The Sewers of Paris is a podcast of revealing personal stories about how entertainment has changed the lives of gay men. Each week, a guest plucks a piece of entertainment from their past -- book, movies, music, shows, and more -- and answers the question: how did it change your life?
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April 2015
- Apr 8, 2015 Welcome to the Sewers of Paris
- Apr 8, 2015 Camp is like Pornography (Ep. 1: Eurovision)
- Apr 16, 2015 I was Quite Happy to be the Villain (Ep. 2: Julian and Sandy)
- Apr 16, 2015 Gay Men's Catnip (Ep. 3: Wizard of Oz)
- Apr 18, 2015 Short and Super-Perverted (Ep. 4: Salome)
- Apr 23, 2015 Funny and Salacious and Dangerous (Ep. 5: Soap)
- Apr 30, 2015 There's no Word in Afrikaans for Gay (Ep. 6: South Africa)
- May 2015
- June 2015
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July 2015
- Jul 2, 2015 I'm Not Gay, I'm Just a Dance Major (Ep. 15 - The Boys in the Band)
- Jul 9, 2015 Important Fiction with Wieners (Ep. 16 - E.M. Forster)
- Jul 16, 2015 Libraries Have Always Felt Safe (Ep. 17 - Redwall and The Virgin Mary)
- Jul 23, 2015 The Witch's Perspective (Ep. 18 - Wicked)
- Jul 30, 2015 Drag Clothing for GI Joes (Ep. 19 - The Birdcage)
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August 2015
- Aug 6, 2015 I Could be Black and Gay and Also a Writer (Ep. 20 - Will & Grace and Langston Hughes)
- Aug 12, 2015 I'm Rooting for the Pig (Ep. 21 - The Muppet Show)
- Aug 20, 2015 There's Something About Not Giving a F*ck (Ep. 22 - Nintendo Games & John Waters)
- Aug 27, 2015 I Prefer the Term "Enchanted" (Ep. 23 - Magic, Puppetry, and Mr. Rogers)
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September 2015
- Sep 3, 2015 The Cecil B. DeMille of Porn (Ep. 24 - Batman & Chi Chi LaRue)
- Sep 10, 2015 Terrifying and yet Intriguing (Ep. 25 - Punk Rock)
- Sep 17, 2015 Giving Yourself a Crash Course in Gay (Ep. 26 - Cinephiles)
- Sep 24, 2015 You Don't Own Me (Ep. 27 - First Wives Club)
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October 2015
- Oct 1, 2015 Trust it & Thrust it (Ep. 28 - Showgirls & Ellen)
- Oct 8, 2015 People Wearing Masks (Ep. 29 - Hocus Pocus)
- Oct 15, 2015 I Got a Kick out of Freaking People Out (Ep. 30 - Interview with the Vampire)
- Oct 22, 2015 You Can't Make Us Feel Ashamed (Ep. 31 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show)
- Oct 29, 2015 The Final Girl (Ep. 32 - Nightmare on Elm Street)
- November 2015
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December 2015
- Dec 3, 2015 Flamboyant Before I was Ready (Ep. 37 - Moulin Rouge & Big Brother)
- Dec 10, 2015 When You Don’t Have Words to Say, You Sing (Ep. 38 - Angels in America)
- Dec 17, 2015 Just be Gay, It's Fine (Ep. 39 - The Cosby Show)
- Dec 24, 2015 The Sewers of Paris Holiday-Special Special
- Dec 31, 2015 My Mom Had to Look up "Homosexual" at the Library (Ep. 41 - Carol Burnett)
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January 2016
- Jan 7, 2016 I'm not an Expert, Except that I Have a Heart (Ep. 42 - Captain Kirk)
- Jan 14, 2016 The Best Smut You'll Ever Read (Ep. 43 - Anais Nin)
- Jan 21, 2016 The Person I was in Namibia and the Person I am Now (Ep. 44 - Desperate Housewives)
- Jan 28, 2016 The Joke of Being Gay (Ep. 45 - Polyester & Arrested Development)
- February 2016
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March 2016
- Mar 3, 2016 I Embrace Being High-Strung (Ep. 50 - Louis Virtel & Jeopardy!)
- Mar 10, 2016 That's a Life in the Theater (Ep. 51 - Lily Tomlin, Carol Burnett)
- Mar 17, 2016 If You Can Survive it, do it (Ep. 52 - Gay New York in the 70s & 80s)
- Mar 24, 2016 My Land's Only Borders Lie Around my Heart (Ep. 53 - Chess, Mariah, and Wicked)
- Mar 31, 2016 Don't Follow Rules (Ep. 54 - Indie Rock, Chiptunes, and Video Games)
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April 2016
- Apr 7, 2016 My Cat Makes Me Laugh a Lot (Ep. 55 - Bette Midler)
- Apr 14, 2016 I Needed to Feel at Home in my Home (Ep. 56 - Matilda)
- Apr 21, 2016 I was in Fantasy Worlds with Quests and Wizards (Ep. 57 - Dungeons & Dragons)
- Apr 28, 2016 I'm in the Whore Houses and the Leper Colonies (Ep. 58 - Robbie Turner)
- May 2016
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June 2016
- Jun 2, 2016 You Don't Want to See Minnie Mouse Take Her Head Off (Ep. 63 - Ben DeLaCreme)
- Jun 9, 2016 Villains and Hairdressers (Ep. 64 - Bryan Safi)
- Jun 16, 2016 Earthquakes Are Fine, I'd Just Rather not be in Eugene (Ep. 65 - Tokyo Drag Queen)
- Jun 23, 2016 My Slumber Parties Were Notorious (Ep. 66 - Greenwich Village)
- Jun 30, 2016 The Lost Year in Argentina (Ep. 67 - 80s Pop Songs)
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July 2016
- Jul 7, 2016 The Girlie Show (Ep. 68 - Madonna)
- Jul 14, 2016 What's Gayer than Plinko? (Ep. 69 - Body Heat)
- Jul 21, 2016 I was Fresh Meat and a Hustler (Ep. 70 - The Kids in the Hall)
- Jul 28, 2016 Go and Love Some More (Ep. 71 - Harold and Maude)
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August 2016
- Aug 4, 2016 A Bomb Went Through the Wall of the House (Ep. 72 - Sondheim)
- Aug 11, 2016 We Were Our Own John Hughes Movie (Ep. 73 - Voyagers)
- Aug 18, 2016 The Women and the Monsters (Ep. 74: Drew Droege)
- Aug 25, 2016 A Gateway Drug to Fabulous (Ep. 75 - 80s Cartoons)
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September 2016
- Sep 1, 2016 Clam Diggers and Mussel Suckers (Ep. 76 - Coco Peru)
- Sep 8, 2016 Little Mouse in a Big World (Ep. 77 - Furries)
- Sep 15, 2016 All Mothers Know (Ep. 78 - Clueless)
- Sep 22, 2016 A Kid Who Had Powers in Japan (Ep. 79 - Sailor Moon)
