Lez Hang Out | Lesbian Life & Queer Culture

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out Season 4! Ellie and Leigh dive into how we've been surviving Queerantine. We talk about tv shows and movies that have been getting us through Queerantine. We also talk about finding virtual community, hanging out with our Patrons and all of the fun we've had with our virtual trivia friends. We also reminisce about our past lesbian selves and the things that just wouldn't fly during corona times. New in Season 4: We're writing an original musical! Keep an ear out for updates and our Kickstarter launching September 21st! Join our Patreon at bit.ly/lezpatreon to hang out with us on our Discord and be a part of our virtual community. Subscribe to be the first to hear new episodes. Follow along on Twitter: Lez Hang Out (@lezhangoutpod) and answer our Q & Gay at the end of every episode. Leigh Holmes Foster (@lshfoster) and Ellie Brigida (@elliebrigida). You can also join us on Facebook.com/lezhangoutpod and Instagram (@lezhangoutpod).

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Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) talk about how to carry your gays and how to create better LGBTQ media. We talk about varying your gays, marrying your gays, cherry your gays, nonbinary-ing your gay, scary-ing your gays and faerie-ing your gays. The -arrys are endless! From diversifying your gays on screen and off screen, there are some stellar examples of representation, but we can always be striving for more! We also shout out some of our favorite shows like Pose, Gentefied, Generation Q, One Day At A Time, Killing Eve and Motherland Fort Salem. What are your favorite LGBTQ shows on TV? Follow along on Twitter: Lez Hang Out (@lezhangoutpod) and answer our Q & Gay at the end of every episode. Leigh Holmes Foster (@lshfoster) and Ellie Brigida (@elliebrigida). You can also join us on Facebook.com/lezhangoutpod and follow along on Instagram (@lezhangoutpod).

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Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) are joined by comedian Sabrina Jalees (@sabrinajalees) LIVE during Tagg Magazine's Queerantine Con to talk about why Can't Hardly Wait Should've Been Gay. We all had very different takes on the film. From Sabrina re-writing the film to fulfill her life long fantasies of Jennifer Love Hewitt falling in love with her, to Ellie thinking that Preston could very easily be replaced by a lesbian to Leigh seeing the clear love story between repressed jock Mike Dexter and king of nerds William Lichter. This teenage ensemble comedy leaves all kinds of room for gay interpretations. Oh and let's not pretend we don't all know a lesbian like Denise in her long leather jacket. Follow along on Twitter @lezhangoutpod and Facebook and Instagram (@lezhangoutpod).

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Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out with Shana Sumers and Kris Chesson, the co-hosts of Bad Queers (@badqueerspod), a podcast for people who came out of the closet and feel like they got placed in a box of stereotypes they don't belong to. In this episode, we talk about our unpopular queer opinions, our favorite queer urban dictionary words and what it really means to be a "bad queer." Spoiler alert: bad queers don't exist, just queer queers! We talk about Shana not loving astrology and Ellie and Leigh get into a heated debate with Kris over her not liking musicals. Because how?! Follow along on Twitter: Lez Hang Out (@lezhangoutpod) and answer our Q & Gay at the end of every episode and follow our Instagram (@lezhangoutpod) for Kris and Shana's takeover later this week! Listen to Bad Queers here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bad-queers/id1510471190

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Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) are joined by Lez Hang Out events' director Rebecca Noyes (@rebecca_noyes) to talk about why Miss Congeniality Should've Been Gay. If Gracie Lou Freebush isn't a lesbian, why does she act and look and speak like one? From the first minute Gracie is on screen as a kid reading Nancy Drew (we've all been there) to the last minute when Gracie is holding onto her girlfriend Cheryl as if her life depends on it, there is SO MUCH GAY. Miss Congeniality is the love story between an out and proud lesbian cop and a repressed Miss Rhode Island who sets fire to her batons and her sexuality for the love of her life. There is no other way to interpret this film. Follow along on Twitter @lezhangoutpod and Facebook and Instagram (@lezhangoutpod).

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Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out with Lisa Cannistraci, the owner of Henrietta Hudson, the longest running lesbian bar in the country, (@henriettahudson), to chat about her experience running the bar. From taking Madonna on a tour of all of the lesbian bars in NYC, to Melissa Etheridge taking over the stage when the band started playing "Come to My Window", Lisa has seen it all. She talked to us about embracing the full spectrum of the LGBTQ community when she realized that she needed to adapt and make it a lesbian centric bar for the entire LGBTQ community. She also discussed her activism and how she's never shied away from taking a stand even if it means losing business. This iconic bar needs to raise $20k per month until social distancing restrictions are lifted. Donate here to keep open the spaces that are important to our community: https://www.gofundme.com/f/henriettahudson1 Follow along on Twitter: Lez Hang Out (@lezhangoutpod) and answer our Q & Gay at the end of every episode. Leigh Holmes Foster (@lshfoster) and Ellie Brigida (@elliebrigida).

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Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) are joined by comedian Liliana Cervantes (@comedian_liliana_cervantes) to talk about why Beaches Should've Been Gay. From the first meeting between little butch CC and little high femme Hillary while CC is smoking a cigarette under the pier to their photo booth shenanigans and the fact that they stay long distance pen pal lovers for 10 years before they ever even see each other again, this movie just screams gay. The male relationships in CC and Hillary's lives all fail and in the end, they're only left with each other and they're much happier that way. CC even gains custody of Hillary's daughter and is in the delivery room when she's born. What a beautiful gay love story! Follow along on Twitter @lezhangoutpod and Facebook and Instagram (@lezhangoutpod).

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Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) dive into Portrait of a Lady on Fire for this Lez-ssentials episode, a recurring segment on the essential movies and TV shows in the lesbian canon. We chat about this movie about queers in isolation before social distancing was all the rage. We discuss the choices that Marianne and Heloise have to make because of their circumstances, what it means to truly see someone else and Adele Haenel's eyes. Ellie wants more of the intimate scenes to be showcased in the film and Leigh discusses why she thinks the ending is perfection. From Drunkappella at the bonfire to Vivaldi's Four Seasons, we also have a field day with the soundtrack for this film. Lez-ssentials comes complete with a Portrait of A Lady on Fire drinking game because every lesbian movie or tv show should be accompanied by heavy drinking. This episode also comes with an original Lez-ssentials song based off Portrait of A Lady On Fire entitled "Desire." Follow along on Twitter: Lez Hang Out (@lezhangoutpod) and answer our Q & Gay at the end of every episode. Leigh Holmes Foster (@lshfoster) and Ellie Brigida (@elliebrigida). You can also join us on Facebook.com/lezhangoutpod and Instagram (@lezhangoutpod). Join us on Patreon at bit.y/lezpatreon for a free download of the song.

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Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) talk about why Birds of Prey Should've Been Gay(er). Birds of Prey was already an amazing film for queer women. Renee Montoya is an out lesbian, Harley Quinn is canon bisexual from one clip in the intro sequence. However, the subtext gay is also overwhelming. We talk about the clearly sexual relationship between Black Mask and Mister Zsasz, the awkward gay that is Huntress, the badass queer that is Black Canary and the baby gay, Cassandra, that they all band together to save. We can't wait to see where the next Birds of Prey movie goes and how this band of LGBTQ superheroes kicks some ass and kisses ladies (each other). Also give us the Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy love story we've all been dying to see on the big screen! Follow along on Twitter @lezhangoutpod and Facebook and Instagram (@lezhangoutpod).

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Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out with Jennifer Brown (@jenniferbrownspeaks), a leading diversity and inclusion expert, dynamic keynote speaker, best-selling author, award-winning entrepreneur and host of The Will To Change podcast, which uncovers true stories of diversity and inclusion, to chat about being the only LGBTQ person in the room, how to turn allies into accomplices, how to bring your full self to work and why being your full self can make you a better employee. We also chat about intersectionality and it's role in diversity and inclusion in workplaces. Check out Jennifer's book "How to Be an Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive" here: https://jenniferbrownspeaks.com/inclusive-leader-book/. Follow along on Twitter: Lez Hang Out (@lezhangoutpod) and answer our Q & Gay at the end of every episode. Leigh Holmes Foster (@lshfoster) and Ellie Brigida (@elliebrigida).

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