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FOF #1269 – Archie Comics Gay Character Kevin Keller Is a Hit

FOF #1269 – Archie Comics Gay Character Kevin Keller Is a Hit

Archie Comics teen sensation Kevin Keller, the first gay character in the Archie-verse, is a hit with young and old fans alike.

Today Archie Comics writer and artist Dan Parent joins us to break even more exciting news about Kevin Keller- he’s going to get his own four part mini-series due out in summer 2011.

Posted in: Artists, Interviews, Podcast, Writers 2 years ago 6
FOF #1254 – Guys Gone Oscar Wilde

FOF #1254 – Guys Gone Oscar Wilde

We’re joined by graphic novelist Jon Macy- he’s got a powerful new graphic novel “Teleny and Camille” an erotic love story between a celebrated musical genius and an aristocratic young man.

Join us as we take a look at the roots of modern gay culture in Victorian England, one guy one jar, and the complicated man that was Oscar Wilde.

Posted in: Interviews, Podcast, Writers 2 years ago 9
FOF #1253 – Rubber Lover

FOF #1253 – Rubber Lover

Your new boyfriend may give you a whole lot more than just a box of chocolates. Most people know that using condoms for casual sex is important, but new studies show that an alarming number of HIV infections happen when guys fall in love.

So when is it okay to stop using condoms with your boyfriend and still be safe? How soon is too soon?

Posted in: Interviews, Podcast, Writers 2 years ago 7
FOF #1247 – Nellie Oleson Saved My Life

FOF #1247 – Nellie Oleson Saved My Life

Alison Arngrim is loved and feared by people all over the world for playing the mean little rich girl Nellie Oleson on Little House on the Prairie. Alison credits the role with saving her sanity.

Today Alison joins us to talk about her funny and heart breaking memoir, “Confessions of a Prairie Bitch” which recounts her time on Little House, growing up in a crazy Hollywood, and her work on behalf of HIV/AIDS charities and victims of sexual abuse.

Posted in: Actors, Comedians, Interviews, Podcast, Writers 2 years ago 9
FOF #1221 – Bruce Vilanch on the Star Wars Holiday Special

FOF #1221 – Bruce Vilanch on the Star Wars Holiday Special

Today we’re talking to comedy writer and gay legend Bruce Vilanch, who worked as a writer for The Star Wars Holiday Special, and also on many lavish, campy TV specials of the 1970s including The Brady Bunch Variety Hour.

Listen as Bruce talks to us about the wonderful tacky world of TV specials from the 1970s and he also reveals that there is a documentary on the Star Wars Holiday Special in the works!

Posted in: Comedians, Interviews, Podcast, Writers 2 years ago 5
FOF #1203 – Green Acres Goes Gay

FOF #1203 – Green Acres Goes Gay

Josh Kilmer-Purcell was once Aquadesia, a popular drag queen living in New York City known for her acrylic bra that held live goldfish. He wrote all about it in his book, “I Am Not Myself These Days“- one of the best drag queen memoirs ever.

Today, he and his partner live on a rustic farm in upstate New York, the focus of Josh’s new book and a reality TV show “The Fabulous Beakman Boys.”

Posted in: Interviews, Podcast, Television, Writers 2 years ago 4
FOFA #1032 – Kristine W and the Power of Music

FOFA #1032 – Kristine W and the Power of Music

We’re very excited to have in the home studio the award winning, dance diva- Kristine W.

With thirteen No. 1 Billboard Dance hits, Kristine is one of the top 5 dance artists in the country alongside with Madonna, Janet Jackson, Donna Summer, and Mariah Carey. After listening to her latest single “Be Alright” I’m convinced this song might be a chart topping hit for this fierce musician.

Posted in: Classic Podcasts, Interviews, Podcast, Writers 2 years ago 1
FOF #1189 – Sweet Tea and Sympathy

FOF #1189 – Sweet Tea and Sympathy

Writer and oral historian E Patrick Johnson spent two years traveling the South to interview almost a hundred men for his extraordinary book Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South. He’s now briging these men’s stories to life with a theatrical adapation of the book.

Listen as we talk about the responsibility of performing these men’s powerful stories and on the unnerving use of slur words in books, films and theater.

Posted in: Actors, Podcast, Writers 2 years ago 6
FOF #1184 – You Can Learn a Lot from a Whore

FOF #1184 – You Can Learn a Lot from a Whore

Elizabeth Pisani has interviewed hundreds of sex workers from all around the world to figure out how best to fight sexually transmitted diseases and what she found out, may surprise you.

Today Elizabeth talks about her fabulous book, “The Wisdom of Whores,” on how sex and drugs relate to AIDS and how your government foolishly spends money trying to deal with crisis.

FOF #1177 – Bright Lights, Big City

FOF #1177 – Bright Lights, Big City

Small towns are starting to embrace the gays, but for some people, the big city is the answer to all their problems. Today blogger Ryan Justice rolls out the Big Gay Welcome Wagon, his blog dedicated to the needs of small town gays who move to big cities in search of happiness.

Plus: Grace Jones says she’s “pissed” at Lady Gaga, a couple is arrested for providing breast implants without medical training, Scott Herman’s bold red suit, and a rooster crows “cock a doodle don’t” and becomes a hen.

Posted in: Interviews, Podcast, Writers 2 years ago 17