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Welcome to the double X gap fest for Thursday, August 20th, the call-in show.

I'm Hannah Rosen, a writer for Slate in the Atlantic.

I'm recording today from the beautiful Cliff House Audio Studios in Montpelier, Vermont, where I'm on vacation. And I'm joined in New York by June Thomas, editor of Outward, Slate's LGBTQ blog. Hi, June. Damn it, I haven't done that in a while. I was getting trouble. I piss off the listeners when I do that. I know. And really, it's just that you're in vacation mode.

No, it's like I'm anti-something. You are. You're a terrible homophobe. Yeah, I'm a big homophobic.

Hey, how you doing? And Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. Hey, Noreen. Hi. I got that right.

I've said that correctly.

Pretty easy. Before we start, our live show, we really want to see you there. Our D.C. friends and friends from near D.C. come and hang out with us. September 21st at Willie Mammoth. It's going to be an awesome show. So come, come. You can buy tickets at slate.com slash live. You will see our show. It's like the third or fourth

listed there. And of course, for Slate Plus members, you get a discount, as always. So please do come. And we

will announce our guests shortly. Let's get going. Today is our call-in show. Listeners, you guys left us

lots of great messages and questions,

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