Queer Love, Loss & Joy 🌈 Telling the Stories Hollywood Won’t with James Patrick Nelson
Happy Healthy Homo
Joel Wood & Keegan Hirst
4.8 • 779 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Grief, romance, and a father with a surprising secret — James Patrick Nelson’s award-winning TV pilot For Years to Come dives deep into the messy, beautiful complexity of queer life. In this episode of Happy Healthy Homo, we talk about rewriting queer narratives, balancing joy and trauma on screen, and why telling our own stories matters now more than ever. From the Off-Broadway stage to indie film festivals, James shares his creative journey, the challenges of making authentic queer art, and how embracing his identity changed everything.
🎬 Watch the Trailer for "For Years to Come" here: https://youtu.be/jMrHzo03fxE?si=EXxBSqcsdEu3VILF
Follow James here: https://www.instagram.com/jamespatricknelson
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Homo's. Welcome back to what season are we even on? |
| 0:08.3 | I don't know. Just welcome back at this point. Welcome back. Welcome back. |
| 0:12.4 | We are, we are glad to be back. We are Keegan and Joel and we're boyfriend. So you know what? |
| 0:16.8 | I met someone the other day at an event and they were like, oh, you're your co-host and they were talking about you, not saying your partner? And it was weird. And then later on, they were like, so who is your boyfriend? And I was like, the person I do the podcast, they're like, he's your boyfriend, you should say. And then I said to them, I went, well, I can tell that you've only watched clips on Instagram because at the start of every episode we say |
| 0:38.4 | we're boyfriends. |
| 0:40.2 | And he was like guilty. |
| 0:41.7 | Yeah, I've just watched clips. |
| 0:42.7 | And I was like, well, you're not a true fan. |
| 0:45.3 | So this is my current boyfriend, John. |
| 0:48.8 | This is my current boyfriend. |
| 0:51.1 | And we're here just to chat about all things gay. |
| 0:54.0 | What's the actual intro? |
| 0:56.7 | Empowering gay men to live happy, healthy lives. |
| 1:00.1 | Well, that's what we're trying to do. |
| 1:01.4 | I mean, we're trying to do it for ourselves and also invite you on the journey with us. |
| 1:06.1 | We've got a long out of us. |
| 1:07.4 | Exactly, we're not experts. |
| 1:08.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.7 | We're definitely not experts. Well well that's a chaotic intro to this |
| 1:14.8 | episode but we have a very exciting guest on our podcast today don't we yeah we do we've got a writer |
| 1:20.3 | actor producer triple threat magician he does all the things. His name is James Patrick Nelson, |
| 1:29.3 | and he is a multi-talented artist |
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