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Oh hi hello nerds! This is Let's Talk About Mids Baby! And I'm your host as always. Live. Wishing you a very happy Pride Month.

It's June and as always that means I am bringing to you some bad ass LGBTQIA content from the ancient world.

Now first and foremost I know that the best way to make the world a better place for people who fall under the broad and wonderful category of LGBTQIA plus is to normalize the thought out of it because it's normal.

And thus to not only spend a single month amplifying these stories and voices. This has been brought up to me and I promise I am aware.

This is completely true. However, when it comes to my content the issue is quite simply I am beholden to the ancient sources and thus there is only a finite number of stories of this kind of representation that's in the ancient world.

Because of this I do like to focus on these stories in June because it feels celebratory and welcoming but also there aren't enough stories for me to tell them year round.

Honestly I think I've basically covered all the stories they are. Though I promise I'm always looking for more.

Next year I hope to retell some of the stories I told in the very early days of the podcast, finding more details and fun bits and pieces as I love to do.

But this year, well I'm not in the country and not by my microphone and instead I had to prepare a head.

Which means instead of bringing you brand new stories that may or may not exist or stories with new details I'm bringing you a special episode of clips and stories selected by the two wonderful women who work with me, Michaela Smith and the new intern, the wonderful Grace Robi, who was so eager to help me out in this celebration of Pride Month.

So huge thanks to Michaela and Grace for picking out these stories to share with you. Also an extra huge thanks to the incredible Michaela Smith, the Hermes to My Olympians, my messenger goddess and helper of all sorts for putting together the audio for this episode, pulling all of the clips and all the bits and pieces.

I am so grateful to both Michaela and Grace for their work all the time but particularly on this episode.

And well, next week, we'll be looking at selections from the conversations I've had that feature LGBTQIA plus characters.

Because oh, I have had some good conversations.

This is the Pride special episode gay gods, transgender transformations and pansexual poets, LGBTQIA representation in ancient Greece.

Dionysus finds Ampelis to be absolutely gorgeous. I'd like to think they're about the same age though you never know. We're going to go if they are.

He is just the most beautiful man Dionysus has ever seen, just striking and stunning and oh my gods, how can anyone be quite so beautiful? These are the thoughts running through Dionysus's mind.

And while he pretends that he himself is not a god, at least for now, he starts to flirt with Ampelis.

He flatters the man asking how he could be so beautiful which gods are his parents, for he must have immortal parents.

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