Matt Baume Presents "Thank You for Being a Friend: The Enduring Queer Joy of the Golden Girls"

Friday June 21st, 2024 @ 7:00PM - 8:00PM Local author of Hi Honey, I’m Homo! and friend of the store Matt Baume returns for a special Pride-month pop culture conversation. The Golden Girls are so much more than four funny ladies! Between the laughs, this ‘80s sitcom is loaded with life lessons about loving your queer friends and family members. Whether helping their friends to come out on their own terms, learning why marriage equality matters, or combating stigma around HIV, these women were steadfast allies both on TV and real life. This talk features clips from some of The Golden Girls’ funniest and most touching scenes, and serves as a guided tour of the various ways that you can support and uplift people you care about. From flamboyant relatives on Bewitched to closely-guarded secrets on All in the Family, from network-censor fights over Soap to behind-the-scenes activism on the set of The Golden Girls, from Ellen’s culture clash and Will & Grace’s mixed reception to Modern Family’s primetime power-couple, Hi Honey, I’m Homo! is the story not only of how subversive queer comedy transformed the American sitcom, from its inception through today, but how our favorite sitcoms transformed, and continue to transform, America. Accessible, entertaining, and informative, Hi Honey, I’m Homo! features commentary and interviews from celebrities, behind-the-scenes creators, and more. Matt Baume is a writer, podcaster, and video-maker based in Seattle whose work focuses on queer culture, geeks, and all things strange and wonderful. He is the creator of the queer interview show The Sewers of Paris, the YouTube pop culture series Culture Cruise, and the LGBTQ news shows Weekly Debrief and Marriage News Watch. He’s co creator of the comedy podcast and live show Queens of Adventure, featuring drag queens playing Dungeons & Dragons. His book, Defining Marriage, chronicles the personal stories of people who fought for marriage equality over the last forty years. He was nominated for a GLAAD award for journalism, and his work has been recognized by the New York Times as “thoughtful and thorough … informative and funny,” and he was highlighted by Forbes magazine. After he appeared as a pop culture critic in the Showgirls documentary You Don’t Nomi, Forbes called his observations on the film “potentially intriguing.” You can find his reporting via outlets that include Rolling Stone, Vice Magazine, Slate, The Advocate, The Stranger, and NPR.

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