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Hello and welcome to Outward for the month of May.

I'm Christina Cauderucci, 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 lore when Decepticon came on at the queer wedding I was at last weekend. So,

so kind. I'm Brian Lauder, 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 Talley. And I'm Brain Intensely, 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 studies segment and play a little game

with the Good Nature Strait, Forrest Wickman, to explore some mainstream myths around queer

sex.

Then we'll have a discussion about queer sex education and what sorts of lessons we think

should be taught.

We'll also chat with the Atlantic's Anna Waters, who recently wrote a piece that asked why dental dams still exist if nobody uses them. And finally, we'll wrap up, winking face emoji, with the gay agenda. Amazing. But before we do that, before we get on to making the beast with two backs, a phrase I had never heard before this moment.

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