Hello everyone.

Oh, hey.

Welcome to Coming Out with Lauren and Nicole. We are a weekly podcast where we have queer folks on from all walks of life. They tell us the tales of how they came out to friends, family, and the world at large.

Because who doesn't love a coming out story?

Today we have Trish Bendix here with us, who many of you may know, accomplished journalist.

I mean, I can parlay it over to you, but I'm, yes, I'm very excited.

I mean, who doesn't know?

Who doesn't know who you are?

Oh, well, that's so nice of you to have me both because I realize that I've written about both of you before. So it's really funny to actually, yeah, I mean, just to give a brief background. I started, you know, I started when I was in college. When I came out, I realized I could write about queer stuff because it became like obvious to me. Oh, I can actually write about something that's related

to my identity and I really just delved right in, stayed with it since.

So I started as writing about entertainment, so then kind of made my way into LGBT entertainment.

And so that's why I ended up covering both Nicole and Lauren in the respective LGBT entertainment

world with web series and TV shows. And it's just been, yes. that's why I ended up covering both Nicole and Lauren in the respective LGBT entertainment world

with web series and TV shows.

And it's just been, yeah.

So I was at after Ellen for a long time before it became a turf zone.

So a website for LGBT women, mostly in entertainment media and pop culture.

And from there, I was managing editor into, which was Grinders

short-lived, but I had such a great time there, digital LGBTQ magazine. And now I'm freelance,

but it's interesting because now that LGBT stuff is more mainstream than therefore I got

hired by mainstream outlets to cover LGBT things. So it's been an interesting trajectory, something I did not anticipate, but I have a regular gig writing about TV for The New York Times, which is cool. And then I do some other different title I do music stuff for, which that ends up being a lot of queer stuff. You know, at Bustle, I'm doing like a WNBA thing. So I'm just staying in the queer sort of world, but like in a mainstream space now. So it's been a, it's been an interesting journey. Oh, my God, how cool. That is so great. So did you write about the World Cup at all when it just happened? I did not write about the World Cup. I actually just tried to write about the game yesterday. Oh, yeah, yeah. The US women's team was just at doing their victory tour. So I went to the game. Oh, you did. Yeah, I had a great time. I tried to get in there to get press, but I think I was a little too late because I didn't get my assignment from Bison to like two days before. I think they'd already cut it out. But I'm hoping to write something about the soccer gals because and after all when we used to do like vague sports reporting

like here's all the times they hugged each other with their legs in friendship you know but to write something about the soccer gals because and after all when we used to do like vague sports

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