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Lez Hang Out | A Lesbian Podcast

807: Trip Trip Hooray with Allyssa Leaton

Lez Hang Out | A Lesbian Podcast

Lez Hang Out

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.7545 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that wants to travel the world with you! This week Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out with Allyssa Leaton (@thelesbianpassport), a lesbian travel content creator, and talk about her experiences traveling as a solo queer woman. Allyssa grew up in the Bible Belt not knowing the word ‘lesbian’, let alone what it meant. Now she proudly serves as much-needed queer representation in the travel space, inspiring hopeful LGBTQ+ travelers and finding all the best gay hotspots around the world.  Although Allyssa has visited more than 20 countries at only 25 years old, she does not make her travel decisions with ticking boxes in mind. Instead of always going to a new country, she has made repeat trips to her favorite places, including Buenos Aires (the city she credits as having the most sapphic-inclusive queer scene) and Iceland (a place where being gay was such a nonissue that Allyssa felt cultural whiplash). As an introvert, Allyssa has found herself thriving as a solo traveler, loving the freedom provided by solitude. We talk with Allyssa about the safety of traveling alone as a lesbian, tips for finding queer spaces and making friends in a new place, and the challenges of traveling full-time.  Check out Everywhere is Queer for a simple way to find queer spaces all over the world.  If this chat inspired you to take a BIG, GAY trip, you can find more information about our next Big, Gay trip on our website.  You can support Lez Hang Out while unlocking a bunch of exclusive perks including access to our Discord channel, 23 and counting full-length bonus episodes, weekly ad-free episodes, and more by joining us on Patreon. You can also support the podcast by buying our original merch at bit.ly/lezmerch and purchasing our original Lez-ssentials songs for as little as $1 each on Bandcamp. You can give us your answers to our Q & Gay questions on Twitter @lezhangoutpod and follow along on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. Ellie (@elliebrigida) and (Leigh @lshfoster) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Right, that's it. Come on, lights out. You've got a test tomorrow. Just two minutes. I'm about to reach the next level. It's going off now. Yeah, whatever. Let's see, where's the app? Oh, here it is. What? How? Oh no, you're out. Better look next time. Mom! It's game over for late nights on school nights. EE-E Wi-Fi controls help you get them off the Wi-Fi and into bed.

0:22.4

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0:28.0

To verify I see EE.com.com.

0:30.4

Let's hang out.

0:32.5

Let's hang out.

0:33.4

And let's talk about what lessons are found.

0:36.0

Let's hang out.

0:37.0

And let's listen to two heads me and shout. Let'sing out. Let's hang out. And let's listen to Two Has Me and Shout.

0:39.6

Let's Hang out.

0:44.3

Hey, out.

0:45.3

Hey, everyone. Welcome back to Les Hang out, the podcast that's Around the World.

0:50.7

Around the world.

0:52.8

I picked the worst song for that, but come on. It's fine. Just drop like a

0:56.2

sick beat behind me, Ellie. It'll be a lot better then, yeah.

1:00.8

Yeah, okay. From the West Coast, I'm Lee Holmes Foster. From the East Coast, I'm Ellie Bridgeta.

1:05.5

To those who've been with us for this whole journey, thank you as always for listening.

1:07.9

If you're a new listener, welcome, we're happy to have you here. Here's what's happening this week.

1:11.7

This week in the Lesdom. This Week in the Lesdom is a place where we can touch base each episode about things going on with the podcast or otherwise. In season eight, we're continuing to release our Patreon bonus episodes. If you want to listen to those, you can listen to them at bit. dot slash les patreon. Our last episode is all about saltburn, and we have 22 episodes so far that are up on our Patreon. We are also planning another Les Hangout trip. If you head to our website, you can sign up for our mailing list to be the first to know when you can sign up. And we will be sending that in the email very, very soon. In the greater less universe,

2:19.5

we have so many queer Grammy nominations, Billy Eilish, Chapplerone, Kailani, Lady Gaga, Olivia Rodriguez, Doshi, Willow, St. Vincent, Clara, Anita, and Madison Beer. We have so many queer artists that were nominated so many women. It is a great year to be a woman in pop music. And I am so, so happy about it. The Grammys this year, I'm going to have a Grammy's watch party. Like, we got to get down. It's like so, it's so hard. It's also like Charlie X, X, X, X, like every single nomination, like, how do you even pick? How do you even pick when all these women are out there freaking killing it? So, we'd love to hear your Grammy picks. For me, I don't know. Chapel,

2:24.2

I think is going a long way, but also Charlie XX in the production and Billy Eilish. Oh my God.

2:29.6

There's too many options. There's way too many options. But we'll see. Also, Susan Sarandon has said that she is open to dating someone younger of any gender. And you know what? Any of us who are fans of Rocky

2:35.4

Horror, it's like close enough to Halloween, your Susan Sarandon fantasies, they could come true.

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