Hello and welcome to Series 7 episode 13 of Out with Susie Ruffle.

I am very excited for you to hear this week's episode with the brilliant Reese Nicholson,

but first of all I need to thank you for all of the gorgeous

gorgeous messages I got after last week's episode with the wonderful Ben

Aldridge. I highly recommend you check out all the stuff that he's doing.

He is a wonderful, wonderful person.

As you all know, I fell in love.

But before we get into Reese's conversation today, you might know Reese, they are a brilliant

stand-up comic and they make brilliant work and you might have seen them on the telly. They also did this incredible thing during

the marriage equality vote in Australia where they married a gay female comic to make a point about

the fact that they were two gay people getting married but they couldn't actually

get married to the person they loved it anyway it was brilliant and

Maurice talks about that and so I can't wait for you to hear this conversation but

before that as always I have some listener emails that I would love to share with

you.

Hi Susie I recently found your podcast after hearing you on the LGBT history episode,

You're dead to me. Did you do the MA in queer studies?

I wish. No, I haven't, but I would love to at some point I wish I could and I would love to

he talk to Justin Benkri as a guess that's a great idea I'll reach out to him for the next

series and apologies for the rambling that follows. I'm not of very good with

queer podcasts as a rule. I tend to get quite annoyed with the hosts who often come

across a self-indulgent and full of in-jokes. But I really enjoyed your contribution to the LGBTQ

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