SBG 153: Chicago with Brooke Eden

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Lez Hang Out

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4.7 • 545 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 72 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! You can also support the show by gearing up for Halloween at bit.ly/lezmerch & picking up Lez-ssentials songs on Bandcamp. Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that would rather go to literal prison than marry a man. This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) enter their showgirl era with the ultimate lesbian cowgirl diva, Brooke Eden (@brookeedenmusic), and talk about why the 2002 Oscar-winning movie-musical, Chicago, Should’ve Been Gay. Chicago is a millennial casting wet-dream with Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Queen Latifah, Mýa and a tragically underutilized Lucy Liu. If you haven’t seen the movie (or the 1975 stage show it’s based on– hot take but the movie is better), it’s essentially Orange is the New Black: The Musical. Although Chicago puts our stars Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly into the overtly heteronormative world of the 1920s, there is little to no hetero explanation for 99% of the plot. The story is set in a time period when people could end up in jail just for being gay, so it honestly does not surprise us that Queen Latifah is essentially running a lesbian harem on Murderesses Row. Sure, these specific women are in jail because they killed their husbands (and side-pieces), but is that not the gayest reason to be in jail? In fact, we reckon Murderesses Row functions like a 1920s HER. If we had a choice between marrying a man or killing said man, going to jail and getting to hook up with Velma freaking Kelly, call us Piper Chapman because we’re skipping GO and doing the Cell Block Tango. We know one thing for sure, Chicago Should’ve Been Gay (and all that jazz). 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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0:30.3	Let's hang out.
0:32.5	And let's talk about what Les is about.
0:36.0	And let's listen to Two Heirsby and Shouse. Let's are about. Let's hang out. And let's listen to two hesby and shout.
0:41.6	Let's hang out.
0:43.7	Welcome back to Les Hang Out.
0:45.0	I'm Ellie Bridgeta.
0:46.0	And I'm Lee Holmes Foster and here's what's happening this week.
0:49.4	This week in the Lesdom.
0:54.6	This Week in the Lesdom is a place where you can touch base each episode about things
0:57.6	going on with the podcast or otherwise. In season nine, we are continuing to release our
1:01.0	bonus episodes. Our next bonus episode is going to be on My Old Ass. So if you want to listen
1:05.5	to that, you can do that at bit. Dotley slash Les Patreon. We also are still going to
1:10.1	France, March 25th through the 31st. We would love to see you there. We need you to sign up at bit. dot Lee slash due France and you put down a deposit. And once you've done the deposits, then we're going to confirm the date. So we really want to hear from you within the next few weeks. So if you want to join us for that trip, we would love to see you there. Just let us know as soon as
1:28.0	possible. We also have started up trivia again. At Henrietta Hudson, we are doing a monthly trivia.
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