Detransition, Baby and #GaysOverCOVID
Exploring queer adult fiction, and asking if shaming ever works.
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Episode Notes
This month, Christina, Bryan, and Rumaan discuss the New Year’s drama in Puerta Vallarta, the Instagram account that popped up to shame gay people for traveling during COVID, and if shaming ever works as a health and safety tactic. Then they interview Torrey Peters about her new book Detransition, Baby. They talk with her about writing for a trans audience and expecting cisgender readers to keep up, why so much adult queer fiction resembles YA, and how elephants fit into it all.
Items discussed on the show:
• “Gay Circuit Parties During COVID Sparked a ‘Civil War.’ Can Anyone Win?” by Alexander Borsa in Slate
• Detransition, Baby, by Torrey Peters
Gay Agenda
Bryan: The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula
Christina: “A Thing for Men in Uniforms,” by James Kirchick in the New York Review of Books
Rumaan: “Tangled Up in Blue,” by Peter Richmond in GQ, republished by Deadspin.
This podcast was produced by Daniel Schroeder.
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