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