Episode 293: Heather Mae

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

OH, HELLO, EVERYBODY! The pod is coming out (wink!) of hiatus for Pride Month, and we're kicking things off in a big way with Nashville singer/activist Heather Mae! Heather recently dropped her new single "Kissing Girls," which is not only a "super-queer bisexual Pride mega pop song" but also serves as a reclaiming of her own coming out story. Mercilessly bullied for her weight throughout childhood, Heather's only solace used to be the music videos she would run home to watch every day after school. But when she started attending Sunday school in the fourth grade...the bullying stopped. As a result, Heather became deeply invested in both the Church and the purity movement, and although all of her early kisses and pseudo-relationships were with girls, she truly never believed that they "counted." Heather shares how isolating with her partners during lockdown and re-examining those early experiences (not to mention learning about comp het for the first time!) made her want to write a song that captured "the sonic embodiment of queer joy and liberation." It's a beautiful, celebratory episode and the perfect way to start off Pride!

Follow Heather on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter at @heathermaemusic, and check out her website at heathermae.net and her YouTube channel at youtube.com/heathermae, where you can watch the official music video for "Kissing Girls." "Kissing Girls" is streaming everywhere, so go listen and add it to your Pride playlists!

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0:00.0	The weather. Tomorrow, expect a... Biting cold front. Mmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise, slowly but surely, reaching their peak in the afternoon.
0:23.0	Not in the mood for miserable weather.
0:25.5	Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.
0:28.6	Sun Express, non-stop sunshine.
0:37.3	Hi, everybody. Welcome back to Coming Out Pod. Hello, happy Pride Month. It's been a couple months off. And as promised, I am doing new episodes for Pride. I would not let a pride go by without having my voice in your ear holes. So yeah, I hope everyone has been
0:57.6	doing well. I'm very excited about this episode. I've been looking for like a guest to kind of
1:05.2	have like a like a bang uplifting, like opening to pride. And I'm really excited about who I'm going to be
1:12.3	speaking to today. But first off, so I haven't done queer root shoutouts in several months.
1:18.2	I did post on the Instagram. I was like, hey, does anyone have a suggestion for a queer
1:23.2	root shoutout for this first episode back after the hiatus within a couple hours of posting that
1:28.9	two different people had suggested this one. So shout out to you if your queer root is the movie,
1:36.6	Bend It Like Beckham. This is one that I am deeply embarrassed to say, I have not seen this movie, which is shameful.
1:45.9	If you also have not seen it, let's all make a vow to correct this during Pride Month.
1:51.3	Let's all watch Bend It Like Beckham, if we haven't seen it.
1:53.9	This is the movie that put Kira Knightley on the map.
1:57.4	Yeah, it is, I'm sure you've heard of it if you haven't seen it.
2:00.7	But yet, two people immediately suggested this as a queer root shout out.
2:04.2	So if that affected your young soccer playing heart, shout out to you.
2:09.4	So without further ado, I am here today with Heather May.
2:15.1	Hello, Heather.
2:16.6	Hi.
2:36.0	Heather is coming to us from Nashville, and she is a singer and activist. When we're recording this, it is the day after her song and video Kissing Girls just released, and we're going to talk a lot about that. And when I watched the video, I was like,
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