Episode 288: Carmen Lagala

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Lauren has a genuinely hilarious conversation with comedian and podcaster Carmen Lagala, who spills all the details of her recent coming out story! Carmen grew up in Vermont, which is arguably one of the very best states to be a queer woman (hiking; leftists; liberal arts colleges; you get it). Carmen was so sure that she *wasn't* queer, however, that when a lesbian rumor spread during her freshman year of high school, she actually came out to her family as straight. Carmen, who now identifies as pansexual, describes having "teenage boy levels" of horniness as an adolescent, while simultaneously carrying a deep shame about sex in general, and masturbation in particular. She discusses how being in back-to-back relationships with men led to her feeling like her sexual attraction to women somehow didn't count, and how coming out on stage actually helped her get past that ("it legitimized it to me as soon as people laughed at what I was saying"). Also, Carmen shares her high school obsession with G.I. Jane, and Lauren tells a story about Michelle Rodriguez that she probably shouldn't!

Follow Carmen on Instagram at @carmstagrams and on Twitter at @CarmenLagala, and subscribe to her YouTube channel at youtube.com/@carmenlagalacomedy! Also check out her comedy OnlyFans, and listen to In Cahoots w/ Corey & Carmen wherever you get your podcasts!

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, welcome to Coming Out Pod.
0:10.0	Y'all, okay, thematic queer root shout out today.
0:15.0	In honor of our guest's name, shout out to you if your queer root is Carmen from the original L-word,
0:24.9	played by actress Sarah Shahi, who is famously a straight lady. But yeah, played this character.
0:33.8	Then went on to play another queer character on a different show. This was like
0:38.3	in the early odds they were trying to make us believe that queer women looked a certain way,
0:43.7	like Olivia Wilde was playing a bunch of queer characters, Sir Ashahi was. They were going for a
0:49.0	thing. We've since sort of scaled back into perhaps more a realistic, diverse take of what queer
0:56.2	women look like.
0:57.6	But Carmen on the Allword was like hit the scene and people were psyched.
1:02.9	She was a hot lady.
1:04.1	So shout out to you if she is your queer root.
1:08.0	Yes.
1:09.0	So today on the podcast we have Carmen Leggala. Hi, Carmen. What's up?
1:14.5	Hello, Lauren. Thank you for having me. Thank you for coming on. So Carmen is a stand-up comedian
1:20.4	and a podcaster. Carmen, did having a person on the L-word Carmen, did that like register with you?
1:29.8	Were you a wee baby when that came out?
1:32.0	Did it not even affect you?
1:33.8	No, I was probably like even too old.
1:36.3	When did that come out?
1:37.6	It was early odds, right?
1:39.1	Like 2004?
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