Stay ConnectedOutward, Slate’s queer podcast, is a whip-smart monthly salon in which hosts and guests deepen the audience’s understanding of queer culture and politics, delight them with unexpected perspectives, and invite listeners into a colorful conversation about the issues animating LGBTQ communities.
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Christina Cauterucci and Bryan Lowder welcome our new third co-host, Jules Gill-Peterson, and talk to author Dr. Kevin Guyan about his new book Queer Data. The crew then explores the trans storylines and general weirdness of And Just Like That, the “next chapter” in the Sex and the City universe, before adding more items to the Gay Agenda.
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Christina and Bryan discuss the finer points of new queer Christmas movies—like, how realistic is Netflix’s Single All The Way?—and why that harness joke in Lifetime’s Under The Christmas Tree was so jarring. We’re also joined by some special guests who share Prides and Provocations from the past year and explore Premonitions for 2022. We close the year with bell hooks and trans triumphs in the Gay Agenda.
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Christina and Bryan welcome guest host Carolyn Bergier, co-host of the podcast Dyking Out. The crew explore the ups and downs of the Amazon lesbian reality TV show Tampa Baes. They then talk about Billy Porter’s fashion beef with Harry Styles, what queer fashion and signifiers actually mean, and whether they matter anymore. And finally, queer burlesque, queer DJ sets, and butch dykes for our Gay Agenda.
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Christina and Bryan take us into Queer History Month with thoughts on Reba McEntire and queer inclusion in historically misogynistic places. They welcome Adam Zmith, author of Deep Sniff, a book on the queer history of poppers, and writer Jude Doyle, who talks about what we missed in the recent documentary about transmasculine Black feminist icon Pauli Murray. Finally, our guests add supersmart, compelling items to this month’s Gay Agenda.
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Christina, Bryan, and Slate Senior Managing Producer June Thomas say farewell to outgoing host Rumaan Alam, then welcome journalist Casey Newton to discuss Grindr's data security problem and its inherent potential for ruining self-esteem. They then delve into Todd Stephens' Swan Song, a beautiful new film about an old queen, his cross-town journey to find hair products fit for styling his dead client, and the closure it brings.
Items discussed in the show:
Swan Song, directed by Todd Stephens
Gay Agenda
Christina: Eric Cervini's Queer History 101
June: Olivia on the Record, by Ginny Berson
Bryan: two-room tents!
This podcast was produced by Katya Kumkova.
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It’s August, and Outward is leaning into the heat. First, Christina, Bryan, and Rumaan gab about the beach. Why, exactly, are queer beaches so delightful? Is there a secret geography of finding the gay beach? They then talk to GirlFlexx, a female dom stripper who performs largely for straight women in a traditionally male style -- and kills it in adoration and tips.
Items discussed on the show:
An ice cream cake you can make "in the back of your car."
The upcoming Chromatica remix album, confirmed by Lady Gaga.
Outsports.com's coverage of the Olympics.
Provincetown's citizen scientist effort to contact trace a Delta variant outbreak.
A lawyer who fought for marriage equality helped disgraced Governor Andrew Cuomo discredit abuse victims.
A primer on lesbian dom strippers.
Gay Agenda
Bryan: Lindsay Morris and Ruth Padawar's photo essay about Camp I Am.
Rumaan: Colm Toibin's The Master.
Christina: The L Word: Generation Q.
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A year-and-a-half into the pandemic, Christina, Bryan, and Rumaan look back at all the times we did not get to share our milestones -- good, bad, or just big -- with other queers. If a queer comes out in the forest where no one can hear them are they still queer? Yes, but perhaps less joyfully than if they had been in community. The hosts then speak with Lucia Lucas, the first female baritone to perform a principal opera role on the American stage as Don Giovanni.
Items discussed on the show:
A recent assault at Nellie's gay bar in DC draws protests.
Richard Branson wore a rainbow ribbon during his space flight.
Breakthrough COVID infections strike Provincetown.
The Sound of Identity, a documentary about Lucia Lucas's appearance as Don Giovanni.
Gay Agenda
Bryan: director's cut of Studio 54
Christina: How Twitter Can Ruin a Life by Emily VanDerWerff
Rumaan: two wistful and sexy short stories read by author Douglas Stuart on The Writer's Voice podcast.
This podcast was produced by Katya Kumkova.
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It’s Pride month, which means Outward is feeling particularly festive! Christina, Bryan, and Rumaan are joined by musician Julien Baker to discuss her feelings about Pride, queerness, fluidity, and ways of interpreting queer art. Then Jillian Hanlon, a trans cop in upstate New York, joins to offer her take on the recent debate over cops at Pride.
Items discussed on the show:
Skittles go gray for Pride month.
A Twitter thread about kink at Pride.
Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America, by Mary Gray
Julien Baker interview on Working
Julien Baker on the Queerology podcast
The October 2018 Outward episode that includes interviews with members of No Justice No Pride and Reclaim Pride
“A Mistep by the Organizers of Pride,” by the New York Times’ Editorial Board
“The New York Times Doesn’t Know What Pride Is For,” by J. Bryan Lowder, in Slate
Gay Agenda
Christina: Drew Gregory’s interview with Daniela Sea in Autostraddle
Bryan: Hola Papi, by John Paul Brammer
Rumaan: You are enough, queer comrades!
This podcast was produced by Margaret Kelley and June Thomas.
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The Waves is back, and we thought Outward listeners might enjoy this week's episode about Season 3 of Master of None, which focuses on a Black lesbian relationship. But is it worth watching?
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This month, Christina, Bryan, and Rumaan are joined by Sarah Schulman, whose new book Let the Record Show sets out to correct inaccurate representations of ACT UP New York, its tactics, and its philosophy of direct action in response to the AIDS epidemic. Then they discuss three collections of photographs of LGBTQ people. Who are they for, and will they be seen by the people who need them most?
Items discussed on the show:
"How to Be a Queer Person in the World Post-Quarantine," by Naveen Kumar
The section of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass that begins, "I have perceived that to be with those I like is enough.”
Let The Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-93, by Sarah Schulman
Sarah’s appearance on the June 10, 2020, episode of Outward, “ACT UP and Larry Kramer's Legacy”
The ACT UP Oral History Project
Self Evident Truths: 10,000 Portraits of Queer America, by IO Tillett Wright
Queer Love in Color, by Jamal Jordan
Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians, by JEB (Joan E. Biren)
Gay Agenda
Bryan: Taylor Mac’s "Whitman in the Woods"
Christina: Call My Agent
Rumaan: Halston
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