Watching Two Porcupines Mate (The Thomas Crown Affair/Mike)
My guest this week has a track record of going viral — whether he wanted to or not. Mike Aylesworth’s first brush with fame was as a teenage...
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Revealing stories about the books, movies, tv, music and more that have changed the lives of gay men. Each week, a guest plucks a piece of entertainment from their past, and answers the ques...
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20 of 314 episodesI Came Out with the Latinos (Ep 380 - The Birdcage/Tony Rodriguez)
You might recognize the voice of this week’s Sewers of Paris guest — Tony Rodriguez plays Julio on The Simpsons , a role originated by Hank...
Horny is a Response (Ep 579 - Batman & Robin/Jack)
My guest this week is writer and historian Jack Shoulder. You might know him from his daily social media posts focusing on butts from across...
Nasty Pig is Poetry (Ep 578 - Pink Floyd/David Lauterstein)
My guest this week on The Sewers of Paris is David Lauterstein, the founder and CEO of Nasty Pig. You probably know his company for their se...
Southern Decadence (Ep 577 - James Baldwin/Jonathan)
This week marks the birthday of the author and activist James Baldwin, and to mark the occasion we’re heading into the Sewers archives for a...
The Harlot's Progress (Ep 576 - Iain/composing opera)
My guest on The Sewers of Paris this week is Iain Bell , who made a career out of his personal passion for music. But he took a winding road...
I Owe My Life to Mariah (Ep 575 - Mariah Carey/Bisi)
My guest this week grew up in challenging circumstances — a gay kid in Nigeria with a religious family, Bisi couldn’t imagine anywhere on Ea...
A Great Excuse for Touching (Ep 574 - Interrupting TV shows/Murray Edelman)
A few months ago, I came across an incredible video. It’s the early 70s, and a local Chicago talk show is interviewing a doctor who wrote a...
We've Decided Trauma is Funny (Ep 573 - Improv/Mano)
My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris is writer/comedian Mano Agapion , whose work you may know from his appearances on Hacks and Bajillio...
Sewers of Paris: Magic Horses & Middle School (Ep. 572 - Fantasy novels/Hugh Ryan)
When you compare what queer life was like at the end of the 80s to the start of the 2000s, the differences are so shocking it’s hard to beli...
My Second Life (Ep 571 - Phantom of the Opera/Chris Geidner)
You might’ve seen that I have a new video up on YouTube this week — it’s about the long hard fight for marriage equality, and how some Holly...
Don't Make Superman TOO Sexy (Ep 570 - Superhero comics/Joe)
Next week sees the release of a new Supergirl movie, so for this week’s Sewers of Paris we’re diving into the archives to revisit my 2020 in...
Permission to Make Queer Art (Ep 569 - Gregg Araki films/Daniel & Andrew)
For this week’s episode, we have two guests: Andrew Klaus-Vineyard and Daniel Talbott are the directors of a new documentary short called We...
We Went Through the Ringer (Ep 568 - murder mysteries/Caleb)
My guest this week is Caleb Roehrig, author of young adult mysteries and the occasional romance. Caleb had always wanted to be an author, bu...
The Luckiest Little Homosexual in the World (Ep 567 - The Tonys/Jeffrey)
The world just celebrated Shakespeare’s birthday — born in late April, a scant four hundred and sixty two years ago, which makes him almost...
To Be a Goblin (Ep 566 - Labyrinth/Jes)
My guest this week on The Sewers of Paris is Jes Battis , who’s just written an appreciation and analysis of the movie Labyrinth entitled It...
I Saw Myself in Kermit (Ep 565 - The Muppet Show/Dan)
To mark the recent re-re-re-rebooting of The Muppet Show , this week we’re heading into the Sewers archives to revisit my 2020 interview wit...
Theater is My Version of Church (Ep 564 - Catwoman/Greg)
A few weeks ago I came across an online video from a comic convention featuring a phalanx of comic book figures — life-size statues, painted...
The Most Expensive Flop in Broadway History (Ep 563 - Madeline Kahn/William)
The day this episode comes out, March 26 2026, is the 115th birthday of renowned playwright Tennessee Williams. And to mark the occasion, we...
The Fire that Came with Creating (ep 562 - Fifth Element/Ricardo)
My guest this week is illustrator Ricardo Bessa , whose beautiful art features lush colorful fantasy settings and characters on fabulous adv...