This is a CBC podcast.

A new season of Love Me is coming.

Real stories of real, complicated relationships.

That maybe explains why mom wanted to name me Massimiliano Alejandro.

And dad said, hell no.

How does it feel when your dead mom's Italian ex-lover won't stop writing you?

Or when the only way to connect with your queer identity is by doing drag as your grandpa.

It blew my mind because I was like, oh, there's this way for me to explore my queerness without having to break up with my boyfriend.

Thanks.

Or when people try to silence the one thing that makes you calm.

I knew that it was like maybe not right because people would look at me and I couldn't

control when it was happening.

Love Me cuts through the noise straight into the heart.

I worry like six or seven times a day.

Oh, every day?

I'm worried about something falling on me.

Oh.

Worried about getting surgery.

Are you getting surgery?

No, but if I do.

Okay, okay.

The thing that I'm reacting to is just like a deep, it's like a self-hatred thing.

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