House of Barbrism

AiG #11 - Pretty Much Everyone Has Herpes

D&S #21 - Stanley Stellar: The Piers

CP #11 - I Want You(r Story)!

Hey, Barbs. Do you like the new nickname I came up with for my young, hip, rabidly devoted, extremely online House of Barbrism fan base? I was gonna go with Army, but that was already taken…by the military. So, Barbs, here’s the deal, I want you. I mean I want your body. I mean I want you so bad right now. Dammit, Doc, we talked about this! I mean I  want your STORY. I’m so grateful to the amazing people who have shared their closet stories so far, but I am a greedy, greedy, guh-reedy bottom...

D&S #20 - Flee

AiG #10 - Talking IVF and Miscarriages

D&S #19 - Bright Light Bright Light

CP #10 - Adam

D&S #18 - Framed Youth: The Revenge of the Teenage Perverts

AiG #9 - The Chode Must Go On

D&S #17 - Bear Nation

CP #9 - HOME/BODY by Documenta Barbrism

Since I started House of Barbrism last fall, a lot of people have been asking about my closet and coming out experiences. Like the cocktease I am, I’ve revealed bits of it here and there but figured it was high time to do so a little more formally. I published a slightly longer version of this piece in the recent issue of the Signal House Edition and read it here with their kind permission. Be sure to check out the companion interview with Dingle Mary in the same issue, available now at Sign...

D&S #16 - Assassins

D&S #15 - Helluva Boss

CP #8 - Christen

D&S #14 - Dream Daddy

AiG #7 - You Can Do a Lot of Things From Anywhere

D&S #13 - OMNISCIENT @ Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art

CP #7 - Reagan

D&S #12 - The Wachowskis

AiG #6 - Doc & Shannon's Infinite Checklist Pt. 2

D&S #11 - Slave Play

CP #6 - The Orgy That Wasn't

The title says it all! On last week's episode of Adventures in Gaybysitting, the recently-out Documenta Barbrism shared how nervous and excited he was to attend his first orgy. After much anticipation and harness-fitting, and despite hobbling self-doubt, he finally arrived at the Airbnb, but things didn't go quite as planned. On this Very Special Episode™ of Closet Practice, we're changing up the format a bit and welcoming "orgy-nizers" Adam and Eli to tell the story of what went wrong, ...

D&S #10 - Biconic: Cary Grant (Flying Over Sunset)

Covid didn't manage to kill the new Broadway musical Flying Over Sunset, about fancy folk taking LSD in the 50s, but would we all have been better off if it had? The jury is still out, but we have...thoughts on the matter. At the very least, it gives Documenta Barbrism and Dingle Mary a chance to explore the life and work of the first in our ongoing "Biconic" series: Cary Grant! From a poor, f*cked-up childhood in Bristol, England to the top of the world in Hollywood, Grant oozed sex, char...

AiG #5 - Documenta Unedited

This week Documenta is flying solo! To help ease nerves ahead of his first orgy, Documenta Barbrism shares what it's like navigating gay dating apps full of blank profiles in suburban hell as a recently-out 41-year-old bear/chub. That whole sentence is true, btw. If any part of it doesn't make sense, just listen. Tbh, though, it still may not make sense by the end of the episode. But at least you'll feel better that you don't have to figure out how to navigate Bigger City (also real)! T...

AiG #5 - Documenta Unedited

This week Documenta is flying solo! To help ease nerves ahead of his first orgy, Documenta Barbrism shares what it's like navigating gay dating apps full of blank profiles in suburban hell as a recently-out 41-year-old bear/chub. That whole sentence is true, btw. If any part of it doesn't make sense, just listen. Tbh, though, it still may not make sense by the end of the episode. But at least you'll feel better that you don't have to figure out how to navigate Bigger City (also real)! T...

D&S #9 - Sondheim Tribute

Documenta Barbrism and Dingle Mary honor the late, capital-G Great Stephen Joshua Sondheim. This was one of the most difficult, and fun, episodes to record yet. There's so much to say about the endlessly rich and inventive body of work Sondheim left behind, and we'll be saying it for years to come. For now, we highlight our favorite Sondheim shows and songs (and argue over the merits of "Someone in a Tree") and share stories about how this trailblazing gay artist has changed our lives. (Begi...

CP #5 - Sam

This is Closet Practice, a podcast for queers of all stripes to share their stories, whether they’re in, out, or out-curious. You can take queer life out of the closet, but you can’t take the closet out of queer life. Maybe, though, we can shine a little light inside. After weeks of aggravating c*ckteasery, the outside has finally committed to that drab pre-snow mid-Atlantic winter, when the only thing sludgier than the grass is the anemic sky. So it was a real pleasure to step into Sam’s ...

D&S #8 - Rent/tick, tick... BOOM!

Happy Thanksgiving! To celebrate the purloining of America, we discuss another stolen work: Rent! This 90s Pultizer- and Tony-winning classic, in revival now at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, earned billions for straight creator Jonathan Larson's estate by billing itself as THE standard for gritty, authentic portrayals of life with AIDS, even though Larson stole its queer narrative elements from writer Sarah Schulman, only to sideline and caricature them to make the play more pa...

AiG #4 - Doc & Shannon's Infinite Checklist

It's an Adventures in Gaybysitting/Closet Practice crossover episode! First, Shannon shares what happened when she tried to come out to her parents last week. Then, we make almost no headway on a very long list of important things from our lives that need to be discussed, while still discussing a sh*t ton of things from our lives that need to be discussed. Also, the Small Dong March. Twitter: @DocumentaB, Instagram: @DocumentaBarbrism, @ShannonsBoobs Website: DocumentaBarbrism.com Email...

D&S #7 - Home for the Holidays/Happiest Season

It's a lesbian holiday homo-coming extravaganza! We talk Jodie Foster's 1995 Thanksgiving masterpiece Home for the Holidays and Clea Duvall's 2020 not-masterpiece-but-still-so-great Christmas closet tale Happiest Season starring THE supreme goddess, Kristen Stewart. And the Heelwalker Saga continues! If want to follow along at home, this is the twisty serial adventure of Dingle Mary's first pair of heels so far --> D&S #2 --> this interview in The Signal House Edition --> D&S #5 --> this e...

CP #4 - Icon

This is Closet Practice, a podcast for queers of all stripes to share their stories, whether they’re in, out, or out-curious. You can take queer life out of the closet, but you can’t take the closet out of queer life. Maybe, though, we can shine a little light inside.  The very day Kyle’s episode came out a couple weeks ago, he sent me the following text: “My dad wants to record. He loved the episode.” “SHUT THE F*CK UP GURL NO HE DOES NOT” I responded with my customary sangfroid, to which ...

D&S #6 - Q-Force

Twitter: @DocumentaB Instagram: @DocumentaBarbrism Website: DocumentaBarbrism.com Email: [email protected] Affiliate links: I host House of Barbrism on Buzzsprout! I record Adventures in Gaybysitting on Riverside.fm!

AiG #3 - What People Are Putting Into My Mouth

It's a week of exposure on Adventures in Gaybysitting! Shannon shares some huge, important information about herself for the first time publicly, and Documenta exposes his...well, maybe you should just listen. Twitter: @DocumentaB, @ShenaniganC Instagram: @DocumentaBarbrism, @ShannonCorderWrites Website: DocumentaBarbrism.com Email: [email protected] Affiliate links: I host House of Barbrism on Buzzsprout! I record Adventures in Gaybysitting on Riverside.fm!

D&S #5 - Jesse Murry

This week we discuss the work of the fabulous, unsung painter, poet, critic, and theorist Jesse Murry. Though Murry died of AIDS-related complications in 1993 and faded into relative obscurity, his work is getting a second life through a recent exhibition at David Zwirner in NYC and the publication of Painting is a Supreme Fiction: Writings by Jesse Murry, 1980-1993 by Soberscove Press. Murry's deceptively simple abstract paintings and lucid critical writing allow us to ask what queerness lo...

CP #3 - Kyle

If you live in the greater New York area or have a good microphone and would like to share your story on Closet Practice, anonymously or not, message me: Twitter: @DocumentaB Instagram: @DocumentaBarbrism Website: DocumentaBarbrism.com Email: [email protected] Kyle's Instagram: @kyleicon Affiliate links: I host House of Barbrism on Buzzsprout! I record Adventures in Gaybysitting on Riverside.fm!

D&S #4 - Fire Shut Up in My Bones

This week, Documenta and Dingle discuss Charles M. Blow's lyrical 2014 memoir Fire Shut Up in My Bones and its fabulous new opera adaptation by Terence Blanchard and Kasi Lemmons, the first opera by a black composer in the Metropolitan Opera's nearly 140-year history! WTF! Also mommies, lobsters, and a barnful of big scary puppets.   Links: The opera The book (affiliate link) Bread and Puppet Theater Twitter: @DocumentaB Instagram: @DocumentaBarbrism Website: DocumentaBarbrism.com Email: b...

AiG #2 - Kathleen Turner's Bush

In which we improve the lyrics to "Castle on a Cloud" from Les Miz, discover why Documenta was REALLY honking at the local porn shop, and recount the time Kathleen Turner gave us the evil eye because we cheered louder for Alicia Silverstone than for her.  Twitter: @DocumentaB, @ShenaniganC Instagram: @DocumentaBarbrism, @ShannonCorderWrites Website: DocumentaBarbrism.com Email: [email protected] Affiliate links: I host House of Barbrism on Buzzsprout! I record Adventures in G...

D&S #3 - Dingle Mary for Treasurer!

Dingle Mary has a birthday party! And begins fulfilling a lifelong dream of holding gay public office! And figures out which Armstrong only had one ball! Twitter: @DocumentaB Instagram: @DocumentaBarbrism Website: DocumentaBarbrism.com Email: [email protected]

CP #2 - Janet

If you live in the greater New York area or have a good microphone and would like to share your story on Closet Practice, anonymously or not, message me: Twitter: @DocumentaB Instagram: @DocumentaBarbrism Website: DocumentaBarbrism.com Email: [email protected] Janet's Twitter: @JanetWerther Affiliate links: I host House of Barbrism on Buzzsprout! I record Adventures in Gaybysitting on Riverside.fm!

D&S #2 - Everybody's Talking About Jamie

IS everybody talking about Jamie? Well, we sure are, mama! Who better to discuss a new film based on a musical based on a documentary about a  16-year-old gayby getting his first pair of heels with than an almost-16-year-old gayby getting his...well, let's not ruin the surprise, but listen all the way to the end if you want to be ear-witness to a young queer consciousness building itself in real time! Life imitating art imitating life? You know it, b*tch! We also play RuPaul's Drag Race G...

AiG #1 - Penicular Homicide

Happy #NationalComingOutDay! It's a week of firsts! First episode of Adventures in Gaybysitting, Documenta's first.........?? We didn't do it on purpose, but the funniest part is near the end so I guess you'll just have to listen all the way through bb okay bb mm-hmm?? Sorry 'bout it. Twitter: @DocumentaB, @ShenaniganC Instagram: @DocumentaBarbrism, @ShannonCorderWrites Website: DocumentaBarbrism.com Email: [email protected] Related links: Phantasmagoria PC Playthrough Bo...

D&S #1 - Frank Moore

In the first ever episode of Documenta & Son, Documenta Barbrism and Dingle Mary explore the work of painter Frank Moore, whose playful absurdism belied deep anger at the destruction of the planet by humans and of his body and community by AIDS. Moore left behind a collection of work at once tender and terrifying, zany and heartbreaking, taking in everything from medieval torture devices to Lady Bunny's pink d*ck. Twitter: @DocumentaB Instagram: @DocumentaBarbrism Website: DocumentaBarbrism...

CP #1 - Francisco

If you live in the greater New York area or have a good microphone and would like to share your story on Closet Practice, anonymously or not, message me: Twitter: @DocumentaB Instagram: @DocumentaBarbrism Website: DocumentaBarbrism.com Email: [email protected] Related link: LGBTQ+ rights in the Dominican Republic Affiliate links: I host House of Barbrism on Buzzsprout! I record Adventures in Gaybysitting on Riverside.fm!

Barbrism Begins at Home

Announcing House of Barbrism, the brand-SPANKing-new podcast that is actually three podcasts in one: Adventures in Gaybysitting, Closet Practice, and Documenta and Son! From relationships to parenting to culture and sex, it's all in our house. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss a single fabulous episode! In the meantime, come say HIIIIEEEEEE on Twitter, Instagram, and my site, or drop me a line at [email protected]. I'd especially love to hear from those in the greater ...