Coming Out While Staying In: Dealing With Homophobia At Home
Truth Be Told: Time to Thrive
American Public Media
4.3 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
How do you maintain a relationship with your homophobic family when you're financially dependent on them? How do you manage these relationships while sheltering-in-place? We talk to a queer college student who's out at school but feels unaccepted at home. Wise One Steven Canals, co-creator of FX's Pose joins us to discuss growing up gay in the Bronx, what character in the show is most like his mother and ways to find community apart from your family.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Boris Kojo. I am Karamo. I am one of the hosts on Netflix's Queer Eye. |
| 0:04.1 | My name is Kula Vilaisak. And this is truth be told. |
| 0:07.6 | The last few weeks have been exhausting. I even feel it in my bones when I wake up in the morning. |
| 0:19.0 | The protests for black lives, we're on our third month of sheltering in place and |
| 0:25.3 | COVID-19 is still a real threat. We've had to press pause on so many things, but |
| 0:32.2 | what if one of those things is living as your true self? |
| 0:36.0 | That's the topic we're taking on on this episode of Truth Be Told. |
| 0:41.0 | Dear Truth Be Told. Dear Truth Be Told. |
| 0:43.4 | Dear Truth Be Told. |
| 0:45.4 | Dear truth be told. |
| 0:46.4 | I really need your help. |
| 0:47.7 | I need your help. |
| 0:48.7 | I need your help. |
| 0:49.7 | I need your help. I'm Tanya Mosley and we'll be right back. This week's question comes from someone we're calling, |
| 1:09.2 | Disrespected in Detroit. |
| 1:18.0 | Hey truth be told, I'm a recent grad and I live in Detroit, Michigan. Do you have any advice on coming out to your parents and once you come out, |
| 1:22.0 | then being very homophobic and |
| 1:24.0 | disrespectful. How do you go about maintaining a relationship while still maintaining your |
| 1:28.6 | self-respect, especially if you depend on your parents financially? |
| 1:32.2 | Helping us to answer disrespected in Detroit's question this week is our wise one, Stephen |
| 1:39.2 | is the first Latinx producer to ever be nominated for an Emmy in a drama category as the |
| 1:45.0 | co-creator of FX's pose and Stephen welcome to truth be told. |
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