Lez Hang Out | A Lesbian Podcast

Lez Hang Out is proud to be sponsored by Bellesa Boutique.

EVERYONE who signs up to our giveaway wins a FREE spicy toy or gift card for toys! https://bbvibes.com/lezhangout  #bbpartner

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Getting to create and grow our Patreon family has been one of our favorite experiences of the past 10 years. We have so many wonderful memories from watch parties, game nights, trivia, and even getting to meet some of you in person!

Now, we’re asking our community to help us hit a very specific goal: 100 paid $10-tier patrons by October 1st. It costs us about $800 every month just to produce Lez Hang Out, regardless of how many people listen. And while we don’t currently pay ourselves for hosting and producing the show, we do want to continue paying our Production Assistant, Kristin, who keeps approximately 700,000 things running behind the scenes.

Your Patreon support helps cover the real costs of making this show and allows us to keep compensating the person doing the behind-the-scenes work that keeps Lez Hang Out going. If you want to become part of our exclusive community (one of us, one of us!), you can join today for $10/month. Choose the annual option at sign-up for an automatic discount!

100 patrons at $10/month would make a huge difference for us. If you love Lez Hang Out and want to help us keep making it, this is one of the most direct ways you can support the show. 

Do you feel that chill in the air? Stock up now for hoa hoa homo season at bit.ly/lezmerch with our special collection featuring gay ghosties and the skeletons that refused to stay in the closet. 

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Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that knows figuring out who you are is rarely a straight line.

This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) is joined by award-winning author, KB Brookins (@earthtokb), for a discussion about their 2025 Lambda Award Winning debut memoir, Pretty, now available in paperback! 

In Pretty, KB explores the complicated gap between how we see ourselves and how the world sees us. Part memoir, part cultural critique, it’s a love letter to Black trans masculinity and a powerful call for all humans to question the assumptions and expectations we inherit from being raised within a structurally racist, cisheteronormative society. Using a mix of poetry and prose, KB reflects on growing up in the ’90s and 2000s, when “no homo” was a punchline, “that’s so gay” was a common insult, same-sex marriage was still illegal, and the language available for understanding queer and trans identities was often limited, stigmatizing, or outright harmful. 

Honestly, Emma Specter of Vogue said it perfectly already–Pretty, “at its heart is a carefully sketched-out–and often devastating–portrait of what it means to be Black and transmasculine in Texas, a state that continues to criminalize both of those identities”.  

While today’s greater visibility of trans and nonbinary identities gives people more opportunities to question, explore, and understand themselves, KB’s journey was also shaped by the specific cultural expectations and assumptions attached to being perceived as a Black girl in Texas. Pretty traces that winding process of unlearning those expectations, questioning who they were told they should be, and ultimately finding the freedom to recognize themselves as the Black transmasculine person they have always been inside.

Don’t forget to support your local bookstores by snagging your own copy of Pretty at Bookshop.org. 

Lez Hang Out is an independently produced show. Find us on Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Tiktok and Bluesky (@lezhangoutpod) or email us at [email protected].

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Lez Hang Out is proud to be sponsored by Bellesa Boutique.

EVERYONE who signs up to our giveaway wins a FREE spicy toy or gift card for toys! https://bbvibes.com/lezhangout 

#bbpartner

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Getting to create and grow our Patreon family has been one of our favorite experiences of the past 10 years. We have so many wonderful memories from watch parties, game nights, trivia, and even getting to meet some of you in person!

Now, we’re asking our community to help us hit a very specific goal: 100 paid $10-tier patrons by October 1st. It costs us about $800 every month just to produce Lez Hang Out, regardless of how many people listen. And while we don’t currently pay ourselves for hosting and producing the show, we do want to continue paying our Production Assistant, Kristin, who keeps approximately 700,000 things running behind the scenes and is basically the reason anything gets done. 

Your Patreon support helps cover the real costs of making this show and allows us to keep compensating the person doing the behind-the-scenes work that keeps Lez Hang Out going. If you want to become part of our exclusive community (one of us, one of us!), you can join today for $10/month. Choose the annual option at sign-up for an automatic discount!

100 patrons at $10/month would make a huge difference for us. If you love Lez Hang Out and want to help us keep making it, this is one of the most direct ways you can support the show. 

You can also support (and rep!) the pod by shopping small at bit.ly/lezmerch.

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Get in gays, we’re all going to Spooky Island for some fun conversion camp highjinks!

This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out and talk about why the 2002 box office smash hit, Scooby-Doo, Should’ve Been Gay. If you, like us, are a gay of a certain age, this live action version of the classic cartoon has lived rent free in your head ever since you first laid eyes on Linda Cardellini as Velma. 

The Mystery Incorporated polycule has been wrecking villains’ plans since 1969! Every iteration of Scooby-Doo from that very first cartoon onward has gotten gayer and gayer– to the point that Velma is canonically a lesbian in 2022’s Trick or Treat, Scooby-Doo. And we would have had gay Velma on our screens much, much earlier if it hadn’t been for those meddling homophobes in Hollywood #releasethekiss. The fact that a kiss between Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Daphne and Linda Cardellini’s Velma was filmed and then hidden from us for 24 years is a hate crime against the queer community. We have never recovered. We may never recover. We ride at dawn.

We know one thing for sure, Scooby-Doo Should’ve Been Gay.

Give us your own answers to our Q & Gay and follow along on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and BlueSky @lezhangoutpod. Email us @[email protected]. Connect with us individually: Ellie Brigida (@elliebrigida). Leigh Holmes Foster (@lshfoster).

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Lez Hang Out is proud to be sponsored by Bellesa Boutique.

EVERYONE who signs up to our giveaway wins a FREE spicy toy or gift card for toys! https://www.bboutique.co/vibe/lezhangout-pod #bbpartner

Getting to create and grow our Patreon family has been one of our favorite experiences of the past 10 years. We have so many wonderful memories from watch parties, game nights, trivias and even getting to meet some of you in person! If you want to become part of our exclusive community (one of us, one of us) you can join today for just $5/month (do yourself a favor and choose annual at sign up for an automatic discount). 

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that is officially entering the double digits club. This week, co-hosts Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) reminisce about the past ten years, beginning with the airport phone call that started it all. 

Lez be honest, it’s been an absolute rollercoaster of a decade. Queer media and fandom have changed almost beyond recognition. Weekly releases, longer seasons, queer-focused conventions, sapphic shows, and highly engaged casts once gave fandoms room to grow. It wasn’t perfect. Hollywood still loved burying our gays once we got attached; but at least we had them. Now, queer characters are harder to find, seasons are shorter, and if we do get a queer show, there’s a good chance it won’t even make it to season two. 

We have been yelling about the importance of positive LGBTQ+ representation on screen for literally 10 years. If you have been with us from the beginning, we’d love to hear from you! 

Find us on Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Tiktok and Bluesky (@lezhangoutpod) or email us at [email protected] and let us know your favorite (and least favorite) episodes, moments, guests, or events. And don’t forget to enter our giveaway where everyone is a winner! 

Feeling a chill in the air? Stock up for spooky season at bit.ly/lezmerch with our special collection featuring gay ghosties and gender neutral skellies.

Leaving a rating/review is an easy (& free!) way to support the podcast. Your review helps others find our community.

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We hope you have been having a hot gay summer! While you wait for Lez Hang Out to return with our 10th season of lesbian shenanigans, check out this sizzling episode on Love Lies Bleeding from our friends over at But I’m a Lesbian pod.

Don’t want to wait to hear more of Ellie and Leigh? You’re in luck! Join our Patreon family at bit.ly/lezpatreon for as low as $5/month and unlock our growing library of 25+ full length ad-free bonus episodes (as well as a bunch of other perks like free mp3 downloads of ALL our original songs).

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Love Lies Bleeding is not your average sapphic romance, and honestly?Thank goodness! This week, we’re breaking down the murder, the muscles, and the bad decisions that make this film such a wild (yet fun) ride! We get into the twisted love story at the center, the extremely hot actors, and the way desire spirals into something dangerous. It’s gritty, intense, and unapologetically gay- and we’re unpacking what works, what shocks us, and what lingers long after the credits roll (hint: it’s a sex scene that we can’t stop thinking about). Join us for a chaotic, spoiler-filled conversation about love, power, and just how far you’d go for your lady love! Make sure to stay for the full episode, because we go through a history of scissoring/tribbing to clear up all the misconceptions we have heard!

But I’m a Lesbian is hosted and produced by Katlynn Beatty and Angelina Herrera. Production and Mixing by Victoria Shifflett. Creative direction and video editing provided by Juanita Iriarte. Music by Stiletto Falsetto. Do you need some sapphic advice? Send in your dilemma for our "Dear Dykes" segment at tinyurl.com/BIAL-Dear-Dykes. This is your chance to be featured in a pod episode!

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Missing Lez Hang Out? Join our Patreon family for instant access to 25+ full length bonus-episodes! Check out bonus episodes and additional perks like mp3 downloads of all our original music and our entire catalogue of episodes in an ad-free format at patreon.com/lezhangout.

Ellie and Leigh will be back soon with Season 10. While you wait, we invite you to tumble down the #Gaylor rabbit hole with our friends V Arrow and Emily Jaye over at This Week In Fandom History.

This Week In Fandom History gets deep into the who, what, and why behind fandom culture's highest highs and weirdest lows. In this episode, V and Emily connect Glee's #shirtgate incident with gay Taylor Swift fanfic. They don't usually cover celebrity gossip but this tale was so delicious, how could even they resist. This is but a taste of their monthly TGIF/F or Thank God It's Femslash Friday feature.

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Pride Month may be over, but we’re still here, queer, and full of existential fear. Lez Hang Out Podcast is unfortunately quite an expense to produce and much of our funding comes from our incredible supporters over on Patreon.

You can help us keep our little indie pod afloat for another season by joining our Patreon family at the $5/month tier or higher and unlock our growing library of full-length ad-free bonus episodes, ad-free weekly episodes, mp3 downloads of all our original songs, exclusive Discord access to hang out with us, and more! Get an automatic discount on your membership by selecting an annual subscription at checkout. 

You can also support the pod by shopping small at bit.ly/lezmerch & picking up our Lez-ssentials songs on Bandcamp.

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that is coming to you live from detention. 

This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out with the co-founders of The Curve Foundation (@curvefdn), Franco Stevens (@frankostevens), the founder of Curve Magazine (@curvemag), and wife, filmmaker Jen Rainin (@franklyspeakingfilms), and talk about why the Disney Channel Original Movie, Lemonade Mouth, Should’ve Been Gay. With Hayley Kiyoko’s directorial debut, Girls Like Girls, currently playing in theaters, we thought it would be fun to take a trip back to 2011 when a young Hayley Kiyoko rocked the stage (and an aggressively asymmetrical bob) as Stella. 

Lemonade Mouth is actually the first DCOM that Franco and Jen have ever seen! We are delighted to have opened this door for them to the tween-Hallmark Movie experience. But even for a DCOM, Lemonade Mouth is on another level when it comes to being a queerer Breakfast Club with flip-phones. Hayley Kiyoko’s lesbian-coded “Stella” isn’t even the gayest thing about this movie, and she’s literally an anticapitalist vegetarian teenager with a rock band. 

We know one thing for sure, Lemonade Mouth Should’ve Been Gay.

How do your favorite lesbian movies and tv shows hold up against The Curve Test? 

Give us your own answers to our Q & Gay on Instagram and follow along on Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and BlueSky @lezhangoutpod. Email us @[email protected]. Connect with us individually: Ellie Brigida (@elliebrigida). Leigh Holmes Foster (@lshfoster).

This is our final episode for Season 9. Thank you so much for all of your support. We couldn’t keep making this pod without you! We’ll see you in late August for Season 10.

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It’s the final hours of Pride month! Now is a perfect time to join our Patreon at the $5/month tier or higher and unlock our growing library of full-length ad-free bonus episodes, ad-free weekly episodes, mp3 downloads of all our original songs, exclusive Discord access to hang out with us, and more! Becoming a member is the absolute best way to help keep this little pod that could chugging along. Get an automatic discount on your membership by signing up for an annual subscription. 

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that believes all lesbian relationships can be improved through color-coded journaling. 

This week, co-hosts Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) are joined by two very special guests. First up, we have Rev. Anne-Marie Zanzal (@annemariezanzalcoaching), a LGBTQIA+ coach specializing in helping women who are questioning their sexualities and going through the journey of coming out. Anne-Marie also runs the “Authentically Us Community” for late-in-life lesbians alongside hosting the Coming Out & Beyond Podcast. Next, we are joined by Anna Empey (@anna.empey), a business development consultant and LGBTQ+ coach with 14+ years of experience. 

Together in collaboration with lesbian psychologist, Dr. Robin Sesan, Anne-Marie and Anna have created the Healthy Lesbian Relationships course, a lifetime access course that provides pre-recorded video lessons, journaling prompts, a workbook with lesson-specific exercises, and a private online community of lesbian couples to connect with. Whether you are a late-in-life lesbian or a right-on-time lesbian, the Healthy Lesbian Relationships course can help you and your partner to build patterns of positive interaction for lasting intimacy, better understand one another’s communication and attachment styles, manage emotional triggers, and master the art of the “do-over” conversation. 

We’ve talked a lot this season about lesbian marriage, and although we pride ourselves in being experts, we thought maybe it was time to bring on some actual, legitimate experts. We chat with Anne-Marie and Anna about the unique challenges that lesbian couples face, that annoying divorce rate statistic that the straights always use against us, the pathologization of “lesbian bed death”, and the casual intimacy of coming home to clean dishes. 

If you are questioning your sexuality, the free “Maybe I’m Not Straight” guide is the perfect place to begin your journey.

If you’re already in a sapphic relationship and looking to make it even better, check out the free guide, “Tips for Strengthening Your Lesbian Relationship”. 

Don’t forget to show your support for our tiny (and mighty!) podcasting team by shopping small this summer at bit.ly/lezmerch & picking up our original Lez-ssentials songs on Bandcamp. 

Give us your own answers to our Q & Gay on Instagram and follow along on Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and BlueSky @lezhangoutpod. Connect with us individually: Ellie Brigida (@elliebrigida). Leigh Holmes Foster (@lshfoster). 

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If you’re still wondering how you can give back to the community this Pride season, we have the answer! Keep our little indie pod afloat by joining our Patreon at the $5/month tier or higher and unlock our growing library of full-length ad-free bonus episodes, ad-free weekly episodes, mp3 downloads of all our original songs, exclusive Discord access to hang out with us, and more! Get an automatic discount on your membership by signing up for an annual subscription.

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that fell in love with the shape of a woman long before Gaga made it cool. 

This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out with Lez Hang Out’s very own production assistant and professional mermaid, Kristin Murison (@therealksparkle), and talk about why the 2026 blockbuster hit, The Devil Wears Prada 2, should’ve been gay. If you missed our Should’ve Been Gay episode on the original The Devil Wears Prada film we highly recommend listening to it first for the perfect podcast double feature.

You could tell us that the entirety of this nearly 2-hour long sequel takes place in Emily Charlton’s head as she recovers in the hospital after being hit by a taxi in the first movie and we would believe you. It’s simply too gay of a script for there to be any other explanation aside from ‘lesbian fever dream’. Whether you ship Mirandy, Sachston, or a secret third thing (we suggest Lucy Liu and literally any other woman on screen), you will come out of DWP2 extremely well-fed.

Although it has been 2 decades since Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) graced our screens, her red heels remain firmly on the necks of lesbians everywhere. Not even the decline of print journalism, the rise of fast fashion, and a full-on scandal can dethrone the queen of Runway. By reputation alone, she gets Lady Gaga to perform what is undoubtedly her gayest song since Born This Way. Yet, even Miranda and Lady Gaga’s chemistry isn’t the gayest thing about DWP2. That title is shared by the Emilys– Andy “I froze my eggs and have never hidden a feeling in my entire life” Sachs (Anne Hathaway) and Emily “I’m divorced and visibly repulsed by any man I have to get physically close to” Charlton (Emily Blunt), who spend the entire film openly ogling one another and bickering like an old married couple while wearing increasingly more masc outfits. They’re pretty much canonically dating by the end, bonding over a plate of shared carbs as Emily confesses to having called Andy all those years ago (all but admitting that she has been holding on to the disappointment of Andy not calling her back for literally 20 years). If that’s not a lesbian fever dream, we don’t know what is.

We know one thing for sure, The Devil Wears Prada 2 Should’ve Been Gay.

Give us your own answers to our Q & Gay on Instagram and follow along on Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and BlueSky @lezhangoutpod. Email us @[email protected]. Connect with us individually: Ellie Brigida (@elliebrigida). Leigh Holmes Foster (@lshfoster).

Support the pod by shopping small for your Pride #ootd at bit.ly/lezmerch & picking up our Lez-ssentials songs on Bandcamp.

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Happy Pride month!  Running this show is unfortunately not cheap, and we need all the community support we can get during Pride and beyond to keep the pod going. Now is a perfect time to join our Patreon at the $5/month tier or higher and unlock our growing library of full-length ad-free bonus episodes, ad-free weekly episodes, mp3 downloads of all our original songs, exclusive Discord access to hang out with us, and more! Get an automatic discount on your membership by signing up for an annual subscription.

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that is genuinely wondering where adults go to meet new friends.

This week, co-hosts Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out with New York Times Best Selling author Daniel Lavery to discuss his new fiction novel, Meeting New People, available now. Meeting New People follows the story of Barbara, a difficult, twice-divorced woman in her late 50s, as she grapples with the 9th best-friend-breakup of her life. As Barbara seeks to make her 10th (and hopefully final) best friend, she analyzes her relationships with her past 9 best friends to try to figure out what went wrong. 

Although Barbara very much claims to be straight, there is something distinctly sapphic in the intense, monogamous nature of her best-friendships and the way each one burns fast and bright before imploding dramatically. She is a particularly judgemental person who is very set in her ways and has strong beliefs on how the world works and how friendship should be. It vexes her to no end that she has followed all the rules and still ended up alone. Even though Barbara does recognize to some extent that her beliefs and behaviors are alienating her from the very community she so desperately desires, she remains heavily resistant to changing her ways in order to become more palatable. Barbara may have some rigid thought processes and generationally outdated ideas on friendship, but we believe she remains relatable in her strong yearning for understanding, acceptance, and community bonds. We find in Barbara a realistic depiction of self-growth and a glimpse into the challenges of coping with an ever-evolving social landscape. 

We’ve all known at least one Barbara in our lives, and as sapphics, we are no stranger to the overly intense, vaguely homoerotic best-friendship that tends to crash and burn. Meeting New People puts us front and center for Barbara’s inner monologues and unique perceptions of reality and asks us to consider if she’s actually wrong or simply unlikeable by today’s standards. 

Pick up your own copy of Meeting New People wherever you shop for books or find it at your local library.

Don’t forget to show your support for our tiny (and mighty!) podcasting team by shopping small for your Pride merch at bit.ly/lezmerch & picking up our original Lez-ssentials songs on Bandcamp. 

Give us your own answers to our Q & Gay on Instagram and follow along on Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and BlueSky @lezhangoutpod. Connect with us individually: Ellie Brigida (@elliebrigida). Leigh Holmes Foster (@lshfoster).

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Happy Pride! 

The best way to support the gays this month is by joining our Patreon at the $5/month tier or higher and unlocking our growing library of full-length ad-free bonus episodes, ad-free weekly episodes, mp3 downloads of all our original songs, exclusive Discord access to hang out with us, and more! Get an automatic discount on your membership by signing up for an annual subscription.

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that would never, under any circumstances, put a Baby Gay in the corner.

This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out with Emmy-nominated TV writer (Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Amber Ruffin Show) and comedy performer, Jenny Hagel (@jennyhagel), and talk about why the 1987 hit movie-musical, Dirty Dancing, Should've Been Gay.

We thought we were big Dirty Dancing fans, but Jenny one thousand percent has us both beat. When this film was released, it was the talk of the school for anyone whose parents allowed them to see it. For Jenny and all the others whose parents said “no way”, sneakily watching Dirty Dancing at a sleepover was basically a right of passage (and a spiritual experience). Ever since the first time Jenny laid eyes on Jennifer Grey, Dirty Dancing has been playing on a loop in her head. 

Very few things need to be changed to make Dirty Dancing a canonically queer film. Francis “Baby Gay” Houseman (Jennifer Grey) is already a clear lesbian. There’s literally nothing more lesbian than rolling into an unfamiliar situation and deciding it is now your job to solve a crime (and then solving that crime!). Francis’ big clipboard energy is off the charts.

Patrick Swayze as “Johnny Castle" isn't exactly giving heterosexual either. His whole persona reads as more ‘butch lesbian’ than straight dude. Not to mention that just 8 years later, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar was released starring Patrick Swayze as the drag queen, Vida. It’s not exactly a leap for us to view this cult classic as a Dirty Dancing sequel where Johnny is finally living his truth. 

We know one thing for sure, Dirty Dancing Should’ve Been Gay.

Don’t forget to pick up your own copy of Jenny’s debut book of essays, “Advice No One Asked For” available now! 

Give us your own answers to our Q & Gay on Instagram and follow along on Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and BlueSky @lezhangoutpod. Email us @[email protected]. Connect with us individually: Ellie Brigida (@elliebrigida). Leigh Holmes Foster (@lshfoster).

Support the pod by shopping small for your Pride #ootd at bit.ly/lezmerch & picking up our Lez-ssentials songs on Bandcamp.

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