Hey y'all, support for today's episode of the read comes from the new podcast Tales of Your City

based on the book series Tales of the City by Armistead Mopin and the upcoming Netflix series of the same title.

Tales of Your City will use six cities across America, which are New York, Atlanta, New Orleans, Minneapolis, LA, and San Francisco

as backdrops for stories about queer communities and the folks that live in them cannot wait.

Tune in to Tales of Your City. New episodes are dropping every Monday. Check it out.

Hey y'all today's show is also being sponsored by FX on Tuesday, June 11, which is very soon.

One of my favorite shows and FX original series, Pose is coming back for their second season.

The legends, icons, and ferocious housemothers of New York's 1990s underground ball culture are going mainstream.

Pose is the journey of a community set free to discover themselves in their voices.

Each member pushing past social standards and letting their authentic selves shine.

Find out why critics call the first season of Pose groundbreaking. I can't wait to see how they're going to cover that whole like, you know, vote vote like

with dated pop culture and having to be like, oh, you girls are going to have to give us our things.

Is Reagan going to acknowledge AIDS during this next season? Who knows?

Created by Ryan Murphy Bradfell check and Stephen Kennell's the all new season of Pose premieres Tuesday, June 11th at 10 on FX.

Go watch it and we'll start the show.

Is it going to be like, what you believe is true? You are the only one getting all my love because what they do.

All right, ain't nothing new. Play is they gonna play they go play and niggas they're gonna need ball. Let's think of my they gone ball. I don't have a classic.

Oh, great. I mean, that was when this hurry came and was like, oh, well, this is what I just.

Yeah, I can't help but think of Adrian Bay on every time I hear that music obviously, but then also because she's pretty much the only one of them still working.

Wasn't she in that group? She was in three LW right? Yeah, that's not true. Oh wait, no, no, Nitori is on that one show. The niggas show. I don't look at yes.

That I tried. I'm sorry because I tried with the one who doesn't. Oh, yes, Kayleigh. Now what a train Rick. That was.

You know, I was thinking the other day why they knew that she had that speech of head and they still gave her all of those.

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