You're listening to the microversion of the Savage Love cast at Savage.loaf.

It's June. It's Pride Month and I thought to kick off Pride Month, I would do a little

counter-programming and check in on all the straight people, at least some of the famous ones.

But first, I called it. Back in March, when Tennessee's drag band was signed into law by

Tennessee's GOP governor who once did drag in front of a bunch of kids,

I said that Tennessee's drag band was obviously unconstitutional, that there was no way

that drag band could survive a court challenge. Well, the US District Judge Thomas Parker,

a fucking Trump appointee threw it out last week, just in time for Pride, writing that the law

violates First Amendment Freedom of Speech Protections and was unconstitutionally vague and

substantially overbroad. So congrats to all the queens in Nashville who can go to Pride and

melt in the sun this month without risking a rest. There are sure to be appeals, but for now,

drag is legal in Tennessee. All right, so how are the straight people doing?

Not great. Taylor Swift is dating a guy who said some shitty things on a podcast, a pop star that

I've never heard of before and whose name I already don't remember even after reading a long

profile of him in this week's New Yorker. I just don't have room in my brain to store the names

of any new celebrities and my takeaway from that profile. Besides, yeah, he said some very shitty

things on a podcast is Taylor Swift's new boyfriend smokes way too much. There's an online

petition circulating signed by thousands of Swifties. Those are Taylor Swift fans who are in a

very creepy parosocial relationship with Taylor Swift. They're demanding the signers of that

petition that Swift dump her problematic boyfriend. I don't want to encourage people to dump

romantic partners who said something stupid on a podcast once. That is not in my self-interest.

I don't want to wake up single tomorrow, so I am not going to weigh in on what Taylor Swift

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