Introducing Nancy: a podcast about all things LGBTQ

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4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Once upon a time, WNYC's Kai Wright saw a movie called Punks. A romantic comedy about black gay men, it was like nothing he'd ever seen before. But then it disappeared.

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0:00.0	This week we're treating you to an episode of a podcast called Nancy.
0:05.5	It's produced here at WNYC Studios, and it's about all things LGBTQ.
0:11.8	Hosts and best friends, Tobin Lowe, and Kathy, too,
0:15.8	described their show as a collection of stories about what it means to be queer today.
0:21.4	This week's episode has Kathy solving a mystery on behalf of our WNYC colleague Kai Wright.
0:28.8	As a young black gay man living in Washington, D.C. around the year 2000,
0:34.2	Kai saw a film called Punks.
0:36.9	It was a movie about gay life, but it wasn't just about white people, and it wasn't rooted in tragedy. It was a romantic comedy about men like him, something he had never seen before. But when he tried to track down the film almost 20 years later, he could not find it anywhere. This episode has Kathy on the case to track down the film almost 20 years later, he could not find it anywhere.
0:55.7	This episode has Kathy on the case to track down the film and to find out how a piece of media
1:01.6	can essentially disappear.
1:05.1	Do you have a queer movie that really resonated with you or that you remember in your life?
1:10.6	The Incredible Adventures of two girls in love.
1:12.6	It was what I'm a cheerleader.
1:14.6	Brokeback Mountain.
1:16.6	I really liked my beautiful laundrette.
1:18.6	Imagine me and you.
1:19.6	All the lawn orders are my seminal TV shows.
1:22.6	Inappropriate behavior.
1:23.6	I have to put in a good word for the L word, which is incredibly imperfect,
1:28.9	but I feel like it just hasn't been replaced yet. I think we need the cue words.
1:37.1	From WNYC Studios, you're listening to Nancy. With your host, Tobin Lowe and Kathy 2.
1:43.3	Thank you. to Nancy. With your host, Tobin Lowe and Kathy Too.
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