Outward: The LGBTQ Decade
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This month, Christina, Bryan welcome Rumaan Alam as the official third host of Outward. First, June Thomas joins the team to discuss the new L Word reboot, how it compares to the original, ways it’s stepped past it, and if any of the characters will actually become unlikeable. Then the trio go through an extended segment of prides and provocations of the decade with Andy Bowen, a consultant on queer and economic social justice issues. They tackle marriage equality, PreP, lesbian bars, and the savvy ways the LGBTQ community have navigated governmental bureaucracy. Then we close it out with a usual update to the gay agenda.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening Ad-Free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:14.8 | Hello, and welcome to Outward for the month of December, the last episode of 2019. I'm Christina Cauderucci, a staff writer at Slate, |
| 0:24.7 | and host of the Waves, Slate's podcast about women and gender, and I am currently seeking a pair of |
| 0:31.3 | statement shoulder pads for my New Year's Eve outfit, largest possible recommendations. |
| 0:36.8 | Welcome. Oh my gosh, that sounds beautiful. I'm Brian Lauder, editor of Outward, and I just... Eve outfit, largest possible recommendations welcome. |
| 0:38.8 | Oh my gosh, that sounds beautiful. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm Brian Lauder, editor of Outward, and I just want to send a shout out to all my fellow holiday queens out there. |
| 0:45.8 | I see all the festivity and twinkleage that you are bringing to the season by your sheer |
| 0:51.6 | joyful force of will, and I salute you for it. And if there are people |
| 0:55.4 | in your life who are you being grinchas about that, pay them no mind. I also want to salute |
| 1:00.4 | Ramon Alam, who is with us again and who I am delighted to announce is our official third going |
| 1:06.3 | forward. How do you feel about that, Ramon? I feel great. I could not be happier to join this particular monage. |
| 1:13.6 | We're so excited. |
| 1:15.6 | Okay, so it is indeed the end of the year and the end of the decade. |
| 1:21.6 | So on this show, we're obviously going to reflect on all that recent queer history as we head out of the teens and into the 20s. |
| 1:29.7 | To do that, we've decided to expand our usual opener into a full-grown segment reflecting on the major prides and provocations of the last 10 years. |
| 1:37.8 | And our gay agenda items will point you to our favorite queer cultural moments of 2019. |
| 1:42.7 | But first, we cannot help but address another queer milestone. |
| 1:46.9 | The long-d-d-da-da-the-long-awaited and maybe much feared return to television of the L-word. |
| 1:54.5 | Christina, take us into the brave new world of Generation Q. |
| 1:59.2 | Loving, living, laughing, leaving. |
| 2:05.8 | So for anyone who's been living under a rock, |
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