Episode 74: Gerson Macias

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

19-year-old Gerson Macias was always affectionate with male friends growing up, and by the time he hit middle school, his community had singled him out for this "less-than-masculine" behavior. Gerson talks about the negative impacts of machismo on Mexican men, the essay that changed everything for him, and his journey debunking the ol' "Bi now, gay later" myth... Plus, Dobby is back in the studio!

Follow Gerson on Instagram at @flighttoinfinity. And hire him as a PA if you're a queer filmmaker!

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0:00.0	Hey everybody.
0:07.0	Hey y'all.
0:08.0	Welcome to Coming Out with Lauren and Nicole.
0:11.0	We are a weekly podcast where we have on queer folks from all walks of life.
0:15.0	They tell us the tales of how they came out to friends, family, and the world at large.
0:19.0	Because who doesn't love a coming out story?
0:21.9	Today we are sitting here with someone who came into my life recently, but I love him very dearly.
0:27.5	We are here with Gerson Macias. Yay! Hello. So I did a show a couple weeks ago, an immersive theater
0:36.5	piece called The Recital.
0:38.8	And Gerson was basically, he was basically a theater PA.
0:43.3	This show involved a lot of rapid, quick changes and set changes and rooms that would get taken down,
0:49.0	and then the audience would come back in the room and it would be a totally different set.
0:52.1	And Gerson facilitated all of that.
0:54.4	He is one of the most mature people I've ever encountered, which is startling because you are also our youngest guest ever. We finally got a teenager. We're still 19, right? Yeah, no, I'm 19. Yeah. Because you said, I know. He said for a while, you're like, I'm 20. And then it came up, you're like, well, I'm going to turn 20. I was like, da, da, da, da, da, da. You're a teenager.
1:14.0	If it's only six months away, I think that it's like...
1:16.3	That's so funny.
1:17.4	I cling...
1:18.0	When you get older, you will cling to that happening here.
1:21.5	I was about to say, no, you're like...
1:22.0	Fiercely.
1:23.6	It's completely the opposite.
1:25.1	You stop rounding up, like, definitely.
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