Steven Capsuto

I'm in the middle of reading this now, and it really is outstanding! I can't believe it's taken me this long to get around to reading this book.

We've all heard the right wing claim about the *liberal media* but the truth is that right coded zillionaires own most of the media we consume. Just look at this list of what the Ellison's now own. It's astounding & very concerning. (h/t @thedesk.net)

On Monday I'm giving a Zoom talk with video clips about the evolution of LGBT images on 20th-century TV. The event is sponsored by CBST in New York, and all are welcome to register by clicking the itty-bitty "Register" link at the end of the program description. 😀 cbst.org/eventdetails...

I'm so relieved that the hair conditioner at the hotel is free from homophobia! Whew! (Now if we could only say the same thing about the US Supreme Court...)

Since Jean Smart is in the spotlight with her record-setting Emmy win... Here's a video about that time when she played serial killer Aileen Wuornos in a 1992 TV movie (11 years before Charlize Theron in "Monster"), with Park Overall playing her girlfriend.

For years, we've seen headlines saying that Trump's approval rating has fallen to an all-time low. And no matter how often it happens, when I check the number, it's always around 35%. What higher mathematics are involved in a number staying the same while plummeting? What do the headlines refer to?

In lesbian news I *am* telling @cmr2.bsky.social and everyone else, Rosie is guest hosting Kimmel this week. @therealsnicks.bsky.social @morganruble.bsky.social @axfrommn.bsky.social @tvdean.bsky.social @bluegreen118.bsky.social @cosmiclad.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMZf...

It always amazes me that these gay characters were on a UK sketch-comedy series week after week in the *1960s*. We had nothing comparable in the US. The nearest thing was Alan Sues's gay-coded characters on "Laugh-In." I have a few albums of Julian and Sandy sketches but I'd not heard this one.

The folks freaking out about "racially implausible" casting in Nolan's "The Odyssey" are probably the same people who love it when Jesus is portrayed by a pasty actor who looks like his name ought to be Sven.

I’m traveling in California. Here's the obligatory pic in front of the "Brady Bunch house" in Studio City. 😃

📺 July 13, 1984: “Brothers” debuted on Showtime. Pay cable’s first original sitcom starred Paul Regina as a man who left his bride at the altar on their wedding day, only to reveal to his 2 older brothers (Robert Walden and Brandon Maggart) that he's gay. 115 episodes were produced over 5 seasons.

Every US right-winger today:

A 5-hour YouTube video?! Yup, but it's by @mattbaume.bsky.social and is therefore worth watching from start to finish, even if you have to view it in installments. Smart, entertaining, and important.

Video is the future, man! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLdT...

I guess I should have bumped this yesterday...

June Lockhart seems to have been such a lovely person, and here she replies beautifully to Graham's antigay remarks. What has surprised me since I posted this video is how many people in the comments assume that Rev. Troy Perry is heterosexual and a Catholic priest. No idea why they assume that!

Was just in two shops where the twentysomething-year-old workers were completely unfamiliar with the terms "humidifier" and "vaporizer." Are these no longer a common thing? Or are they now called something fanciful like a "steam-o-breather"?

I love good queer romance films, and this week I really enjoyed a very sweet gay-teen romance I saw for the first time: the Brazilian film "The Way He Looks" (2014). Very well made (though I have doubts about the plausibility of the final scene).

The LezWatch.TV show of the day is "Orphan Black," with 7 characters and an overall score of 81.75. - #LWTVsotd #OrphanBlack - https://lezwatchtv.com/show/orphan-black/

June 15: Today in Queer TV History - HAPPILY DIVORCED with Fran Drescher (2011) and LOVE, VICTOR (2020).

Happy Pride! My latest video: Philadelphia LGBT Pride 2004. (19 min.) I shot and edited this 22 years ago for my friend Kay, who was one of the grand marshals that year. Perhaps some of you will spot yourselves here. 😀 youtu.be/kLbo5WS3TNw

My fellow cis folks, The FCC is asking Americans to submit comments about whether the TV Oversight Management Board (TVOMB) should create new TV ratings to alert viewers to trans/gender content. Time to be an ally and tell the FCC absolutely the fuck not. It takes five minutes to do.

"Luddite" doesn't mean "fuddy-duddy who can't grasp tech and dislikes anything new." Luddites were workers-rights activists who, when industries developed machines to replace workers, broke in at night and smashed the machines. UK then made machine-smashing a capital crime and started killing them.

Banality of evil: Just found out the guy I've sat next to at lunch off and on for a few months is a Trumpster who revels in every kind of cruelty, lawlessness, torture, and death. He has the luxury of seeing it as theoretical since he believes (falsely, I hope) that none of it will happen to him.

New Video: "Ridiculous LGBTQ+ Content Warnings on TV, Past and Future." As the FCC pushes to give parents the ability to block trans and nonbinary content on their TVs, we look back at the evolution of parental guidance warnings about LGBTQ+ content. youtu.be/fiVYLtHZAwY?...

June is designated #PrideMonth in countries around the world, marking the anniversary of the Stonewall riots in June 1969. Pride celebrates the progress we have made over the last 57 years but it also reminds us that the struggle is not over. Far from it.

What was it like to be a lesbian activist in 1965 on a TV talk show? What ridiculous questions were they asked? And how did audiences react? Check out my 1991 interview with pioneering lesbian activists Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, who founded the Daughters of Bilitis in 1955. youtu.be/HYIuh98-hWo

May 18: Today in Queer TV History - NORTHERN EXPOSURE (1992), WILL & GRACE (2006) youtube.com/shorts/nlZb0...

May 16: Today in Queer TV History - LOVE, SIDNEY (1983), ALL MY CHILDREN (2002), WILL & GRACE (2002) youtube.com/shorts/jdlqG...

My first-ever YouTube short. 🙂

WILL & GRACE debuted in 1998, but the first time I noticed a queer-inclusive commercial during the show was a Miller Lite ad on today's date in 2001. I checked and someone has uploaded it to YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZg6...

20 years ago, a gay-teen story line began on the long-running daytime soap opera AS THE WORLD TURNS.

My YouTube channel about LGBTQ+ images on TV now has over 6,000 followers! Woohoo! I'm redesigning it to include longer videos in which I analyze that history, but still with lots of clips. Here's the first of the new videos. Most of them will be about 15 minutes long. youtu.be/dwLrhsrt5CE

If you're a white neo-Nazi Republican politician who truly believes that ethnic and cultural "replacement" is a bad thing that needs to be undone... Why not lead by example and go back to wherever the hell your people came here from?

Hello from snowy New York City...

Woohoo! I'm quoted in today's NY Times piece about the 50th anniversary of the gay couple on the 1970s-80s sitcom BARNEY MILLER: Darryl and Marty. #gay #queer #LGBTQ #sitcom