode where Rose takes an HIV test. Not only does it showcase a wider range of Betty’s acting chops, but it’s also a great kickoff to a new sort of episode we’ll be covering on GEE in the future: very special episodes about HIV and AIDS. Even if there are no LGBT characters in this episode, the subject matter hit home for the community — and the fact that so many AIDS/HIV episodes revolved around the heterosexual experience of the disease is itself very telling. Goodbye, Betty. You will be missed. Read NPR’s piece The episode of Date With the Angels we discuss is — worthwhile watching for diehard Betty White completionists The pilot to the Alfred Molina series Ladies Man, with a stacked female cast that included Betty, is also Listen to our previous AIDS episode, Listen to our previous Golden Girls episodes: Purchase the first issue of Drew and Glen’s comic anthology, . Go shop at ! Follow: • • • • • Listen: • • • • • • And yes, we do have ! We even have courtesy of . Our logo was designed by . This episode’s art was designed by . This is a podcast. /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/21901211

The Cartoons That Made Us Gay: Jem & The Holograms 01/10/2022

The Cartoons That Made Us Gay: Jem & The Holograms “The Bands Break Up” (September 28, 1987) We’re not *quite* ready yet to swing into regular production, so we’re tossing up an episode of our Patreon-only bonus podcast, The Cartoons That Made Us Gay, onto the main feed. It’s the Jem and the Holograms episode that is titled “The Bands Break Up” but would me more accurately titled “Kimber and Stormer Are Gay Lesbians Making Beautiful Queer Music Together.” Intentionally gay or not, it is hard to dismiss these girls’ relationship as just platonic, to the point that we don’t have to work hard at all to find the queer elements — especially in a show that already offers a lot for LGBT viewers. Showtime, Synergy! And if you like this episode, you might also like of Cartoons That Made Us Gay, which is all about Sailor Moon. You can listen right now on Patreon by pledging just $1 a month. And we’re not charging you all for the next month to account for the lighter content output. Show notes: Watch a featurette on Jem’s speaking voice singing . Read on Barbie’s victory over Jem. Read all about , creator of Jem and (we’re guessing) a gay person. Queer readings of kids shows, previously: with special guest Henry Gilbert with special guest Matt Baume with special guest Ted Biaselli episode “Harley and Ivy” The logo for The Cartoons That Made Us Gay was designed by . This is a podcast. /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/21734906

It’s a Will & Grace Christmas! 12/22/2021

It’s a Will & Grace Christmas! “A Little Christmas Queer” (December 8, 2005) Lest you be tempted to believe that Christmas miracles aren’t real, we finally found an episode of Will & Grace that Drew doesn’t hate. This one, from the final season of the show’s original broadcast run, focuses on Will and company spending Christmas with his family and the problems posed by the fact that Will’s nephew seems so very gay. It’s actually a more nuanced look at the difficulties of being gay and leaving your life to spend the holiday with your (presumably straight) family. It doesn’t suck! Not even the Grace storyline! Mental Floss has detailing Kellogg’s Cornflakes and their origin as an effort to get people to masturbate less. And has a piece on William Faulkner’s long-term love affair with binge drinking. Listen to the about The UFO Incident with Scott Philbrook. Listen to the titled “Why Are U.S. School Lunches Like This?” Listen to the titled “My Save Point Is a Hot Shower.” Buy the first issue of Drew and Glen’s new comic anthology, . Go shop at ! Follow: • • • • • Listen: • • • • • • And yes, we do have ! We even have courtesy of . Our logo was designed by . This episode’s art was designed by . This is a podcast. /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/21570854

Totally Trans Talks All in the Family and Beverly LaSalle 12/21/2021

Totally Trans Talks All in the Family and Beverly LaSalle Special presentation! The podcast is covering the All in the Family character of Beverly LaSalle in a three part series this week because it marks a pairing of trans representation on a sitcom with the Christmas season. In an effort to promote this in-depth look at All in the Family, we’re posting the first part on our feed. Have a listen — and then subscribe to Totally Trans to hear parts two and three as well as everything Ada-Rhodes, Henry and Katie will be discussing in 2022. Subscribe on… Also follow Totally Trans support them ! /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/21565199

Out of This World Does a Gender Swap Episode 12/15/2021

Out of This World Does a Gender Swap Episode “Evie Stevie” (December 16, 1989) Whether you remember it as the show with the talking geodesic dad cube or the one with the girl who could freeze time, Out of This World has been relegated to the further reaches of 80s nostalgia. You might even believe some naysayers that it wasn’t a good show; however, it was exactly as good of a show as you could hope for about a half-alien teen girl whose supernatural powers cause wacky, zany hijinx. It’s not Norman Lear, but you know what? Neither were ALF, I Dream of Jeannie or Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Watch the episode we’re talking about (PW: garland) And the weird clip Drew mentions about the episode with the twins who materialize to sing about bad breath. If you want to see what David Lynch TV looks like minus the macabre, watch of On the Air. Finally, is the Lincoln Center performance of Twelfth Night starring Helen Hunt. Buy the first issue of Drew and Glen’s new comic anthology, . Go shop at ! Follow: • • • • • Listen: • • • • • • And yes, we do have ! We even have courtesy of . Our logo was designed by . This episode’s art was designed by . This episode was edited by . This is a podcast. /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/21491183

Mad About You Hijacks a Coming Out Storyline 12/08/2021

Mad About You Hijacks a Coming Out Storyline “Ovulation Day” (January 7, 1996) Mad About You was one of NBC’s major sitcoms in the 90s, but it hasn’t left a legacy the way many of its Must See TV mates have. We talk about why in this episode, which is actually the part one of a two-part crossover with the queer film podcast , where we’re also discussing Helen Hunt’s Oscar-winning turn in 1997’s As Good as It Gets. Listen to Drew and Glen guest on A Piece of Pie’s discussing of As Good as It Gets . Subscribe to A Piece of Pie and follow them . Read the New York Times’ . Read the Vulture piece on . Watch and then jump through a plate glass window in the after school special Desperate Lives (which is actually not the angel dust movie, which is called Angel Dusted and which is also entertaining). Buy the first issue of Drew and Glen’s new comic anthology, . Go shop at ! Follow: • • • • • Listen: • • • • • • And yes, we do have ! We even have courtesy of . Our logo was designed by . This episode’s art was designed by . This is a podcast. /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/21417593

Empty Nest Uses the F-Slur 12/01/2021

Empty Nest Uses the F-Slur “Single White Male” (January 7, 1995) Even if you were the kind of person who watched all of NBC’s Saturday night sitcoms back in the day, the following things may surprise you: 1) Empty Nest is a solid sitcom. 2) Empty Nest was a strong ratings performer that often beat the show it spun off from, The Golden Girls. 3) Empty Nest was still on in 1995. 4) When it uses the “f”-slur, it actually uses it appropriately — to mark someone as being heinously gauche. Watch where Rita Moreno talks about hating the filming of the backdoor pilot to Empty Nest. Read the Slate article about how . Also read the Slate article about . Buy the first issue of Drew and Glen’s new comic anthology, . Go shop at ! Follow: • • • • • Listen: • • • • • • And yes, we do have ! We even have courtesy of . Our logo was designed by . This episode’s art was designed by . This episode was edited by . This is a podcast. /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/21336161

Bob Belcher Is Bi 11/24/2021

Bob Belcher Is Bi Bob’s Burgers, “Turkey in a Can” (November 24, 2013) — Why did the fourth-season Thanksgiving episode of Bob’s Burgers make some people think Bob Belcher is bisexual? In short, it’s a single line — “I’m mostly straight” — but the real answer is a more complicated one that has to do with the show’s queer sensibility, /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/21269417

Michelle Tanner Meets a Yankee Doodle Dandy 11/18/2021

Michelle Tanner Meets a Yankee Doodle Dandy Full House, “The Play’s the Thing” (November 17, 1992) — The big joke with Full House never did a gay episode despite being a show about three men cohabitating and coparenting in San Francisco. However, the fifth season introduced Derek (Blake McIver Ewing), a new friend for Michelle who’s well-mannered, soft-spoken and really good at showtunes. /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/21205502

Smithers Has a Boyfriend (Interview with Rob and Johnny LaZebnik) 11/16/2021

Smithers Has a Boyfriend (Interview with Rob and Johnny LaZebnik) “Portrait of a Lackey on Fire” (November 21, 2021) Either we traveled to the future or the showrunner of The Simpsons reached out and asked us if we want to preview a new Smithers-centric episode airing this Sunday. Maybe both? This new episode happens to be written by Rob LaZebnik (a straight) and Johnny LaZebnik (his son, a gay), and we spoke with both of them about how they write together, what it’s like growing up gay in the shadow of Smithers and what it means that Helen Lovejoy is down with the gays. Follow and on Twitter! Watch if you haven’t already and you have 2.5 hours to kill. And if we’re talking about stuff we did, listen to . Also about how Gayest Episode Ever helped get Tony Rodriguez cast as the new Julio on The Simpsons. We are extra special stoked on the art for this episode, which if you’re not seeing on your podcast app of choice you should check out on . It’s by , who has done all the episode art this season and whom you should hire to draw more cool stuff. Check out his art . Buy the first issue of Drew and Glen’s new comic anthology, . Go shop at ! Follow: • • • • • Listen: • • • • • • And yes, we do have ! We even have courtesy of . Our logo was designed by . This episode’s art was designed by . This episode was edited by . This is a podcast. /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/21177725

Jo Polniaczek Is a Lesbian Heartthrob (Re-Upload for Apple Podcasts) 11/10/2021

Jo Polniaczek Is a Lesbian Heartthrob (Re-Upload for Apple Podcasts) The Facts of Life, “The New Girl, Part One” and “The New Girl, Part Two” (November 19 and 26, 1980) — The second season premiere works like a kinda-sorta reboot of the show, now with big lesbian tension between Blair and newcomer Jo. /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/21123143

Jo Polniaczek Is a Lesbian Heartthrob 11/10/2021

Jo Polniaczek Is a Lesbian Heartthrob The Facts of Life, “The New Girl, Part One” and “The New Girl, Part Two” (November 19 and 26, 1980) — The second season premiere works like a kinda-sorta reboot of the show, now with big lesbian tension between Blair and newcomer Jo. /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/21112526

The Cartoons That Made Us Gay: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11/09/2021

The Cartoons That Made Us Gay: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles “Michelangelo Meets Mondo Gecko” (September 14, 1991) It’s finally here: The Cartoons That Made Us Gay, our new Patreon-exclusive bonus podcast, focused on queer readings of the cartoons of our youth. While this series will comprise ten episodes only available on our Patreon feed, we’re putting the first part of the first episode on the main feed to show off what we’re doing. To listen to the full version of this episode, all you need to do is pledge $1 a month on Patreon and subscribe to in your podcast app of choice. It’s easy! You should do it! But we’re biased! This episode focuses on the 1987 run of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — specifically “Michelangelo Meets Mondo Gecko,” which is all about Mike being drawn to the man (or man-gecko) of his dreams, and we couldn't think of a weirder way to kick off this new podcast project. In doing this episode, we hoped to make this cartoon series accessible even for people who have never watched the show, but let us know how we did. Coming up next: Jem and The Holograms! The logo for The Cartoons That Made Us Gay was designed by . Show notes that will make more sense if you listen to the full episode on Patreon: In case you're not familiar with Listen to Was April O’Neil ? Queer readings of kids shows, previously: with special guest Henry Gilbert with special guest Matt Baume with special guest Ted Biaselli Follow: • • • • • Listen: • • • • • • And yes, we do have ! We even have courtesy of . This episode was edited by . This is a podcast. /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/21097076

Paul Lynde Makes Halloween Gayer 10/27/2021

Paul Lynde Makes Halloween Gayer The Paul Lynde Halloween Special (October 29, 1976) — Monday Afternoon Movie host Sam Pancake joins Glen and Drew to discuss this bit of Halloween Hollywood kitsch that is either a dream or nightmare, depending on whom you ask. /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/20954879

Weirdest Episode Ever: The Terror of Zombie Sandy Duncan 10/20/2021

Weirdest Episode Ever: The Terror of Zombie Sandy Duncan The Hogan Family, “Nightmare on Oak Street” (November 23, 1987) — For Halloween, we look at how a show featured a zombie sequence mere weeks after it killed off its title character. And while this was not a Halloween episode, we are using it as *our* Halloween episode. /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/20876882

Gloria Vane Is a Part of Frasier’s Queer History 10/13/2021

Gloria Vane Is a Part of Frasier’s Queer History “PIlot” (1993) — This unsold pilot, featuring JoBeth Williams as an aging actress in 1930s Hollywood, represents writer Joe Keenan’s attempt at selling NBC a TV series with a gay sensibility back in 1993. And while Gloria Vane never made it to air, its legacy lives on in Frasier, as Keenan joined the Frasier writers’ room and ended up penning some of the series queerest and most farcical episodes. /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/20801012

Mr. Furley Tries to Convert Jack 10/06/2021

Mr. Furley Tries to Convert Jack “The Love Lesson” (Jan. 22, 1980) Heads up: The gender politics in this one are all fucked up, and a lie results in a character getting misgendered in a way that won’t be funny to every listener. However, it’s not the whole of the episode. When Mr. Furley catches Jack necking with a woman, Jack lies and says this woman is actually a man. Naturally, Mr. Furley offers to teach Jack how to be heterosexual. Listen to the and get a nice primer on the extended Happy Days universe. Listen to . Listen to an NPR piece on . Smart Mouth is back! ! Monday Afternoon Movie is also back! ! Also Singing Mountain is ending! ! Support us ! Go shop at ! Follow: • • • • • Listen: • • • • • • And yes, we do have ! We even have courtesy of . Our logo was designed by . This episode’s art was designed by . This is a podcast. /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/20723969

Frasier’s Dad Is Dating Frasier’s Brother 09/29/2021

Frasier’s Dad Is Dating Frasier’s Brother “Out With Dad” (February 10, 2000) It’s been far too long since we did a Frasier episode, and so we’re returning with a good one, in which Martin (John Mahoney) plays gay and pretends that Niles (David Hyde Pierce) is his boyfriend. It’s a great farce, and as special guest points out, it’s one of the best Joe Keenan-penned episodes of the show. Beyond Sunset is live! Buy issue one ! Listen to Anthony’s Patreon podcast, . Watch the pilot for , a Joe Keenan script that didn’t go to series but did result in him writing for Frasier and also in Gil Chesterton and Bebe Glazer becoming characters on the show. What the fuck is ? Previous Frasier episodes: Smart Mouth is back! ! Monday Afternoon Movie is also back! ! Also Singing Mountain is ending! ! Watch Drew’s video compilation of . Buy Glen’s movie, . Support us ! Go shop at ! Follow: • • • • • Listen: • • • • • • And yes, we do have ! We even have courtesy of . Our logo was designed by . This episode’s art was designed by . This is a podcast. /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/20640983

The Other Two Finds a Daddy 09/22/2021

The Other Two Finds a Daddy “Pat Connects With Her Fans” (August 26, 2021) — The Other Two is not a gay show, necessarily, but one of the two titular characters is gay, and through him this sitcom explores aspects of gay life that most shows don’t. Its current season has Cary (Drew Tarver) explore what kind of gay man he wants to be, and this episode in particular does that through a wacky sitcom misunderstanding that’s both expertly crafted and that could only work in a gay context. /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/20559608

Elaine Dates a Gay Guy 09/15/2021

Elaine Dates a Gay Guy Seinfeld, "The Beard" — We kick off a new season with a look at an Elaine-centric Seinfeld in which it’s supposed that a straight woman can cure a gay man if she tries hard enough and Melrose Place is a show that heterosexual men watch only in secret. /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/20479550

He-Man Fights a Gay Bunny-Man 08/17/2021

He-Man Fights a Gay Bunny-Man A thousand gay nerds debating on a thousand twitter threads could come up with any number of candidates for the gayest episode ever of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, but the one we’re talking about with Talking Simpsons co-host Henry Gilbert is the one where our hero travels through a swirling rainbow hole to an alternate dimension ruled by a gay-seeming bunny-man who loads a phallic rocket full of his precious, life-giving fluid, and no, we’re not making any of that up. /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/20174321

Did Fraggle Rock Do an Episode About AIDS? 08/04/2021

Did Fraggle Rock Do an Episode About AIDS? ”Gone But Not Forgotten” (February 16, 1987) — In the final season of Fraggle Rock, the episode “Gone But Not Forgotten” features Wembley making a new friend in Mudwell the Mudbunny, who knows he will soon die. Mudwell’s passing and Wembley’s grief serve as not only a general life lesson for young viewers but also a parallel for the life of openly gay Muppet performer Richard Hunt. /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/20027231

Marge Simpson Is a Homophobe and a Transphobe 06/30/2021

Marge Simpson Is a Homophobe and a Transphobe “There’s Something About Marrying” (February 20, 2005) Gayest Episode Ever would not exist without The Simpsons — mostly because we stole Talking Simpsons’ podcast format and applied it to LGBT episodes of classic sitcoms, and Talking Simpsons would not exist without The Simpsons. But cultural and personal importance aside, there comes a time to point out when a thing you love screws up, and this episode — the one that should be about Marge disapproving about Patty marrying a woman but ends up being a nasty little parable about transphobia — is not the series’ best moment, despite promising bits in the first two acts. We’ve brought in both hosts of the Totally Trans podcast — and — to discuss why Marge really sucks and why the episode’s conclusion is hard for some trans folks to watch even today. Listen to some of Henry and Ada-Rhodes’ favorite episodes of Totally Trans: Read the New York Times article — the "exception that proves the rule" article about the old testament outlawing homosexuality. Listen to the summer/pride episode of , Drew’s 80s music podcast. Watch Drew’s video compilation of . Buy Glen’s movie, . Support us ! Follow: • • • • • Listen: • • • • • • This episode’s outro track is “Summer Time” by Plastic Mode: • /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/19655459

Peter Griffin Becomes a Gay 06/23/2021

Peter Griffin Becomes a Gay “Family Gay” (March 8, 2009) Is it anticlimactic to say that this episode of Family Guy is not as terrible as you might expect? It concerns Peter being injected with the gay gene and becoming temporarily gay, and for the Seth MacFarlane of it all, this one gets some stuff right, lands a few decent jokes, biffs some bad ones and sometimes sacrifices laughs altogether to shock, horrify or offend. In short, it’s typical Family Guy. Listen to Drew and Glen on . Listen to the summer/pride episode of , Drew’s 80s music podcast. Read the New York Times article — the "exception that proves the rule" article about the old testament outlawing homosexuality. Watch Drew’s video compilation of . Buy Glen’s movie, . Support us ! Follow: • • • • • Listen: • • • • • • The episode’s outro track is “Desire” by Yoh-Yo, which is not on any of the streaming services so why not listen to it ? /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/19576376

The Naked Truth Has Two Pretend Gays (Zero Actual Gays) 06/16/2021

The Naked Truth Has Two Pretend Gays (Zero Actual Gays) “Woman Gets Plastered, Star Gets Even” (January 23, 1997) There was a time when two different networks were trying to push Téa Leoni as a sitcom star. The Naked Truth’s three seasons spanned ABC and NBC, and while it didn’t launch Leoni to TV success at this point in her career, Glen and Drew share a love of all things Téa with our guest, comedian . This episode is one of the more forgettable gay sitcom episodes sure, but there’s something to learn from the sitcoms that manage to make LGBT themes seem boring and banal. Right? Listen to H. Alan’s podcast, . Watch Drew’s video compilation of . Buy Glen’s movie, . Support us ! Follow: • • • • • Listen: • • • • • • The episode’s outro track is “Follow Me” by Giusy Dej, which is not on any of the streaming services so why not listen to it ? /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/19495766

Boy Meets World Accidentally Does a Trans Episode 06/09/2021

Boy Meets World Accidentally Does a Trans Episode “Chick Like Me” (January 31, 1997) Rider Strong’s Shawn Hunter is not canonically a trans character, but there is a season-four episode of Boy Meets World that gives you all the evidence you’d need to conclude that Shawn might be. For this extra-long episode — possibly our longest! — we are joined by , who explains why this one episode speaks volumes about the trans experience, even if it was not the intention of anyone involved in the episode’s creation. Read Faati’s Twitter thread Also read their promised list of . Read on Shawn and Angela’s interracial relationship. Listen to about the Linda Blair TV movie Stranger in Our House. Listen to the Talking Simpsons episode that explains . The that Glen mentions. Samus Aran from Metroid . Watch Drew’s video compilation of . Buy Glen’s movie, . Support us ! Follow: • • • • • Listen: • • • • • • The episode’s outro track is “I Never Dance” by Crysalis, which is not on any of the streaming services so why not listen to it ? /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/19411418

Kate & Allie Meet a Lesbian Couple 06/02/2021

Kate & Allie Meet a Lesbian Couple “Landlady” (October 15, 1984) Right at the top of its second season, Kate & Allie did the thing so many sitcoms do and put out an episode that explicitly says “No, these characters aren’t gay.” In this case, CBS had allegedly worried that viewers might suspect Susan St. James and Jane Curtain’s characters are anything other than platonic friends. On hand to discuss the show’s lesbian underpinnings is , the queer woman of our dreams and the winner of an exhaustive nationwide search for the guest who can offer context for this 80s TV favorite. Listen to . Listen to . If you’re interested, check out and . Also watch . Watch Drew’s video compilation of . Buy Glen’s movie, . Support us ! Follow: • • • • • Listen: • • • • • • This episode’s outro track is “I Can’t Love (Female Version)” by Charley, which is not on any of the streaming services so why don’t you listen to it ? /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/19325066

Love, Sidney May Just Be the First Gay Sitcom 05/26/2021

Love, Sidney May Just Be the First Gay Sitcom “Alison” (May 16, 1983) Most of you haven’t had the chance to watch Love, Sidney, the the NBC series that ran from 1981 to 1983 and which featured Tony Randall as the title character — a gay man who is out to everyone but the audience. The show features queer themes more than you’ve been led to believe, perhaps, and interestingly it’s the hourlong episode “Alison” that showcases Sidney’s sexuality by giving him a female love interest. What results is poignant, personal and more progressive than you’d expect from a broadcast network sitcom at the time. To discuss this landmark show, we are joined by , author and historian focusing on queer representation of television. Buy the revised edition of Steven’s book, . Watch the TV movie that preceded Love, Sidney, . Read Charles Morrow’s article on Tony Randall, Watch Drew’s video compilation of . Buy Glen’s movie, . Support us ! Follow: • • • • • Listen: • • • • • • This episode’s outro track is “Love Resurrection” by Allison Moyet: • • /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/19244885

Family Matters Never Did a Gay Episode 05/19/2021

Family Matters Never Did a Gay Episode “Dr. Urkel and Mr. Cool” (November 12, 1993) Yep, we finally figured out a way to talk about Family Matters. When Laura asks Steve why he is the way his is, he says he’s born this way — but then he uses science to become someone else. The metaphors are easy to make, even if the writers probably didn’t have anything gay in mind when they made this episode. Prepare for an overview of all the Family Matters lore you forgot you knew. Listen and subscribe to your new favorite classic RPG podcast, : • • • • Listen to Katherine discuss with Andrew Ti on Smart Mouth. Watch back in the day. Also? ! Also? ! Watch Veronica Mars’ AWOL mom in the opening credits to TGIF’s . Also check her out as , the proto-Harley Quinn to Mark Hamill’s Trickster on the 90s Flash series. Read the L.A. Times piece . Why did Jo Marie Payton midway through the last season? Watch Drew’s video compilation of . Buy Glen’s movie, . Support us ! Follow: • • • • • Listen: • • • • • • This episode’s outro track is “A Full Rotation” by Repetition, which is not on any of the streaming services so may just listen ? /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/19159565

Batgirl Is a Little Gay Boy’s Fantasy 05/12/2021

Batgirl Is a Little Gay Boy’s Fantasy “Enter Batgirl, Exit Penguin” (September 14, 1967) The final season of the 1966 live-action Batman series saw the debut of Batgirl, a twirling, high-kicking female hero created to get more girls invested in the series — and more dads to keep paying attention. But Batgirl’s creators didn’t count on the fact that they were creating the exact kind of character that little gay boys would become obsessed with. Thanks in part to Yvonne Craig’s spot-on performance, Barbara Gordon (a.k.a. Batgirl) became one of the most queer-friendly aspects to an already queer series, and joining us discuss her big debut is , co-host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour and author of The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture. Buy Glen’s book . Listen and subscribe to your new favorite classic RPG podcast, : • • • • Listen to Smart Mouth’s episode on . Watch Yvonne Craig, Adam West and Burt Ward about equal pay for female employees. Watch Lesley Gore rock a taupe turtleneck in the Yvonne Craig film Ski Party. Enjoy in G.I. Joe: The Movie. Support us ! Follow: • • • • • Listen: • • • • • • This episode’s outro track is “Give Me the Night” by Facts and Fiction: • • /episode/index/show/gayestepisodeever/id/19075244

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