Episode 8 - Nathan Rapport

The Novus Homo Podcast

Today on the program i’m joined by artist, DJ, and performer - Nathan Rapport. Nathan is here to talk about his adult coloring book, 'Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me,' which is to me a heartachingly beautiful meditation on the way in which gay boys throw ourselves into the maw of hedonism as a way of managing a fundamental loneliness. Nathan and I were in the same “class” of queens back in San Francisco, and there is a way in which this book—much like Brontez Purnell’s 'Johnny Would You Love Me (If My Dick Were Bigger)'—feels both universal to gay guys of a certain generation, yet tied inexorably to a specific point of view that only seems to come with having lived in the Bay Area during that latter half of the 2000s. You can find his book - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me - at his Etsy store under NathanRapportArt (etsy.com/listing/255988248/mature-queer-adult-coloring-book). This episode's theme music is "Supernova" by Liz Phair (youtube.com/watch?v=tM60GAPIXTY).