Outward: Are Advice Columns Intrinsically Queer?

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🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Spring is in the air, and the Outward hosts are gay like tulips and queer like allergies! First, they discuss a new animated version of the beloved Frog and Toad series of children’s books, which premieres on Apple TV+ on April 28. Then they welcome Daniel M. Lavery to the pod. Danny was Slate’s own Dear Prudence for many years, and now a Dear Prudence book is here to grace our bookshelves. Danny shares his philosophy of advice-giving, talks about what it was like to transition in the public eye, and offers his take on a reader question current Prudie Jenée Desmond-Harris answered a few weeks ago. Items discussed in the show: Jules and the Framing Agnes team at the GLAAD Awards Outward’s December 2022 discussion of Framing Agnes with actress Jen Richards LMN’s schedule Somerville, Massachusetts, extends protections to polyamorous families “Frog and Toad: An Amphibious Celebration of Same-Sex Love,” by Colin Stokes in the New Yorker “How Frog and Toad Author Arnold Lobel Explored Gay Intimacy in His Work,” by J. Bryan Lowder in Slate “This Is a Terrible Way to Commemorate a Major Civil Rights Victory,” by June Thomas in Slate Dear Prudence: Liberating Lessons From Slate.com’s Beloved Advice Column, by Daniel M. Lavery Jenée Desmond-Harris answered the question we put to Danny at the end of this Dear Prudence column The Big Mood, Little Mood With Daniel M. Lavery podcast The Dear Prudence podcast Gay Agenda Christina: Mae Martin’s new Netflix special, SAP Jules: “Conservatives Are Turing to a 150-Year-Old Obscenity Law to Outlaw Abortion,” by Melissa Gira Grant in the New Republic Bryan: Erick Adame’s Daily Weather Report (more background from the New York Times) This podcast was produced by June Thomas. Please send feedback, topic ideas, and advice questions to outwardpodcast@slate.com. Make an impact this Earth Month by helping Macy’s on their mission to bring more parks to more people across the country. Go to macys.com/purpose to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Outward. This is Slate's monthly show about LGBTQ life and culture. You know,
0:23.2	whether you identify as a beautiful gay tulip on furling its petals in the warm spring sun,
0:31.4	or like me, identify as a nasty pollen spewing flowering tree that wants nothing more than to cause widespread
0:41.5	sinus congestion. Remember, we're all valid. In truth, I'm less of a tree and more at your
0:50.7	faithful co-house, Jules Gil Peterson. I'm Christina Cotarucci, a senior writer at Slate,
0:57.7	and I'm the little bird outside my window right now
1:01.1	building a nest in a tree.
1:03.8	Oh my God.
1:04.7	It's so special.
1:05.7	I feel honestly really proud.
1:07.0	I did nothing to make the tree what it is,
1:08.8	but I still feel like I'm the one that gave this bird its little home.
1:12.6	I'm Brian Lauder.
1:14.6	I'm an editor at Slee, and I love Jules, I love that.
1:17.6	I think it's like gay as in tulip or queer as in nasty pollen spewing flowering tree.
1:23.6	There are many kinds of us.
1:26.6	I'm queer in that way too. I feel that.
1:29.3	I love it. Well, listeners, if you couldn't already tell, Spring is in the air. And we have a really
1:35.6	fun episode for all of us gays coming out of our various hibernations. First, it's time to take
1:43.6	back our beloved children's characters from those right-wingers frothing at the mouth about how everything animated, whether it's on film or TV apparently has a world-ending immoral agenda, whatever.
1:58.3	We know our favorite animated characters are very often quite gay. So let's talk about it
2:04.4	on our own terms. We'll be digging into a new animated series, version of the beloved
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