Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - Gay Bars and Hookup Apps
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🗓️ 17 February 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This month, Christina, Bryan, and Rumaan are first joined by June Thomas to discuss Jeremy Atherton Lin’s new book Gay Bar, their own personal histories with gay bars, and if such queer spaces have a future. Then they’re joined by Autostraddle’s Shelli Nicole to talk about the Lex app, a text-based dating app aimed at queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming people. They discuss how the app got its start, the ways it’s changed in just one year, and if queer women will ever have an app that’s just for sex.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the February 2021 edition of Outward. I'm Brian Louder, the editor of Outward, |
| 0:18.7 | and the only Valentine that I want this month is one from the IRS in the form of my stimulus check. |
| 0:26.6 | Candy hearts are welcome, but not required. |
| 0:29.7 | Get that stimmy, Brian. |
| 0:32.5 | I'm Ramon Alam, and as Brian said, it's February 2021. And when I am speaking to you, it is my children's |
| 0:39.5 | winter break. I'm not really sure what it is they require a break from besides winter itself. |
| 0:47.6 | But thank God for those candy hearts. They're the only thing getting me through these |
| 0:51.7 | unstructured wintery days. Is that, is it a winter break for you at all, too? |
| 0:56.3 | Or is it like winter double your... |
| 0:58.5 | Insofar, you know, insofar as I'm going to watch movies in the middle of the afternoon. |
| 1:03.4 | Yes, it is also my winter break. |
| 1:05.1 | Oh, good. |
| 1:06.9 | I'm Christina Cotarucci, a staff writer at Slate. |
| 1:10.0 | And I have been carrying around a hot water bottle all around my house with me. |
| 1:16.2 | It has a cute little turtleneck sweater, and it really makes me feel like I'm a teenager in health class who's been asked to carry around a fake baby to, like, scare me out of teen pregnancy or something. |
| 1:30.4 | But it is keeping me warm. |
| 1:32.3 | It's my Valentine this year. |
| 1:34.3 | Is it also scaring you out of teen pregnancy? |
| 1:36.7 | It is. |
| 1:37.4 | Yeah, I'm definitely not going to have unprotective, procreative sex after this. |
| 1:43.8 | Great, great. Very glad that's this. Great, great. |
| 1:45.2 | I'm very glad that's working. |
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