Is Queer Culture Too Focused on Youth? With Cliff Joannou Editor of Attitude Magazine
Homo Sapiens
Christopher Sweeney
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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This week, Attitude editor and all-round delight Cliff Joannou joins me as co-host to unpack what you told us about queer ageing — from loneliness to suddenly feeling invisible, plus we find out what a Golden Girls plan really is.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, welcome to Hemosapians. |
| 0:16.0 | I come to you on this beautiful spring day with a friend, sitting opposite me digitally, to talk about this week's episode. And oh, so much more is Cliff Yuanu, editor of Attitude magazine. Welcome, Cliff. How are you? Hi, Chris. I'm good. I'm well. It's funny. We're going to |
| 0:40.7 | talk about aging today, and this is a giveaway. I went on a deep dive about what different clouds |
| 0:48.0 | mean for the weather. I was chat GPTing. Are we going to have a nice summer? |
| 0:54.8 | The thing it started doing in the past week is like at end of every question. |
| 0:58.8 | It goes, would you like me to tell you how you can tell from the clouds whether it's going to be a hot day or not? |
| 1:04.8 | I was like, yes. |
| 1:06.4 | Cliff, how is AI affecting the world of magazines? |
| 1:10.9 | Sorry, and I should have said editor of Rolling Stone as well. |
| 1:13.5 | I apologize. |
| 1:14.2 | Sorry, I'll introduce myself. |
| 1:17.4 | You'd be terrible at a party, wouldn't you? |
| 1:20.2 | God, I'm a pro. |
| 1:22.3 | You're not going to get the job as my Emily. |
| 1:26.8 | So I introduce people in my ear so I know who they are. |
| 1:30.7 | Oh, I love that. |
| 1:32.9 | I've never, I've never had that. |
| 1:34.7 | It's always, it struck me. |
| 1:36.8 | It's very glamorous to be taken around the party with someone going, |
| 1:40.0 | this is the da-da-da-da-da-da. |
| 1:42.4 | I've got my, no, my, God blessing my fiancé, I keep having to use fiancé, I keep calling |
| 1:48.7 | boyfriend. |
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