@boyculturedotcom From the September 29, 1976, "Alice" episode entitled "Alice Gets a Pass," Linda Lavin's Alice finds out the reason the guy she's on a date with isn't making a mass is that he's gay. The episode is remarkably progressive for 50ish years ago, with a pitch-perfect performance by Denny Miller. I met Mr. Miller in 2011 at an autograph show, where he signed my photo "stay healthy." I didn't ask him about "Alice" (!) but he said of working with Tina Louise on "Gilligan's Island" that he sat down on an ornate chair in her dressing room and broke it. They'd been rehearsing a slapping scene, and he said, "The slaps got really hard after that!" Back to "Alice Gets a Pass" — it was written by Martin Donovan (who wrote and directed the gay drama "Apartment Zero" in 1988) and who wrote "Death Becomes Her" in 1992 and by the late Robert Getchell (who wrote "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" in 1974, "Mommie Dearest" in 1981 and "This Boy's Life" in 1993, among many others. RIP Linda Lavin, Robert Getchell, Denny Miller and the entire 1976 cast of "Alice," minus Polly Holliday, who is with us at 87 #alice #lindalavin #dennymiller #gay #tv #gr8erdays ♬ original sound - Matthew Rettenmund/BoyCulture

A reminder of a terrific Alice episode from 1976.

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An interesting, first-person account of what it was like to have been raided by the cops for making gay porn in the late 1950s from Walter Kundzicz — who died in 2016. Check it out here.

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Please check out my Substack piece on Mickey Squires, the classic Colt Model who is (1) alive, (2) well, and (3) about to become the subject of a new documentary on the real guy behind the butch persona.

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I don't know what possessed me, but a photo album I used to create a little gay art book that's been sitting in my apartment for 30 years cried out, so I scanned it and uploaded it on my Substack, along with a short essay about my past as an artiste.

I don't know — I'm still happy with this little book. It's found art and not a measure of my technical skills, but it's interesting and I think would interest me if I saw something similar for sale.

If nothing else it's so, so, so 1990s queer NYC. Those club invites! I used to chop 'em up and use 'em to death.

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I recently spoke with writer-director-actress Honey Lauren, whose film Mistake takes on the topic of being born intersex — in the '40s.

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Check out my latest Substack post — it's about Friday's talk between author David Kennerley and clubkid Ernie Glam about Kennerley's vast collection of '90s queer flyers from his book Getting In.

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