Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - Is A League of Their Own Gratuitously Gay?
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🗓️ 21 September 2022
⏱️ 78 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 | What's up guys, I am Ashley Gavin, and I am your father. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Elena Joy, I am Mommy, and I'm Mackin from your hot teenage brother. |
| 0:08.4 | Baby, Mack is baby. |
| 0:09.7 | We are your chosen family, because you don't have a gay family, and you need a gay family. |
| 0:14.3 | Every week, we bring a topic to the family dinner table from gender dysphoria, |
| 0:17.9 | to monogamy, to how to figure out if someone is into you. |
| 0:20.5 | Listen to Chosen Family every Wednesday on your favorite podcast app, |
| 0:24.0 | or watch full episodes on YouTube to get the full family experience. |
| 0:27.7 | Chosen Family is a part of the Forever Dog podcast network. |
| 0:46.9 | Hello and welcome to Outward for September 2022. |
| 0:51.5 | I'm Christina Cauterucci, a senior writer at Slate, |
| 0:54.9 | and I'm Julie's Gil Peterson, your co-hostess with the mostess. |
| 1:00.2 | And this month, while our very much in-demand Brian is outriding his book, |
| 1:08.4 | can you believe that? He's going to be an author. |
| 1:11.1 | We have a very special guest host. |
| 1:13.8 | Our guest of honor will be familiar to the old outward heads, those of you who were listening |
| 1:20.1 | to us from the very beginning. He was one of our founding co-hosts. |
| 1:24.5 | The brilliant, the beautiful Brandon Tensley. |
| 1:29.2 | Brandon, welcome home. Hello, there's no place like home. |
| 1:33.2 | There's no place like home, which will be very relevant to our conversation. |
| 1:37.2 | Oh, yeah, good call forward. So, Brandon, we've almost just about forgiven you for leaving us. |
| 1:44.4 | What have you been up to? I just hit my three-year anniversary |
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