Hello, Deadpool here. We're very excited to be joining you, but we should set the table correctly.

We're mostly going to make enemies with Disney and make a lot of jokes at huge expense.

Come again.

So sit back, relax, while we travel to a place where grown men and women walk around in

tights and act like it's not a giant cultural cry for help.

Because this is cinema. Cinema.

Shut God.

Oh my God.

Marvel Studios Deadpool and Wolverine in Cinemas Thursday, July 25th. And the Hello and

welcome to Outward Slate's LGBT-PODcast and auditory queer cooling center

for when it is just too damn hot out there politically and

literally I'm Brian Lauter and editor at Slate and this week we're talking about

bathroom bills no you didn't just glitch back to 2016. This is indeed 2024 and Bill's designed to police

wear trans people and functionally all people can pee are back in vogue. Which is weird because

remember how when North Carolina's HB 2 was defeated with

corporate boycotts and concert cancellations we thought this particular legislative

approach was dead well it was but then it wasn't.

It's been easy to miss the re-emergence of bathroom bills amid the recent wave of anti-trans and queer state legislation,

but in fact, 12 of them have been passed into law in the last 15 months and this time there's almost

no backlash to be seen. That's the subject of Nico Lange's latest piece for

slate. When Nico pitched me the idea I admit I had no idea this was happening

so I was very happy to have them report

...