Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈

VHS footage of me around age 14 looking surprised

Going through some old VHS tapes and located a shot of me clutching my pearls in ... oh ... 1993 maybe? Anyway, glad to find proof that I used to have hair

The shooting script for the Wizard of Oz has the ultimate "that's a problem for future-me"

Google has decided that I own a dog (I don't) and that I wrote an article entitled "Dogs and their Dykes" (I didn't but I wish I had)

YouTube video by Media Processing Wicked (2024) is a Wonderful Adaptation

Emma at MediaProcessing has a fantastic new video about Wicked's stage-to-screen adaptation! Nine million tulips await your inspection: youtu.be/pWZ1nB1mNy0?...

It’s hard to define art but I know it when I see it

My latest video includes image of the Wizard of Oz as he appears in the novels ... and yes, this is really how he's described in one scene. Watch my new video for more about the WILD differences between the various versions of Oz you thought you knew: youtu.be/n9IXq5MwG5Q

Honestly, slay (literal)

Good grief, her hair “crashed around her breasts” is almost a Tobias line

I’m in the latest Matt Baume video, talking about queer connections to the Wizard of Oz. This is my original fandom and I love this world with my whole heart. Truly an honor to speak to Matt about it.

A large black dog wedging herself between my legs

Juicy has arrived at the park to take turns sitting on everyone’s feet

YouTube video by Cher Cher - Shame Shame Shame (with Tina Turner) (The Cher Show, 04/27/1975)

YES thank you!!! And GOD what a number www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN8k...

jinkx and dela wearing green and red dancing outfits with reflective shapes and vertical silver stripes

Hi gay! I'm just looking back at the wonderful Jinkx & DeLa holiday special and I KNOW these outfits are a reference to something someone famous wore, but I can't remember who or when or where. Do you recognize them?

Imagine they're looking at each other passing in the other lane

Funniest thing about this is that the vomit technician has a steadying hand on his shoulder, as if to comfort him

Thanks for doing this! I love that they added period-specific NY trash cans. There's a story about the set decorator on Little Shop (1986) having to drive around NY searching for anyone who still had those old "Oscar the Grouch style" cans & offering to trade them for brand new ones.

Why have Oz stories always held special meaning for queer people, going back over a century? New video available now! youtu.be/n9IXq5MwG5Q

Phenomenal quote from Judy Garland here

Researching the origins of "Friends of Dorothy," I came across this description of board game that genuinely sounds like fun

Here's a few rough drafts of thumbnails for my new Wizard of Oz video. I'm kind of into the "born to be a sissy" sketch as a t-shirt???
Anyway, watch the video! youtu.be/n9IXq5MwG5Q

I'm going through some old photos and found this project I did a couple years ago, photographing drag queens as film noir femmes fatale. Kind of want to revisit this at some point!

I cannot stop singing this tune

Eran Scoggins sings "You're so Cute Soldier Boy" from the musical Toot Toot, written by Edgar Allan Woolf (1918) , arrangement by Caleb Martin (2025) Download the song:… You're So Cute, Soldier Boy

Delightfully, Eran Scoggins and Caleb Martin have created a glorious new recording of “You’re So Cute Soldier Boy” ... a saucy soldier-cruising anthem written in 1918 by gay lyricist Edgar Allen Woolf, who would go on to co-write the screenplay for The Wizard of Oz! www.youtube.com/shorts/GdjH6...

Just reading about some of the abandoned concepts for Disney's The Little Mermaid and it all seems very AAAAH

YouTube video by Matt Baume Gays and Oz: Why There's No Place Like Homo

A wonderful video by @mattbaume.bsky.social and featuring my friend @terryblas.bsky.social about why Oz is much more than a few films and books, but part of our queer inheritance

youtu.be/n9IXq5MwG5Q?...

a wide shot of me in my office recording a video, wearing a green shirt with an elephant pattern

a close-up of the label on my shirt, with the words "specially hand made and fashioned by kathy"

A few people have asked where the shirt in my new video is from, and the answer is that it's a thrift-store find, and the label reveals that it was specially hand-made and fashioned by Kathy

They called them "barkies" to distinguish them from "talkies"

And then of course there's MGM's all-dog version of Singin in the Rain

Me signing my book, and the URL to buy it at http://bit.ly/imhomo

Shopping for someone who likes queer history & sitcoms? Want to support indie book stores? Order HI HONEY I'M HOMO through Elliott Bay Books & note in the description that you'd like it signed, and I'll pop by & personalize it before they send it out! elliottbaybook.com/item/G4pP01y...

Aw thank you, so glad you liked it!

This is a wonderful background on the history of Oz fandom and queerness 🌈