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A Gay and A NonGay

First Comes Love with Tom Rasmussen

A Gay and A NonGay

W!ZARD Studios

Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Mental Health

4.3632 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Does getting married make LGBTQ+ people ‘normal?’ Is getting married selling out to the patriarchy and heteronormativity or it is an act of activism? We are joined by singer, drag queen, writer Tom Rasmussen. Tom's new book, First Comes Love is an exploration of marriage in the 21st century and is one of our favourite reads this year. You can now get ad free episodes of our podcast, visit www.gaynongay.com/donate to sign up to our patreon. Visit www.gaynongay.com for merch, live dates & more. Love you babes x Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Domestic abuse isn't funny, but my show is, Hey Babes, it's me, James, and my stand-up hour.

0:06.1

Sorry, I hurt your son, said my ex to my mum, is playing London at my first ever off West End

0:11.6

venue, Park Theatre in Finsbury Park on Saturday, the 12th of July, and listeners to a gay

0:17.8

and non-gay can grab a discount with the code gay 10 because I love you.

0:23.1

Mu-man-mo-ma-moa. That sounded gross. Book now at James Barcom. I'm also back in Edinburgh this summer

0:29.0

from the 30th of July to the 24th of August. You can grab tickets for both shows at my website,

0:34.4

James Barcom. Love you. Enjoy today's episode.

0:37.9

A gay and a non-gay is a podcast from James Barr and Dan Hudson.

0:41.5

They're like a lovely little couple, except they're not.

0:45.2

First up, thank you to everyone that came to our big gay show in London.

0:49.9

I can't wait for you to hear this episode in a few weeks.

0:52.5

It was chaos, two words, come

0:55.9

bubbles. On to today's episode, and this is going to be one of my favorite episodes in quite

1:01.1

a while, I think. We're joined by singer, drag queen and writer Tom Rasmussen, whose new book

1:06.7

First Comes Love is an exploration of marriage in the 21st century and we both loved it.

1:13.0

Here's the big question. Does getting married make LGBTQ plus people like me normal?

1:20.2

Oh, shudder. Is getting married selling out to the patriarchy and heteronormativity or is it an act of activism? We are answering the big questions

1:29.7

with Tom on this week's podcast and do these gay bumper stickers like love is love and love wins,

1:36.0

do they do the job or should we demand our fucking gay rights, sis? Also, should you tell your

1:41.5

friends if they're getting married and you think it's a mistake asking for a friend

1:45.1

there dan no i'm really really really not and i'm literally about to go to a wedding in that two days

1:50.4

time so i'm really really really not oh my god that's so awkward brilliant

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