Outward: Sweat and Sorrow in the Summer

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🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This month, Christina, Bryan, and Rumaan interview journalist David France about his new documentary Welcome to Chechnya on the atrocities happening there and the work being done by activists to liberate queer Chechens. Then they discuss the new audio documentary by Evan Roberts, “Caring for Lesbian Icon Phyllis Lyon, With Love and Deceit.” June shares how important Naya Rivera and her Glee character, Santana Lopez, were to the queer community and changing American attitudes on gay marriage. Then we close it out with the gay agenda. This podcast was produced by Daniel Schroeder. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Drag fans please listen up. I'm Alaska and my name is Willem and we are the hosts of
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0:50.0	podcasts.
0:51.0	Thank you. Hello and
1:06.0	welcome to the July edition of Outward.
1:09.0	I'm Brian Lauter, editor of Outward.
1:11.0	And there's a heat wave and it's too damn hot out there to be funny so let's just keep
1:16.4	moving. I'm Christina Kaudrucci and thanks for that great intro Brian I would like to take a moment to praise the DC heat and
1:24.6	humidity. We've just wrapped up a 20-day streak of 90-degree days, so something is
1:31.5	clearly terribly wrong with the planet, but I'm glowing.
1:35.0	Actually, I'm sweating. It's just sweat. I'm sweating, but...
1:40.0	I mean, these are... I'm Raman Alom and these are definitely the dog digs and the only silver lining in my own household is that the end of summer is birthday month for every for three quarters of my family so I get to deal with the
1:55.8	incredible heat by baking three cakes can be worse though it could be
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