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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm so relieved that the hair conditioner at the hotel is free from homophobia! Whew! (Now if we could only say the same thing about the US Supreme Court...)

Bottles attached to shower wall with long lists of things they are free from, including homophobia.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The play is a comedy about baking called "In It for the Dough" ("Una teràpia integral" in the original Catalan), by Cristina Clemente and Marc Angelet.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Greetings from beautiful — and wonderfully walkable — downtown Chicago, where the International Voices Project theater festival begins tomorrow night (Tuesday) at the Instituto Cervantes. One of my theater translations will have a professional staged reading as the opening night feature. 😃 🎭🍿

Me in front of the Instituto Cervantes in Chicago, with a Spanish flag displayed in the window.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Zephyr winds that blow on high..."

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

That looks so cool. (And I think that might one of those old Commodore 8032s on the right. Spiffy!)

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Since Jean Smart is in the spotlight with her record-setting Emmy win... Here's a video about that time when she played serial killer Aileen Wuornos in a 1992 TV movie (11 years before Charlize Theron in "Monster"), with Park Overall playing her girlfriend.

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1992: Jean Smart as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in OVERKILL, w/ Park Overall as Aileen's girlfriend

YouTube video by Steven Capsuto - LGBTQ+ Images on Television

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Most were involved in feminist movements that took as read that social constructs of gender were the enemy. So it's not so much being sucked into a new vortex as standing by values they fought for. Any negotiations with them have to take that history into account, acknowledge it, but then push back.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For years, we've seen headlines saying that Trump's approval rating has fallen to an all-time low. And no matter how often it happens, when I check the number, it's always around 35%. What higher mathematics are involved in a number staying the same while plummeting? What do the headlines refer to?

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

4/4: Antes de que caduque la suscripción, aprovecho para ver algunas emisiones de "Pasapalabra" y para volver a ver algunos capítulos de una serie que me gustó en su día: "Los protegidos [1]", serie que, no nos engañemos, es una imitación descarada de "X-Men", pero que tiene cierto encanto propio. 😀

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

3/4: También añade cierta verosimilitud que hayan usado los nombres de bares y otros sitios de ambiente madrileños reales en lugar de inventarse negocios ficticios.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

2/4: (Lo de "Dime" fue fenomenal.) Y me encanta la idea de situar a la "mariliendre" como protagonista de una historia ambientada en el mundo LGTBI+, en lugar de limitarla a ser una figura muy secundaria y unidimensional, como suele pasar.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

1/4: He decidido suscribirme a Atresplayer para ver, desde EEUU, la serie "Mariliendre", que se emitió en España el año pasado. Algunos aspectos no me convencen del todo pero hay cosas que funcionan bien, sobre todo el uso de canciones de pop para avanzar el argumento o desarrollar los personajes.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A classic. But when I went back and watched some of the 1960s series recently, I was somehow surprised that a show that I enjoyed when I was 4 years old felt very much targeted at... small children.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"A Christmas Carol" is a well-meant story that had the unintended side effect of empowering a lot of assholes to harass people who don't celebrate Christmas, and giving them an epithet to throw around ("Scrooge").

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

As opposed to what other kind of grave?

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Ah, how cool... And not surprising, since there's a supporting character in her "Game Changers" novels who's really into comics and recommends titles to his teammates.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Wouldn't nationalizing them give the government access to everything in those systems? Sounds like an even higher risk of surveillance abuse.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It always amazes me that these gay characters were on a UK sketch-comedy series week after week in the *1960s*. We had nothing comparable in the US. The nearest thing was Alan Sues's gay-coded characters on "Laugh-In." I have a few albums of Julian and Sandy sketches but I'd not heard this one.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

To think I used to dismiss, as implausible, the idea that Trump was in the pay of some enemy power and was tasked with destroying every aspect of the United States. But I can't think of any other explanation that fits the facts.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

By the early 2000s, there were definitely at least two gay bathhouses operating in Manhattan again. Perhaps there was a thin pretense of their being something else, I don't know, but they certainly existed.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I'm not clear about whether they actually ever went away in NYC.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A counterargument I see from some young gay men is "We don't need that. We now have Grindr, which is safer." Well, if we compare like for like (someone using Grindr just for casual sex), bringing a stranger into your home or going to a stranger's home is riskier than a neutral 3rd-party location.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It's a tricky question. As a broad principle, I'd say that if a restrictive law was passed to address a temporary problem (in this case, the rapid spread of a horrible disease for which no good preventive treatment existed in the 80s and 90s), and if that problem no longer exists, the law should go.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Also within the BBC in the early 60s: The topical sketch comedy series "That Was the Week That Was" (TW3) did a sendup of "The Black and White Minstrel Show" that was not only a slam at American racism, but also was perhaps about making explicit exactly what the BWMS was ostensibly nostalgic about.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

But does "better informed" necessarily translate to agreement on the nature of gender? I'm not seeing a lot of evidence that it does.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Judging from recent opinion surveys about the general public's understanding of gender, in practice I doubt this will result in Amnesty's losing "tons of money."

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

¿El sionismo está matando a cubanos?

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The folks freaking out about "racially implausible" casting in Nolan's "The Odyssey" are probably the same people who love it when Jesus is portrayed by a pasty actor who looks like his name ought to be Sven.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

You keep saying that *this* isn't the point and *that* isn't the point. But I can't see what point you *are* trying to make... beyond "How dare someone dislike, so intensely, a film I enjoyed?!" She knows what constitutes good writing and is in a position to comment on terrible writing.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Exactly who I was picturing. And their boss, Fearless Leader.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Likewise, people who feel the need to platform every asinine, deliberately offensive thing that Felon47 says.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It's like being governed by cartoon villains.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Siempre ha habido gays ricachones de derechas que se imaginan que su dinero les protegerá de los políticos a quienes dan sus votos (como, por ejemplo, en mi país, los "Log Cabin Republicans", organización que existe desde los 70).

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

And this is why Trump has been trying to kill the International Criminal Court for years: He knows he belongs in front of it.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

If he forces the Smithsonian to put up these dishonest signs, the museums should put tarps in front of them.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I wouldn't have expected it to be funny if not for the fact that the play, in its original run, was perceived as a comedy.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Maybe it's not as good as I remember. Here's what I wrote in my notes back in the 2000s: A dreary, talky BBC TV movie based on Kevin Elyot's play about three gatherings of a group of gay male friends in the 1980s, in the first years of the AIDS epidemic. More mopey than comedic. UK VHS release.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It's pretty good, but what always struck me about the TV film is how somber and mopey it is, considering that the stage play had won an Olivier as Best Comedy. It's the same director and (I think) most or all of the same cast, but I wonder if the tone and pacing were perhaps different onstage.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Wow, what a find! (And it's a remarkably good transfer considering the source video format.)

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I'm from New Jersey: "You guys's" sounds normal to me. "Your guys's" is downright exotic. 😀

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I’m traveling in California. Here's the obligatory pic in front of the "Brady Bunch house" in Studio City. 😃

Two men in front of the suburban house used for exterior shots on "The Brady Bunch."

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Programming Insider @programminginsider.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

📺 July 13, 1984: “Brothers” debuted on Showtime. Pay cable’s first original sitcom starred Paul Regina as a man who left his bride at the altar on their wedding day, only to reveal to his 2 older brothers (Robert Walden and Brandon Maggart) that he's gay. 115 episodes were produced over 5 seasons.

"Brothers" starring Paul Regina, Robert Walden and Brandon Maggart

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

One of these years, I need to time a London visit to coincide with Pride. 🏳️‍🌈

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Unfortunately, too many schools teach only about what fascists do once they have already taken power... and neglect to teach student what the rise of authoritarianism looks and sounds like.

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🍂🇨🇦TVDean 📺🇨🇦 (he/him)🍂 @tvdean.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

🇨🇦 Celebrating 🇨🇦 Canada Day with a binge rewatch of "Heated Rivalry" 🥰 🇨🇦

Promotional image of the Canadian TV series "Heated Rivalry"

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

YouTube has relented and is letting me monetize this video. Yay!

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