Bonus: Kickass or Nah?

We're trying something different this episode!

With a little help from our friends Noah and the Comedatrix Ms. Grey, we're going down a surprise list of contemporary and controversial queer people and deciding on the fly if they are kickass, or... something else entirely!

A few of the personalities we'll be covering:

An occultist filmmaker who tried to off his leading lady on-screen;

An academic even more controversial than Michel Foucault;

A lesbian separatist with an enviable sexual history;

A trans activist with a history of next-level personal vendettas;

The 80s' most-irritating icon;

And--most controversial of all--a journalist who once wrote something problematic.

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(Spoilers - Come back to these after you listen to the episode!)

Hollywood Babylon, Kenneth Anger's super trashy, mostly false Hollywood tell-all https://amzn.to/4db4Zb2

The Films of Kenneth Anger V. 1 https://amzn.to/4dcMoLx & V. 2 https://amzn.to/4d9IlQ3

Patricia Highsmith's Ripley Novels https://amzn.to/4d8mWXG

The Price of Salt https://amzn.to/447MCjb

Camille Paglia's Provocations https://amzn.to/44iOc1K & Sexual Personae https://amzn.to/3U9pxb1

Rubyfruit Jungle https://amzn.to/3xKHQvD

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe https://amzn.to/3U9VXlY

All of Us Strangers https://amzn.to/3QgGqzo

The Smiths first album https://amzn.to/3xXAeWH

Phranc https://www.phranc.la/

Lil Nas X documentary https://amzn.to/3WalPk0 & his Crocs because why not? https://amzn.to/3W5LYRb

Jodie Foster's lion story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRVxLH5EiYs & singing in French https://youtu.be/sBmAuWMEX0I?si=tFwgFLR5utjTXxlg

Susan Sontag: Essays of the 60s and 70s https://amzn.to/3QdOqkO

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Note: This episode does contain some audio distortion on one track. We're super sorry, but such is the cost of including awesome guests!