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Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry

Edge of the World: Alden Jones on Queer Travel Writing

Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry

Peace By Peace Productions

Politics, News

3.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The Trump regime built much of its identity–and certainly campaigned around–its hatred of LGBTQ Americans. Unfortunately, the success of that campaign again revealed just how much anti-queer bias there is in the American populace. And while there may be no populated nation in the world that is truly free of anti-queer bias, there are places that are better, are different, or that offer new perspectives. Alden Jones’ work explores queer travel. Alden is an assistant professor at Emerson College and the author of the memoirs The Blind Masseuse and The Wanting Was a Wilderness and the story collection Unaccompanied Minors. Best American Travel Writing and other venues. She edited the new anthology of queer travel writing “Edge of the World” and he is here to discuss that work and the queer travel experience.


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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Alyssa Milano, and this is Sorry Not Sorry. It's the cinematic event of the year.

0:36.6

Critics say incredible, geotropic, action-packed with savings.

0:41.2

You're talking about Thunderbolts?

0:42.4

No, Serge, is two-for-one cinema tickets from Compeze Market, a wonderful offer.

0:47.3

So?

0:48.0

That you can use to see Marvel Studios Thunderbolts only in cinemas.

0:52.2

Woo-hoo! I'll get the popcorn.

0:53.9

Get 2-4 for one cinema tickets every

0:55.5

Tuesday or Wednesday with compares the market. Simples. When you take out a qualifying product

0:59.6

to compare the market, one membership per year, participating cinemas, two standard tickets

1:02.8

only cheap as free. T's and Cs apply. My first time, like, trying to travel, like, as a trans person, like, it was really nerve-wracking,

1:12.6

and I did get stopped, and I did get pulled aside for additional screening and all that stuff.

1:17.1

President Donald Trump's controversial policies have been hitting the LGBTQ community very, very hard.

1:23.5

In fact, on Thursday, Secretary of State Marker Rubio reportedly issued a directive ordering

1:28.5

his staff to haught all passport applications with the X-sex marker.

1:33.1

Also new here today, the nation's largest LGBTQ advocacy group, the Human Rights Campaign,

1:38.2

is now joining Equality Florida in issuing a travel advisory for the state.

1:42.3

It's not an outright boycott, but a warning

1:45.0

for people if they do visit about the risks they say, several new laws posed to gay and

1:50.7

trans people.

1:51.7

However, as you may or may not know, there are many destinations in Africa that are unsafe

1:58.8

and unwelcoming for gay travel. However, I do believe that by building

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