In this third part of our coming out episodes, we talk about some of the queer media of (recent) past and present that helped us realise things, affirmed our identities or just provided some good old queer entertainment and joy. 

Episode timestamps

00.14 Intro

03.10 Reflections on coming out episodes

11.05 That’s All From Me for trans rights

12.43 Remembering the Lesbian Master Doc

23.43 Media that helped us realise we were queer/come out

52.59 Queer media we wish we could’ve had 

1.11.15 Outro

Mentioned in this episode:

Books

Spectacles by Sue Perkins (2015)

Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown (1973)

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (2019)

If Not, Winter: The Complete Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson (2002)

The Secret Diaries of Anne Lister edited by Helena Whitbread (1988)

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg (1993)

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Music:

Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko (2014)

She by Dodie (2014)

Girl in Red

Chappell Roan

In Search of the Antidote by Fletcher (2024)

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Film/TV:

Black Mirror, ‘San Junipero’ (Netflix, 2016)

Les Invisibles (dir. Sébastien Lifshitz, 2012)

Happiest Season (dir. Clea DuVall, 2020)

The Ultimatum: Queer Love (Netflix, 2023)

I Kissed A Girl (BBC, 2024)

Gentleman Jack (BBC, 2019-2022)

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Other:

Making Gay History by Eric Marcus (podcast and book)

Troye Sivan’s Coming Out video (2014)

Ingrid Nilsen’s Coming Out video (2015)