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Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - Are Throuples All That Different From Couples?

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🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Love is in the air this month, so hosts Christina Cauterucci, Jules Gill-Peterson, and Bryan Lowder turn their attention to some very queer questions of love. First, they discuss a new Spanish film, Petit Mal, which explores the intimate drama and everyday feelings of three women in a throuple. Then they consider what is arguably the hardest kind of love: loving yourself in the wake of great loss or pain. Recent years have seen a huge growth in the applications of psychedelic drugs as a treatment strategy for PTSD, depression, anxiety, and more. Although psychedelics are becoming more popular with everyone, a lot of queer and trans people have pre-existing relationships with some of these substances, both in recreational and therapeutic contexts. The hosts are joined by Dr. Alex Belser, the leading researcher into queer people’s relationship with psychedelics, to discuss what these drugs might offer—and get back from—queers.

Items discussed in the show:

Gay Bars and Hookup Apps”: The February 2021 episode of Outward that focused on Lex and other dating apps for women

The official trailer for Petit Mal

Queering Psychedelics: From Oppression to Liberation in Psychedelic Medicine, edited by Alex Belser, Clancy Cavnar, and Beatriz C. Labate

Does the Queer Scene Have a Ketamine Problem?” by Delilah Friedler in Rolling Stone

10 Calls to Action: Toward an LGBTQ-Affirmative Psychedelic Therapy,” by Alex Belser

Gay Agenda

Christina: Aftersun, written and directed by Charlotte Wells

Bryan: The legacy of Charles Silverstein, who died on Jan. 30, 2023

Jules: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals, by Saidiya V. Hartman

This podcast was produced by June Thomas.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Outward and Slake's monthly show about all things LGBT.

0:21.8

Whether your ideal date is just with yourself, in a couple, in a thrupple, or in a

0:29.8

quadrupple, sorry, I'm just like I'm not a numbers person, okay good. Well I'm

0:37.6

Joe's Gil Peterson and honestly no matter how many people I'm dating at any

0:42.3

given time, I'm always the center of attention. Weird how that happens. I'm

0:49.6

Christina Cotterucci, I'm a senior writer at Slake and currently recovering from

0:54.8

a really sexy winter cold this month. I'm Brian Lauder, a editor at Slake and I

1:01.8

just got over my fourth round of COVID. Oh my god Brian. I feel you Christina on the

1:06.6

on the winter bugs for sure. Well if it's not viruses, maybe love is in the air

1:13.4

this month listeners. I feel like love is in the air or I don't know maybe I

1:18.5

accidentally up my estrogen dosage. It's either that or I think it's that we're

1:23.4

coming to you on the heels of Saint Valentine's Day herself. So Brian Christina and I

1:29.4

wanted to turn our attention to some very queer questions about love. First we'll

1:35.8

talk about a new Spanish film that actually has a French title, Pudsy Mal, yes like

1:42.8

the famous type of seizure. This is a film that explores the intimate drama and

1:48.7

everyday feelings of three queer women in a thrupal. And honestly this film has

1:54.0

everything you need for a reflection on modern queer love. Okay there are at

1:58.6

least three dogs including five. There are five dogs. Oh my god there's five dogs.

2:04.2

Sorry I'm so homophobic. I couldn't tell someone from the park. Well one of them is a

2:10.0

naughty doxan named Greta. There are Instagram stories fueling jealousy. There's

2:17.2

utter confusion when three people are all calling each other by the same pet

2:21.6

name Amor without being clear who's ever been talked to. And well actually I don't

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