God + The Gays

Nancy

WNYC Studios

Gay, Documentary, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Lgtbq, Lesbian, Relationships, Asian, Politics, Conversations, Storytelling, Health & Fitness, Homosexuality

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Growing up, Phoebe was a Jesus kid. In college, after Tinder-swiping her way to gayness, she comes out to Christians and hopes that they’ll accept her. And now, Phoebe goes on a mission to find out whether people with fundamentally different beliefs can have meaningful relationships.

— Phoebe Wang is a multidisciplinary artist based between Brooklyn, NY and Toronto, ON. You can find her on Twitter @feebswang.

— "God + The Gays" won the 2018 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Best New Artist Award and Phoebe gave an acceptance speech that resulted in a 45-second standing ovation.

Music in this episode by Joni Void. The song “Let Your Little Light Shine” is by Pamela Warrick-Smith and was performed by Community Chorus, a resistance-themed choir led by Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs in LA. Nancy theme by Alexander Overington.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Tobeyin.
0:02.0	Kathy.
0:03.0	It's holiday time.
0:04.5	Happy holidays to everyone.
0:06.3	Yes, hopefully you're also getting a few weeks off from work, perhaps.
0:09.5	Yeah, let's hope.
0:11.5	So unrelated, remember a couple months ago when you and I got all dressed up and hosted
0:16.5	the third-cost audio festival awards?
0:18.7	Of course.
0:19.7	If you don't know, the third-cost awards celebrate the best of the best in narrative audio storytelling.
0:24.7	It's this big event and you and I got to host and present the awards.
0:29.0	I would call it the Oscars of Radio.
0:31.0	Some would, but I would say it's more like clogs than Monolos on the red card.
0:36.0	Look at you using the word Monolo knowledge of Blake.
0:39.5	A new word.
0:40.5	Prattio.
0:41.5	Okay, so the night started off with the bang because we got to present the award for best
0:45.8	new artists to our friend and fellow queer Phoebe Wang.
0:49.4	Yes, Phoebe.
0:50.4	Her award-winning story first aired on the heart of podcast from Radio Topia and it's about
0:55.2	whether queer people and Christians can have meaningful relationships.
0:58.9	I think it especially resonates with those of us who grew up in a religious household
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