Hello, everybody. This is Ben. I am just checking in to let you know that we recorded this episode a few days ago, and there have been some updates on the first story about the Polari Prize since then. So take a listen to our conversation, and then I'm going to break in after that conversation to let you know what the updates are up until now. Enjoy the show. Thanks so much for subscribing.

Hi everybody and welcome to Extra Bad Gays for August of 2025, our subscriber-only show about queer politics, queer culture, what's going on in the present day, and of course, advice from your favorite Gagany Gunkles.

I'm Gagany Gunkle Ben.

And I'm not going to say about myself. I refuse.

I'm Hugh Lennie.

Hugh, you're the one who came up with that term.

So I will remind you that it was you who coined Gagany-Guncle and have stuck us with it forever.

So I'm going with Gagany-Guncle Ben, and I can offer you some grice, I suppose.

Gunkelben's grice?

No.

Gungle-Bentz grise.

Exactly, yeah.

Anyway.

In German wheat germ that you boil is called grease and so we

could have uncle Ben's grease and have like a nice porridge a nice stodgy German porridge

the old greasy grease and actually the club where the gay parties in Berlin used to be was

called Greis-muller grist mill so you know more grist for the mills of discourse. I was going to say, because

it churns you up and spat you out. It is a miracle that no one died there. Well, that's not true,

but it's a miracle that more people have been.

Hugh. I don't know what you're implying. All I'm saying is once you've seen a drag queen in an untamed state

climbing an unsecured ladder over a concrete floor in high heels,

until you've seen that, rather, you don't know what fear is.

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