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Washington-Based Journalist Brad Polumbo on LGBT Politics in the Pre- and Post-Trump Eras

Quillette Podcast

Quillette

Society & Culture, Politics, News, Science, News Commentary

4.6917 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Brad Polumbo speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about life as a gay conservative journalist in Washington, D.C., the politics of outing Republican lawmakers, the complex political tensions between LGB and T, and the new journalistic climate that he expects will emerge under Joe Biden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Colette Podcast. My name is Claire Lehman and I am editor and chief of Colette.

0:08.0

Colette is where Free Thought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary.

0:15.0

Our podcast is a team effort and is jointly hosted by myself, Associate Editor Toby Young,

0:20.0

and Canadian editor Jonathan Kay.

0:22.0

You can support our podcast by

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visiting Patreon.com forward slash quillet and becoming a monthly patron. By

0:29.0

becoming a monthly patron you'll also receive our weekly newsletter. Welcome to the Colette Podcast.

0:37.0

I'm Jonathan Kay.

0:38.6

These have been strange times for American politics.

0:41.8

Everyone knows that, but they've been especially strange

0:44.6

for LGBT voters who now have to face ideological radicalism from fellow progressives

0:50.4

even as they still face vestiges of traditional homophobia and transphobia progressives in fury after exit polls were announced following this month's US election.

1:04.0

In response to reports that the percentage of LGBT voters who supported Trump had nearly doubled

1:09.6

from 2016 to 2020, Blow, who describes himself as bisexual, declared himself, quote, personally

1:17.6

devastated.

1:19.1

With me to discuss the changing face of LGBT politics in the United States is Brad Palumbo, a recent college

1:25.1

graduate and Washington-based reporter and columnist. His articles for Colette include

1:29.9

the politically homeless life of a gay conservative,

1:33.0

red-carded how I got pushed out of an LGBT soccer league for gender wrong thing,

1:38.0

and it's time for LGBT and T

1:45.0

T to go their separate ways. I spoke to Brad this week over Skype. Here are excerpts from our

1:46.8

conversation.

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