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Forgotten Queers

Forgotten Queers

De: Gary M Thoren Jr
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This is Forgotten Queers, a show about the queer figures history pushed aside. They were once stars, leaders, icons — but time, shame, and prejudice buried their names. We’re here to remember them, to honor them, and to say: you don’t get to forget us.

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  • Wendy Carlos: Caterpillar to Butterfly

    Wendy Carlos: Caterpillar to Butterfly
    Nov 10 2025
    Good morning, queers and weirdos! Today we remember Wendy Carlos — the electronic genius who helped invent the sound of the future. In the 1960s, she took Robert Moog’s early synthesizer and turned it into an instrument of emotion. Her album Switched-On Bach blew minds and won Grammys, proving that circuits could sing with soul.

    Behind the studio walls, Wendy was also transforming herself. Assigned male at birth, she transitioned in a time when few could safely do so, living for years in stealth until coming out publicly in 1979. Through the fear and isolation, she kept creating: trailblazing film scores for Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange and The Shining, and later Disney’s Tron. Each soundtrack redefined what “electronic music” could be — intimate, unnerving, human.

    Wendy spent decades pushing boundaries most people never heard of: micro-tonal scales, custom instruments, cosmic soundscapes. She guarded her privacy but left a legacy that still vibrates through film, pop, and ambient music today. Her life reminds us that to be authentic is its own revolution — and that queerness and innovation have always been in tune.

    Wendy Carlos: composer, scientist, visionary, and Forgotten Queer far too brilliant to stay forgotten.

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    30 m
  • Charles Nelson Reilly — To Fabulous to Forget

    Charles Nelson Reilly — To Fabulous to Forget
    Nov 3 2025
    Today we remember a man who could out-quipp anyone on television and still go home alone because America wasn’t ready for his truth. Charles Nelson Reilly was more than the wise-cracking guest on Match Game—he was a Tony-winning actor, a master director, and a pioneer of coded queer visibility in mid-century America.

    In this episode, I dive into the life of this one-of-a-kind performer: his Broadway triumphs, his decades on television, the painful cost of being openly gay in a closeted industry, and the joyful camp he shared with millions. Reilly lived as loudly as he could, as safely as he dared, and he left behind a trail of laughter, truth, and wigs.

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    25 m
  • Peter Allen: The Boy from Tenterfield to Broadway

    Peter Allen: The Boy from Tenterfield to Broadway
    Oct 20 2025
    Peter Richard Woolnough Allen, born in Tenterfield, Australia, lived a life that swung between dazzling fame and deep heartbreak. Discovered in Hong Kong by Judy Garland’s husband, he later married her daughter, Liza Minnelli—a glamorous but short-lived union. Peter’s flamboyant stage presence and heartfelt songwriting defined an era: he co-wrote I Honestly Love You, Don’t Cry Out Loud, and Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do), earning two Oscars. Though he never formally came out, Peter lived openly with his longtime partner, model Gregory Connell, inspiring his iconic anthem I Still Call Australia Home. After Gregory’s death from AIDS, Peter continued to perform until his own passing from the same disease nearly ten years later. His story—of love, loss, resilience, and melody—reminds us of a queer artist who refused to hide, shining brighter than the spotlight itself.

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    25 m
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