ICYMI - Finding Queer Love Online
ICYMI
Slate Podcasts
3.9 • 800 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On today’s special Pride Month episode, Rachelle and Candice hear from their queer listeners about finding love online. Stories come from digital spaces as far flung as Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom boards to Craigslist missed connections, from Minecraft rose gardens to couch surfing websites.
This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I see Y. |
| 0:02.6 | I am I from Melbourne. |
| 0:04.2 | This is Philip, and I met my beautiful French partner, Julien, on the website, Couch |
| 0:10.5 | surfing. |
| 0:12.5 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton. |
| 0:14.7 | And I'm Candace Lim, and you're listening to I see Y. |
| 0:18.4 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:19.6 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:22.6 | And today, today we're talking about love. I know. Absolutely shocking that two Pisces are |
| 0:31.8 | talking about love. I actually, have we mentioned the fact that you're also a Pisces yet on the show |
| 0:36.4 | Candace? Yeah, I don't think so. |
| 0:38.8 | Yeah, I don't think so. |
| 0:45.7 | It's stunning because not only was Madison also a Pisces, but our producer, Sierra, is also a Pisces. |
| 0:47.9 | Like, this is a Pisces pod. |
| 0:49.3 | We are full of feelings. |
| 0:58.6 | Rachel, you and me, we are here today because we are talking about love, specifically queer love. |
| 1:00.3 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:01.0 | In case you missed it. |
| 1:03.6 | Candice and I are, I think, to both of our deep, deep regret, both cis-hete women. |
| 1:10.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.5 | But we also love love, which is why if y'all listened to our past few episodes, |
| 1:17.3 | you heard a little request at the top asking for y'all to send in stories of how |
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