An amateur historian with a fully stocked bar and a boundless curiosity.
A Mouseketeer and a Disney movie icon who was fired by Uncle Walt because he liked boys.
(Actually, a rerun of episode 16 about a Native American princess who took Washington D.C. by storm)
The world's first television chef and the dean of American cookery, James Beard.
One of pop music's true oddballs, visionary record producer Joe Meek.
I investigate the cult surrounding Saint Sebastian, plus Saints Sergius and Bacchus and same-sex marriage in the ancient Christian Church.
The life and career of one of the most influential movie actors, Anthony Perkins.
Author of the first book about vampires, appropriately titled "The Vampyre", John Polidori.
Horror's first, and so far only, male scream queen, actor Mark Patton.
A rock music legend, recently rediscovered, who was shamelessly and defiantly gay, John "Smokey" Condon.
Independent film pioneer, inventor of Queer Cinema, and hero to Warhol, Lynch, and Scorsese. Filmmaker Kenneth Anger.
The inventor of porn, Pietro Aretino.
You can be a leading man while being openly gay. Screen legend Jean Marais.
Rock & roll architect Little Richard.
Singer, actress, and t.v. icon Nell Carter.
King James I of England. Incidentally, I've been in more motel rooms than the King James Bible.
A trailblazer who paid the cost for choosing to be out in the 1800s. One hell of a writer, Herman Bang.
The most famous (and expensive) male prostitute, Denny Fouts.
The incredible Djuna Barnes.
Inside the bedroom of a nonpareil artist who changed art forever.
An artist who scanned the globe to find a place where he could be gay in peace.
Dance legend Fred Astaire's artistic partner, Hermes Pan.
Exhaustive sex researcher, the Oscar Wilde of pornography, and grandfather of the tramp stamp.
Hollywood legend Montgomery Clift.
Gay sex in 1970's New York, and the man who captured it with his camera.
What made Alexander "Great?" Good lovin'.
She directed one of the greatest achievements in cinema. Please don't make me watch it again.
A (mostly) gay crossdressing Russian prince responsible for one of history's most famous murders.
The unique 1980's pop singer you've probably never heard of.
The dual life of tv's most famous lawyer.
A splendid artist and frenzied bugger.
Literature's ultimate bad girl.
Get ear fucked by one of history's greatest composers.
A studly scientist and one of the greatest minds in history. A man whose influence is felt to this day.
The salacious tale of Anita Berber and Sebastian Droste.
A music man with distingué traces.
A Native American "princess" civilizes the white man.
One of Hollywood's best gay clowns.
A leotarded legend goes nutcrackers.
A gay Lothario takes Paris by storm.
A lesbian couple becomes a tourist attraction in 18th century Wales.
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