Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - Viruses and Our Profoundly Unequal World
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🗓️ 17 August 2022
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
This month, host Christina Cauterucci, Jules Gill-Peterson, and Bryan Lowder start the show with a Thots & Queries segment in which a listener asks about orgy etiquette. In a completely different party setting, they try to figure out what on earth is going on in the U.S. Congress, where legislators are debating marriage equality in the form of the Respect for Marriage Act. Then Northwestern University professor and journalist Steven Thrasher joins them to discuss his new book The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide. Finally, they add some new items to the gay agenda.
Items discussed in the show:
Taylor Blake and her emu friend Emmanuel
Beyoncé’s Renaissance
A shocking tweet from the official Log Cabin Republicans account
The June 29 episode of Outward in which Mark Joseph Stern considered how the Dobbs decision might affect LGBTQ rights
“Why Is There More Republican Support for Gay Marriage Than for Abortion Rights?” by Moira Donegan, in the Nation
The Viral Underclass,, by Steven Thrasher
Let the Record Show, by Sarah Schulman
“An Uprising Comes From the Viral Underclass,” by Steven Thrasher in Slate, June 12, 2020
Gay Agenda
Jules: X, by Davey Davis
Bryan: The Sandman, on Netflix
Christina: “We Failed,” by Eric Neugeboren, in the Texas Tribune
This podcast was produced by June Thomas.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outward Slates podcast about queer culture, politics, and the occasionally |
| 0:21.8 | spicy, often caddy, but always cute, LGBT conversation. |
| 0:27.6 | And just so we're all clear, I recently learned that it actually stands for Liberty, Guns, |
| 0:30.9 | Beer, and Trump. |
| 0:31.9 | I don't know if you guys... |
| 0:33.9 | Yeah, QAnon. |
| 0:34.9 | And QAnon. |
| 0:35.9 | That's right. |
| 0:36.9 | The Q is QAnon. |
| 0:37.9 | Yeah, I didn't know that, but I'm glad to have learned something new. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm Brian Louder, and I edit Outward among other things at Slate. |
| 0:45.2 | And I am Jewel's Go Peterson. |
| 0:48.3 | I'm Kristina Katarucci, a senior writer at Slate. |
| 0:51.9 | All right, so we've got a lot to cover on the show today, and honestly, it's like two |
| 0:57.4 | damn hot outside for, like, lengthy, thematic intros, so I'm just going to get right into |
| 1:01.7 | it. |
| 1:02.7 | So first up, we'll scratch our heads collectively at what's been happening in the U.S. Congress |
| 1:06.8 | with same-sex marriage. |
| 1:07.8 | In case you haven't heard about it, there's a bill called the Respect for Marriage Act that |
| 1:11.8 | is currently awaiting a Senate vote, and it's already passed the House, that would protect |
| 1:16.9 | marriage equality sort of on a federal level and require states to recognize marriages |
| 1:22.0 | performed in other states, as sort of how it would work. |
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