The Right To Be ‘Hot And Boring’ ft Alex Schmider

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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TOPICS: The first time Alex saw himself represented in media (“Boys Don’t Cry”) The problem of over vs. underrepresentation of trans people in film and TV Unpacking the right-wing fixation on LGBTQ young people Revisiting the 2021 documentary “Changing The Game,” which follows transgender teens navigating life and athletics in towns across the country Getting all the tea on “Chasing Chasing Amy,” a film directed by Sav Rogers and produced by Alex Schmider that revisits the iconic ‘90s film about a lesbian who falls for Ben Affleck Alex Schmider is the director of transgender representation at GLAAD and an award-nominated filmmaker. Follow him on social media at @anderfinn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Betges Media presents.
0:01.6	Chrissy Teigen referred to Donald Trump as a pussy-ass bitch.
0:04.8	Look, he's a sick puppy.
0:06.2	He should be there.
0:07.8	Well, I lost half a day of skiing.
0:10.4	All right, part your mat and I'm going to go to jail.
0:12.4	I'm going to be happy.
0:13.5	The Betges Subpodcast.
0:14.7	A speaker has not been elected.
0:19.6	Hello, everybody.
0:20.7	It's Amanda, and this is the Betges Subpodcast,
0:22.4	where she's fan meets the group chat.
0:23.7	I'll be processing laugh at the biggest topics
0:25.6	and US news and politics.
0:27.8	Today is the first in a series of interviews
0:30.4	we are running during June, which is Pride Month,
0:32.4	and today we are kicking it off with Alex Schmitter.
0:35.0	He is an Emmy, Peabody and Critics Choice Award-Nominative
0:38.1	Film Producer and the Director of Transgender Representation
0:40.9	at Glad, which is, of course, the nation's leading LGBTQ Media
0:44.1	advocacy organization.
0:45.6	His producing credits include changing the game,
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