Hello and welcome to this lovely February edition of Outward. I'm Brian Lauter, your faithful editor and the only Valentine's Day present I want is a roll of

duct tape from Tignotaro's Super Butch Engineer character on Star Trek Discovery.

I'm Christina Kauderucci, a staff writer at Slate and host of The Waves,

Slate's Podcast about Women and and gender and I'm still

cveling over the baby butch I saw at the grocery store last night buying a

little bouquet of roses and a teddy bear with her Lesbro.

Oh so cute.

And I'm Brandon Tensley, the associate editor at New America and a contributing writer at

Pacific Standard magazine.

And I'm still basking in the glow and glitter and gay y-hawing whatever that means of the

Casey Musgrave's concert I went to a few weeks ago.

Follow your aeroam.

I am, don't worry.

On this month's episode we're going to talk about queer media, something you may have noticed

has recently been in a state of flux, we'll say.

So we'll use a recent buzzfeed article by Trish Bindex to anchor us in a conversation about the state and purpose of queer media

before talking to the New York Public Library's Jason Bowman to give us a longer broader view of the history of queer publications.

We'll also speak with Reese Bernard, the co-founder

and CEO of Otto Strattle, to give us a peek into what it's like to run an independent

queer media site today, and then we'll finish up with our usual gay agenda.

But first, we are going to kick things off with a round of pride and provocation.

Brendan, what are you proud of or provoked by this month?

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