Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - Two Revivals: "No Promo Homo" and Shortbus
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🗓️ 17 February 2022
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Christina, Bryan, and Jules discuss a proposed Florida bill that would ban all discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in the state, and the 4K-restored re-release of John Cameron Mitchell’s senimal 2007 film Shortbus. The Gay Agenda includes an East Williamsburg trans enclave.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outward Slate's podcast that brings you all the queer culture and politics your heart could desire this Valentine's month. |
| 0:22.3 | I'm Jules Gil Peterson, |
| 0:29.3 | your resident transsexual extraordinaire. I'm Christina Cauderucci, a senior writer at Slate, |
| 0:37.1 | and I'm thinking of getting my first adult pet. This will actually be a surprise to my wife when she hears this. She hasn't consented to this, but I realized that it was time for a pet. This will actually be a surprise to my wife when she hears this. She hasn't consented |
| 0:38.6 | to this. But I realized that it was time for a pet when I was out on the patio of a bar the other |
| 0:44.8 | night and a gigantic rat just skittered by. And my first reaction was like, hi little guy. |
| 0:52.5 | Oh, no. I was like, I need another, a better outlet for that impulse. |
| 0:57.5 | Than a rat at a restaurant, yeah. |
| 0:59.8 | I'm Brian Lauder, editor of Outward. |
| 1:02.3 | And, you know, I've really been struggling with the seasonal depression this past month. |
| 1:06.9 | It's been bad this year for whatever reason. |
| 1:08.6 | So I just wanted to say very, very earnestly that knowing that I get to talk with you, two beautiful people today, |
| 1:15.0 | and with our lovely listeners, has been like the only infusion of sunshine that I've had in a while. |
| 1:20.0 | So thank you for that. And spring cannot come soon enough. Oh my God. Well, you're the sunshine in |
| 1:26.5 | our lives, too, Brian. Yes. Aw, thanks. Let, you're the sunshine in our lives too, Brian. |
| 1:34.8 | Yes. Oh, thanks. Let's get that vitamin D and let's see if we can get the serotonin pumps flowing today. Yes, please. Well, this episode is kind of going to take the temperature of how sexuality is being represented and censored in two acts that we think are important to connect. |
| 1:46.2 | First, we'll talk about the return of a nasty little legal Latin phrase, no promo, homo, |
| 1:52.7 | in the form of Florida's recent don't say gay bill, putting the new right-wing emphasis |
| 1:57.8 | on censorship, book banning, and the outline of teaching about racism, |
| 2:03.2 | American history, queer people, and gender in a broader context. Is all that's old really new again? |
| 2:10.2 | Didn't we already do this whole banning any discussion of gay people in the 1990s? Why are we being |
| 2:16.2 | forced to relive the worst parts of that decade anyways? |
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