Episode 271: Elle Forbes

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week on the pod: Lauren sits down with L.A. LGBT Center facilitator *and* participant, Elle Forbes (they/them)! Elle identifies as bisexual, transfeminine non-binary, and aroace, so buckle up, everybody: we're talking three coming outs MINIMUM! Elle's journey contains its fair share of darkness, but now that they've fully stepped into their identity, their exuberance is palpable. Elle shares how coming out as bisexual "was a need; not a want," and explains why their gender realization took a good deal longer ("we hide ourselves from ourselves"). Inspired by Nicole's vulnerability in previous episodes, we also have a candid discussion about cheating, and Lauren manages to not-so-subtly sneak in the pod's ten thousandth Rachel Weisz reference. IT'S A GIFT!!!

(TW: mention of sexual abuse, but nothing descriptive)

Follow Elle on Instagram at @icanseequeerlynowtherainisgone, and check out all of the community groups the L.A. LGBT Center has to offer at https://socialnet.lalgbtcenter.org/social-networking-groups/. Also, as discussed in this episode, sign up for weekly emails from Cuties at hicuties.com, and follow them on Insta at @cutiesla!

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, welcome to Coming Out Pod.
0:11.1	Y'all shout out this week.
0:13.7	Shout out to you if your queer root is the movie bound.
0:19.2	If you are not familiar with this film, it, you absolutely must check it out.
0:23.9	So this was made by the Wachowski's years before the Matrix was a was slash is a cult classic.
0:32.1	We got Gina Gershon. We got what it's Jennifer Tilly, not Meg Tilly. I always mix up the Tilly's it's Gina Gershahn
0:39.0	Jennifer Tilly there is a covert fisting scene meaning that you don't see it the camera's just
0:47.4	on faces but it's it's happening um the wachowski's have confirmed this in interviews. So this was a movie that was
0:56.0	already incredibly important to the queer community. And then to find out that the creators are
1:01.9	actually trans, it became even more emmeshed in the fabric of our lives, as they say. So if you've
1:10.5	never seen Bound, you must check it out.
1:12.4	If you have seen it and it stirred something inside of you, shout out to you.
1:16.2	That is your queer rude.
1:18.1	So, okay, today's episode is a long time coming.
1:22.0	I'm sitting here with Elle Forbes.
1:24.5	Hello, Elle.
1:26.2	Hello.
1:27.1	Elle and I go way back.
1:29.6	Elle is a her story, several groups, a participant of several groups at the LA LGBT Center,
1:36.3	but I know Elle from her stories.
1:38.8	But after a little while being a her story's participant,
1:42.5	Elle became a facilitator as well, and frequently
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