Hello and welcome to Queer's Fact. My name is Eli.

I'm Alice.

And I'm Jason.

We're a queer history podcast, bringing you episodes on people, places and things from around the world and throughout time.

So you'll notice that before our opening music, I didn't say what the topic of this episode is,

which was highly unusual, because we don't really have a topic for this episode. We're

instead bringing you some announcements. And if you sit through that, then we will bring you a

shorter story than we normally bring you. So hold tight.

We'll do this quickly. So we're coming up on our one year anniversary, which we're very,

very excited about. And yeah, so we're very, very excited that we've managed to survive for a

year. And we've managed to survive for a year because of everyone who's listened to this and

shared it and gotten other people to listen to it.

So thank you very much if any of that applies to you, which I guess it by definition does,

if you're hearing.

So thank you.

Going into our second year, we wanted to kind of rethink how we do things a little bit.

I think the only real complaint we've ever gotten is that it's a

very, very long time to wait between the first and the 15th. So we're going to fix that.

And we're going to trial some new content for you in our new year. I mean, it's not the big year.

It's out new year. It's out new year. So we're going to keep doing our episodes on the first and the 15th and they're not

going to change.

They're going to be the same format on the same type of topics in the same sometimes ridiculous

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