SBG 159: Princess Protection Program with Olive Okoro

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Lez Hang Out

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🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 73 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 shopping small at bit.ly/lezmerch & picking up Lez-ssentials songs on Bandcamp. Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that is always down for a DCOM. This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out with Olive Okoro (@digital.olive), content creator and founder of the nonprofit organization Queer Motherland (@queermotherland), to talk about why the 2009 Disney Channel Original Movie, Princess Protection Program, Should’ve Been Gay. We would argue that all DCOMs are queer culture, but it was PPP specifically that served as a queer awakening for baby gay Olive. In Princess Protection Program, Princess Rosalinda (Demi Lovato) is just about to be crowned Queen when her coronation is attacked, triggering a rescue by an elite protection agency. Now disguised as ordinary American teen Rosie, she is sent to live with the agent who rescued her and his tomboy daughter Carter (Selena Gomez). Carter and Rosie’s enemies-to-lovers dynamic grows as the girls are forced to share their lives and Carter’s bedroom. Unfortunately for us, instead of leaning into Cosie and the ‘and they were roommates’ of it all, we get totally unnecessary high school boy drama. We know one thing for sure, Disney’s Princess Protection Program Should’ve Been Gay. Learn more about Olive’s nonprofit, Queer Motherland at queermotherland.org. Give us your own answers to our Q & Gay on Instagram and follow along on Facebook, TikTok, YouTube 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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0:30.5	Let's hang out. And let's talk about what Lesings are found. And let's listen to two heads be are found. Let's hang out. And let's listen to two hesby and shout.
0:41.2	Let's hang out.
0:44.2	Hey, everyone.
0:45.3	Welcome back to Les Hang Out.
0:46.3	I'm Ellie Bridgeta.
0:47.3	And I'm Lee Holmes Foster and here's what's happening this week.
0:50.8	This week in the Lesdom.
0:58.3	This week in the Lesdom is a place where we can touch base each episode about things going on with the podcast or otherwise. In season nine, we are continuing to release
1:02.9	our Patreon bonus episodes. The last episode was on Looking for Her, which is a holiday
1:08.2	rom-com. We had some thoughts on how we can make it slightly better.
1:14.4	You can listen to that at bit.com slash lespatri-on, along with all of our bonus episodes.
1:19.3	In the greater Les universe, greater gay universe, in the greater queer universe, Everyone knows heated rivalry has been on fire lately.
1:33.0	Everyone is talking about our gay hockey boys and all of their gay sex.
1:39.5	And all the sex they're having all over the place.
1:41.9	So much gay sex.
1:43.7	So much gay sex. So much gay sex.
1:44.4	I saw, like, the funniest meme that was, like, heterosexual couple on the couch watching the heated rivalry.
1:51.9	And it was, like, the hockey scenes.
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