Welcome to Pride. You have reached a stop on our Acast Audio Pride parade, where we travel around the world to hear from our LGBTQ Plus creators on what pride means to them.

So grab your whistle, get your face paint on, and settle into a special celebration of pride.

And at the end of this podcast, we'll hear where our audio pride parade is heading next.

So stay tuned.

Gay, humans.

I'm Josh Sepp's, host of Uncomfortable Conversations, obviously, because this is a podcast called Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh

Seps, and I just said who I am. All that aside, this is a special episode. It's part of the

Acast Audio Pride Parade. My reflections on pride. For those of you who know me, it may come

as no surprise to you that my thoughts about this are complicated, and they

don't fall as neatly into the tribal camps that you might assume they would for a gentleman who

identifies, perhaps grudgingly, as a member of the LGBTQI-plus community. We're a community. We all sit

around and have tea and scones of a Saturday afternoon.

If you're just joining the show as a result of having stumbled upon this show as part of

the ACAST Global Audio Pride Parade, where podcasts on the ACAST network all over the world,

hand off to each other, week on week, jet setting around from

city to city, podcast to podcast, host to host, ruminating on what pride means to us and what it was

like to grow up LGBTIQI plus in our city and what the community is like where we live and what

the struggles are and what the common experience is and where and how we celebrate pride.

If you are new to me,

you may remember me by way of introduction from one of my many appearances on Joe Rogan's podcast,

the most recent of which went viral during the Joe Rogan Spotify COVID controversy.

There's an adverse risk associated with the vaccine.

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