Hello and welcome to the July edition of Outward.

I'm Brian Louder, Editor of Outward and I just need to give a shout out to the straight

woman at Pride who in line to a dance party that used to be gay, turned around to me and

apologized for quote colonizing my space.

We love the self-awareness, straight woman, but we love it even more when it spurs actual

action.

So maybe next time, don't colonize the space with something to think about.

Did you offer her absolution or did you just say, like, thank you, you're right?

I said, it's cool, happy pride, I don't know, like, what am I going to say, like, don't

come inside?

Yeah.

Oh my god, I love that.

I'm Christina Cotterucci, a senior writer at Slate and I've got to say it's killing me

that it has been so hot lately because I have been waiting to wear my post pandemic re-emergence

outfit.

It's a purple, pleather, strapless jumpsuit and I think I would probably die of either

dehydration or heat stroke, whichever came first if I tried to wear it now, but it's

been sitting in my closet since May.

And so I just need to, like, go to one of those Russian vodka bars where you, like,

drink in an igloo or a freezer.

The ice, the ice cream.

Yeah.

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