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For me, this list is pretty accurate. But also, the Throwing Shade tv show. It promises to be whip smart and hilarious queer feminist political comedy. Giving us another space to laugh through the tears like Samantha Bee.

Hounds of Love would be welcome. Can't think of many other reissues, but that's one I'd welcome a lot.

What I truly love best about this show is its capacity to slowly build, with nervy editing - or contrasted with serene shots and picturesque visuals - a very comprehensive imagining of the characters.

I'm going to chime in and remind you that Buffy the Vampire Slayer also, well, thrived despite a terrible name.

Lazy sexism must be easy when it's anonymous.

Bowie was my favorite musician, by and large because he made me feel more normal in a hard time in my life - gay ten just coming out. And I count my lucky stars he was around, because he introduced me to my favorite voice ever - his cover of Wild is the Wind brought Nina Simone into my life.

I have two songs - "Heroes" by David Bowie and Just In Time by Nina Simone. The former, it wasn't an immediate impact of stunned silence until I heard the 6 minute version - I just sat in complete awe of this gorgeous song - the latter I'd "heard" in Before Sunset, but when I listened it tore me apart emotional - to

Lorelei Gilmore. That is all.

My Seinfeld trivia team name is exactly that - we're all gay men.

Either "I want to go to there" from 30 Rock, or "Math is hard, let's go shopping" from the Simpsons. Third place is situationally well placed Seinfeld jokes, but those are tough.

I love novelty and strangeness in music, but if you can perform and bring it in the studio too, you're ace to me.

My favorite live recordings are a two-way tie between this record and Nina Simone's Live at Village Gate. Both are fantastic, both intense, both moody. But in terms of quantity, Townes wins over Nina.

I find it closer to Far From Heaven than All that Heaven Allows. The deconstruction of Sirk by way of Todd Haynes than the original construct.

There's an equally fantastic version by Nina that's off Live at the Village Gate - she sounds like she's whispering to her lover, until she flips the switch and starts belting. Makes me think of Al Green's Let's Stay Together. It's the best. She's the best.

I'd choose one of Nina Simone's live version of…most of her covers of any sort. Just in Time off Live in Paris slays me every time.

There are a few musicians whose output I feel has been served very well (Leonard Cohen is my guiding light in this respect), and others like Nina Simone or Kate Bush or Joni Mitchell, or some Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus types who need a series of interesting reissues to hammer the point home that their work is

Well, suffers in hindsight because the innovations she built into her compositions - Classical structures, jazz chords, discordant tunings - have been normalized and eased into pop culture, not through any malice by Tori Amos or Taylor Swift. She is a strange musician who's best output remains her jazz experimentation

Joni Mitchell needs a a reappraisal, though. Not because she's unloved, but because her more adventurous and jazz influenced work suffers compared to her folkier output.

In the way that Pet Shop Boys is my gay band, Looking is my gay TV show. The one I relate to the best.

Looking is my gay TV show. It fits, and is extremely understandable to, me and my gay culture.