Queer Projection
This is a movie podcast about finding queer themes damn near everywhere. Hosts Alethia St. Joan and Danny Carroll share a 30+ year friendship that has been bound together by a shared love for movies. A trans woman and a gay man respectively, Alethia and Danny explore what these movies meant to them while they were young and closeted, and what revisiting these movies means for the actualized, arguably maladjusted adults they’ve become. It’s a heady, often crass and sometimes crude blend - part nostalgia trip, part queer theory, part film criticism. Check it out!
Episodes
33 episodes
The Master
Back again with PTA! Is this a Scientology movie? A war-trauma movie? A barely hidden gay romance? Do you drink paint thinner because you can't stop touching people? Have you ever built an entire cosmology to feed your ego (and your desire to t...
Almost Famous
Back from our short summer break with a major favorite! Let's get on the tour bus, sing our hearts out to Tiny Dancer, and try and get between Penny Lane and Russell Hammond. Don't drink out of the red cups, don't imagine any of these people ar...
BONUS: Disclosure Day
We're still taking a short summer break from our standard episodes, but in the meantime, here's a BONUS on the latest Spielberg sci-fi. For the first time in Queer Projection history, we've recorded this one TOGETHER in the SAME ROOM in BROOKLY...
Stand By Me
This week we're taking a long walk to see a dead body. Not that long walk. The other one. A remarkably tender, nostalgic, and soul-searching walk of course, because that's what you get with a semi-autobiographical Stephen King adaptation by way...
BONUS: Tangerine
No full episode this week! Instead, we bring you this BONUS little romp down Santa Monica Blvd with Sean Baker's 2015 iPhone indie hit. Enjoy!
Signs
On the menu today is an alien invasion movie via M. Night Shyamalan through a judeo-christian Mel Gibson lens. Plus a Culkin brother, Joaquin Phoenix doing his best with what he has, and Abigail Breslin's debut. Served with corn. Enjoy!
Rushmore
Blazers on, we're SAVING LATIN with Wes Anderson's sophomore feature and the birth of his indelible aesthetic. This one's a love fest as we rediscover Wes's grand thesis on the beauty of the fallible human heart, in full bloom. Jason Schwartzma...
American Beauty
Don't @ us. For the 1999 crowd, this was a major event. Is this a bad movie? Is this a sinister movie? Is this a misunderstood movie? We're going to try and figure that out while navigating around the Kevin Spacey shaped elephant in the room. C...
PRIDE BONUS: Gender Troublemakers
You've likely never seen this one. A home video VHS short from the early 90s that you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlQurqYjS_gThis is a lot different from our usual episodes, kid. We get real personal. For better or wo...
George Washington
No, this isn't a film about the first president. This is David Gordon Green's debut film about the miserable state of forming a self-identity in the midst of impoverished youth. It's very much not Pineapple Express, if that's the only DGG movie...
The Virgin Suicides
We take another dour and sexy walk down the twisting roads of suburbia with Sofia Coppola's directorial debut. Let's reflect again on the miserable state of being a teenager, and watch Kirsten Dunst cement her place as the existential dark come...
BONUS: I Saw the TV Glow
BONUS EPISODE -- This episode was originally released to subscribers last year, and as a special kickoff we're releasing it wide! We get really personal in this one, so be gentle with our vulnerabilities as we explore the Midnight Realm. <...
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
We're back, and Season 3 kicks off with one of our childhood VHS holy grails: Steven Spielberg's E.T. Just in time for Disclosure Day and more of his alien shenanigans, we're digging into the queer nature of loving a slightly drunk extraterrest...
Magnolia (Second Tape)
Season 2 finale, sweet mama baby. Rub the sleep from your eyes, brush them teeths while you think about the First Tape, and then pop the Second Tape into the VCR and let it all rain down. We go out of our way in this installment to dissect the ...
Magnolia (First Tape)
It's time to tackle one of the most important movies in our decades long friendship. How is this our favorite movie if it isn't even our favorite Paul Thomas Anderson movie? What was it about this frog-fallin' fantasia of human suffering that d...
Being John Malkovich
We ping pong back and forth between this movie being really understanding of the trans experience to thinking it's pretty damn transphobic. I mainly had no memory of this movie being so trans - glad we're revisiting! I'm kinda not okay! But eit...
Batman Returns
Put your catsuit on, cutie. And let's take a psychosexual gothic ride through the most subversive Batman installment to date. Who truly captures the freak flag in this movie? The deformed, bile-spewing Danny DeVito masterclass? The timid bachel...
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Our hearts explode for Uma in this episode. Come wriggle your way outta that lonely grave and enjoy the end of this bloody ride. Have fun!
Titanic
Use the restroom before this one. We dive deep down to where many a podcast has gone before to try and find some unanswered questions about the biggest blockbuster of our youth. Why do lesbians love Jack so much? Why did I start crying about cl...
Scream
SOMEONE’S TAKEN THEIR LOVE OF QUEER THEMES ONE STEP TOO FAR! Is this camp, is this parody, is this satire? We juggle these ideas as Danny grapples with his patent dislike of slasher films. Is Scream the exception? Let's find out! Happy Hallowee...
BONUS: One Battle After Another
Holding off on our Halloween episode a couple days for a minor medical recovery - in the meantime, we bring you our first formula breaking BONUS EPISODE. Paul Thomas Anderson constructed our teenage personalities - so any time a PTA movie comes...
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Here comes the bride! Lots of stuff in this one. Is revenge queer? How often does Quentin Tarantino win shouting matches with journalists? And why does a bloody, violent tour de force of vengeance resonate so strongly with the rainbow mafia? Is...
Clueless
What is growth, what is change? Is it Di accidentally getting on the freeway? Tye using ‘sporadically’ in a sentence? Is it Cher finding love in the unlikeliest of places in this fairy tale vision of Beverly Hills circa 1995? We're stretching t...
Mulholland Drive
Here we go, it's Season 2! Kicking things off with the nightmares and dreamscapes of David Lynch's Hollywood, including the wig that made Naomi Watts. Do you feel like maybe you're at the end of your rope and ready to cash in all your dreams an...
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
What is the nature of consciousness? Will we ever have a child actor the likes of Haley Joel Osment again? Does "protect the dolls" extend to little robot boys? Take our hand and come with us to a magical land, just like Jude Law's robot gigolo...