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Guaranteed Human.

Hey, this is Annie.

And Samantha.

And welcome to Stuff I Never Told You, a production of IHeart Radio.

And welcome to another Monday many we've kind of been hinting at.

Yes.

But I think we are going to dive into it.

So recently, we made mention of an article that had really been impacting a lot of people, apparently. all the people's, both positive and negative.

And you know what? I've enjoyed every bit of it, every bit of it, including a lot of like commentary from the actual author.

The article is title, is having a boyfriend embarrassing.

So this is written by Shantay Joseph and was published in October of 2025 this year for Vogue U.S. And with its popularity, it actually spread internationally.

And then some, like, other articles are now writing articles based on this article.

It is making waves.

And yeah, the reaction, y'all, wow.

It has been both enlightening and disheartening to see in real time as it was released.

But I will say the question alone resonated.

Like seriously, Annie, resonated.

As a person who feels they can only identify as heterosexual and am in a current cis-hetero-relationship in our field that I say we understand that identity and structure is a spectrum.

Like we have come to that conversation.

We embrace it and find joy in that.

It is all a spectrum.

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