Are they hot or just sexist? In this Patreon-voted topic, Mike and Kyle talk about the history of daddy issues, Freud, daddy issues for straight women vs. gay men, daddy issues and attachment styles, sugar daddy scams, sex work, and quotes about gay daddy issues.

In this episode: News- 3:10 || Main Topic (Daddy Issues)- 12:00 || Gayest & Straightest- 1:08:39

If you want to join Mike and Kyle on their 2027 Mexican Riviera cruise, visit cruise.freakbooty.com to sign up. Make sure to check Gayish as the podcast you’re attending for.

On the Patreon bonus segment, Mike talks about Pedro Pascal. If you want to support our show while getting ad-free episodes a day early, go to www.patreon.com/gayishpodcast.

It’s not too soon to be thinking about mid-terms! Returning guest and CEO of Oath.vote Brian Derrick joins Gayish to talk about important mid-term elections you’ve never heard of, down-ballot races, the electoral college, gerrymandering, voting rights, the realities of the blue wave, Donald Trump, MAGA, ICE, Project 2025, and LGBT rights.

In this episode: News- 3:22 || Main Topic (Elections)- 12:40 || Guest (Brian Derrick)- 22:49 || Gayest & Straightest- 1:05:55

If you want to join Mike and Kyle on their 2027 Mexican Riviera cruise, visit cruise.freakbooty.com to sign up. Make sure to check Gayish as the podcast you’re attending for.

On the Patreon bonus segment, Kyle shares with Mike tips on how to survey elections with your sanity intact. If you want to support our show while getting ad-free episodes a day early, go to www.patreon.com/gayishpodcast.

Stick it in my meatus! On this doozie of an episode, Mike and Kyle talk about sounding, including what it is, porn statistics about sounding, safety tips for sounding, quotes from sounding experts, and insight on the differences between penile and vulvar sounding. We don’t have a trigger warning on this episode, but maybe we should have? Listen at your own risk!

In this episode: News- 1:19 || Main Topic (Sounding)- 7:09 || Gayest & Straightest- 54:03

If you want to join Mike and Kyle on their 2027 Mexican Riviera cruise, visit cruise.freakbooty.com to sign up. Make sure to check Gayish as the podcast you’re attending for.

On the Patreon bonus segment, Kyle shares with Mike an Ask Reddit highlighting the gay community’s opinions of sounding. If you want to support our show while getting ad-free episodes a day early, go to www.patreon.com/gayishpodcast.

Is it just a euphemism for Grindr? Does anyone meet anywhere else these days? Haven’t they already covered this topic? Mike and Kyle answer all these questions and more, including what’s changed about dating apps recently, AI photo fraud, romance scams, Match Group, enshitification, and Hinge’s “Designed to be Deleted” ad campaign.

In this episode: News- 4:17 || Main Topic (Dating Apps)- 14:33 || Gayest & Straightest- 1:12:35

If you want to join Mike and Kyle on their 2027 Mexican Riviera cruise, visit cruise.freakbooty.com to sign up. Make sure to check Gayish as the podcast you’re attending for.

On the Patreon bonus segment, Mike shares with Kyle dating/hookup profiles he found online. If you want to support our show while getting ad-free episodes a day early, go to www.patreon.com/gayishpodcast.

In this rare PG episode from our live show at Indy PopCon, Mike and Kyle talk about the history of libraries, the Library of Alexandria, Sapphos’ poetry, Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, Nazi book burnings, the ONE Archives, banned books, and how librarians are lesbian-coded.

In this episode: News- 4:45 || Main Topic (Libraries)- 10:51 || Gayest & Straightest- 45:12

If you want to join Mike and Kyle on their 2027 Mexican Riviera cruise, visit www.gayishpodcast.com/cruise to sign up. Make sure to check Gayish as the podcast you’re attending for.

On the Patreon bonus segment, Mike tells Kyle about portrayals of libraries in media. If you want to support our show while getting ad-free episodes a day early, go to www.patreon.com/gayishpodcast.

Drink your juice, Gayish! Mike and Kyle talk about the gay classic movie Steel Magnolias, including the gay man who wrote it, Mike’s feelings about Julia Roberts, the racial inequality and the all-Black cast remake, what kind of a name is M’Lynn, the meaning behind the name Steel Magnolias, whether it’s camp, and if it deserves its place as a gay classic film.

In this episode: News- 5:02 || Main Topic (Steel Magnolias)- 17:34 || Gayest & Straightest- 1:14:04

See Mike and Kyle live at PopCon in the Indiana Events Center in Indianapolis on Saturday, May 9 at 6pm. Get tickets at https://popcon.us/popcon-indy/.

If you want to join Mike and Kyle on their 2027 Mexican Riviera cruise, visit www.gayishpodcast.com/cruise to sign up. Make sure to check Gayish as the podcast you’re attending for.

On the Patreon bonus segment, Kyle shares with Mike some romcoms that romanticize stalking behavior. If you want to support our show while getting ad-free episodes a day early, go to www.patreon.com/gayishpodcast. Remember, the next Patreon Happy Hour is Wednesday, May 6 @ 6pm Pacific / 9pm Eastern. Check Patreon for the link the day of. We’re looking forward to seeing you then!

Surreptitiously follow us as we walk down the metaphorical sidewalk that is this episode. Mike and Kyle talk about the difference between voyeuristic behavior and stalking, social media stalking, the writings of Sappho of Lesbos and Shakespeare, cases like Oscar Wilde, Versace and Andrew Cunanan, and John Hinckley Jr. and Jodie Foster, gayta on stalking for sexual minorities vs. straight people, cyberstalking, and burners on gay online spaces like Grindr and Sniffies.

In this episode: News- 3:50 || Main Topic (Stalking)- 16:12 || Gayest & Straightest- 1:26:52

See Mike and Kyle live at PopCon in the Indiana Events Center in Indianapolis on Saturday, May 9 at 6pm. Get tickets at https://popcon.us/popcon-indy/.

If you want to join Mike and Kyle on their 2027 Mexican Riviera cruise, visit www.gayishpodcast.com/cruise to sign up. Make sure to check Gayish as the podcast you’re attending for.

On the Patreon bonus segment, Kyle shares with Mike some romcoms that romanticize stalking behavior. If you want to support our show while getting ad-free episodes a day early, go to www.patreon.com/gayishpodcast. Remember, the next Patreon Happy Hour is Wednesday, May 6 @ 6pm Pacific / 9pm Eastern. Check Patreon for the link the day of. We’re looking forward to seeing you then!

Om nom nom (but not vore). In this accidental repeat of a topic, Mike and Kyle talk about the evolution of biting, preying mantis sex, dick biting, rough sex, lesbian vampires, bite mark analysis in court cases, nail biting, and Mike Tyson.

In this episode: News- 3:16 || Main Topic (Biting)- 15:06 || Gayest & Straightest- 1:21:48

See Mike and Kyle live at PopCon in the Indiana Events Center in Indianapolis on Saturday, May 9 at 6pm. Get tickets at https://popcon.us/popcon-indy/.

If you want to join Mike and Kyle on their 2027 Mexican Riviera cruise, visit www.gayishpodcast.com/cruise to sign up. Make sure to check Gayish as the podcast you’re attending for.

On the Patreon bonus segment, Mike tells Kyle something about Star Trek, IDK I forget. If you want to support our show while getting ad-free episodes a day early, go to www.patreon.com/gayishpodcast.

Graham Gremore, the editor-in-chief of Queerty, joins us to talk all thing pop culture, including Heated Rivalry, the ElphaBUTT Throbb, Devil Wears Prada 2, Ivanka Trump, the Kardashians, Nicki Minaj, gay anthems, Dawson’s Creek, Britney Spears, douching, and DTF St. Louis. Plus, a bonus conversation about Minneapolis’ bathhouses.

In this episode: News- 2:36 || Main Topic (Pop Culture)- 13:22 || Guest (Graham Gremore)- 22:54 || Gayest & Straightest- 1:09:42

See Mike and Kyle live at PopCon in the Indiana Events Center in Indianapolis on Saturday, May 9 at 6pm. Get tickets at https://popcon.us/popcon-indy/.

If you want to join Mike and Kyle on their 2027 Mexican Riviera cruise, visit www.gayishpodcast.com/cruise to sign up. Make sure to check Gayish as the podcast you’re attending for.

On the Patreon bonus segment, Kyle and Mike take a look at a negative comment they got about their pop culture beliefs. If you want to support our show while getting ad-free episodes a day early, go to www.patreon.com/gayishpodcast.

Massages may start all the way back at the Egyptians, but we’re happy about the ending, too. Mike and Kyle talk about the history of massages, women and gays as massage therapists, touch deprivation (which disproportionately affects queer people), and the benefits of massage to people with HIV/AIDS,

In this episode: News- 4:09 || Main Topic (Massages)- 18:31 || Gayest & Straightest- 1:13:09

If you want to join Mike and Kyle on their 2027 Mexican Riviera cruise, visit www.gayishpodcast.com/cruise to sign up. Make sure to check Gayish as the podcast you’re attending for.

On the Patreon bonus segment, Mike tells Kyle about the “it was just a massage” excuse. If you want to support our show while getting ad-free episodes a day early, go to www.patreon.com/gayishpodcast.