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by Dominic Gonzalez SPOILER WARNING: This article features spoilers to shows and movies featuring LGBTQIA characters. Please proceed with caution if you have not seen or finished these movies and shows: The 100, Jane the Virgin, The Walking Dead, The Magicians, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Rope, Rebecca, The Children’s Hour, Lost Girl, and Fox . Why is everything suddenly gay?  Maybe you’ve been thinking this? Maybe you’ve heard people ask this? Maybe it’s meant as an actual question, acknowledging your lack of familiarity with LGBTQIA history. Maybe it's said with a tone of belittlement and annoyance. To put things in perspective, I’d like to clarify that not everything is gay. If you’re noticing more LGBTQIA couples and stories in movies and television, or noticing more people identifying as LGBTQIA, or even noticing more education being spread around through conversations, memes, and social media- it’s not because everything is suddenly gay (which is an inaccurate use of the t...

Image Courtesy of © SkySoft Entertainment, © Paramount Pictures, and © 20th Century Fox Introduction   b y Monroe Hayden Since this podcast was my idea, it seemed only right for me to start things off, and what better way than to start off with the most popular movie of all time? Yes, even more popular than Endgame because, believe it or not, not everyone knows Endgame , not everyone has seen Endgame but our first film that we’ll be discussing, everyone has heard of it, and the majority of the people on earth have seen this movie. You may not like it, but there’s no denying it! It’s the blockbuster of all blockbusters- you know it’s true! It doesn’t get any bigger than James Cameron ’s Titanic . The actual Titanic may have struck an iceberg and sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic back in 1912, but the 1997 film was a big Hollywood-hit and did everything but sink. It was the first movie to ever reach over 1 billion dollars in ticket sales. Its record was broken by James Cameron’s A...