Vance Bastian and SA “Baz” Collins give their thoughts and reviews of the Netflix series Bodies. They explore how it relates to queer life and discuss its strengths and flaws.
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It gives us great pleasure to present a Season 8, Episode 45 Interview – Richard D. Mohr
Richard D. Mohr introduces us to his book The Splendid Disarray of Beauty: The Boys, the Tiles, the Joy of Cathedral Oaks ― A Study in Arts and Crafts Community, and shares how he came across information of these historic men and the community they built.
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Richard D. Mohr is an academically trained author with extensive journalistic experience and literary flair. He publishes books in three widely diverse fields: ancient Greek metaphysics, American ceramics, and gay studies along with queer theory, focusing on ethical, social, political, and legal issues. His book Gay Ideas: Outing and Other Controversies was banned in Canada and won the 1992 Lambda Literary Awards’ Editor’s Choice Award. The chapter on gay marriage in his book A More Perfect Union, in its treatment of privacy law and understanding of what marriage is, lay the conceptual groundwork for the Supreme Court’s 2015 gay marriage ruling. He and his hubby of 45 years live in Urbana, Illinois.
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Vance Bastian and SA “Baz” Collins give their thoughts and reviews of Werewolves Within. They explore how it relates to queer life and discuss its strengths and flaws.
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It gives us great pleasure to present a Season 8, Episode 44 Interview – Kelliane Parker
Kelliane Parker introduces us to her poetry chapbook Down the Foggy Streets of My Mind has an arc that takes the reader through DID, abuse, recovery, and healing.
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Kelliane is a queer, Latinx poet who uses poetry to reclaim the voices and the truth about surviving sexual trauma and violence. On a mission to de-stigmatize and de-pathologize dissociative disorders caused by trauma induced by others, Kelliane’s vision is a world free from victim blaming and shaming.
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Vance Bastian and SA “Baz” Collins give their thoughts and reviews of Bodies Bodies Bodies. They explore how it relates to queer life and discuss its strengths and flaws.
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It gives us great pleasure to present a Season 8, Episode 43 Interview – JC Calciano
JC Calciano shares his Steam Room brand with us – youtube shorts, novels, podcast, and motion picture. He shares how it all began, how it pivoted when we were all at home, and where it’s headed!
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Over his 35-year career, JC has worked in nearly all corners of the entertainment business: from major studio blockbusters, independent features, and reality television to documentaries, music videos, webisodes, and theater.
In 2010, JC founded Cinema175, an entertainment production company under which he produces, writes and directs projects that predominantly focus on comedy and romance genres.
His first feature film as writer/director was the groundbreaking gay romantic comedy Is It Just Me? An official selection of over 50 international film festivals, it won several awards and honors, including audience choice and best picture. This was followed by eCupid—an instant best seller in the LGBTQ genre, screening at over 60 film festivals and winning four best picture and audience choice awards.
JC’s third feature film, The 10 Year Plan, played at over 51 international film festivals, winning 10 awards for writing and filmmaking before being adapted into a male/male romance novel.
He is also the creator, director and producer of the world’s most popular and longest running YouTube LGBTQ web series, Steam Room Stories. The Steam Room Stories brand has inspired several spin-off projects, including an award-winning motion picture, a series of novels, and the Steamy Stories podcast.
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Vance Bastian and SA “Baz” Collins give their thoughts and reviews of two documentaries archived on YouTube. First is Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The Life of William Haines. Second is Gay Life: Being Gay in the Thirties. They explore how these relate to queer life and discuss their strengths and flaws.
Media Presented: William Haines: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330734/, Being Gay in the 30s: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13051936/
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It gives us great pleasure to present a Season 8, Episode 42 Interview – S.M. Rune
S.M. Rune joins us to introduce the world to 8 Eden & Jude, a novel about a homeless queer youth who vividly interacts with an Elsewhere!
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Born 8/8/88, S.M. Rune studied at CCSF and USAO and has lived in 8 US states and 3 countries (so far). Rune grew up on superheroes and fantasy novels. Some of Rune’s greatest inspirations include Philip Pullman, Anne Rice, Anne McCaffery, Kate Elliott, George R.R. Martin, J.R.R. Tolkien, and many more.
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Vance Bastian and SA “Baz” Collins give their thoughts and reviews of the Prime film Cassandro. They explore how it relates to queer life and discuss its strengths and flaws.
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It gives us great pleasure to present a Season 8, Episode 41 Interview – Rick Herrick
Rick Herrick joins us to talk about his passion for New Testament scholarship and how he took a critical, comedic look at Christ taking on a gay messenger in his novel A Second Chance!
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Rick Herrick, PhD, a former tenured university professor and magazine editor, is the author of six published novels and three works of nonfiction. His musical play, Lighthouse Point, was performed as a fundraiser for the Martha’s Vineyard Museum in 2013. Dr. Herrick is currently retired, living in Bluffton, SC. He is married with three children and seven grandchildren.
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