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“I’m Your Boy Right? And Your Boy Wants to Go to the Party,” A Fellow Travelers TV & Book Review Ep. w/ Allen Ellenzweig Ivory Tower Boiler Room
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Allen Ellenzweig, a longtime contributor to The Gay and Lesbian Review magazine and cultural critic, joins Andrew to give his honest review of the "Fellow Travelers" TV series compared to Thomas Mallon's 2007 novel. Mallon's novel, and the TV series it's based off of, focus on depictions of queer life in 1950s Washington D.C. under political pressures, including the Lavender Scare and McCarthyism. Before the two reveal whether they are more of a Jonathan Bailey or a Matt Bomer fan, Allen explains how he became interested in writing about queer photography which led to his 2012 book "The Homoerotic Photograph."
Does "Fellow Travelers" realistically portray the social and political climate queer men faced during the Lavender Scare, especially if these men worked for the government? This is one of many questions that Allen and Andrew get into as well as exploring which other queer texts focused on being gay in Washington D.C.? They discuss divides between attitudes around privacy versus visibility, with Allen providing the perspective of older generations who found comfort in the closet versus demands to come out. And in preparation for an upcoming "Queer as Folk" episode with author Neil J. Young, who just wrote "Coming Out Republican," they explore how gay Republicanism functions in "Fellow Travelers" (think Roy Cohn).
You can find Allen's books here: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=allen+ellenzweig&i=stripbooks&crid=2QVUFKNU5PWWM&sprefix=allen+ellenzweig%2Cstripbooks%2C106&ref=nb_sb_noss_1
And, you can find his Gay and Lesbian Review articles here: https://glreview.org/author/lykeallen/
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Allen Ellenzweig, a longtime contributor to The Gay and Lesbian Review magazine and cultural critic, joins Andrew to give his honest review of the "Fellow Travelers" TV series compared to Thomas Mallon's 2007 novel. Mallon's novel, and the TV series it's based off of, focus on depictions of queer life in 1950s Washington D.C. under political pressures, including the Lavender Scare and McCarthyism. Before the two reveal whether they are more of a Jonathan Bailey or a Matt Bomer fan, Allen explains how he became interested in writing about queer photography which led to his 2012 book "The Homoerotic Photograph."
Does "Fellow Travelers" realistically portray the social and political climate queer men faced during the Lavender Scare, especially if these men worked for the government? This is one of many questions that Allen and Andrew get into as well as exploring which other queer texts focused on being gay in Washington D.C.? They discuss divides between attitudes around privacy versus visibility, with Allen providing the perspective of older generations who found comfort in the closet versus demands to come out. And in preparation for an upcoming "Queer as Folk" episode with author Neil J. Young, who just wrote "Coming Out Republican," they explore how gay Republicanism functions in "Fellow Travelers" (think Roy Cohn).
You can find Allen's books here: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=allen+ellenzweig&i=stripbooks&crid=2QVUFKNU5PWWM&sprefix=allen+ellenzweig%2Cstripbooks%2C106&ref=nb_sb_noss_1
And, you can find his Gay and Lesbian Review articles here: https://glreview.org/author/lykeallen/
Follow ITBR on IG, @ivorytowerboilerroom,
TikTok, @ivorytowerboilerroom, and
X, @IvoryBoilerRoom!
Our Sponsors:
Be sure to follow The SoapBox on IG, @thesoapboxny and TikTok, @thesoapboxny and visit their website https://www.soapboxny.com/ to get your hands on their luxurious bath and body products!
To subscribe to The Gay and Lesbian Review visit glreview.org. Click Subscribe, and enter promo code ITBR50 to receive 50% off any print or digital subscription. Follow them on IG, @theglreview.
Head to Broadview Press, an independent academic publisher, for all your humanities related books. Use code ivorytower for 20% off your broadviewpress.com order. Follow them on IG, @broadviewpress.
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1 hr 30 min