Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - Queer Holiday Movies: Naughty or Nice?
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🗓️ 16 December 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This month, Christina, Bryan, and Rumaan speak with Ruth Coker Burks, author of the new book All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South, about her work in the 1980s, helping Arkansans with AIDS. Then they discuss three of 2020’s bumper selection of LGBTQ holiday movies: The Christmas Setup, Happiest Season, and A New York Christmas Wedding. Should we be grateful for the gift of representation, or should we be searching for the receipt?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, and welcome to the December 2020 edition of Outward. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm Raman Alam, and I'm done. I'm calling it. I know there are still days to go, and we have every reason to believe that something bad might yet happen to us. But while the year might not be done with me, I am done with 2020. So if you need me, I will be here eating Christmas cookies. |
| 0:33.9 | That is completely fair. I'm Brian Lauder, the editor of Outward, and if you need me in the next few weeks, |
| 0:39.9 | I'll be writing out the rest of 2020 on the island of Misfit Toys, which in the year since the |
| 0:45.0 | events of Rudolph has become a chic, queer resort, and spa. |
| 0:49.2 | I'm Christina Kaudrucci, a staff writer at Slate, and I'm ending the year on a high note because this week, |
| 0:55.8 | my trivia team, do you queer what I queer, won second place in our local dyke bar's |
| 1:02.8 | virtual trivia tournament, second place out of, I might mention, about 30 teams. While we were |
| 1:10.6 | very proud, |
| 1:11.4 | it was still a little bit of a tough loss, |
| 1:14.5 | made better only by the fact |
| 1:15.9 | that the winning team was called |
| 1:17.4 | Labia Manora. |
| 1:21.1 | I hope the victors are having a very, very happy Hanukah this week. |
| 1:27.1 | Congrats to Labia Minora. |
| 1:29.4 | Congratulations. |
| 1:30.7 | That is incredible. |
| 1:32.6 | All right. |
| 1:33.3 | First of this month, we will honor World AIDS Day, which is December 1st, by speaking with |
| 1:39.7 | Ruth Coker Berks, the author of a remarkable new memoir about her work caring for gay men in Arkansas |
| 1:45.4 | in the late 80s and early 90s. Ruth was not a doctor, a nurse, or a social worker, or even |
| 1:51.7 | queer herself. She was just someone who felt called to help people who needed helping in a |
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