Outward: Pandering and Parenting
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This month, Christina, Bryan, and Rumaan break down exclusively gay moments in film and television, exploring why they can feel so craven, and if there’s any way to get it right. Then they interview Richie Jackson about his new book Gay Like Me, a letter to his gay son about the importance of being gay. They discuss the significance of Harvey Fierstein, growing up gay, and why queer identities are so essential. Then we close it out with a usual update to the gay agenda, looking at good versions of exclusively gay moments.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:14.7 | Hello and welcome to a chilly January edition of Outward. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Brian Louder, editor of Outward, |
| 0:25.4 | and my new sexuality is Henry Cavill's subsonic growl in the masterpiece that is The Witcher. |
| 0:27.9 | Can you do a little invitation? |
| 0:31.0 | Uh, dossacoid into your witcher. |
| 0:34.9 | That's my new sexuality, too. |
| 0:36.9 | Yeah, it's really hot. |
| 0:38.0 | I need to go off the water now. |
| 0:39.4 | It's almost like a vibrator for your ears, you know? |
| 0:43.3 | It's great. |
| 0:45.2 | I'm Ramon Alam, and I am having a very difficult time this winter with these, |
| 0:50.3 | the early sunsets and just the general feeling of being bummed by everything. |
| 0:56.4 | And so my solution, my medicine, has been watching the first four seasons of a show that |
| 1:02.0 | everyone's already watched, and we've all already talked about it, which is the Great British Baking |
| 1:05.4 | show, and being super into the lesbian antics of the hosts. And I find it very comforting. And, you know what? And also I can leave it on and my kids can watch it with me. And there's something really lovely about that. So safe. Yeah. And sunny. So sunny. So sunny and so sweet and so optimistic. And also so weirdly so gay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That actually brings me to my intro. |
| 1:29.9 | I'm Christina Caudrucci, Slate staff writer, and host of the Slate podcast, The Waves. |
| 1:35.3 | And I made crumpets on Sunday. |
| 1:38.3 | Whoa. |
| 1:38.4 | That's right, crumpets. |
| 1:39.8 | Wow. |
| 1:40.3 | So I now identify as a fancy crumpet gay. |
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