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Cinema Very Gay

by Jake and Kevin
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  • 033 - Moonlight (Season 2 finale)

    June 1, 2023 · 1 hr 14 min

    We are rounding out our second season with one of the most acclaimed movies of the last decade, Barry Jenkins' Moonlight (2016). Moonlight is a touching and poetic coming-of-age story showing the life of Chiron, a black man in Liberty…

  • 032 - Joyland

    May 19, 2023 · 1 hr 11 min

    Turn on the AC and pour yourself a cold drink because things are about to get hot and muggy on the podcast. This week we're talking about Joyland (2022), a Pakistani film about a family living in Lahore. In the movie, Haider (Ali Junejo)…

  • 031 - Desert Hearts

    May 4, 2023 · 60 min

    Pull out your hat pins and loosen up because it's time for another installment of Cinema Very Gay! Desert Hearts (or, "Not Another Lesbian On This Ranch") is a seminal piece of lesbian cinema, and for many good reasons. The film was…

  • 030 - Looking: The Movie

    April 13, 2023 · 1 hr 17 min

    It's San Francisco, how hard can it be to meet cool people? Well, if the only people you run into is the cast of the HBO series and movie, Looking, you might have some work to do! This week we tackle the controversial and short-lived HBO…

  • Bonus Minisode - Rock Hudson's Home Movies

    April 6, 2023 · 19 min

    Oh you thought that Hudson content was in the past huh? We're sneaking back into your feeds with a short episode on the "biographical" passion project from Mark Rappaport, Rock Hudson's Home Movies from 1992. Taking an ironic look back on…

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  • 029 - Rock Hudson (Part IV: The Later Years)

    March 30, 2023 · 1 hr 18 min

    Welcome to the final episode of our journey through the annals of Rock Hudson's filmography as we bid a fond farewell to the 6'5" actor and his legacy. To this day, Hudson is most often remembered first for the notoriety of his death in…

  • 027 - Rock Hudson (Part II: The Universal Every-Man Years)

    March 2, 2023 · 1 hr 16 min

    After and during his rise to stardom with the help of Douglas Sirk, Hudson was also being tried out as Universal's hottest new leading man. While Rock was given opportunities to play the swoon-worthy romantic lead with Sirk, a handful of…

  • 026 - Rock Hudson (Part I: The Sirk Years)

    February 10, 2023 · 1 hr 18 min

    We're trying something new on Cinema Very Gay and taking a career retrospective for the next few weeks on Rock Hudson! He is known perhaps best for being a hunky, mildly-talented, openly-closeted movie star of the 50s and 60s, and for his…

  • 025 - Ed Wood (and Glen or Glenda)

    January 26, 2023 · 1 hr 12 min

    Join us on Cinema Very Gay as we journey back in time, a beautiful time before Tim Burton discovered CGI. In 1994 Burton directed the biopic Ed Wood, chronicling the career of notorious B-movie writer and director, widely claimed to be one…

  • 024 - Brokeback Mountain, or Does Ang Lee Know What Gay Sex Is?

    January 12, 2023 · 1 hr 15 min

    Jack Twist? Jack NASTY! That's right, get ready to get into one of the most highly-esteemed gay films of our generation, Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain from 2005. In case you've somehow managed to miss this one in the last 18 years, this…

  • 021 - Zero Patience

    December 1, 2022 · 1 hr 5 min

    We're back after a brief hiatus with a doozie of a movie to talk about! Zero Patience is an original musical dramedy directed and written by John Greyson and released in 1993. This film follows, seriously, an immortal British…

  • 020 - Death Becomes Her

    November 10, 2022 · 1 hr 2 min

    Do you know what they do to soft, bald, overweight Republicans in prison, Ernest? They don't let them listen to Cinema Very Gay, that's what. Grab your shovels and your shotguns, the time has finally come for us to cover one of our…

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About the show

Welcome to Cinema Very Gay, the podcast where we take a look at LGBTQ+ movies throughout the history of film to try to answer the question: Just what is it that makes a good gay movie? Listen to hosts Jake and Kevin as they go deep, leaving no question unprobed and no queer movie behind.