“I’m Your Boy Right? And Your Boy Wants to Go to the Party,” A Fellow Travelers TV & Book Review Ep. w/ Allen Ellenzweig

Ivory Tower Boiler Room · May 16, 2024 · 1h 30m

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Allen Ellenzweig, a longtime contributor to The Gay and Lesbian Review magazine and cultural critic, joins Andrew to give his honest review of the "Fellow Travelers" TV series compared to Thomas Mallon's 2007 novel. Mallon's novel, and the TV series it's based off of, focus on depictions of queer life in 1950s Washington D.C. under political pressures, including the Lavender Scare and McCarthyism. Before…