Outward

Expanding the LGBTQ conversation.

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About the Show

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.

Hosts

Why Is Everything “Lesbian” Always Dying?

Plus, PFLAG turns 50, but have the parents of queer kids really grown up?

A New Movie Explores How Throuples Are Different From Couples

Plus, the shocking history and radical queer possibilities of psychedelics.

The War on Drag

Why drag? Why now?

How Can Queer People Keep Each Other Safe?

Plus, a conversation with actress Jen Richards about the groundbreaking trans film Framing Agnes.

How to Read a New York Times Story About Trans Kids

Plus, a conversation with James Roesener, the first out trans man to win a seat in a U.S. state legislature.

Debating Queer History in Bros and at the Library of Congress

“Our history isn’t found in textbooks or other traditional sources.”

Is A League of Their Own Gratuitously Gay?

Plus, the making of Stay on Board, the Netflix documentary about trans skateboarder Leo Baker.

What Viruses Can Teach Us About Our Profoundly Unequal World

Plus: Why have so many GOP politicians changed their position on marriage equality?

Demystifying Monkeypox

There is a vaccine, there is treatment, but there are still lots of challenges.

Is the Supreme Court Coming for Marriage Equality Next?

LGBTQ rights in the post-Dobbs era.

The Promise of Pride

The core values of our annual celebration.

Fire Island: A Comedy of Gay Manners

A spoiler-filled discussion of the very queer resetting of Pride and Prejudice.

Prisons in Queer History and Pop Culture

How America’s penal system shaped LGBTQ culture.

Queer Families in Kindergarten and the Multiverse

Plus, we go deep on that scene in Everything Everywhere All at Once.

The Trans Past, Present, and Future

How attacks on trans kids shape lives, and a pioneer from the 1940s.

Two Revivals: “No Promo Homo” and Shortbus

Considering the pros and cons of queer utopia.

Counting Queers, Queering Sequels

How queers appear in data—and in updated New York stories.

Jingle All the Gay

Queer holiday movies and a special round of Prides, Provocations, and Premonitions.

Who Owns Queer Aesthetics?

Tampa Baes and the wayward direction of queer fashion.

Pronouns and Poppers: A Queer History Party

Talking transmasculine feminist Pauli Murray, the queer history of poppers, and making errands look good.