Episode 82: Celeste Pechous

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Celeste Pechous (Work in Progress; One Day at a Time) struggled so much with her sexuality that, at age sixteen, she told God she was "ready if you're ready for me." Cut to today, where she proudly plays a lesbian on a TV show that literally airs back-to-back with The L Word! Celeste fills in the 20+ years in between: her first closeted relationship, finding her girl posse in Chicago's queer community, and stepping back to give her parents the time they needed to process her identity.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody.
0:06.8	Hey y'all.
0:07.7	Welcome to Coming Out with Lauren and Nicole.
0:10.7	We are a weekly podcast where we bring on queer folks from all walks of life.
0:15.1	They tell us the tales of how they came out to friends, family, and the world at large.
0:19.9	Because who doesn't love a coming out story?
0:21.6	Today we are here with Celeste Pecosch.
0:24.6	I got it!
0:25.6	All right!
0:26.6	Celeste is an actor that you have, I'm certain you have seen her in something.
0:32.6	You have been killing it lately.
0:34.6	You've been popping up in all kinds of TV shows and all kinds of
0:39.6	places. We met, it's got to be like five-ish years ago or something. We met doing a staged
0:46.7	reading at Akbar. For those who are not from L.A., Akbar is a popular divey gay bar and sometimes they do stage readings and our stage
0:57.6	reading was called five lesbians eating a keesh. It is a really fantastic play out of Chicago.
1:05.5	And one of the rare times where I've gotten to play queer, which was very exciting for me.
1:10.3	We've talked about how I don't
1:11.7	get to do that a lot. But yeah, that's how we, that's how we know each other. But please go
1:17.9	ahead and introduce yourself. You're from Chicago. You have a huge improv back on. Yeah. And that,
1:24.2	doing that live reading, was really fun. It was so fun. And we ate Kish live reading was really fun.
1:28.9	It was so fun!
1:31.7	And we ate Kish in real time on stage.
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