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Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular! Today, we are going to talk about the books  The Darkness Outisde Us (2021) and  The Brightness Between Us (2024) by Eliot Schrefer. They are a duology that is a mix of science fiction, romance, and dystopian fiction. I find them both to be fascinating books and well worth the read. But before we talk about the books, I talk for a few minutes about th...

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular! Today, we are having a special episode which will air on both Queer PoliFaith and Queerly Popular. We are talking about the 1993-1998 sci-fi series,  Babylon 5 . It was an awesome series, one of the best in my opinion, and very different from  Star Trek , which was in its heyday during this time. I love both, but I believe that  Babylon 5  is better....

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular! Today, we are going to talk about the 2024 film Wicked, Part One . It is based off of the first half of the 2003 musical which is based off of a 1995 book that tells the story of how Elphaba becomes the Wicked Witch of the West from  The Wizard of Oz . We start with a talk about the background of the film and musical. We then move to the characters an...

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular. It's my birthday, so I am talking about two of my favorite movies growing up:  Escape To Witch Mountain (1975) and  Return From Witch Mountain (1978). I also talk about the books of the same name (1968 and 1978) and how the books differ from the movies. I do have a deep love of both movies, but particularly of  Return From Witch Mountain which I watch...

Welcome to this week's episode of Queerly Popular! Today, I am talking with my friend Caitlin about asexuality in Heartstopper. In other words, we're talking about Isaac's journey and her thoughts about that journey. We also talk a little bit about Agatha All Along. During the episode, we mainly end up looking at various scenes of the show that highlight Isaac and his journey. Here are those clips...

Welcome to season 4 of Queerly Popular! We're starting the season off with an episode about the MCU series on Disney+,  Agatha All Along . Before we get into the show, I talk a little about some different things I am doing this season. Then, I talk about why I stopped watching things in the MCU and why I watch this show. Then we talk about the episodes and my thoughts about the characters and how...

Welcome to the season finale of Queerly Popular! Today, we are talking about the 2020 Lifetime holiday film The Christmas Setup . 2020 was a pretty big year for queer films because it had several major networks/streamers release holiday films with queer main characters, which I talk about near the end of the podcast. It was also taped during the beginning of the pandemic, which shows in the reduce...

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular! Today, we're going to talk about the 2009 film,  Make the Yuletide Gay . It is a movie that is very much a product of its time and is definitely dated in some fairly obvious ways. That said, it is a fun movie and one that is worth watching. I start off with some thoughts about the necessity of telling coming out stories, while also making sure we are...

Welcome to Queerly Popular! Today, we are talking about the 2023 film  Bottoms . This film has the distinction of being the first (and possibly only) piece of pop culture that will be featured on here that I did not like. While I do not hate the movie the way I do  Brokeback Mountain and  Call My By Your Name , the humor and violence in the movie is not something I like. But, I can see why people...

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular! Today, we are going to talk about the 2016 film  Fair Haven . It is a relatively short movie at 90 minutes and is overall a decent film. I am not fond of the ending for reasons discussed in the podcast. Listen to get the details. Overall, the movie is not one of my favorites, but it is not a bad movie either. Next week, we will be talking about the mo...

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular. Today's very long episode is all about Heartstopper season 3. This episode is 1 hour and 53 minutes long, which is by far the longest episode I have done to date. I enjoyed making it and hope you enjoy listening to it. This is a very heavy season and the episode talks about mental health issues, self harm, transphobia, and other things that may be tri...

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular! Today, we will be talking about the 2014 TV movie Boys (Jongen in Dutch). The movie was first broadcast on Dutch TV and does have English subtitles. This is a short episode. That's because the movie is fun and enjoyable, but it is a story that has been told quite often, and this version doesn't bring a whole lot new to the table. That said, it is not...

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular. Today, we are going to talk about the 2006 film  The Curiosity of Chance . It's a fun, fluffy film that is about a out, gay high school boy in a school in Europe in the 1980s.  There is some humor that is dated, so know that. My main issue is that the movie feels like it's a fluffy movie trying to be serious and it doesn't quite work. But if you just...

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular. Today, we are talking about  The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement . They came out in 2001 and 2004 and starred Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews. The movies are about Mia Thermopolis, a 15-year old San Franciscan, who finds out she is the princess of a small European country called Genovia. The movies are based off of charac...

Welcome to this week's episode of Queerly Popular. Today we are talking about the 2024 movie  Ganymede starring Jordan Doww and Pablo Castelblanco, directed by Colby Holt and Sam Probst and written by Colby Holt. I start the episode explaining why I watched this movie (which is very different from other movies I watch) and then talk about the plot. After that, most of the rest of the episode is sp...

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular! Today, I am sharing a great conversation I had with my friend Mycroft Masada about Star Trek. We focus a lot on queer coded characters, but we also touch on a lot of other things that show how Star Trek was always "woke". We do focus exclusively on DS9, Next Generation, Voyager, and the Original Series because that is what we have seen. Neither of us...

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular! Today, we are talking about the 2024 book My Fair Brady , which is a riff off of the musical  My Fair Lady , the movie  She's All That , and other such stories.  The book is about a high school senior, Wade Westmore, who is dumped by his boyfriend on Valentine's Day (justifiably, I might add), loses the leading role in the musical to his ex, and is ha...

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular! Today, we are talking about the movie  Handsome Devil . But before we talk about the movie, I spend some time talking about Nicholas Galitizine's other movies and tv shows and some basic thoughts about them. Handsome Devil is a 2016 film about Ned (Fionn O'Shea), a student who is out of place and bullied in the boarding school he attends and his new r...

Welcome to Queerly Popular! This week, we will be talking about the 2024 film  The Idea of You starring Nicholas Galitizine and Anne Hathaway. The movie is a cis-het romance about a 40-year old divorced mother who meets a 24-year old pop star and how their relationship develops. Before I talk about the film and characters, I explain why this is a queer film and included here. The episode clocks in...

Welcome to this week's episode of Queerly Popular! Today, we're talking about the 2021 book  Playing the Palace . It is about an American Associate Event Architect (Carter Ogden) who meets the Crown Prince of England (Prince Edgar), their romance, and the issues they have.  I did definitely enjoy the book, even though it suffered from 2 major issues. Most characters were stereotypes and not as fle...

Welcome to this week's episode of Queerly Popular! This week we'll be talking about the 2022 book  The Feeling of Falling In Love by Mason Deaver. It is their third book and is, in all honesty, a fairly typical romance. The main difference being that the main character is a trans guy and the love interest is a queer, non-binary individual. But other than that, it hits all the tropes you could want...

Welcome to this week's episode of Queerly Popular. Today, we are talking about the 2020 book  Date Me, Bryson Keller by Kevin van Whye. The book is about a high school boy who asks out the most popular guy in high school; who agreed to date the first person who asks him out each week; and how they come to realize that they really like each other. For the most part, I really enjoyed the book. I had...

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular! Today we are going to talk about the Netflix show  Young Royals which is about a Swedish prince who meets and falls in love with a commoner at an elite boarding school. The show premiered in 2021 and the finale aired on March 18, 2024. Warning, this is one of the longer episodes at almost 80 minutes, so be prepared for that. And if you haven't seen th...

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular! Today, we are going to talk about the 2021 book  The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun. The book is about a contestant and a producer on a reality dating show who meet and fall in love. There is a lot of talk in the book about mental health issues including anxiety, OCD, and depression. There is also good representation of different sexualities. There...

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