Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast
Outward, Slate's queer podcast, is a whip-smart monthly salon in which hosts and guests deepen the audience’s understanding of queer culture and politics, delight them with unexpected perspectives, and invite listeners into a colorful conversation about the issues animating LGBTQ communities.
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6: Attacked | When We All Get to Heaven
When a lesbian minister is physically assaulted, the church is galvanized. And when they find out who did it, there are even fewer answers.
61 min
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5: Healing Without a Cure | When We All Get to ...
A minister with AIDS grapples with what “healing” means in the face of certain death.
54 min
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4: Friends in the Fire | When We All Get to Heaven
“To know us is to love us.”
48 min
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3: “A Church with AIDS” | When We All Get to He...
The gay church becomes the church with AIDS.
44 min
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2: A New Gospel for Gay Sinners | When We All G...
A Pentecostal preacher starts a gay church in his living room. A navy veteran starts one in a gay bar. And a lesbian athlete finds one when she needs one.
56 min
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Making ‘When We All Get to Heaven’
Bryan and Christina sit down with Lynne Gerber, to discuss the new limited series about how queer churches responded to the AIDS crisis.
29 min
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1: Setting The Table | When We All Get to Heaven
A queer church tries to remember all they lost to AIDS. We do too.
26 min
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Introducing: When We All Get to Heaven
What’s that pink church doing in the middle of San Francisco’s gayborhood? Find out in a new documentary series presented by Outward.
1 min
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From What Next: Trans and Shut Out in Trump’s A...
Clinics for trans youth are closing, incorrect passports have been issued, and trans people are having to make emergency health care plans, even in blue states.
26 min
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From Hit Parade: The Hidden History of Queer Po...
From Little Richard to Chappell Roan, queer artists have always been vanguards of pop, even when they have not been out.
59 min
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From Hit Parade: The Hidden History of Queer Po...
57 min
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Archiving the Spirit of Ballroom with Michael R...
Michael Roberson traces the spiritual, political, and public health roots of the ballroom scene
38 min
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The Latest on Trans Rights in the Court and in ...
48 min
14
Small-Town Pride Blooms
Bryan dives in with Christina Cauterucci’s reporting on rising rural Prides and we hear from an organizer of Canyon County Pride in Idaho
43 min
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America’s Gay Restaurants with Erik Piepenburg
39 min
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Queer Travel Writing with Alden Jones
Queer writers, global stories: Alden Jones on challenging the legacy of travel literature
34 min
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Iowa’s Civil Rights Crisis with Hope Giselle an...
What Iowa’s rollback of trans rights reveals about the fragility of civil protections.
38 min
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How The Gay Rights Movement Became Trans- Exclu...
33 min
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Planning San Francisco Pride in a Shifting Poli...
Christina Cauterucci speaks with SF Pride’s Executive Director about organizing Pride while corporate allies shift toward Trump-era politics.
37 min
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The New Lavender Scare with Christina Cauterucci
Jules Gill-Peterson talks with Christina Cauterucci about her latest piece on queer federal workers.
42 min
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Renaissance Trans Theologies and History with C...
How Renaissance theology and literature reveal a long history of transition—socially, spiritually, and surgically
35 min
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Should We Get Guns?
39 min
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Why Love Isn’t Apolitical: Liberation and Rethi...
Bryan Lowder sits down with Dean Spade to talk about his new book Love in A F*cked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together
36 min
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Slapping Leather: The Untamed History of the Ga...
Christina Cauterucci talks with historian Rebecca Scofield about the history of gay rodeo
36 min
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The “Protect the Children” Trap: How Trump Targ...
Bryan Lowder sits down with Nico Lang to unpack how Trump is using child protection rhetoric to push anti-trans policies
33 min