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Kyle Turner

Kyle Turner, Writer

Kyle Turner (queer cis male monster, he/him) is a freelance writer, editor, and transcriber, and, if John Waters is to be believed, a good dancer. He began writing on the internet in 2007 with his blog The Movie Scene. Since then, he has contributed to Esquire, MUBI, Playboy.com , Flavorwire, TheBlackMaria.org, The Film Stage, Film School Rejects, Under the Radar, and IndieWire’s /Bent. He is studying cinema at the University of Hartford in Connecticut.

Author's Topics

  • academy awards
  • aids
  • as boys grow
  • boys beware
  • chuck tingle
  • classic film
  • film
  • film critique
  • film review
  • gay erotica

All Posts

  • Somewhere That's Green: Little Shop of (Gentrified) Horrors

    by Kyle Turner
    "Audrey II is the step to the American Dream that Seymour and Audrey crave, and in a desire to acquire that, Seymour feeds Audrey II endlessly, all in the hope that Audrey II will have enough."
    ...

  • 1957's "As Boys Grow..." is Creepy but in an Inclusive Way

    by Kyle Turner
    "I have no idea why a vintage sex education video like As Boys Grow… would include an ellipsis. I guess because... growing up is terrible?"
    ...

  • A Queer Film Critic Reviewed The Anti-Gay PSA "Boys Beware!"

    HPh SV
    by Kyle Turner
    "The search for verisimilitude, or reality, begins and ends with the title card of Boys Beware! Homosexuals Are on the Prowl (which, in my opinion, could use a colon, which is sort of ironic if you think about it)."
    ...

  • Role Play: The Oscars and the Exclusion of Queer Men

    by Kyle Turner
    "... the vision that the Academy Awards have seemed to gravitate to with regard to these people is one of tragedy, and also, knowingly or otherwise, one of whiteness."
    ...

  • Pounded In The Butt By An Interview With Chuck Tingle

    by Kyle Turner
    A bafflingly intimate conversation with the most important gonzo gay erotica writer of our time.
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  • Pounded In The Butt By An Interview With Chuck Tingle
    by Kyle Turner
    A bafflingly intimate conversation with the most important gonzo gay erotica writer of our time.
    ...