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Lez Hang Out | A Lesbian Podcast

821: Dyke the Dust with Regan Latimer

Lez Hang Out | A Lesbian Podcast

Lez Hang Out

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.7545 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Join our Patreon to unlock 30 full-length bonus episodes, ad-free weekly episodes, mp3 downloads of our original songs, exclusive Discord access, and more! Right now, we’re retiring our lower tiers– so all new patrons who join at $5/month or higher (or upgrade!) by July 1st, 2025 will be entered into a raffle to guest star on a bonus Patreon episode.  You can also support the show by grabbing your #pride gear at bit.ly/lezmerch & picking up Lez-ssentials songs on Bandcamp. Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that still pledges allegiance to Heda Lexa. This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) hangs out solo with Regan Latimer (@thereganlatimer), director of the documentary Bulletproof: A Lesbian’s Guide to Surviving the Plot (@bulletproofdoc). We’ve talked a lot on this podcast about the longstanding BYG (bury your gays) trope in media and the “cancel your gays” version of today. The absolute slaughter of 2016 is what ultimately led us down the path of creating our own queer musicals with guaranteed happy endings and zero dead gays. Regan was inspired in a similar way, after one straw too many– the brutal killing of Denise on The Walking Dead. She decided to turn that outrage and pain into fuel for exploring the BYG trope, learning why these plot decisions are made, and even exploring the psychology behind why lesbian character deaths impact LGBTQ+ viewers so strongly.  For Bulletproof, Regan spoke with filmmakers, screenwriters, passionate fans, showrunners, and television industry professionals about their experiences and perceptions on lesbian representation in the media. They wanted to look not only at where representation stands now, but at where it started and where it may be headed. When the pendulum for LGBTQ+ rights and societal acceptance swings in either direction, the media landscape reflects those changes. The few positive examples of queer representation we have on screen right now are as a result of projects greenlit before the pendulum began its broad backswing. Regan reminds us to enjoy the representation we have right now, to cherish the precious happy moments of Ellie and Dina while we still can.  After all, the pendulum swings as society does; and we are at a particularly scary time for queer rights and acceptance, especially here in the United States. The real worry is about what types of projects may be getting greenlit right now, whose voices and stories are allowed to be told and amplified, and whether that push we saw after 2016 for more diversity in writer’s rooms continues or is abandoned. We’re already seeing more and more shows with prominent queer characters get unceremoniously cancelled– but it is not all doom and gloom. Even with queer rights and representation sliding backward, there remains more lesbian representation than we ever had growing up. With any luck, younger gays will never have to know what its like to not see themselves on their screens, even if the only representation left is, to Regan’s dismay and Leigh’s chaotic delight, problematic queer people on reality television shows.  Canadian listeners, you’re in luck (for so many reasons). Bulletproof: A Lesbian’s Guide to Surviving the Plot is streaming now. Not in Canada? Follow @bulletproofdoc on Instagram for release updates in your country.  Give us your own answers to our Q & Gay on Instagram and follow along on Facebook, TikTok, and BlueSky @lezhangoutpod. Find your fav tol and smol hosts Ellie & Leigh at @elliebrigida and @lshfoster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Les Hang Out.

0:02.4

Let's hang out.

0:03.3

And let's talk about what Lesing's about.

0:05.9

Let's hang out.

0:06.8

And let's listen to two hesby and shout.

0:10.7

Les Hang Out.

0:14.0

Hey everyone.

0:15.3

Welcome back to Les Hang Out, the podcast, where we're survivors, we're going to're gonna make it we will survive keep on surviving

0:24.1

we hope that's the dream from the west coast i'm lee holmes foster to those of you who have

0:30.9

been with us through this whole journey thank you as always for listening if you're a new listener

0:34.1

welcome we're excited to have you here. Here's what's happening this week.

0:37.8

This week in the Lesdom.

0:42.7

This week in the Lesdom is a place where we can touch base each episode about things

0:45.4

are going on with the podcast or otherwise.

0:47.7

In season eight, we are still releasing our Patreon bonus episodes.

0:50.6

Our last one was on Bros.

0:51.8

You can listen to that at bit.

0:52.9

Atle slash les patreon.

0:54.8

We are also doing a big season eight Patreon campaign push, which will end on July 1st.

1:02.1

So you have just a short amount of time to join. We would love to have you there.

1:06.1

Patreon is our biggest way that we can afford to create the show. Pay Kristen, do all our editing,

1:12.8

keeping up with our website, hosting fees, paying Ellie and Kristen, paying our team. And we really

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