Hello, hello, and welcome back to A BitFruity. I'm Matt Bernstein. Thank you so much for being here. And

happy pride. We're going to give you a little pride episode today. It's going to be kind of a dark

pride episode, but a pride episode nonetheless. I'm a little hungover. As of the time we're recording

this, Zoron, Mamdani won the New York City Democratic primary last night.

And so it's kind of a rare moment where on the A Bit Fruitie podcast, we are in a very, very, very good mood.

And so we have to do something about that.

We got to ruin it. So there's been this weird. So there's been this weird trend that I've noticed over the last few years, and you might have two, which is that in one way or another, a lot of people seem to be going back into the closet.

One particular instance of this that I've been paying attention to for like four years now is that of Lohanthony,

the once flamboyant, out and proud YouTube A-Lister, who's now a Trump-supporting gospel musician.

Yes, more on that in a second.

But versions of this keep happening, whether it's gay influencers, inexplicably becoming born-again Christians and renouncing their identities, or the seemingly never-ending stream

of new detrans Twitter personalities, many of whom seem to be struggling with their gender

identity very publicly, while claiming at the same time that they've returned to the body

God intended them to live in. It's bizarre. And, you know, the term conversion therapy gets

thrown around a lot, but what does that look like in 2025?

And how do we grapple with the idea that queer adults could be making these decisions entirely on their own, supposedly?

I want to interrogate what I've pieced together from observing this bizarre and honestly

very dark pattern that I've been noticing, try to make sense

of it and hopefully create a path forward where this doesn't keep happening.

Because I want my girls to be out.

It's fucking pride.

Why are you in the closet?

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