5. Stars from a Bi-Gone Era
History is Gay
Leigh Pfeffer
4.6 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In this very special episode, hosts Leigh & Gretchen travel to the red carpet and the silver screen to hear stories about queer actors from the golden age of Hollywood. Along for the ride is a room full of queer people who came to listen to the podcast being recorded live at TGIFemslash, a convention dedicated to the queer ladies of media, the ladies who love them, and the fans who love them. Join us and a room full of big gay nerds as we discuss the early years of film, the sexploits of the rich and famous, and other favorite queermos from history!
Outline
0:00 - Pre-show announcements
2:25 – Introduction
4:44 – Game: Silver Screen Sexploits
10:54 – Word of the Week: Lavender Marriages
12:54 – More Stars of a Bi Gone Era: Why Do We Think They're Gay?
17:15 – How Gay Were They?
22:20 – Group Discussion: Favorite Queermos from History
45:15 – Closing and Where to Find us Online
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For awesome nerdy queer merch like buttons, shirts, necklaces, and other fantastic things to deck your femslash-loving self out in, please check out our amazing friend's shop mentioned in the show, Glorious Weirdo! They make stuff for nerds, fangirls, feminists, queers, geeks & other cool people. Their designs celebrate the things we love, and we hope you'll love them too.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Queerlings. Before we get into this very special episode, we wanted to give you a little background. |
| 0:07.5 | This episode is our live episode slash panel at TGIFM slash a gal pals convention that we just went down to in Santa Ana, California. |
| 0:18.0 | You heard us talk a little bit about it. The last episode, which premiered |
| 0:22.8 | the day that we were coming on back up. But fun fact, this convention is where Gretchen |
| 0:28.8 | and I actually met last year and decided to make this podcast happen. So it was a fantastic |
| 0:34.8 | time filled with lots of fem-slashy friends, and if you're into |
| 0:39.0 | fandom and queer ladies kissing, then you should probably check it out. |
| 0:42.7 | We're quite fond of it, and it made this happen, so we're pretty grateful. |
| 0:47.3 | Um, a cool few, a few cool announcements. |
| 0:51.0 | Another super neat thing that happened at TGIFM slash was the annual live |
| 0:55.9 | auction and this time we offered up at last minute an opportunity to have a guest spot on the |
| 1:02.9 | show for an episode with a topic of a guest's choice and we want to thank our amazing friends |
| 1:10.0 | Morgan and Jonathan who bid a ridiculous |
| 1:13.6 | amount of money to hang out and nerd with us. So stay tuned for those later in this year. |
| 1:19.8 | You'll be hearing those as fun episodes. And we also mention in the recording that you're |
| 1:26.9 | about to hear the exciting prospect of merch. |
| 1:29.8 | We do have some things left over from Kahn. |
| 1:32.9 | I made a couple of things to bring down things like stickers and magnets and even shirts. |
| 1:40.3 | And we'll soon have a way for all you lovely people to get some of those things if you so wish to tell the world just how gay history is with cool fancy real-life things with this podcast name on it, which frankly is mind-boggling and so cool. |
| 1:57.8 | So as soon as we figure out logistics, we will tell you all how to get things like that |
| 2:03.9 | on your bod or your car or wherever you like to stick things that have rainbows on them. |
| 2:09.9 | So I'm excited. |
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