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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Pride Month Special: Supporting Trans Youth
25 min
52
Prisons in Queer History and Pop Culture
How America’s penal system shaped LGBTQ culture.
83 min
53
Queer Families in Kindergarten and the Multiverse
We go deep on *that* scene in Everything Everywhere All at Once.
68 min
54
The Trans Past, Present, and Future
How attacks on trans kids shape lives, and a pioneer from the 1940s.
76 min
55
Two Revivals: "No Promo Homo" and Shortbus
63 min
56
Counting Queers, Queering Sequels
72 min
57
Jingle All the Gay
79 min
58
Who Owns Queer Aesthetics?
65 min
59
Pronouns and Poppers: A Queer History Party
69 min
60
Summer's Swan Songs
Saying goodbye to Rumaan, good riddance to Grindr, and long live Todd Stephens' Swan Song!
62 min
61
Hot Queer Summer, Hot Queer Strippers
63 min
62
Milestones Mourned and Celebrated
Plus an interview with baritone Lucia Lucas
67 min
63
Julien Baker’s Quantum Queerness and Cops at Pride
Why must we have the same fights every June?
64 min
64
Re-Introducing The Waves
The third season of Master of None focuses on a Black lesbian relationship. Is it worth watching?
35 min
65
ACT UP History and Queer Portraits
Sarah Schulman on her new book Let the Record Show.
68 min
66
Lesbians in Paris … and in Period Dramas
Diana Souhami on her new book No Modernism Without Lesbians.
69 min
67
Power Dynamics and Trans Discrimination
Discussing power, sexual consent, and why science may not be the best tool to fight the transphobes.
60 min
68
Gay Bars and Hookup Apps
Looking for spaces in real life and online where we can be our full selves.
62 min
69
Detransition, Baby and #GaysOverCOVID
Exploring queer adult fiction, and asking if shaming ever works.
65 min
70
Queer Holiday Movies: Naughty or Nice?
Ruth Coker Burks on AIDS in the South, and the gang unwraps the gift of LGBTQ Christmas movies.
50 min
71
Barrett, Biden, and Backwards Bryan
The ACLU’s Ria Tabacco Mar on future fights, and a discussion of Amazon’s Uncle Frank
61 min
72
Caught in Gay Amber
How do we keep queer history fresh without disrespecting it—or ourselves?
61 min
73
Being Horny Is Thorny
Asexuality reveals the flaws of a society based so deeply on sexual desire.
56 min
74
Who Is Ellen to Us?
Looking at how Ellen DeGeneres fits into the history and current landscape of queer media.
58 min
75
Sweat and Sorrow in the Summer
Discussing the atrocities in Chechnya and caring for our queer elders.
58 min