Savage Love Episode 661

Savage Lovecast

Dan Savage

Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Just in time for your pride parade, it's the all gay episode! Calls by, for and about queer people. We got nervous lesbians who are scared to introduce the girlfriend to their moms, we got homos who come too soon, or get spooked by conventionally attractive men. Look! It's a bisexual woman who has never been with a woman before and wants to "scratch the itch" while her boyfriend is out of town. A woman whose trans husband has been outed at work, gay cleaning products...wait. What? Gay cleaning products? On the Magnum, Matthew Riemer, co-author of We Are Everywhere, talks about his work illuminating some of the unsung heroes of gay history. You will raise your fist up high. Happy pride everyone. Keep fighting. 206-302-2064 This episode of the Savage love cast is brought to you by Everlane: Luxury basic clothing and accessories, made at ethical factories without those retail markups. For free shipping, and to support the Lovecast, go to ThredUP is the world’s largest online thrift store with over 35,000 brands at up to 90% off retail price. Get an extra 30% off your first order at . This episode is brought to you by Harry's- they make the best razors you will ever shave with. Head to for a trial set that comes with everything you need for a close, comfortable shave.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast, www.com.
0:06.7	If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony,
0:16.3	well, there's nothing you can't ask on Savage Lovecast.
0:23.6	There are two questions I get that entirely miss the point.
0:27.8	A question I get from straight people that entirely misses the point and a question I sometimes get from gay people that entirely miss the point of the whole Savage Love Idea Universe column podcast. The clueless missed the point
0:39.2	question from some clueless missing the point. Straight people goes like this. What qualifies you
0:44.2	to give advice to straight people? What would you know about being straight? What we have here
0:50.2	is a little bit of projection. The people who send me that question slash accusation are
0:54.8	projecting ignorance. The straight people who ask that assume that it's possible for a gay person
1:00.1	to know as little about straight relationships and straight sex as they themselves know about
1:04.7	gay relationships and gay sex. That's not possible for us. We can't know as little about you as some of you
1:10.8	know about us because you can't be gay little about you as some of you know about us because
1:11.7	you can't be gay and not at least have formed an impression of straight people and straight
1:17.3	sex and have some passing familiarity with straight relationship dynamics because almost all
1:23.6	of us are, after all, the products of straight sex and almost all of us were raised
1:29.5	by straight people in quote unquote, straight families or families that were straight
1:34.8	until we entered them.
1:36.8	The missed-the-point question from some gays goes like this.
1:40.5	Your column, your podcast, it's too straight now.
1:43.4	It's all straight people and straight questions.
1:46.4	When did it get so straight? Right away at the very beginning? The whole idea back in 1991 when we were
1:55.0	watching Savage Love, well, it was just, it was a joke. I was going to give straight people advice about
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