The Great Queer Migration Myth

This weekend, I am going to the house where I grew up for the last time before our family sells it. I have been surprised at the depth of my feelings of loss. I wonder how much my experience of growing up queer there intensifies the transition.

The house is a brick colonial in Rust Belt suburbia, on a street canopied by maple trees. A great place to be a kid, wearing whirligig maple keys on the end of your nose. Not such a great place to be, shall we say, a righteous babe.

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Now Blogging at The Bilerico Project!

I’m so excited to be a new regular contributor to excellent LGBTQ blog The Bilerico Project! See my first post here!

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A Day to Remember

19 years ago today, we lost one of the funniest, most present and memorable people ever to show up on this earth… Long live Richard Hunt! Now go watch some Muppets.

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One, Two, Three Thank Yous!

I can’t “Count” how pleased I am with Jerry Nelson’s recent shoutout in an interview with Ryan Dosier’s Muppet Mindset blog. Nelson finishes a Richard Hunt story by saying, “You’ll have to read about anything more in Max Stein’s book about Richard when it comes out.” As my grandmother would say, “From your lips to God’s ears!”

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New Online Interview!

I was a recent guest on Sarah Mangle’s wonderful Toronto radio show, These Things That People Make. Here’s an archived podcast. Choose “Thursday: 2010-07-22” and then “These Things That People Make” to hear about my adventures as Richard Hunt’s biographer. Enjoy!

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Toronto Fraggle Geography

Recently Fraggle Rock producer Lawrence Mirkin gave me a walking tour of Toronto’s Yorkville neighborhood, where the show was filmed. Here’s a google map I made from the tour, a snapshot of the area between roughly 1982 and 1986. It includes the former studio site, performer accommodations and hangouts.

Mirkin says Toronto and Fraggle Rock were a perfect fit. “Given the show’s committment to interdependence and a global consciousness, I can’t imagine it being filmed anywhere else.”

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