Charles M. Blow: The Debt We Owe As Queer People

LGBTQ&A

Jeffrey Masters

Society & Culture

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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"When you are not living an honest, open, true life, you are taking advantage of a privilege granted to you by older, gay, lesbian, queer people who have sacrificed tremendously so that you could come into this place." Charles M. Blow joins us to talk about the decision to come out as bisexual in 2014, why we owe a debt to the queer people who came before us, and his new nightly news show, "Prime with Charles Blow" on the Black News Channel. LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters and produced by The Advocate magazine, in partnership with GLAAD. @lgbtqpod

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0:00.0	From The Advocate Magazine in partnership with Glad, this is LGBTQ and A.
0:10.4	I'm Jeffrey Masters, and I think that when we talk about quote-unquote coming out,
0:16.0	that is not a precise way describing the queer or trans experience for many people.
0:22.5	We tend to tell these tight little narratives where you're in the closet or you're out.
0:26.9	It's black and white.
0:28.3	And for many people, it's not that simple.
0:31.7	Take Charles M. Below, for example.
0:34.3	Charles was married to a woman who knew he was by, and after that marriage ended, he dated
0:39.0	men and women.
0:40.7	So while he didn't publicly talk about these relationships before 2014, that was when his memoir
0:46.6	called Fire Shut Up and My Bones Came Out.
0:49.7	I don't think it's fully accurate to say that he was in the closet.
0:54.5	We have private and public coming out in life, always.
0:58.6	Sometimes something you have to do every single day.
1:01.6	And so today in the podcast, Charles is here to talk about that and more.
1:05.7	Charles is a longtime calmist for The New York Times,
1:08.7	one I've been reading for years,
1:10.8	and is also now
1:11.9	hosting a brand new nightly news show that is called Prime with Charles Blow and is on the Black
1:18.4	News Channel.
1:23.6	I want to start off by talking about your memoir, because in it you write about the term bisexual.
1:30.0	And you say that technically it's correct for you, but that you do not embrace or use that word.
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