SBG 152: Friends

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Lez Hang Out

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4.7 • 545 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Join our Patreon to unlock 25+ full-length bonus episodes, ad-free weekly episodes, mp3 downloads of our original songs, exclusive Discord access, and more! It costs less per month than one iced coffee and it makes a huge impact in keeping our little indie queer podcast going. You can also support the show by gearing up for Halloween at bit.ly/lezmerch (we’ve got the cutest gay ghosties) & picking up Lez-ssentials songs on Bandcamp. Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that will be there for you. This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out and talk about why the older-millennial-favorite, Friends, Should’ve Been Gay. Although Friends is problematic for so many reasons (and time has not done it any favors), there were still moments in the series that were groundbreaking for the queer community. In 1996 Carol and Susan’s wedding was the first lesbian wedding ever on American tv and, unsurprisingly, 2 network affiliates refused to air the episode. But even a lesbian wedding could not save the show from being aggressively heteronormative in ways that we truly believe make our whole generation eligible for compensation. There really is no bigger example of a show just overflowing with comp-het energy than Friends. You’re expecting us to believe that there exists a group of six friends in New York City and not one of them is gay? One of them is quite literally a soap-opera actor with a live-in longterm boyfriend, but somehow even he is not gay? We could’ve had the ultimate “and they were roommates” of shows, but instead we got a full decade of being gaslit into thinking Ross was a “nice guy”. And don’t even get us started on how dirty they did Janice. We know one thing for sure, Friends Should’ve Been Gay. Give us your own answers to our Q & Gay on Instagram and follow along on Facebook, TikTok, and BlueSky @lezhangoutpod. Email us @lezhangoutpod@gmail.com. Connect with us individually: Ellie Brigida (@elliebrigida). Leigh Holmes Foster (@lshfoster). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let's hang out
0:02.4	And let's talk about what lesions are about
0:05.8	And let's listen to two hesby and shout
0:09.4	Let's hang out
0:13.1	Hey everyone, welcome back to Les Hang Out
0:16.4	I'm Ellie Bridgeta
0:17.2	And I'm Lee Holmes Foster
0:19.0	And here's what's happening this week.
0:21.4	This week in the Lesdom.
0:26.1	This week in the Lesdom is a place where we can touch base each episode, but things are
0:29.2	going on with the podcast or otherwise in season nine.
0:32.1	We are continuing our Patreon bonus episodes.
0:34.4	Our next Patreon bonus episode is going to be about my old ass. If you haven't
0:39.3	seen it, it's a great film. Lee has not seen it. And so she's going to watch it and we're
0:42.7	going to talk about it. It's going to be really fun. You can listen to that and all of the rest of
0:46.6	our bonus episodes at bit.ly slash less Patreon. We also want to remind you that we are going to
0:52.5	France next year in March 25th to 31st.
0:56.7	We still have some spots open and we are really excited to find out if other people want to sign up.
1:04.3	We're going to be closing that door soon.
1:06.0	So if you want to get those spots before they are gone, you can join us at bit.
1:10.2	at let's do France to come have a before they are gone. You can join us at bit.ly slash les do France to come
1:13.4	have a gay time in Paris. In the greater les universe, the lovers, which is a new queer web series
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