Hello and welcome to Outward. I'm Jules Gopiterson, and any resemblance to Alvira mistress

of the dark this month is purely coincidental, or so my lawyers have told me.

And I'm Christina Cauterucci, a senior writer at Slate. And I don't know if you all

knew this. Listeners, Jules, I'm sure you didn't know this, because it doesn't get as much

fanfare as pride. But October is LGBT History Month. Can you believe we get two months out

of the year just for us? It's truly an embarrassment of months. We're so lucky. And they're perfectly

aligned with the weather. June is when you want to strip down to your undies for pride.

And in October, you just want to bundle up in a quaint little library with a history book.

So in that spirit, we have a cozy, autumnal episode for you this month that will pair

exquisitely with your cable nits, your fire pits, your negroni smog gliados with Perseco

and then. So first of all, Brian is still out allegedly writing his book, but we're

going to be barging into his study to drag him back on the show for a discussion of bros,

the gay romcom written by and starring Billy Eichner, which is in theaters now.

Then we have a special guest from the Library of Congress, Meg Metcalfe. They're a librarian

and LGBTQ plus studies collection specialist at the Library of Congress. And they'll talk

us through the process of recording and remembering LGBTQ history. They're also going to introduce

us to some queer and trans gems that the library has in its collection. You know, it's not

just crystal flutes and all. But before all that, I want to shout out this submission that

we got to our thoughts and queries in box. Listener Bonnie Raymond wrote in to set me straight,

as it were, about something that I said in our segment about a league of their own. So just

to recap, I was sort of rolling my eyes at the modern day lingo and dialogue in the series,

including the word problematic. Well, Bonnie, hopefully informed me that problematic,

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