43: A Very Brady Christmas Is Gay Enough, Say Drew & Glen

“A Very Brady Christmas” (December 18, 1988)

We’re celebrating the holidays and closing out 2019 with one of our all-time favorite Christmas specials: A Very Brady Christmas, a 1988 TV movie that reunited all of the original cast that matters. If you’ve seen this special, you may be wondering what’s gay about this family holiday outing. Some stuff, we say, but perhaps most subtly the use of racecar-driving as a metaphor for Bobby Brady’s reckless homosexual lifestyle. Just go with us on this one. 

Read that article by Boze Hadleigh about Ann B. Davis and Barbara Stanwyck

Watch Being Frank, that movie Glen wrote, either on DVD or on digital.

This episode’s outro track is Beautiful Noise by Florence Henderson