Katherine Moennig and Leisha Hailey's Memoir So Gay For You (with Catherine McCafferty)

Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast

Chelsea Devantez

Society & Culture, Arts, Books

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Chelsea and comedian Catherine McCafferty (“Pretty Gay”) unpack “So Gay for You,” the memoir-slash-love-letter from “The L Word” stars Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey. They dish on Kate and Leisha’s stories of friendship, chosen family, and life on an iconic queer show that changed TV history. Plus, why Jenny Schecter might deserve a second look in 2025, a KD Lang surprise, Pam Grier’s pension advice, and what went wrong with the reboot. Become a member of the Patreon Follow Chelsea: Instagram @chelseadevantez Where to find our guest Catherine McCafferty: “Pretty Gay” Patreon Instagram Website *** Glamorous Trash is all about going high and low at the same time— Glam and Trash. We recap and book club celebrity memoirs, deconstruct pop culture, and sometimes, we cry! If you've ever referenced Mariah Carey in therapy... then this is the podcast for you. Thank you to our sponsors: Thrive Causemetics - Get 20% off your first order at thrivecausemetics.com/glamorous Libro.fm - Click here to get 2 audiobooks for the price of 1 with your first month of membership using code TRASH. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Glamorous Trash.
0:07.0	This is a podcast that book club's viral articles, celebrity memoirs, and trashy discourse
0:11.6	to elevate your life.
0:12.8	I'm your host, Chelsea Devontes.
0:14.2	I'm a TV writer, comedian, filmmaker, author, and sometimes I'm in stuff too.
0:18.3	And today is a memoir episode. We are book clubbing so gay for you, friendship,
0:23.9	found family, and the show that started it all by Kate Menig and Leisha Haley released the very day
0:30.6	this episode comes out on June 3rd. So the book is hot off the presses. And you know Kate and
0:37.0	Leisha from the L Word, which began airing in
0:39.9	2004, which was wild to realize. They played Shane and Alice respectively, and the series ran for
0:47.3	six seasons. And then in 2019, the series came back, the L Word Generation Q, and they played their roles again, and they were also executive producers.
0:57.6	You also probably know them from their beloved podcast pants, which they started back in 2020.
1:04.0	And they've been in a bunch of other stuff as well, including Kate's roles on shows like Ray Donovan and Grownish.
1:09.1	And Leisha has a huge music career that started in the early 90s with the pop duo The Murmurs,
1:14.9	and then part of her band, uh-huh, her, which I think is my favorite band name ever.
1:20.5	Now, I have forced our producer, Christina Lopez, to stay on mic for this episode because I just
1:26.8	feel like, I just feel like there's going to be something she needs
1:30.3	to say, something I need her to say. So you may hear her popping in and out. And let's dive in.
1:36.4	This is a celebration of our years on the L word. It's really like it's a love letter to the L word.
1:43.7	That's the best way to say it. It is a love letter. And it's a celebration not only of the job
1:49.7	that honestly changed our lives and raised us to a certain degree.
1:53.1	Completely. But it's a celebration of the friendship and the sisterhood and the chosen family
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