Hello and welcome to this very special Pride Month edition of Outward Slates LGBTQ Podcast.

We're especially excited for this episode, not just because it is gay Christmas and we've

got some great presents for you, but also because we were kindly featured in a few best

queer pod lists and expect we've got a few new listeners. If that's you, we're super glad

that you're here. I think we should probably introduce ourselves. I'm Brian Louder,

editor of Outward, and one of my partners just ordered five new wigs for the household

with names like Cynthia, Tulsa, and Malta. So clearly our pride is off to a solid start.

Wow, how are you going to decide who wears what? Well, I think it's sort of for the house,

so everybody can change based on their mood. Yeah, that that that moment or day.

I'm Christina Cutterucci, a senior writer at Slate, and now that we're finally going out dancing

again, I have to say I would give my left arm for a cut of Montero, call me by your name,

that's longer than two minutes. Not my right arm, that's my good one, but my left one I will pay

because Lil Nas X, why is that banger of a song so short? It's like, I think it's under two minutes,

it's homophobically short. So listeners, if any of you are DJs, please send me your mixes,

I need them. Christina, that is just a condition of the modern attention span, you know,

two minutes and you're done. No, my booty is just getting started. I'm a monologue, I'm a writer

and one of your outward co-hosts, and I am at the moment suffering from a case of absolutely

terminal senior Itas. I am feeling this crazy, crazy itch about the impending end of the school year,

which in my household has taken place mostly at the dining room table. My God. I am not prone to

going out to a club, but like Christina said, my booty is itching for more. I am ready to run out

at the house and absolutely lose my mind once I am free from the obligations of school. I feel like

for some parents summer is even harder because there is no school. What happens in summer for you guys?

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