Fancy Face & Friends

This episode's guest features Shorlette, a queer single mother from North Carolina. She opens up about her ex-husband's support, her twin sister that is lesbian and how the dynamic has affected her family. She also talks about the girlfriend she was spending time with in a mall that sparked a protest and national news coverage, which led to her coming out to her family. It's an interesting tale of trial, error, and triumph.

Being a New Yorker, Mark knows all about the significance of Stonewall, Pride, and the 50th anniversary of the iconic riots that started it all. We also talk about our first Pride parades and some of our younger gay experiences in NYC.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi and what she thinks about impeachment or imprisonment. We also talk about the exhaustive list of Democratic Presidential Candidates and Aaron breaks down his thoughts on Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders, Andrew Yang, Julian Castro and more.

We talk about the wave of US states passing a bill to ban abortions or "heartbeat bills." Kara opens up about being "pro life" in the past but why she believes in being "pro choice." We also talk about the male lawmakers making these decisions for women, and planned parenthood inaccuracies. Also would these laws be passed under a different administration?

One son's journey back from London to Blackburn helping his parents through his father's Alzheimer's diagnosis. His father's denial and darkness with the disease, his mother's strength and struggle...and how he's coping. Simon shares the ups and downs of dealing with his father's Alzheimer's and bringing his father back to his musical background by creating Song A Minute Man.

Check out: https://songaminuteman.com/ for more information, including the album and book.

I was interested in talking to three women (Adalia in China, Tiffany in LA and Saffy in the Orlando, FL area) from the popular Facebook group Nomad•ness Travel Tribe about their experiences traveling and living abroad. I wanted to know where they have felt safe and if they have had un-safe experiences. We also talk about staying in Airbnbs with male hosts and whether or not stories of women being attacked on solo trips makes them feel discouraged about traveling. They also give a few tips of how they move during their solo trips.

JJ Shurte, Author of "Days Too Dark" (a post apocalyptic epistolary novel set in the ruins of Australia) opens up about what inspires his writing, why he loves the Apocalyptic genre and whether or not he sees himself as a optimist or pessimist.

Will a disease, aliens, climate change, World War 3, or something else cause an apocalyptic or dystopian future? We talk about the current state of the world and the possibilities.

Aaron and I discuss the latest headlines, Jussie Smollett and the Chicago PD and the mess that is his case. Cardi B claims she robbed men to survive and there is a backlash with "Surviving Cardi B" so we talk about her, her actions, and sex working in general. The country Brunei's Anti-LGBT new Sharia law means punishing homosexual sex with death by stoning.

And lastly I mention Aaron's Facebook surrounding the death of Nispey Hussle and Dr. Sebi, where Aaron writes, "Sebi "cured" AIDS in 1988 but Big Pharma suppressed it...then waited 28 years to kill him?" We dive into his beliefs that it's nothing more than a conspiracy theory.

With shocking statistics such as the average college debt and the high levels of anxiety and stress, Danielle joins me discussing mistakes and mentalities we have when it comes to education and work. We met working together in Los Angeles and open up about the issues we've had working with that company and 9-5s in general.

So happy to have someone I haven't caught up with in years, Toby, joining me from London. We talk about meeting through "gay" boxing lessons and our experiences dating. I share a particular experience I had in Los Angeles dating and Toby opens up about his mysterious "maybe" celebrity that he was in love at first sight with. We also talk about rejection and being in the peripheral of dating.