Judas Kiss is a 2011 film about a failed filmmaker returning to his alma mater to judge the same film contest that launched his own film career, only to find himself reliving parts of his own past. Join Z, Hal, and returning guest host Jennie as they discuss the mechanics of time travel, Brechtian filmmaking, and the Family and Educational Rights and Privacy Act. We'd like to thank EnoffMusic for our theme song. TW: this film and our discussion of it contains depictions of childhood sexual assau...
Aug 01, 2025•2 hr 49 min
BIT (dir. Brad Michael Elmore) is a 2019 film about a young trans woman who falls in with a coven of vampires in Los Angelos. Join Hal, Z, and returning guest host Sofie as they discuss being trans of gender, the rules for vampires, and Duke’s excellent hair style. You can find Sofie’s music on instagram.com/big_bigbrain Keep an eye out for work coming out on newohioreview.org We’d like to that EnoffMusic for our theme song TW: this movie and our discussion of it contain blood and gore (vampire ...
Jul 25, 2025•1 hr 38 min
The Ring Thing (dir. Willian Sullivan) is a 2017 film about a woman making a documentary about gay marriage and gay divorce into order to work through her feelings about her own long-term relationship. Join Hal, Z, and special guest host Syd as they talk about documentary film techniques, artisan mac-n-cheese recipes, and getting married to defraud the US government (or your government of choice). You can find Syd's short films and animation at youtube.com/micperson We reference $1 Grilled Chees...
Jul 18, 2025•1 hr 48 min
AKRON (dir. Brian O'Donnell and Sasha King) is a 2015 film about two college freshmen who meet and fall in love, only to realize that their pasts are entangled in the same tragedy. Join Hal, Z, and returning powerhouse Autumn as they discuss first love, location scouting, and the way this movie just tells a woman how to feel for 20 minutes. We’d like to thank EnoffMusic for our theme song. TW: This film and our discussion of it contain the death of a child, vehicular violence, trauma and grief, ...
Jul 11, 2025•1 hr 34 min
D.E.B.S. (dir. Angela Robinson) is a 2004 film about a group of young women who have passed the secret test imbedded in the SAT, thus enabling them to train as spies, and what happens when one of them falls for the supervillain they’ve been assigned to apprehend. Join Hal, Z, and special guest host Vera as they discuss the military industrial complex, what makes an interesting villain, and how Max really should’ve been the main character of this movie. We’d like to thank EnoffMusic for our theme...
Jul 04, 2025•1 hr 51 min
GBF (dir. Darren Stein) is a 2013 film about a gay high schooler struggling with newfound popularity after he is purposefully outed by his school’s Gay/Straight Alliance, as they are desperate for actually gay members (yes, really). Join Hal, Z, and returning guest host Kayleigh as they discuss gay (and Black) tokenism, amazing fashion choices, and the blissful naivety of times on by. You can find the games Kayleigh makes at https://ghostsontv.itch.io/ We’d like to thank EnoffMusic for our theme...
Jun 27, 2025•1 hr 47 min
City of Trees (dir. Alexandra Swarens) is a 2019 film about a 20-something photographer who returns to her hometown for the first time in several years and reconnects with a high school acquaintance for whom she has unresolved feelings. Join Hal, Z, and returning guest host Maddy has they discuss audio quality, the uncanny valley of being in your childhood home as an adult, and the startling lack of trees in this movie. Maddy is the art editor for The Shore : https://www.theshorepoetry.org/ We’d...
Jun 20, 2025•1 hr 38 min
A Moment in the Reeds (dir. Mikko Mäkelä) is a 2017 romantic drama about a gay poet returning to his hometown to help his father fix up their family summer home and also fall madly in love with a Syrian architect. Join Hal, Z, and guest host Rae as they discuss European cinema, language barriers, and the inherit queerness of French Romantic poetry. You find Rae's published work here https://milkcandyreview.home.blog/2020/05/28/galatea-by-r-a-matteson/ and here https://themolotovcocktail.com/abou...
Jun 13, 2025•1 hr 18 min
Okay But Is It Gay? is a podcast about thinking hard about gay movies that, perhaps, no one has ever thought of before. Ever. Join hosts Z and Hal as they torture their friends with their favorite weird, underrated, and often terrible queer cinema!
Jun 06, 2025•2 min
2012’s For a Good Time Call (dir. Jamie Travis) is a semi-autobiographical story about two women running a phone sex line out of their Gramercy Park apartment and they absolutely do not fall in love with each other even a little bit. Join Autumn, Hal, Z, and Maddy has they discuss basic storytelling structure, the nature of female friendships, sex positivity, and homophobic caricatures on this week’s episode of Okay, But Is It Gay? . We’d like to thank EnoffMusic for our theme song. Alternative ...
Aug 12, 2022•1 hr 48 min
Chicken Little (2005) is a movie about disability. It is a movie about baseball. It a movie about space aliens. But mostly, it is a movie about how you have to talk to your dad. Join Z and Hal as they discuss this movie's troubled production (all my homies hate Mike Eisner), the nature of parenting as seen from a child's perspective, and the intersection of nuerodiversity, disability, and queerness in this week's episode of Okay, But Is It Gay? . Thanks to EnoffMusic for our theme song. Alternat...
Aug 05, 2022•1 hr 17 min
Sky High (2005), dir. Mike Mitchell, is the story of a young boy navigating the ways in which he seems to be inherently different than his peers. Until he isn’t. Join Hal and Autumn as they discuss worldbuilding questions, the nature of allegory, and their eternal of for Ron Wilson, bus driver on this week’s episode of Okay, But Is It Gay? . Thanks to EnoffMusic for our theme song. Alternate titles for this episode include, “We Could’ve Had It Aaaaall!”, “Justice for Layla”, and “It’s Good and I...
Jul 29, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Sample Favor (2018), dir. Paul Feig, is the story of a stay-at-home mom developing a fraught relationship with a working mom in her community, only to be forced into launching her own investigation when her new friend goes missing and no one seems to want to find her. Join Hal, Autumn, and new guest host Kayleigh as they discuss how that description doesn't cover even half of the bonkers stuff that happens in this movie in this week's episode of Okay, But Is It Gay? Thanks to EnoffMusic for out ...
Jul 22, 2022•1 hr 55 min
Jennifer's Body (2009) dir. Karyn Kasuma is the story of two best friends growing apart after one of them is ineffectively sacrificed in a Satanic ritual. Join Autumn, Hal, and brand-new guest host Heath as they discuss the follies of teenage girldom, platonic homoeroticism, and the lengths anyone should be able to go to save their bestie from themselves on this week's episode of Okay But Is It Gay? . Thanks to EnoffMusic for our theme song. Alternate Titles for this episode include: "Teen Choic...
Jul 15, 2022•1 hr 28 min
The Lost Boys (1987), dir. Joel Schumacher, is the story of two brothers moving to the Murder Capital of the World(tm) and trying not to fall victim to the Scourge of the Undead(tm). Join Autumn, Hal, and new guest host Phoebe as they discuss 80s genre tropes, the rules of vampirism, the most intense passions we've ever had, and the two kinds of women that can exist. Thanks to EnoffMusic for our theme song. Alternate titles for this episode include, "Proposing on the First Date", "Justice for St...
Jul 08, 2022•1 hr 22 min
High School Musical (2006) is the story of a young man caught between two passions in world where expectations are mile-high and the status quo is king. Join Hal, Autumn, and returning guest host Maddy as they discuss about compulsory heterosexuality, the tools of musical theater, and the ways in which gender is a prison from which we must all escape on this week's episode of Okay, But Is It Gay?. Thanks to EnoffMusic on Instagram for our theme song. Alternate titles for this episode include: "T...
Jul 01, 2022•1 hr 19 min
We're switching it up this week and talking about 3 episodes of Seinfeld (1989-1998): "The Boyfriend" (1992) and "The Outing" (1993). "The Boyfriend" parts 1 & 2 are about deconstructing the tropes fiction uses to telegraph romantic relationships vs. platonic ones and "The Outing" is the story of two best buds getting mistaken for a gay couple in the 90's. Join Hal, Autumn, and returning guest host Z as they discuss queer representation in the 90's, the correct way to make a Gay Joke(tm), an...
Jun 24, 2022•2 hr 12 min
Broadway musical Company, written by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, premiered in 1970. The 2006 revival stars Raúl Esparza as Bobby, a man in his mid-30's trying to decide if he wants to be married like all of his friends. Join Hal, Autumn, and guest host (and fellow theater kid!) Sofie as they discuss reading Bobby as aromantic or polyamorous, the symbolism of the revival's use of musical instruments, and whether or not you actually have to listen to the songs in a musical in order to enjoy...
Jun 17, 2022•1 hr 18 min
This season we're putting a queer twist on movies that aren't gay on purpose, such as seminal childhood classic Shrek (2001), dir. Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson. Join Hal, Autumn, and returning guest Kenley as they talk about queer coding, The Hegemony(tm), and Jack Halberstam's The Queer Art of Failure on this week's episode of Okay, But Is It Gay?. Alternate titles for this episode include: More Things Should be Motivated by Spite and If You Can Be Scared, Then You're a Person. TW: This epis...
Jun 10, 2022•1 hr 35 min
Have you ever watched a decidedly un-queer piece of media and then sat back and thought to yourself... "Okay, But That Was Gay"? We sure have! And so have lots of our friends. Let us tell you about this season on Okay, But Is It Gay?
Jun 03, 2022•1 min
The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo (dir. Brian Jordan Alvarez) is an absurdist romp through the lives of several West Coast Gays(tm) as they navigate romantic relationships and busy lives as working actors. Join Hal, Autumn, and Z as they discuss the construct of marriage, the importance of setting healthy boundaries in relationships, and how in the motherfuck Malcom's eyes could possibly be that blue. Thanks to EnoffMusic for our theme song. Additional TW for this episode specifically: th...
Apr 08, 2022•50 min
The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo (dir. Brian Jordan Alvarez) is an absurdist romp through the lives of several West Coast Gays(tm) as they navigate romantic relationships and busy lives as working actors. Join Hal, Autumn, and Z as they discuss the true purpose of humanity (having ones tiddies out and eating fruit), the proper way to approach a couple for a threesome, and the definition of a poem. Thanks to EnoffMusic for our theme song. Additional TW for this episode specifically: the t...
Apr 01, 2022•1 hr 7 min
The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo (dir. Brian Jordan Alvarez) is an absurdist romp through the lives of several West Coast Gays(tm) as they navigate romantic relationships and busy lives as working actors. Join Hal, Autumn, and Z as they discuss healthy polyamory, Dirty Dancing as a metaphor for throuples, and the fact that you should really talk to your boyfriend before you kiss your best friend. Thanks to EnoffMusic for our theme song. TW for this episode specifically, this episode is a...
Mar 25, 2022•39 min
The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo (dir. Brian Jordan Alvarez) is an absurdist romp through the lives of several West Coast Gays(tm) as they navigate romantic relationships and busy lives as working actors. Join Hal, Autumn, and Z as they discuss this series' interest in deconstructing formative wokeness, process for converting to Catholicism, and all that beautiful foreshadowing. We'd like to thank Enoff for our theme song; you can find his work over on EnoffMusic on Instagram. Alternate ...
Mar 18, 2022•50 min
The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo (dir. Brian Jordan Alvarez) is an absurdist romp through the lives of several West Coast Gays(tm) as they navigate romantic relationships and busy lives as working actors. In this first episode, join Hal, Autumn, and new host Z as try to figure out whether or not we're actually supposed to like any of these characters, and Autumn wonder what is going on. Blanket content warning for this entire season: this is a show about microaggressions and sexual theme...
Mar 11, 2022•1 hr
Welcome to Okay But Is It Gay? , a podcast that's usually about gay movies you probably haven't heard of! We're bridging the gap between season 2 and and season 3 (coming this summer!) with a little dip into web series The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo (2016). Join Hal, Autumn, and returning guest host Z as they try to figure out just what the deal is with this delightful little show!
Mar 04, 2022•58 sec
A New York Christmas Wedding (2020) , dir. Otoja Abit, is the story of a woman about to get married who gets the chance to see what her life would have been like had she her childhood best friend fallen in love. This chance is given to her by the Angel of Death for some reason. Autumn, Hal, and special guest and the show's composer Terell discuss quantum physics, the ambiance of Christmas, and the proper way to execute a Catholic Mass on this week's episode of Okay, But Is It Gay?. TW: this epis...
Nov 19, 2021•1 hr 36 min
4th Man Out (2016), dir. Andrew Nackman, is the story of a gay man in upstate New York coming out to his childhood best friends, and then beginning to navigate the gay dating scene. Autumn, Hal, and special guest Z, for whom this movie is very special, talk about masculinity, gender analysis, and the amazing potential this film squanders in this week's episode of Okay, But It It Gay? . TW: This episode contains discussion of homophobia, religious based homophobia specifically, conversion therapy...
Nov 12, 2021•3 hr 7 min
AWOL (2016), dir. Debbie Shoval, is the story of a young woman seeking direction in her life in her small, Pennsylvania town as she contemplates joining the Armed Forces, and falls into a love affair with married woman. Autumn, Hal, and special guest Kenley Alligood discuss the ways socio-economic difficulties impact every aspect of people's lives, the politics of queer spaces and community, and how you shouldn't kiss another person's wife, even if she does like the way you play Tanya Tucker son...
Nov 05, 2021•1 hr 57 min
With a Kiss I Die (2018), dir. Ronnie Kahlil, is--okay, so what if Juliet Capulet, like from Romeo and Juliet was a vampire living in modern Greece, being sad with her tiddies out, and she fell in love with a woman for the first time? Like what if that happened? Sounds fucked up if you ask me. Hal, Autumn, and special guest Zoa Coudret (my roommate!!) talk about the logistics of vampirism, the rich potential of gay Shakespeare adaptations, and how beautiful and wonderful Ella Kweku's face is in ...
Oct 29, 2021•1 hr 34 min
