Outward: Icons
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This month, Christina, Bryan, and Brandon immerse themselves in iconography. After a round of Pride and Provocations, we hear from a collection of queer Slate folks about who their icons are. Then the hosts explore major figures in their lives and what exactly makes an icon for different parts of the queer community. That is followed by an interview with Washington, D.C. drag king Pretty Rik E about the experience of drag and the influences straight male performers have on drag kings. And, as always, they wrap it up with a quick rundown of the gay agenda.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening Ad-Free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:14.7 | Hello and welcome to Outward for the month of July. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm Brandon Tensley, the associate editor at New America, |
| 0:21.7 | and a contributing writer at Pacific Standard Magazine. |
| 0:24.4 | I'm calling in from Sydney, Australia, |
| 0:27.5 | where I feel like I'm living queer history |
| 0:29.9 | after having had a refreshing rosé at the Imperial Hotel, |
| 0:33.7 | which is featured in the iconic Gay Australian movie, |
| 0:37.1 | The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert. |
| 0:39.9 | Good day, mate. |
| 0:43.8 | Incredible. I'm Brian Lauder, editor of Outward, and y'all will have to tell me if I'm being |
| 0:49.1 | too much this episode because I'm still buzzing with emotion after making the most of the night at the |
| 0:56.2 | Carly Ray Show last night. I'm so jealous. You just killed Brandon. I'm actually dead. I'm dead. I'm |
| 1:05.2 | seething here. She was great. She was great. I'm Christina Cotarucci, a staff writer at Slate and host of the waves. Slate's |
| 1:11.7 | podcast about women and gender. And I am just grateful to see the light of day this morning after |
| 1:16.6 | a dream I had last night where I got the silhouettes of all the characters from the Lion King tattooed on my pack. |
| 1:23.1 | What? That has nothing to do with the theme of this episode. I'm just extremely traumatized and woke up, ready to look into tattoo removal. |
| 1:31.3 | Let's analyze that later. |
| 1:33.3 | I love it. |
| 1:35.3 | So, Megan Rapino, Joan Crawford, Janet Jackson, Julia Stiles' character in Ten Things I Hate |
| 1:42.3 | About You. |
| 1:43.3 | On this month's episode, we're talking about gay icons, |
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