This episode we talk LIVE with Jaimie Kelton, host of The Queer Family Podcast and co-host of Love, Take Two. We talk about kids, lesbians, queer representation, social media and all the chaos of raising families in a world on fire.

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0:00 – Intro & Welcome

0:38 – Meet Jamie Kelton

2:33 – Kids, Ages & Parenting

4:10 – Phone & Tech Struggles

7:00 – Bark Phone vs. Apple Phone

11:33 – TikTok Ban & Consequences

13:53 – Middle School Anxiety

17:30 – LGBTQ+ Representation in Media

21:38 – Queer Family Podcast Origin Story

28:00 – Raising Sons with Two Moms

31:40 – Masculinity & Male Role Models

45:40 – Love Take Two Podcast

47:00 – Queer Quickies

1:01:20 – Queer Allyship & Speaking Up

1:03:00 – Outro

Today we're welcoming Jerry Portwood to the podcast. Jerry's the founder of the Queer Love Project, which is a way to document how we find, accept, and explore, love and commitment.

It's a platform where LGBTQ+ people can share our stories and experiences about whatever love means to them.

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0:00 - Introduction: Jerry Portwood & the Queer Love Project

2:00 - How the Queer Love Project started

8:30 - Substack, paying contributors & building an audience

14:00 - Queer friendships, exes & the elasticity of relationships

20:00 - Queer Joy & Fire Island

25:00 - The Queer Love Podcast & how do you define love?

28:30 - Teaching at The New School: essays, criticism & Gen Z students

32:00 - Generational trauma & joking as a survival tactic

34:00 - Queer Quickies: rapid fire questions

Today we chat with Jennifer Boudrye for chatting with us about impact over intent, rewiring bias, the vocabulary of allyship, and how to piss off the haters.

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0:00 Intro

0:29 Meet Jennifer Boudrye

3:59 What is Queer Allyship?

7:52 Rewiring Bias Explained

8:59 Jennifer's Personal Story: Her Son Coming Out as Bi

10:43 Impact Over Intent

16:28 Where Do You Find the Most Resistance?

16:41 The Trans Experience & Misunderstanding

18:12 "Tell Me More About How You Got to Believe That"

19:10 Everyone Can Be an Ally

19:31 Reacting vs. Responding to Hate

20:29 Believing People Are Good

20:43 Power, Control & Parenting

21:13 Kids Know Their Gender by Age Three

22:44 Queer Parenting & Double Standards

32:09 Language, Vocabulary & Pronouns

33:13 Handling Pushback on Pronouns

36:22 Jennifer's Mission & Why She Does This Work

38:54 Where to Find Jennifer

39:13 Outro

Today we're joined by Kyle Ridley, who's the host of the Tangle a Pop Culture podcast where conversations with comedians, actors, and creators go way beyond the quick soundbite. Before launching the show, Kyle spent years working in morning television booking celebrity guests, so he knows how to ask the questions that turn a short interview into a real conversation. On the tangle, he brings that insider perspective to honest, funny, and sometimes unexpectedly deep discussions about entertainment, culture, and the messy stories that connect us all.

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0:00 - Intro & Welcome Kyle Ridley

0:32 - Kyle's Background in Morning TV & Starting The Tangle Podcast

2:18 - Heated Rivalry Discussion & Queer Joy in Media

3:41 - Queer Representation in the 90s vs Now

4:42 - Heart Stopper & Positive LGBTQ Storytelling

5:03 - Conversations Beyond Soundbites: What Kyle Wants from Interviews

5:50 - Finding Your Tribe & Building Queer Community

7:22 - Meeting 200 People: Kyle's Community Building Journey

7:36 - Coming Out in the Late 90s & Early Internet Era

8:34 - Young Queer People & Online Community Today

9:13 - Heartstopper & High School Representation

9:48 - Growing Up in the DC Area

10:04 - Dream Podcast Guests: Alanis Morissette, Nikki Glaser, Hoda Kotb & More

11:08 - Alanis Morissette, Lilith Fair & 90s Female Singer-Songwriters

11:36 - Most Chaotic Interview Moments

13:00 - Being Queer in Broadcast Media

14:01 - Eating Disorders, Toxic 90s Diet Culture & Recovery

15:17 - Men & Eating Disorders: Breaking the Silence

16:15 - GLP-1 Drugs, Body Positivity Backlash & Celebrity Thinness

17:22 - Body Image as a Tall Woman in the Early 2000s

18:32 - Current Pop Culture Obsessions & Kyle's Movie/TV List

19:44 - Award Season Picks: Heated Rivalry, Hamnet & More

21:40 - Love Story (JFK Jr.), Song Song Blue & More Recommendations

23:17 - Book Recommendations: Atmosphere, All Fours & Memoirs

25:38 - Queer Quickies: First Celebrity Crush

26:11 - First Queer Bar Experience

27:09 - Favorite Queer Stereotype

27:57 - Kyle's Queer Superpower: The Connector

29:00 - What Makes Kyle Go From Zero to Unhinged

30:41 - Inviting Strangers & Being Welcoming

31:12 - Best Queer Movie or Show of All Time

33:00 - Essential Queer Viewing List for a Late-in-Life Partner

35:02 - The Welcoming Queer Community

35:22 - Outro

This week we vent. We get real about the burden of women always cleaning up for men. We talk about hockey, masculinity and what it takes to be a real man without great models to mirror.

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0:00 Intro

0:12 Hockey Culture Growing Up

1:04 How the Olympics Reignited Hockey Passion

2:11 Women's Hockey Gold Medal Excitement

2:30 Men's Hockey Gold & The Miracle on Ice Anniversary

3:14 Cash Patel in the Locker Room

5:10 Trump's Phone Call & The Joke at Women's Expense

6:33 Why No One Spoke Up

7:16 The Responsibility to Be the Dissenting Voice

8:32 When Your Character Shows Up

9:24 What Real Masculinity Looks Like

10:58 SNL Monologue & The Hughes Brothers

12:12 Women and Queer People Always Cleaning Up the Mess

14:18 Teaching Boys to Speak Up

15:52 Raising Kids with Principles

16:49 Male Role Models in a Two-Mom Family

18:14 The "Not All Men" Problem

20:01 The Bar is on the Floor - School Pickup Story

23:01 Good Men Do Exist

24:53 Masculinity, Accountability & Confidence

27:15 Field Trip Chaos & Simon's Performance Plan

29:18 Kids Listening to the Podcast

30:13 Future Episode Ideas - Straight Man Roundtable

31:37 Losing Words with Age & Self-Acceptance

32:25 Outro

We chat with Brandon Kazen-Maddox, a non-binary an ASL artist, actor, choreographer, director, acrobat, and educator whose work lives at the intersection of movement, language, and identity. We chat about recommended reading, they teach us about codas and godas, and remind us to slow down, take a breath, and think before we speak.

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0:00 - Introduction to Brandon

1:02 - What is a CODA?

3:51 - Thinking in Multiple Languages

8:04 - Grace and Pace - The Art of Interpretation

12:08 - Sign Languages Around the World

15:44 - Language Deprivation and ASL Legacy

19:37 - Reading, Books, and Queer Joy

26:45 - Fellow Travelers Opera

29:26 - Intersectionality and Finding Your Place

32:07 - Growing Up Millennial

34:25 - Queer Quickies

41:30 - Where to Find Brandon

On today’s episode we’re talking about the fragility of men, why Erica likes expensive wine, dancing, not being good, Laura’s obsession with the challenger, the moon landing and spelunking.

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00:00 Intro + Season 2: Anonymous Queer Confessions

00:29 We’re Over It: Winter Hell in the Northeast

01:27 Darkness, Ice Dams & Snowed-In House Chaos

04:27 Parenting in a Deep Freeze: Ice Noises & Mom-Voice Trauma

05:47 Boomer Parents, Catholic Guilt & the ‘Body of Christ’ Cracker

07:06 Main Topic: The Fragility of Men (and Why We’re Done)

11:02 ‘Being Good’ Is Boring: Women, Queerness, Work & Mom Expectations

18:03 Homework, Gen Z, and Teaching Kids to Think for Themselves

20:40 Botox, spray tans & the pressure to “fix” ourselves

21:50 Instagram wellness overload & the Kardashian face effect

22:48 Moon landing rabbit hole: 1960s tech vs. modern skepticism

23:31 Challenger disaster: the morbid details that won’t let go

27:14 From “being good” to having standards: no more shitty wine

28:25 Speak up for what you want: sending it back & demanding a better table

30:28 What we’re looking forward to: hope, signs, and living the ‘happily ever after’

32:40 2020 as a gift: surviving chaos, finding gratitude, and friendship

35:30 Dancing again + one last morbid obsession (Nutty Putty cave)

37:22 Skydiving in the Swiss Alps & season wrap-up takeaways

Nicole Pacent is an actor, writer, and longtime LGBTQ activist, currently appearing on Criminal Minds: Evolution. She’s spent nearly two decades shaping queer media—on screen, behind the mic as a co-host of Coming Out Pod, and as a consultant on The L Word: Generation Q. A Tisch alum and future seminary student, Nicole is proof that queer storytelling can be both holy and a little unhinged.

Let’s get into it.

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00:00 Welcome and Introduction

00:52 Nicole's High School Days

01:36 Navigating Queerness in Greenwich

04:54 Theater and Queer Identity

07:05 Bisexuality and Queerness

10:08 Sexual Renaissance and Agency

13:46 The Iconic 'Kiss' Poster

15:42 Eyebrow Rings and Self-Expression

16:13 Guillotine Earrings and Current Projects

17:27 Understanding Motion Capture

18:24 Criminal Minds and Queer Representation

19:44 Polyamory Consulting for The L Word

21:24 Navigating Religion as a Queer Individual

28:20 Queer Quickies: Rapid Fire Questions

31:46 Karaoke and Closing Remarks

Christin Baker is the CEO of Tello Films, the streaming home for sapphic and LGBTQ+ stories that actually get it right — the romances, the holiday movies, the messy feelings, the joy. Basically, if someone calls it “the lesbian Netflix,” they’re not wrong. We talk about Girls Just Wanna, male dominated media, and of course, Robin Wright.

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00:00 Introduction to Today's Guests

01:04 Founding and Evolution of Telo

03:38 Telo's Expansion into Books

06:44 Challenges and Successes in Queer Media

18:54 The Future Vision for Telo

20:43 The L Word and Social Media Struggles

22:19 Stacy's Journey to the Queer Community

24:02 The Birth of a Travel Show

26:35 Queer Quickies: Fun and Fast-Paced Q&A

32:57 Favorite Queer Movies and Shows

33:58 Supporting Telo and Final Thoughts

Today we’re so excited to welcome Samara Kasai to the show — a non-binary writer, intuitive counselor, and trauma-informed coach who helps people rethink what it means to love their lives instead of just surviving them. Through their work at Kasai Thrive, Samara blends deep emotional insight, nervous system awareness, and anti-oppression values to help folks move past burnout, reclaim creative energy, and live with intention and presence. Their perspective feels especially urgent for people who’ve spent years hustling, numbing, or holding themselves together on instinct rather than joy.

Check out their free 2 hour program here:

Rock the Void: What to do while you're waiting for you manifestations

samara-kasai.kit.com/rockthevoidunseen

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00:00 Introduction to Samira Kasai

01:14 Samira's Journey and Work

01:35 Understanding Manifestation

02:32 Personal Experiences with Religion and Spirituality

10:57 Tarot and Its Significance

13:26 Justice Lens and Client Work

18:17 Current Events and Personal Healing

21:34 Navigating Generational Differences

22:37 Connecting Through Shared Experiences

23:26 Balancing Family and Personal Values

24:36 The Importance of Historical Narratives

25:04 Respect and Political Differences

28:10 Empowering Self-Agency

30:14 Queer Quickies: Rapid Fire Questions

33:35 Final Thoughts and Farewell