This is a show about individual experience and personal identity.

There may be times when folks use identifying words or phrases that don't feel right to you.

That's part of what we're exploring here.

Please listen with an open heart, and as always, I welcome your polite, engaged feedback,

and I encourage you to continue the conversation in your own life and with your own community.

Welcome to Query.

Hey Query Rose, Cammy here.

And maybe you're a new listener because you're part of our new network.

Maximum Fun.

Welcome.

I'm Cameron Esposito.

I'm the host of the show Query, and we interview LGBTQ plus luminaries across...

Oh, I don't know.

Media, television, film, music.

We've had an astronaut on.

I always mention that because that...

thrills me.

So today's episode is a chat with Emily Billigas and Mara Herb Kursman.

They own a wine bar, a lesbian, sapphic, inclusive wine bar here in Los Angeles called the Ruby Fruit.

I've been hearing a lot about it.

I stopped it not too long ago.

I love this chat because for me, queer spaces are so important.

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