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This month on Outward, hosts Christina Cauterucci, Bryan Lowder, and New America’s Brandon Tensley explore the meaning of family. How do gay people form their own families and create spaces from those bonds of kinship? First they play a game with Slate’s June Thomas and decide whether fictional characters are members of the queer clan; then they each discuss the types of families they’ve created. They get a call from Lillian Faderman and her wife, Phyllis Irwin, about the legal journey of their relationship since the 1980s, and Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern joins the hosts to talk about the different legal options LGBTQ people have to build families together.
Items discussed on the show:
• Colette
• “Come On Everyone: It’s Fine to Post Skimpy Selfies With ‘I Voted’ Stickers,” by Heather Schwedel in Slate
• A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
• The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
• Mulan
• The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
• American Horror Story: Apocalypse
• Surpassing the Love of Men by Lillian Faderman
Gay Agenda items:
Bryan: BPM
Christina: Valencia by Michelle Tea
Brandon: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
This podcast was produced by Daniel Schroeder.
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