Matt Baume

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Hi there, I'm Matt. I make videos about pop culture history from a queer perspective, exploring behind-the-scenes stories about movies and TV shows that chan...

Latest Videos

How Two Gay Icons Confronted a Christmas Crisis

Gays and Oz Why There's No Place Like Homo

Frankenstein's Gay Maker James Whale, The Queen of Hollywood

Gomez goes gay in Kiss of the Spider Woman

What makes X-Men so gay

BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER Natasha Lyonne & RuPaul camp it up

Brokeback Mountain at 20 Does it hold up

One Bad Mother In Defense of Star Trek's Lwaxana Troi

Why Do I Love These VICIOUS Queens

Dog Day Afternoon Did He Rob a Bank for Love

The Problem with CRUISING (1980)

How an MTV Reality Star Fought an Epidemic

TV Ate my Family Lance Loud & America's First Reality Show

TALES OF THE CITY and the Fight to Save PBS

How Rickie from My So-Called Life Changed TV Forever

Why Disney Got Good (for a while)

Cabaret & the Seductive Power of Evil

The Rowdy Queer Rebels Who Turned Television Gay

Can a Movie Change the Law

Is REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE a Gay Movie

Why You Should Watch the Movie Straight Jacket, Hollywood's Lost Gay Rom-Com

Transforming a Gay Truck Driver into the Biggest Star in Hollywood Rock Hudson's Rise & Fall

The Secret Life & Loves of Tab Hunter

Psycho's Norman Bates & the Hidden Life of Anthony Perkins

Behind the Scenes of SOME LIKE IT HOT Secrets, Scandals, and Marilyn's Mystique

The Inside Story of All in the Family The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of the Bunkers

Norman Lear & The Power of Comedy Behind the Most Shocking Shows of the '70s

A Warning Label on my Life The Story of Ellen's Coming Out

Oh My! How George Takei fought the bigots -- and won

The First Gay TV Movie The Battle Over That Certain Summer