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

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.

Summer’s Swan Songs

Saying goodbye to Rumaan, good riddance to Grindr, and long live Todd Stephens’ Swan Song!

Hot Queer Summer, Hot Queer Strippers

Outward goes to the beach!

Milestones Mourned and Celebrated

Plus, an interview with baritone Lucia Lucas.

Julien Baker’s Quantum Queerness

Plus, a trans police officer’s take on the cops at Pride debate.

ACT UP History and Queer Portraits

Sarah Schulman on her new book Let the Record Show.

Lesbians in Paris … and in Period Dramas

Diana Souhami on her new book No Modernism Without Lesbians.

Power Dynamics and Trans Discrimination

Discussing power, sexual consent, and why science may not be the best tool to fight the transphobes.

Gay Bars and Hookup Apps

Looking for spaces in real life and online where we can be our full selves.

Detransition, Baby and #GaysOverCOVID

Exploring queer adult fiction, and asking if shaming ever works.