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Harry Styles recently starred in My Policeman. A film about a man juggling relationships with a woman and another man. This inspired me to revisit John Schlesinger’s classic Sunday Bloody Sunday. One of my guests was seeing it for the first time. The other saw it when it premiered in 1971.

We discuss a short film with a long title: It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives. Activist Rosa von Praunheim read Berlin’s gay community for filth. His political manifesto remains timely.  

This episode includes explicit language.

 An author investigates the death of a young woman. Hasse Ekman's Girl with Hyacinths has been affectionately called "The Lesbian Citizen Kane." 

Todd Stephens’ feature debut, Edge of Seventeen, was a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama. A gay teen in Sandusky, Ohio struggles to hold on to his old friends and family as he enters the gay world. 

Gods and Monsters examines the unlikely friendship between Hollywood director James Whale (Ian McKellen) and his naïve yard man (Brendan Fraser). My guest and I revisit Bill Condon’s ambitious tragicomedy. 

Penda's Fen aired on the BBC on March 21, 1974. David Rudkin's screenplay follows a gay teen on an Alice in Wonderland style journey through England's pagan past. We attempt to parse Rudkin's thoughts on religion, sexuality, social conformity and rebellion.