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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Why Is Everything “Lesbian” Always Dying?
Plus, PFLAG turns 50, but have the parents of queer kids really grown up?
79 min
102
Are Throuples All That Different From Couples?
Plus, the shocking history and radical queer possibilities of psychedelics.
78 min
103
The War on Drag
Why drag? Why now?
78 min
104
How Can Queer People Keep Each Other Safe?
Plus, a conversation with actress Jen Richards about the groundbreaking trans film Framing Agnes.
87 min
105
How to Read a New York Times Story About Trans ...
Plus, a conversation with James Roesener, the first out trans man to win a seat in a U.S. state legislature.
70 min
106
Debating Queer History in Bros and at the Libra...
Is consuming gay culture a political act?
83 min
107
Is A League of Their Own Gratuitously Gay?
Plus, the making of Stay on Board, the Netflix documentary about trans skateboarder Leo Baker.
75 min
108
Viruses and Our Profoundly Unequal World
Plus: Why are so many GOP politicians voting to support marriage equality?
84 min
109
Demystifying Monkeypox
Plus, how two trans women ran an underground surgical clinic.
70 min
110
Is Marriage Equality in Jeopardy?
LGBTQ rights in the post-Dobbs era.
23 min
111
The Promise of Pride
The core values of our annual celebration.
76 min
112
Is Fire Island the Gay Rom-Com We've Been Waiti...
A queer consideration of Hulu’s summer rom-com.
42 min
113
Pride Month Special: A Pioneering Lesbian Photo...
31 min
114
Pride Month Special: Supporting Trans Youth
25 min
115
Prisons in Queer History and Pop Culture
How America’s penal system shaped LGBTQ culture.
83 min
116
Queer Families in Kindergarten and the Multiverse
We go deep on *that* scene in Everything Everywhere All at Once.
68 min
117
The Trans Past, Present, and Future
How attacks on trans kids shape lives, and a pioneer from the 1940s.
76 min
118
Two Revivals: "No Promo Homo" and Shortbus
63 min
119
Counting Queers, Queering Sequels
72 min
120
Jingle All the Gay
79 min
121
Who Owns Queer Aesthetics?
65 min
122
Pronouns and Poppers: A Queer History Party
69 min
123
Summer's Swan Songs
Saying goodbye to Rumaan, good riddance to Grindr, and long live Todd Stephens' Swan Song!
62 min
124
Hot Queer Summer, Hot Queer Strippers
63 min
125
Milestones Mourned and Celebrated
Plus an interview with baritone Lucia Lucas
67 min