Ebony and Irony: Adam Baran

Ebony and Irony

Starburns Audio

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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This week Bunny welcomes Adam Baran to talk about his work as a filmmaker, spaces for sex and cruising and his thoughts on Bros. Adam Baran is a writer, director, producer, and curator whose work focuses on hidden histories of queer life and identity. Baran’s short documentary TRADE CENTER screened at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival, AFI Docs, Frameline, Maryland, Provincetown and the Oak Cliff Film Festival, where it received a Special Jury Mention from the Best Documentary Short jury. Baran produced the 2020 Netflix documentary CIRCUS OF BOOKS which was nominated for an Emmy award for Outstanding Writing for a Non-Fiction Program. He is a co-producer on the forthcoming doc-series HOW TO HAVE SEX IN A PANDEMIC which examines the impact of COVID on LGBT New Yorkers. He wrote the first season of the hit webseries HUNTING SEASON and was a contributing editor at BUTT Magazine for many years. As producer, Baran’s projects include Emmy-winning director Jeffrey Schwarz’s feature documentaries BOULEVARD! A HOLLYWOOD STORY and the forthcoming MINESHAFT: THE CRUISING MURDERS. His next documentary as director explores the history of the leather and motorcycle club scene from 1964-1989. As a curator, Baran co-created the long-running Queer/Art/Film screening series at the IFC Center in Manhattan, and his new monthly screening series is called Narrow Rooms, which highlights dark and dirty gay films every month at the Anthology Film Archives in New York. Adam is also the creator of the NYC INFERNO sex parties, an inclusive sex party which he calls a "sex party for sex nerds". . More can be found on Instagram @nycinfernoparty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Starbeans are here!
0:30.0	Starbeans are here!
1:00.0	Hello everyone! It's Lady Funny with Ebony and irony podcast! I've got great news!
1:17.2	Mone is ill! Yes! She's having vocal issues and could not join us today. This is already
1:25.5	a wonderful day. So I will bring on our special guest whose name is Adam Baran, a writer-director
1:32.1	producer and curator whose work focuses on hidden histories of queer life and identity.
1:41.1	Adam, we're going to talk about all of your stuff because you write direct produce, but
1:46.9	I just watched Trade Center again, which was at a short film that you did 90 minutes
1:52.7	long about cruising at the World Trade Center. I also watched Circus of Books, which was
1:58.2	an Emmy award nominated for outstanding writing for a non-fiction program. And other stuff
2:05.8	that we want to talk about, including the very salacious 9 plus club about men with big
2:15.0	dicks, unfortunately, they're most of them are dead. Because this was a club that was
2:22.1	in the 60s, so even if you are really, really thirsty, honey, you ain't so thirsty, you're
2:27.0	going to dig them up and try to put some meat on their bones and, you know, try to get
2:32.0	you some or anything. Anyway, Adam is also a friend for many years and, you know, also
2:38.8	does a sex party, runs a film series, but we want to talk to him about his work. And
2:44.5	also a little bit about, um, bros, Billy Eichner movie, which tanked at the box office
2:52.4	and there's now a blame game going on. So Adam, welcome to you.
2:57.6	Thank you so much. I, yes, a long time fan. I think I saw you first in a queer movie,
3:03.5	which was the wakestock documentary and maybe late night on HBO. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah.
3:09.5	And then I've been obsessed with you ever since. I love you and I come on, I love to come
3:14.0	on your Facebook page and trolley all your posts and those thrilled to be on this show.
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