Hello and welcome to Outward for the month of May. I'm Christina Kaudrucci, a staff writer at Slate and host of the Waves, Slate's

Podcast about Women and Gender, and I want to shout out all the straight people who kindly evacuated the dance floor when Decepticon came on at the queer wedding I was at last weekend.

So, so kind.

I'm Brian Lauter, editor of Outward, and though you listeners can't see it, I will be changing

my look not merely four, but 58 times over the course of this episode.

Eat it, gaga.

Oh, there he goes.

He changed.

I'll keep Tolly.

And I am Brain Intensley, the associate editor at New America

and a contributing writer at Pacific Standard magazine. I am Brannon Tinsley, the associate editor at New America

and a contributing writer at Pacific Standard magazine.

And I feel my gay powers growing

as we get closer to pride.

I feel them too.

Thank you.

On this month's episode, we're talking about the birds and the bees making the beast with two

backs.

Shaking the sheets that three letter word to describe one of life's most awkward and emotional and exquisite acts,

sex. In particular, we're going to break queer sex out of the silence and mystery that

it's often shrouded in.

To do that though, we'll bring back our straight study segment and play a little game with

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