Episode 294: Elliott Maya

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Writer Elliott Maya (they/them, and "a sprinkle of he/him in, like, a fruity Victorian dandy boy way") has a real way with words, in case you couldn't tell from that parenthetical. Raised in the *extremely* strict Jehovah's Witnesses religion, Lio and their brother were also the only Black kids at their school. As if this weren't enough, Lio started going through puberty quite early, which coincided with them realizing that they were "not like the other girls, in many ways." Lio knew that college was their only chance of escape, so they started working at the age of twelve. Along the way, they attempted to hide their queerness in high school by becoming a gay bully...but in an ironic twist, they ended up becoming "horrifically" attracted to their (also queer) victim. Besides being an absolutely HILARIOUS storyteller, Lio also has Long Covid, and started the group Covid Cautious Queers. We spend the latter half of the episode talking about the ways in which Lio's illness has changed their life, and the (easy!) ways you can help not only them, but everyone in your community.

First thing's first: follow Lio on Instagram at @bougiebasquiat, and please please please see their bio for links to their GoFundMe, their Health Hub, and their Ko-fi! You can also follow them on TikTok at @transnaruto, and check out their *gorgeous* website at elliottmaya.com. Last but not least, follow @covidcautiousqueers on Instagram, especially if you're in Southern California. It's Pride Month, y'all - let's be there for Lio!!

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, welcome back to coming out pod.
0:10.8	Pride is winding down, but I would not let you, I would not send you off into the world without doing a wrap-up Pride Month episode. So that's what this is.
0:25.3	But first, as always, a queer root shout-out. This was suggested also by a listener, but I've
0:32.4	sort of, I've tweaked it a little. Shout out to you, if your queer root in any way is the movie Terminator 2.
0:42.9	Now, this was suggested, as you may have guessed, specifically Linda Hamilton and Terminator 2,
0:49.0	who, first of all, her arms are, like, well known. The whole movie is, like like her in a tank top, like shooting guns, like smoking a cigarette,
0:57.5	wearing sunglasses.
0:59.0	Very sexy.
1:00.0	Very queer-coded.
1:02.2	But also, I was obsessed with Edward Furlong in Terminator 2, little androgynous teenage boy.
1:10.6	I wrote him fan letters in middle school,
1:13.0	so I feel like he's a good queer root.
1:15.2	And then last but at least,
1:16.7	maybe you just like the body of a totally chiseled built dude,
1:21.2	Arnold Schwarzenegger famously naked in the beginning of Terminator 2.
1:25.6	He's naked.
1:26.9	So I'm sure that did something for a lot of us.
1:29.4	So Terminator 2 really firing on all cylinders, regardless of what you're into. Shout out to you.
1:36.1	If anything in that film was your queer rude. Y'all, okay, today I am here with Elliot Maya,
1:43.4	who goes by Leo.
1:45.0	So you're going to hear me call Elliot Leo.
1:47.9	That was a, you would have figured that out, but just a heads up.
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