Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - Is A League of Their Own Gratuitously Gay?
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🗓️ 21 September 2022
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
This month, Bryan Lowder is away, so hosts Christina Cauterucci and Jules Gill-Peterson are joined by the podcast’s founding co-host Brandon Tensley to talk about some new representations of LGBTQ people involved in the wide world of sports. First, they debate whether the new Amazon Prime take on A League of Their Own, starring and co-created by Abbi Jacobson, might possibly be too queer. Then they discuss the making of Stay on Board: The Leo Baker Story, the new Netflix documentary about a transgender pro skateboarder, with Nicola Marsh, who directed the movie, along with Giovanni Reda, and executive producer Alex Schmider. Finally, they add some new items to the gay agenda.
Items discussed in the show:
Race Deconstructed, Brandon’s newsletter at CNN
A League of Their Own, on Amazon Prime
Stay on Board: The Leo Baker Story, on Netflix
Slate’s coverage of the Yummers debacle
The 2022 NLGJA Convention in Chicago
The Transgender Issue, by Shon Faye
Gay Agenda
Brandon: Listen to Rina Sawayama’s new album Hold the Girl
Jules: Follow actor, writer, model Hari Nef on Instagram
Christina: Listen to Lauren Ober’s new podcast The Loudest Girl in the World
This podcast was produced by June Thomas.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Tom Sharpling here, the host of the Best Show, and if you've never heard of the |
| 0:06.0 | Best Show before, everything you need to know is right there in the title. |
| 0:10.4 | Each week we put on the Best Live podcast you're ever going to hear, featuring live callers, |
| 0:15.6 | celebrity guests, music, plenty of surprises, who knows what's going to happen. |
| 0:21.4 | Last month alone we were joined by Conan O'Brien, Patricia Arquette, Jeff Tweety from Wilco, |
| 0:27.4 | Nathan Fielder, Sinan Archives, John Oliver, the list goes on and on. |
| 0:32.2 | So what are you waiting for? |
| 0:33.7 | Join us live every Tuesday night on Twitch at 6 p.m. Pacific Time and find us the next day |
| 0:39.3 | on the Forever Dog podcast network and wherever you find podcasts. |
| 0:57.4 | Hello and welcome to Outward for September 2022. |
| 1:09.2 | I'm Christina Cauterucci, a senior writer at Slate. |
| 1:12.8 | And I'm Jules Gil Peters in your co-hostess with the Most Us. |
| 1:18.1 | And this month, while our very much in demand, Brian, is outriding his book, can you believe |
| 1:26.6 | that? |
| 1:27.6 | He's going to be an author. |
| 1:28.8 | We have a very special guest host. |
| 1:31.7 | Our guest of honor will be familiar to the old outward heads, those of you who were listening |
| 1:37.7 | to us from the very beginning. |
| 1:39.7 | He was one of our founding co-hosts, the brilliant, the beautiful Brandon Tensley, Brandon |
| 1:47.4 | Welcome Home. |
| 1:48.4 | Hello, there's no place like home, there's no place like home, which will be very relevant |
| 1:53.2 | to our conversation. |
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