Dr. T: The Gaymer and Film Ph.D.

Hello! And welcome to episode 8 of the Dr. T podcast: "Telling Gay Secrets" with Marcin Wisniewski. In this episode, my friend Marcin and I contemplate the doubled-edged sword of gay visibility focusing on what it means to confess gay secrets. Key questions the guide our conversation include: - "What does it mean to publicly divulge cultural secrets that formerly kept us safe but also out of the public sphere and public culture"? - "What is lost and what is gained as gay and queer people became more visible?" -"...

Hello! And welcome to episode 7 of Dr. The Gaymer & Film PhD Podcast. This week's episode is a recap of season 1 of Canada's Drag Race All Stars with my friends/fellow drag race fans Matt Root and Marcos Alterio. Some of you might recognize Matt as my guest for episode 2 of my podcast (AKA "reading to glam with..."), but Marcos is brand new to the world of podcasting. Matt joins me from right here in Toronto, while Marcos joins in all the way from Buenos Aires, Argentina (which is why there is the occasional lag and...

Hello! And welcome to episode 6 of my podcast. On this week's episode, we have Emre Busse, a Berlin-based academic and filmmaker. Emre Busse is a Kurdish, Istanbul-born, Berlin-based researcher and erotic art filmmaker. He earned his Ph.D. from the Art History faculty at Freie University of Berlin, supported by a Hans-Böckler-Stiftung doctoral fellowship and has has taught seminar courses in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Bremen on the topics of queer sexuality and art. In this episode, Emre and I explore a variety of topics, including the importance o...

For my fifth podcast episode, I switch things up a bit and instead of conducting an interview, I give listeners a bit of insight into myself delivering an "audio essay" on the intersections between travel, video games and queerness/my experience growing and being gay. This podcast episode was previously posted on my other/former YouTube Channel: Gay Solo Travel renamed ‪@Angelofromthe416‬. It was initially a four-part episode, but I decided to collapse it into a single episode, record a new intro, and migrate it over to this channel, as the episode has more to do with vide...

Hello! And welcome to episode 4 of my podcast - Dr.T: The Gaymer & Film PhD. On this week's episode, I talk all things movies with Bil Antoniou. Bill co-runs the "Bad Gay Movies" (BGM) and Riviera Rats podcasts. He also writes for That Shelf and has his own Substack! Bil is a prolific cineaste, and you can access the links to all his work here: https://linktr.ee/bilantoniou In this episode, Bil and I meander through the vast, overlapping terrains of cinema and gayness. Topics include, but are not limited to: journeys...

Hello, And welcome to episode 3 of my podcast! This week, I had the immense pleasure of speaking with Nick Butler, writer and director of The Legacy of Cloudy Falls (2024) and Lunar Sway (2026). I caught a screening of Lunar Sway at Toronto's Inside/Out Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, and after posing a fun question about the main character, I connected with Nick via Instagram, only to find out that our paths had crossed several decades ago when we both worked at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The episode begins with Nick...

Welcome to Episode 2 of my podcast! In this episode, I "read to glam" (the inverse of "reading to filth") with my friend Matt Root, owner and operator of @mattsbookaday on Instagram and Matt's Books and Music blog.As we discuss Heated Rivalry the television show (by Jacob Tierney) and Game Changers the book series (by Rachel Reid), we meander through various topics pertaining to the book series's adaptation for screen and issues relating to gay literature and romance (mm/mf), book writing, book reading, and the value of reading. Topics include: - Why...

Hello!And welcome to my inaugural episode for my new podcast: Dr. T: They Gaymer & Film PhD!I'm Angelo, and for my first episode, I interviewed my friend Nik Pearson, who runs the UK Heated Rivalry fan account on Instagram and Threads: @dailyheatedrivalry.By day, Nik is a barrister in Manchester, but by night, he is a Heated Rivalry super fan, who shares stories, events, pictures and much more on his fan account that currently has over 22 thousand followers!Although Nik and I have never met in person before, we have...