Fabulously Polite

It's time to defrost and come back. Oh, how I've missed you.

I want to express my deepest gratitude to Simo for his invaluable contributions and every wonderful moment on the podcast together.

The essence of Fabulously Polite remains unchanged. We'll continue to delve into topics that matter, challenge perspectives, and celebrate the diversity that makes our society so special. Expect new episodes starting this coming week, where we'll explore fresh themes and perhaps revisit some favorites with renewed insight.​

I'm eager to embark on this new chapter with you and would love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, or topics you'd like covered. Feel free to reach out via our Instagram @fabulouslypolite or email at [email protected]

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🎵 @acrillics

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🎙️ Fabulously Polite is a podcast without labels dedicated to human rights, education, art, and culture, focusing on the Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe hosted by Kosta Karakashyan and originally hosted and created with Simeon Todorov.

✨ We are taking a short break to recharge, take care of some things, and come back brighter and bolder in the beginning of 2024. Thank you for all your support and see you back here very soon.

An episode that’s just like a flower with different petals - Madonna’s Celebration Tour, Cher’s Christmas song and album, Army of Lovers’ return, Troye Sivan’s everything, Eastern-European cinema, mental health, coming out, and the usual segments - FMB, Insta Interactions and a Fabulous Proposal.

We talked about:

⛪️ Pope Francis open to blessing same-sex unions, reversing church's stance: https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/03/pope-francis-same-sex-unions 

💃 Madonna’s The Celebration Tour: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Celebration_Tour 

🎄 Cher - DJ Play a Christmas Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPEJooq7kos 

🏳️‍🌈 Troye Sivan - Something to Give Each Other: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_to_Give_Each_Other 

💙 Army of Lovers - Love Is Blue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0sTPo1-vUI&ab_channel=ArmyOfLovers-Topic 

🎥 Housekeeping for Beginners: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt24244436

📽 All of Us Strangers: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21192142/ 

🔜 Kosta’s Double Screening of ‘a real boy’ and In Her Skin: https://www.facebook.com/events/1050579879457066/

📝 Gay Writes - a program of the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation: https://forms.gle/RUyBznf1acPoMKFy7;

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👨 @kostakarakashyan

👦 @simosnima

🎵 @acrillics

🖼️ @despodovv

👋 Send us a written or audio message on Instagram (@fabulouslypolite) and share your thoughts on the episode topic or anything that comes to mind. You can also email us at [email protected]

 💰 Support us on Patreon

🎙️ Fabulously Polite is a podcast without labels dedicated to human rights, education, art, and culture, focusing on the Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe hosted by Kosta Karakashyan and Simeon Todorov

Един юбилеен епизод, който е за редовните ни слушатели. Вместо да си говорим за конкретно и само за подкаста, решихме да си споделим какво за нас е свободата. Разбира се, поднасяме ви новини, култура и информация за личности, както обикновено. Благодарим ви, че сте с нас!

В епизода си говорихме за:

🏳️‍🌈 Положително представената транс секс сцена в Sex Education

💪 Стефанос Каселакис - новият гей глас на Гърция

📺 Rotting in the Sun

💃 XI конкурс за съвременна хореография – трето международно издание - балет Арабеск

💗 Jonathan Bennett / Mean Girls Day

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👨 @kostakarakashyan

👦 @simosnima

🎵 @acrillics

🖼️: @despodovv

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 💰 Подкрепете ни в Patreon.

🎙️ „Прилично поведение“ е подкаст без етикети с водещи Коста Каракашян и Симеон Тодоров.

Maybe Britney’s “Chaotic” inspired us because we “jump” from topic to topic when we talk about our personal lives. As usual, we offer you a few bites of culture and news - from Hungary and Bulgaria, we read some fan mail too. Our main topic is about who gets to play queer characters - we discuss “Heartstopper”, “Red, White and Royal Blue”, “Brokeback Mountain” and “Young Royals”. We have a brand-new segment, inspired by Kit Connor. 

We talked about:

📰 Murphy Brown

👨🏻‍👨🏻‍👧🏻 The Hungarian cover of ELLE Magazine with a pair of gay dads and their child

👩🏻‍⚖️ Bulgaria must recognize same-sex relationships

📺 a real boy on NOWNESS

🍂 Heartstopper

🎂 Red, White and Royal Blue 

🐏 Brokeback Mountain

👯‍♂️ Young Royals

💪🏻 Bros

🗽 Friends

🏞️ Twin Peaks's Denise

🎨 Museum Bums

В жегите обсъждаме как се справяме с работата и дали понякога почивката не се превръща в задължение. Обичаме Трой Сиван и RW&RB – заради които има титаничен сблъсък в рубриката FMB.

В епизода говорихме за:

♟️ FIDE банва транс играчи на шах / NPR

🇺🇸 🇬🇧 Фенове настояват за 3-часовата версия на Red White & Royal Blue / Gay Times

🖼 MADE IN ЛЕЩЕН 2023 | Резидентска изложба #1 на млади български визуални артисти от 31 август – 7 септември – галерия Little Bird Place

📽️ Филмът за Joan Didion - The Center Will Not Hold / Netflix

🤥 Troye Sivan - детекторът на лъжата / Vanity Fair

📖 Федерико Гарсия Лорка / Wikipedia

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👨: @kostakarakashyan

👦: @simosnima

🎵: @acrillics

🖼️: @despodovv

👋: Пратете ни писмено или гласово съобщение в Инстаграм (@fabulouslypolite), за да ни споделите вашите преживявания и истории. Можете да ни изпратите имейл и на [email protected]

 💰: Подкрепете ни в Patreon.

🎙️: „Прилично поведение“ е подкаст без етикети с водещи Коста Каракашян и Симеон Тодоров.

On our second episode in English, we talked about our summer experiences and how growing up we knew we were a bit “different”. We discuss news from different parts of the world, we wish a favourite drag queen a happy birthday and one of the hosts may or may not have threatened Troye Sivan (with his acting skills)!

We talked about:

📚 Antoni Porowski’s book In The Kitchen

😳 Cheyenne Jackson’s photo on IG

🎞 Bulgarian LGBTQ+ film Liuben

🗣 Bulgarian website Mamma Mia on Liuben and LGBTQ+ film distribution in Bulgaria

🖼 Fraenkel Gallery

📺 Heartstopper Season 2

💄 Lady Camden

🎽 Classic Redone

🎧 Sinead O’Connor's I’m Not Bossy, I’m the Boss

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👨: @kostakarakashyan

👦: @simosnima

🎵: @acrillics

🖼️: @despodovv

👋: Send us a written or audio message on Instagram (@fabulouslypolite) and share your thoughts on the episode topic or anything that comes to mind. You can also email us at [email protected]

 💰: Support us on Patreon

🎙️: Fabulously Polite is a podcast without labels dedicated to human rights, education, art and culture, focusing on the Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe hosted by Kosta Karakashyan and Simeon Todorov

Обсъждаме скритата вътрешна / интернализирана хомофобия, цензурата на новото видео на Troye Sivan, новата песен на Britney и много други разнообразни летни теми. Завършваме с призив да рефлектирате къде около вас виждате хомофобия и ви препоръчваме вълнуваща изложба в София.

В епизода говорихме за:

📚Mahala Bookstore

🏳️‍🌈Цензурата на видеото на Troye Sivan към Rush

🎨Изложбата [laɪt] на Стела Василева с куратор Мартина Йорданова

📺The Crowded Room

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👨: @kostakarakashyan

👦: @simosnima

🎵: @acrillics

🖼️: @despodovv

👋: Пратете ни писмено или гласово съобщение в Инстаграм (@fabulouslypolite), за да ни споделите вашите преживявания и истории. Можете да ни изпратите имейл и на [email protected]

 💰: Подкрепете ни в Patreon.

🎙️: „Прилично поведение“ е подкаст без етикети с водещи Коста Каракашян и Симеон Тодоров.

How exciting is this? For our first episode in English, we shared news from around the world, cultural events you can visit in Eastern and Central Europe and we focused on the historical changes in Estonia. 

We talked about:

🇬🇷 Greece’s Prime Minister vows to legalise same-sex marriage | Gay Times

🎬 Xavier Dolan claims he is retiring from filmmaking | Far Out Magazine

🇬🇪 European countries condemn violence against Tbilisi Pride march | POLITICO

🖼️ Little Bird Place

🖼️ Women – the stories of women who have influenced the world | Events | Visit Bratislava 

🖼️ Edna Baud: The Time Is Out of Joint

🖼️ Moments of joy at Vērmanes Garden | LiveRiga

📕 Boyfriend Material (London Calling, #1) by Alexis Hall | Goodreads        

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👨: @kostakarakashyan

👦: @simosnima

🎵: @acrillics

🖼️: @despodovv

👋: Send us a written or audio message on Instagram (@fabulouslypolite) and share your thoughts on the episode topic or anything that comes to mind. You can also email us at [email protected]

 💰: Support us on Patreon.

🎙️: Fabulously Polite is a podcast without labels hosted by Kosta Karakashyan and Simeon Todorov.

Като за последно – как сме, новинарски блок, разказ от София Прайд, културен афиш, разговор за ситуацията в България, FMK, изобщо някой чете ли ги тези описания – последен епизод е, ама не е последен епизод, но е краят на една ера. 

В епизода говорихме за:

🇮🇳 More than half of India's population supports same-sex marriage, study finds / Gay Times

🇮🇸 Conversion Therapy Officially Banned in Historic Icelandic Law / High North News

🎧 Talking with People about Things, with David McRaney / Deconstructing Yourself Podcast

🐘 Cher and the Loneliest Elephant

🇧🇬 Out.bg

🇧🇬 Гласувайте за българските ЛГБТИ+ икони: https://forms.gle/JervW9NXG62QQAW9A 

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👨: @kostakarakashyan

👦: @simosnima

🎵: @acrillics

🖼️: @despodovv

👋: Пратете ни писмено или гласово съобщение в Инстаграм (@prilichnopovedenie), за да ни споделите вашите преживявания и истории. Можете да ни изпратите имейл и на [email protected]

 💰: Подкрепете ни в Patreon.

🎙️: „Прилично поведение“ е подкаст без етикети с водещи Коста Каракашян и Симеон Тодоров.