Episode 201: Jay Toole (a.k.a. Super Butch)

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

It's officially Pride Month, and we're kicking things off with an UN-F$@#!NG-BELIEVABLE guest!! At thirteen years old, Jay Toole (known to all as Super Butch) came home with a flat top hair cut, and was promptly kicked out for good. Jay headed straight for the West Village, and before long, she was taken in by a community of homeless queer kids in Washington Square Park. What followed was over twenty-five years of living on the street, and some of the most amazing stories we have EVER heard on the podcast! It's impossible to do justice to this episode in a blurb, but among other things, Jay discusses the stints she did at the famed Women's House of Detention, and her experience AT THE STONEWALL RIOTS!!! Jay is an indispensable (and *hilarious*) resource for our community, and we cannot emphasize enough what an honor it was to talk to her. Happy Pride, everybody!

(TW: passing mentions of sexual assault, but nothing descriptive)

You can honest-to-God contact Jay at the number she gave out in this episode! She's also on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Superbutch, and her website is https://www.jaytoole.com/.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all. Hi, everyone.
0:09.7	Welcome to Coming Out with Lauren and Nicole. We are a weekly podcast where we have queer folks on from all walks of life.
0:16.3	They tell us the tales of how they came out to friends, family, and the world at large.
0:20.1	Because who doesn't love a coming out story?
0:23.6	Especially during Pride.
0:25.7	Woo!
0:26.6	We're very excited that we pride coinciding with the release date.
0:32.0	Like it being June 1st is a very, I'm not good at math, but I feel like that's only once every like 76 year.
0:38.3	You know how it calendars work. This is exciting. Yeah. It's thrilling. It's thrilling that we get to
0:43.0	release this episode on June 1st, the beginning of Pride Month. It's like Christmas for the
0:49.5	gays is very exciting. And not to mention, the pod just, like, graduated, right? Like four years, right? We could say we graduated from high school. We could say we graduated from college. We're taking our gap year. We're taking our gap here. We're in a backpack across Europe. Yeah. Don't worry, we're not taking a gap here from the pod. We'll still be here.
1:11.1	We're taking a mental gap here. Everybody needs a mental gap here. But yes, we are also
1:18.4	celebrating four years of the pod this month, which is just incredible. So this is very exciting,
1:24.3	and we are thrilled to kick off this month with guest j tulle uh also known as
1:31.5	super butch uh which is just the best nickname ever um jay say hi to everybody everybody
1:40.1	happy bye woo so thrilled we're so excited to have you here we are yeah we are so Happy life. Woo!
1:45.3	So thrilled.
1:47.0	We're so excited to have you here.
1:48.5	We are so excited.
1:59.4	So to give you a little bit of background on Jay, Jay is a tour guide for, Jay, would you, what is the name of your tour exactly again?
2:05.7	Well, I give my own tours, and I call it Jay's Queer Tour of the West Village, 1960s. Oh, God.
2:08.3	I can't tell you how quickly I'm going to contact you next time I'm in New York to be like, can we do that?
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