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Queerly Popular

Mychel Vandover

A podcast talking about queerness in pop culture. We will look at tv shows, movies, and books that have queer characters; why queer representation is important; why it is best to hire queer actors to play queer characters; and other issues.

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Fair Haven

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2024/11/14

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular! Today, we are going to talk about the 2016 film Fair Haven. It is a relatively short movie at 90 minutes and is overall a decent film. I am not fond of the ending for reasons discussed in the podcast. Listen to get the details. Overall, the movie is not one of my favorites, but it is not a bad movie either. Next week, we will be talking about the movie Bottoms with Nicholas Galitizine. As always, please rate and review the podcast on whatever platform

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Heartstopper Season 3

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2024/10/24

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular. Today's very long episode is all about Heartstopper season 3. This episode is 1 hour and 53 minutes long, which is by far the longest episode I have done to date. I enjoyed making it and hope you enjoy listening to it. This is a very heavy season and the episode talks about mental health issues, self harm, transphobia, and other things that may be triggering. Please listen with care. Here are a few video clips you may enjoy. I am sure you can find

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42:51

Boys (Jongen)

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2024/10/10

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular! Today, we will be talking about the 2014 TV movie Boys (Jongen in Dutch). The movie was first broadcast on Dutch TV and does have English subtitles. This is a short episode. That's because the movie is fun and enjoyable, but it is a story that has been told quite often, and this version doesn't bring a whole lot new to the table. That said, it is not a bad film, just one that can be enjoyed and then is rather quickly forgotten. The movie itself is also

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35:24

The Curiosity of Chance

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2024/09/26

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular. Today, we are going to talk about the 2006 film The Curiosity of Chance. It's a fun, fluffy film that is about a out, gay high school boy in a school in Europe in the 1980s. There is some humor that is dated, so know that. My main issue is that the movie feels like it's a fluffy movie trying to be serious and it doesn't quite work. But if you just watch it and enjoy it for what it is, I think it will be a fun experience. Our next episode, on October

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56:40

Princess Diaries and Princess Diaries 2

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2024/09/12

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular. Today, we are talking about The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. They came out in 2001 and 2004 and starred Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews. The movies are about Mia Thermopolis, a 15-year old San Franciscan, who finds out she is the princess of a small European country called Genovia. The movies are based off of characters from a series of books by Meg Cabot (which I haven't read). After going through the plot (relatively

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49:42

Ganymede

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2024/08/29

Welcome to this week's episode of Queerly Popular. Today we are talking about the 2024 movie Ganymede starring Jordan Doww and Pablo Castelblanco, directed by Colby Holt and Sam Probst and written by Colby Holt. I start the episode explaining why I watched this movie (which is very different from other movies I watch) and then talk about the plot. After that, most of the rest of the episode is spent talking about how my upbringing was similar to what Lee (Jordan's character) went through and how I

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01:21:23

Star Trek and Queerness

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2024/08/15

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular! Today, I am sharing a great conversation I had with my friend Mycroft Masada about Star Trek. We focus a lot on queer coded characters, but we also touch on a lot of other things that show how Star Trek was always "woke". We do focus exclusively on DS9, Next Generation, Voyager, and the Original Series because that is what we have seen. Neither of us has seen any of the newer series. We do briefly mention some queer characters, but we don't talk about

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54:23

My Fair Brady

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2024/08/01

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular! Today, we are talking about the 2024 book My Fair Brady, which is a riff off of the musical My Fair Lady, the movie She's All That, and other such stories. The book is about a high school senior, Wade Westmore, who is dumped by his boyfriend on Valentine's Day (justifiably, I might add), loses the leading role in the musical to his ex, and is having trouble getting into his dream school, NYU. He (for various reasons) decides to help shy sophomore

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01:03:59

Nicholas Galitizine and Handsome Devil

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2024/06/20

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular! Today, we are talking about the movie Handsome Devil. But before we talk about the movie, I spend some time talking about Nicholas Galitizine's other movies and tv shows and some basic thoughts about them. Handsome Devil is a 2016 film about Ned (Fionn O'Shea), a student who is out of place and bullied in the boarding school he attends and his new roommate Conor (Nicholas Galitizine). They end up becoming friends before they betray each other. It's a

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01:08:39

The Idea of You

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2024/06/06

Welcome to Queerly Popular! This week, we will be talking about the 2024 film The Idea of You starring Nicholas Galitizine and Anne Hathaway. The movie is a cis-het romance about a 40-year old divorced mother who meets a 24-year old pop star and how their relationship develops. Before I talk about the film and characters, I explain why this is a queer film and included here. The episode clocks in at close to 70 minutes, so it is a bit longer than most episodes. Below are links to some great scenes

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Playing the Palace

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2024/05/23

Welcome to this week's episode of Queerly Popular! Today, we're talking about the 2021 book Playing the Palace. It is about an American Associate Event Architect (Carter Ogden) who meets the Crown Prince of England (Prince Edgar), their romance, and the issues they have. I did definitely enjoy the book, even though it suffered from 2 major issues. Most characters were stereotypes and not as fleshed out as they should have been and the romance between Carter and Edgar seemed to be super rushed and

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56:11

The Feeling of Falling In Love

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2024/05/09

Welcome to this week's episode of Queerly Popular! This week we'll be talking about the 2022 book The Feeling of Falling In Love by Mason Deaver. It is their third book and is, in all honesty, a fairly typical romance. The main difference being that the main character is a trans guy and the love interest is a queer, non-binary individual. But other than that, it hits all the tropes you could want. And honestly, I don't mind. I start off by (again) explaining why tropes don't bother me, then talk

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50:25

Date Me, Bryson Keller

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2024/04/25

Welcome to this week's episode of Queerly Popular. Today, we are talking about the 2020 book Date Me, Bryson Keller by Kevin van Whye. The book is about a high school boy who asks out the most popular guy in high school; who agreed to date the first person who asks him out each week; and how they come to realize that they really like each other. For the most part, I really enjoyed the book. I had a bit of an issue with Bryson being too perfect and with the ending leaving too many dangling threads,

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Young Royals

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2024/04/11

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular! Today we are going to talk about the Netflix show Young Royals which is about a Swedish prince who meets and falls in love with a commoner at an elite boarding school. The show premiered in 2021 and the finale aired on March 18, 2024. Warning, this is one of the longer episodes at almost 80 minutes, so be prepared for that. And if you haven't seen the third season, don't listen because I do talk about that season. I talk about the plot, keeping that

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56:59

The Charm Offensive

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2024/04/04

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular! Today, we are going to talk about the 2021 book The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun. The book is about a contestant and a producer on a reality dating show who meet and fall in love. There is a lot of talk in the book about mental health issues including anxiety, OCD, and depression. There is also good representation of different sexualities. There are also a couple of characters who appear to be non-binary (both characters use "they" pronouns), but

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Schedule Change!

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2024/03/19

Due to Holy Week, our schedule has been slightly altered. Please listen to find out more.

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58:11

Never Been Kissed

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2024/03/14

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular. Today, we're going to talk about the 2022 book Never Been Kissed by Timothy Janovsky. It's a lovely book about Wren Roland, a young man who has never been kissed, and his feelings for his friend (and almost kiss) Derick Haverford. The book is about their relationship and how they try and save a local landmark from Derick's dad. I love this book and highly recommend that you read it if you like queer romances like I do. I really appreciate the way

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43:46

Hidden Kisses

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2024/02/29

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular. Today we will be talking about the film Hidden Kisses. Before I get into anything else, I made a mistake last episode. I thought this was a German language film, but it is a French film. Sorry about the error. Hidden Kisses is a movie about 2 boys who are caught kissing and what happens to them because of this. The film is basically evenly divided between Nathan's story and Louis' story. The stories parallel each other in certain ways and also massively

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48:25

Blaine for the Win

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2024/02/15

On today's episode of Queerly Popular, we are talking about the 2022 book Blaine for the Win by Robbie Couch, author of The Sky Blues which I previously talked about. Blaine for the Win is a book about a high school junior who is dumped by his boyfriend on their anniversary because he is not a Serious Guy (TM). So he decides to run for senior class president in order to get his ex-boyfriend back. In the process, he runs against his exes new boyfriend. Can we just say "Awkward!" I really love this

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48:31

The Borrow A Boyfriend Club

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2024/02/01

Welcome back to season 3 of Queerly Popular! Today, we are going to talk about the 2023 book The Borrow A Boyfriend Club by Page Powars. The book is about a trans boy in high school who joins a club which he thinks is about cars and sports in order to prove to people that he is a "real boy". It ends up being a club where people can borrow the members as boyfriends and wacky hijinks ensue as Noah tries to join. The book is absolutely adorable and all sorts of fun. If you are trans, it is also highly

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