802: Gayed It Out with Mal Glowenke

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4.7 • 545 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

If you’re a later-in-life gay, congrats on making it out! And if you’re still in the closet, we see you, we love you, and your gayness is valid. This week Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out with host of the Made It Out Podcast (@madeitoutpodcast), Mal Glowenke (@malglowenke), to talk about the journey from recovering Texas-raised (closeted) lesbian to loud and proud podcast host. The heteronormative societal culture from growing up in Dallas was strong, but the pull of LA was stronger. All it took was one visit to Hollywood to break the closet door wide open, catapulting Mal into a beautiful, technicolor world of community and possibility. It’s been a long journey from Mal’s days of scrolling Craigslist’s “Women Seeking Women” board to moving to DTLA and experiencing her baby gay days right as the pandemic hit. After 20+ years of having to live inauthentically, Mal had a lot of unraveling to do, including needing surgery to reverse the plastic surgery that she had done solely for the sake of appealing to the male gaze. By finding queer community, Mal finally had the safe space she needed to liberate her true self. Now that Mal is wide awake to the harms of the heteronormative patriarchy, she is using her podcast to get the word out about the importance of voting. Her new six-episode series, Made It Out (To the Polls), partners with LPAC, the only national organization dedicated to advancing the political representation and power of LGBTQ+ women and nonbinary candidates at every level of government. We would not have made it to Season 8 without the support of our incredible Patrons! You can support Lez Hang Out while unlocking a bunch of awesome perks like access to our exclusive Discord, 22 and counting full-length bonus episodes, weekly ad-free episodes, and more by joining us on Patreon at bit.ly/lezpatreon. You can also support the podcast by buying our original merch at bit.ly/lezmerch (free shipping on orders $100+ with code lhoship) and purchasing our original Lez-ssentials songs for as little as $1 each on Bandcamp! Give us your own answers to our Q & Gay on Twitter @lezhangoutpod and follow along on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. You can find your fav tol and smol hosts Ellie & Leigh at @elliebrigida and @lshfoster respectively. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let's hang out.
0:02.5	Let's hang out.
0:03.4	And let's talk about what lesings are found.
0:06.0	Let's hang out.
0:06.9	And let's listen to two heads me and shout.
0:09.6	Let's hang out.
0:15.2	Hey out.
0:17.1	The podcast that says a little prayer of thanks every day that we also made it out of the closet.
0:24.2	From the West Coast, I'm Lee Holmes Foster. And from the East Coast, I'm Ellie Bridgeta. To those you've been with us through this whole journey, thank you as always for listening. If you're a new listener, welcome, we're excited to have you here. Here's what's happening this week. This week in the last time
0:37.8	This week and the last time is a place where you can touch face each episode
0:41.2	about things going on with the podcast or otherwise. In season eight, we're still releasing
0:45.0	our Patreon bonus episodes, but we're not going to be doing them once a month. There'll be a little
0:48.9	more spaced out. Our first one for the season will be out on October 7th. And all 22 episodes so far are up on our Patreon at bit.ly slash less Patreon.
0:58.3	We also want to remind everyone that there have been some changes to Patreon if you support us or any other creators on Patreon.
1:05.5	The best thing you can do is to sign up to support people on the Patreon website instead of through the app on your iPhone,
1:13.6	just because of some changes for how Apple pay is requiring Patreon to charge for
1:19.7	memberships and things like that. So whether you have a Patreon or not, if you support anybody,
1:24.9	it's just good to know about some of the changes, and you can always find out more at patreon.com. We will also be planning another Les hangout trip this year. Keep an eye
1:34.2	out. We'll have some updates in the next month or two. In the greater Les universe, that feels like
1:41.2	such a bad way to intro this first story listen we all know florida man
1:46.0	and all the exploits he gets up to it's nice to have florida woman sometimes so florida woman
1:52.1	was arrested for having lesbian threesome in a pool in front of in a public pool yeah in a public pool front of children. In a public pool, yeah.
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