Jay offers a quick reminder to contact your representatives to combat anti-LGBT laws coming down the pipelines.

http://house.gov

https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights-2024

Jay chats with his friend Sam Milazzo about they learned to accept their sexual orientations, and how they played a role in each other's journeys.

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Angelo Thomas returns to talk with Jay about the movies they saw in 2023. Alamo Drafthouse, sponsor us!

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Jay talks with his friend Zoe O'Haillin-Berne about how trans rights are currently under attack in the USA. Zoe talks about her own journey and a little bit of queer history and encourages you to take action.

Sylvia Rivera at the 1973 Christopher Street Gay Pride Rally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb-JIOWUw1o

Contact your representatives: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

The Trevor Project: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

GLSEN: https://www.glsen.org/

Jay is joined by friend Jonathan Miranda to discuss the woman, the icon, Barbie! Some thoughts on the franchise's history, surprise gay Kens, the movies and a little bit of Saltburn. (It's connected, we promise.)

Originally intended to be the first proper episode of Let's Get Both Ties, this attempted crossover with The Royal Podcast of Oz was more experimental and doesn't quite reflect the format we're now pursuing. However, author Paul Dana is wonderful guest and we appreciate him spending time talking to Jay. So we present the conversations largely unedited, after trying to fix the sound levels and removing background noise.

The original files are on Jay's first streaming laptop which broke, luckily, a YouTube upload of them provided an easy archive.

Tara Tagliaferro of Down the Yellow Brick Pod joins Jay in talking about the Strega Nona franchise by Tomie dePaola and its queer elements. They branch into other favorite holiday favorites that shaped their childhoods as well, but an Italian good witch remains at the core.

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Listen to this month's opening and closing music in full: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT-Rvi6VROw

Jay has his father sit down and discuss their holiday memories of celebrating Christmas.

Jay is joined by Tim Tucker to discuss L. Frank Baum's The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, the 1902 novel that took a different approach to Santa Claus mythos.

Jay reads his Medium article featuring a lot of fun facts about The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.

If you'd like to read along (or read instead): https://medium.com/@youtuber86/fourteen-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-nutcracker-addf05ff0faa

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