Hello and welcome back to Outward. I'm Brian I edit outward here at Slate and no I'm not crying at the tales of the city Netflix trailer you are

I'm Christina Kottarucci a staff writer at Slate and Post of the Waves, Slate's Podcast about Women and Gender, and I am out here representing the FEMS whose

eyeliner hangs on by sheer force of will all through this fucking allergy season.

I swear my eyebrows are itching right now.

It's so bad work.

And I'm Brandon Tinsley, the associate editor at New America,

and a contributing writer at Pacific Standard magazine.

And I'm just happy that we are finally back to Rosie season.

You would be.

Brandon, would you say that Rosie is part of a certain gay summer scene?

A hundred percent, Carly Ray and Rosie all day.

That is fascinating.

That is fascinating. I'll be surprised if you don't.

I should wear one to her life show this summer.

Yeah, you should.

Well, it's fascinating that you would say that because it just so happens that our show this month is all about the scene in queer life.

Now we've all met those queers who aren't into the scene or define themselves as non-scene

and what exactly they're talking about is going to be part of our discussion today, but we're also

going to look at the scene in other ways. How many are there and how do they inform our identities

as queer people? Do we expect our political figures and leaders to be a part of one.

That's right, we're going to talk about Pete Boot Edge Edge.

And we'll find-

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