This week, the Outward hosts discuss Fellow Travelers, a new historical drama from Showtime that takes us into gay D.C during the Lavender Scare of the 1950’s. Bryan, Christina, and Jules dive into the sex and the sexual politics of the show and answer the most important question, were people really that hot in the 1950s?

Pride and Provocations:
All the Only Ones
Your Kid is Trans. You Live in Texas. There Are No Good Options
LaundryTok with Melissa Pateras

Gay Agenda
The Risk it Takes to Bloom
Pride Flag: Birth of a Rainbow

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Fellow Travelers Brings the Gay Sex and Questionable Anachronism

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This week, Bryan dives into the world of sports to talk about the often obscured queer history of the Olympics with writer Michael Waters. Michael’s new book ‘The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports’ highlights the gripping true stories of pioneering trans and intersex athletes from the 1936 Olympics.
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The Trans History of the 1936 Olympics with Michael Waters

This week Christina Cauterucci returns to Outward to talk with Bryan about her experience making ‘Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs’ and diving into one of the most consequential civil rights battles in American history: the first-ever statewide vote on gay rights.
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Behind the Scenes of ‘Gays Against Briggs’ with Christina Cauterucci

This week Bryan and Jules are joined by new contributor Mathew Rodriguez for a round of advice. They tackle who gets to use ‘they’, raising polite and inclusive kids, and help one listener navigate the aggressive gender politics of straight weddings.
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Evolving Our Social Scripts - Queer Advice with Mathew Rodriguez

This week Bryan talks to Lucas LaRochelle, the creator of the online platform Queering the Map. Queering the Map is a community-generated digital archive and map of LGBTQ2IA+ experiences around the globe. They dig into the map’s beginnings, stories from the platform, and how this archive has been able to share queer joy, sorrow, and possibility across continents and in 23 languages. 

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Queering the Map with Lucas LaRochelle

Former Outward producer June Thomas joins Bryan and Jules to chat about the very gay new series from Starz, Mary and George. They talk 16th-century sex and sexuality and share their prides, provocations, and the gay agenda for May. 
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Fellow Travelers Brings the Gay Sex and Questionable Anachronism

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