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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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
102
Viruses and Our Profoundly Unequal World
Plus: Why are so many GOP politicians voting to support marriage equality?
84 min
103
Demystifying Monkeypox
Plus, how two trans women ran an underground surgical clinic.
70 min
104
Is Marriage Equality in Jeopardy?
LGBTQ rights in the post-Dobbs era.
23 min
105
The Promise of Pride
The core values of our annual celebration.
76 min
106
Is Fire Island the Gay Rom-Com We've Been Waiti...
A queer consideration of Hulu’s summer rom-com.
42 min
107
Pride Month Special: A Pioneering Lesbian Photo...
31 min
108
Pride Month Special: Supporting Trans Youth
25 min
109
Prisons in Queer History and Pop Culture
How America’s penal system shaped LGBTQ culture.
83 min
110
Queer Families in Kindergarten and the Multiverse
We go deep on *that* scene in Everything Everywhere All at Once.
68 min
111
The Trans Past, Present, and Future
How attacks on trans kids shape lives, and a pioneer from the 1940s.
76 min
112
Two Revivals: "No Promo Homo" and Shortbus
63 min
113
Counting Queers, Queering Sequels
72 min
114
Jingle All the Gay
79 min
115
Who Owns Queer Aesthetics?
65 min
116
Pronouns and Poppers: A Queer History Party
69 min
117
Summer's Swan Songs
Saying goodbye to Rumaan, good riddance to Grindr, and long live Todd Stephens' Swan Song!
62 min
118
Hot Queer Summer, Hot Queer Strippers
63 min
119
Milestones Mourned and Celebrated
Plus an interview with baritone Lucia Lucas
67 min
120
Julien Baker’s Quantum Queerness and Cops at Pride
Why must we have the same fights every June?
64 min
121
Re-Introducing The Waves
The third season of Master of None focuses on a Black lesbian relationship. Is it worth watching?
35 min
122
ACT UP History and Queer Portraits
Sarah Schulman on her new book Let the Record Show.
68 min
123
Lesbians in Paris … and in Period Dramas
Diana Souhami on her new book No Modernism Without Lesbians.
69 min
124
Power Dynamics and Trans Discrimination
Discussing power, sexual consent, and why science may not be the best tool to fight the transphobes.
60 min
125
Gay Bars and Hookup Apps
Looking for spaces in real life and online where we can be our full selves.
62 min