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Is this show gratuitously insulting?
Won’t be listening to a second more of this show. The League Of their Own episode should be taken down. Gratuitously gay? Lip service? And you didn’t even know the name of the main character. The lack of thought that went into this was awful and insulting and disappointing. How harmful to put out into the world that a beautiful, meaningful, researched, queer-fronted show is gratuitously gay. That show is exactly the kind of authentic representation we need, and you just call it gratuitous?
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Frustrated Ex Subscriber
Ditto to the last unsubscribing review- was a 3 year listener (since the Brandon Tensley days) and grew pretty frustrated by the over analysis of rom coms like the holiday episode and the Fire Island episode. Is that really the stuff they set out to do? And with one pod a month, is that the best use of anyone’s time? The culture stuff clearly doesn’t bring them joy (Bryan even says he hates rom coms in the Fire island episode) when the filmmakers are working so hard to bring joy to others in this joyless world. Let rom coms be rom coms and stick to the doom and gloom facing our community that you cover quite well!
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Smart & Fun
I love this podcast. It brings consistently thoughtful perspectives from informed hosts with a good blend of topics across the LGBTQ spectrum. I’ve discovered so much queer content thanks to their recommendations over the years. 🙏
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Love it!
I have been a far on this podcast for a couple years and really have loved almost every episode! I love all the hosts’ personalities and feel like they all have different but interesting things to say. 💓💓
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Complicated at best
Lonnnnnng time listener who has been growing tired of the show having a static idea of what queerness is. Finally had to unfollow today after the discussion of how “some queer content shouldn’t be made”. As someone who believes that we need MORE queer content and celebrates the fact that now we have so much content we can even celebrate the bad … I’m gonna celebrate this pod and the years of listening by giving you a 4 star rating but also unsubscribing.
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Who designed your cover?
Speaks volumes.
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This Podcast is Giving Me Life!
This forum consistently provides entertaining, thought-provoking, and insightful discussions about queer culture that never fail to make me laugh, learn, and re-evaluate my own takes on queer life. It’s not stuffy at all but rather very engaging talk about books, movies, people and pop culture that I’ve come to see as invaluable.
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Gate keeping one minute in!
Wow. The recent reviews say it all. I identify as a queer man and found it really strange that the first thing they start with is stuff that bothers them. The person in the FIRST episode said people who wear harnesses that aren’t in the leather community ‘provoke’ them…it doesn’t even make sense when I read it! Queer communities cannot be created and sustained when you immediately tear folks down for not participating in the ways that you deem acceptable. Disappointed to see that later episodes still feature a lot of gate keeping. Gross.
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Smug and vapid
Really can’t stand them.
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Painfully predictable
What is the point of having three hosts who all agree on every point? It feels like these hosts would simply trash talk anyone who disagreed with them behind the person’s back. Listening to the hosts, I actually now understand how the right feels about the left. The podcast has a strangely Stalinist quality.
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Sarah Shulman
Give her an award for tolerating the vapid, pointless hosts.
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Not for me
I discovered this podcast through the culture gabfest. I’m a gwm in my 50s and have been out and proud since I was 20. I started listening from the beginning but had to quit. The hosts are mostly there to police queer culture. They’re continually “provoked” by the smallest missteps by allies like Joe Biden, yet never discuss truly toxic people like Aaron Schock (maybe they get to him in a more recent episode). None of the current hosts are single and the show never touches on the experience of single gay people. It’s completely east coast centric. Almost no attention is paid to older gay people. They criticize others from a position of privilege without a hint of self-awareness. It’s upsetting to see everything my generation fought for devolve into this mess.
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Stop trying to Make Outward Happen
I was please to get an into to this podcast, via The Waves podcast, but after listening to 4 or 5 episodes, I'm out. It's way too navel-gazing and self-congratulatory.Now? I resent the heck out of the fact that Slate keeps forcing this on me, via my subscription to The Waves.Slate, to paraphrase Regina George, "Stop trying to make Outward happen!"
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Yes! Yes! Yes!
We have been sadly lacking in intelligent and fun LGBTQ talk until now! Thanks for doing this, nice job peeps.
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So judgmental. It’s sad.
I was excited to try this podcast but...During each episode I listened to, I kept cringing & eventually had to stop. Not everyone’s journey is the same. Stop bashing people for what they do not know. Or for feeling the way they feel because it is not exactly like your feelings. How hypocritical. To each their own. Not everyone was coming out had the capabilities to be educated on every single aspect of LGBTQIA history since the beginning of time or the random facts people create everyday to describe some random sex position or preference of who they like from a visual stand point. Make this more of a fun happy experience and discussion.
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Exhausting
It gets old listening to essentialist takes on queerness and sexuality. Not every person has had the privilege of community when forging their identity, and not everyone’s experience can be reduced down to whatever fits into mainstream queer culture. WNYC’s Nancy does a much better job of approaching LGTBQIA+ topics without disdain, condescension, etc.
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Disappointing
I enjoyed listening to this until the topic of Mayor Pete came up. Apparently he is not gay enough for them and every little action by Pete needs to be dissected and evaluated. Oh you don’t like the words he used when speaking about his sexuality and coming out? He doesn’t know enough about queer history? Is he part of a scene? Talk like this will only give us 4 more years of you know who.
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An ok podcast...but the Mayor Pete over analyzation is laughable
Decent podcast. The hosts certainly have good chemistry. But the Mayor Pete stuff is absurd. A look at how Queer people are overanalyzing Mayor Pete’s relationship to queerness, to the point of sabotage would have been more interesting than, well...another over-analyzation of Mayor Pete’s relationship to queerness. Won’t listen again.
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I have learned so much!!!
Wow!!!
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twitter hot takes spoken word
the irony of watching the hosts talk about removing litmus tests on trans and bi folks while also being the first to call out already established queer voices for micro slights is apparently lost on the editor/s of this show if there indeed are any. virtue signaling porcelain fragile hosts take call out laden twitter hot takes and regurgitate them into your headphones. but that may just be me.
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Outward, 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.