Trans Gay Love
TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones
TransLash Media
4.3 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
This Valentine’s Day, we’re celebrating what it means to be gay, trans, and in love. Imara talks with couple Arthur Rockwell and Harry Weissman about their relationship and how they navigate this specific intersection of gender and sexuality. Hear from Arthur about how transitioning changed how he dates and challenged his assumptions about who occupies gay male spaces. Harry shares his advice to other cis gay men dating a trans man for the first time. The two also discuss the impact of the political climate on relationships, plus what they’ve learned from loving each other.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, fam, it's me, Amara. |
| 0:11.2 | Welcome to the Translash podcast, a show where we tell trans stories to save trans lies. |
| 0:16.8 | You know, the reality is that even in dark political times, there's one thing that is sure |
| 0:22.7 | to continue, and that is love. That's why we are thrilled today for our Valentine's Day |
| 0:29.8 | translash episode. Now, there's so many different types of love, so many different types of |
| 0:36.6 | relationships, and we love them all, and are of relationships. And we love them all and are |
| 0:40.4 | all valid. And we embrace all different types of relationships. But a type of relationship that |
| 0:45.8 | gets so little visibility in our community are actually trans gay people, trans people who are in |
| 0:52.1 | same-sex relationships, either with cis people or other |
| 0:55.8 | trans people. So we wanted to be sure to uplift and to celebrate what it means to be gay, trans, |
| 1:02.8 | and in love, especially the in-love part. So in a trans-lash-first, I'm going to be interviewing |
| 1:09.0 | a couple. So get ready for a heart-filled conversation with YouTuber Arthur Rockwell and his partner, Harry Weissman. |
| 1:18.7 | I think a lot of them have had it, like, hammered into their head, like, don't be creepy. |
| 1:22.9 | Don't, like, fetishize someone. |
| 1:24.5 | And I'm like, you've never been with a trans guy before, you know, like you wouldn't know how to properly fetishize me, you know. |
| 1:30.6 | I think Arthur, to me, seems to like love being trans and love being a gay man, you know, |
| 1:37.0 | and loves living the life that he lives. |
| 1:40.8 | And I can too. |
| 1:42.5 | And can we all? |
| 2:12.8 | But before we get to this conversation, let's start out as always with some trans joy. I'm going to be. Dating as a trans person can be tricky, and the usual advice doesn't always cut it. |
| 2:16.8 | That's where dating and relationship coach Kara Chang steps in. |
| 2:20.1 | From creating a dating app profile to dodging chasers, |
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