Oh, hey y'all.

Hey!

Welcome to Coming Out with Lauren and Nicole.

We are a weekly podcast where we bring on queer folks 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? This is a very exciting episode because we are here with Avon Rogan of Beyond Clexa. You out there have heard us talk about Beyond Clexa thousands of

times. We wear their clothing constantly. They've seen it in photos. Custom buttons. Yes. Our buttons that if you've ever met Nicole or myself in person, we have definitely thrust a button on you whether or not you wanted one. Accurate. Those are also made for us by Beyond Clexa. They are an incredible clothing accessory, et cetera, company.

Avon, you can talk now. You're literally like pressing your listening.

No, say hi. You can talk a little bit about Beyond Clexa.

Okay, well, hello. I am Avon. I'm one of the owners of Beyond Clexa. And, um, hi.

So we first met, it was actually before Clexicon. We had been talking, uh, we'd been emailing for a while and we met up in person for you to give me our wonderful buttons.

And that was the first time we met in person. I met you and Lonnie. Oh, you also know

Lonnie and Avon's names because you are our patrons as well. Yes, we are. You guys are the best.

But yeah, so everyone out there listening, you are fully immersed in BeyondClexa, whether you know it or not, through this podcast alone. So true. Yeah, but you, y'all make fandom shirts and more general, queer, I was going to say memorabilia, but that's not the right word. Paraphernalia. Paraphernalia. It sounds like drugs.

Yeah, I know.

Every time I say paraphernalia, I think of bongs.

Queer paraphernalia, that's good. Queer paraphernalia is good. You want to update your business card? We're going to take that. We're going to do. Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome. You're welcome. Tell us a little bit about the company because like how it be. And also, we were talking about the quality of the shirts because they're super high quality.

Oh, my God. I wash shirts constantly because I am a germaphobe.

And these have maintained for over a year at this point.

Good, good.

Yeah.

So Beyond Clexus started season two of Clexicon.

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