"I'll take Paul Lynde." Not so very long ago, a lifetime ago, those words took Americans somewhere wicked. In the '70s, if that sentence was uttered by a contestant on Hollywood Squares ...

Paul Lynde was openly gay at a time when the slightest hint of homosexuality could kill any performer’s career. He was a fixture in theater and film for more than a decade before his star ...

Paul Lynde, Charles Nelson Reilly and Rip Taylor get a cursory mention in a new documentary about queer stand-up, but they were groundbreaking. By Erik Piepenburg In 1987, David Letterman was ...