Hello and welcome to Outward Slates Podcast that brings you all the queer culture and politics

your heart could desire this Valentine's Month. I'm Julie's Gil Peterson, your resident

transsexual extraordinaire. I'm Christina Kauderucci, a senior writer at Slate and I'm thinking

of getting my first adult pet. This will actually be a surprise to my wife when she hears this. She

hasn't consented to this but I realized that it was time for a pet when I was out on the patio

of a bar the other night and a gigantic rat just skittered by and my first reaction was like

hi little guy. I was like I need another a better outlet for that impulse than a rattle to

restaurants. I'm Brian Louder, editor of Outward and you know I've really been struggling with

the seasonal depression this past month. It's been it's been bad this year for whatever reason.

So I just wanted to say very very earnestly that knowing that I get to talk with you two beautiful

people today and with our lovely listeners has been like the only infusion of sunshine that I've

had in a while. So thank you for that and spring cannot come soon enough. Oh my god. Well you're

the sunshine in our lives too Brian. Yes. Aw thanks. Let's get that vitamin D and let's see if we

can get those serotonin pumps flowing today. Well this episode is kind of going to take the

temperature of how sexuality is being represented and censored in two acts that we think are important

to connect. First we'll talk about the return of a nasty little legal Latin phrase, no promo

homo. In the form of Florida's recent don't say gay bill putting the new right wing emphasis on

censorship, book banning and the outline of teaching about racism, American history, queer people

and gender in a broader context. Is all that's old really new again? Didn't we already do this whole

banning any discussion of gay people in the 1990s? Why are we being forced to relive the worst

parts of that decade anyways? We'll take a deep dive into what's happening with these new kinds of

laws and also what we know about organizing against them. And then speaking of a good revival for

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