Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast

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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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Small-Town Pride Blooms

This week, Bryan talks with Christina about her new piece for Slate The Conservative Wave Is Having a Very Unexpected Effect on Pride which covers the power and politics of small-town Pride. Then, in the second half, they're joined by Van Knapp, co-founder of Canyon County Pride in Idaho, to talk about building queer joy in unlikely places. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

50 min
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Bonus: Queer Joy Recs from Idaho to DC

Bryan, Christina, and Van Knapp share what’s lighting up their cultural radar this week. Van brings a left-field gem: the haunting queer synth-pop of Cain Culto.

14 min
3D AGO • SLATE PLUS ONLY

Small-Town Pride Blooms

This week, Bryan talks with Christina about her new piece for Slate The Conservative Wave Is Having a Very Unexpected Effect on Pride which covers the power and politics of small-town Pride. Then, in the second half, they're joined by Van Knapp, co-founder of Canyon County Pride in Idaho, to talk about building queer joy in unlikely places.

44 min
MAY 29 · BONUS • SLATE PLUS ONLY

Bonus: The Gay Agenda: Queer Culinary History + Rosie in Ireland

This week on the Gay Agenda, Erik Piepenburg offers a few essential starting points for exploring queer food history. Then, Christina unpacks the latest wave of Rosie O’Donnell coverage, from her new life in Ireland to recent TV cameos and the enduring question of what Rosie means to queer pop culture.

6 min
MAY 28

America’s Gay Restaurants with Erik Piepenburg

This week, Christina Cauterucci is joined by Erik Piepenburg, author of Dining Out, a new book that explores the history of gay restaurants in the United States. Piepenburg traces how restaurants have long served as essential spaces for queer people as places to gather, connect, and express themselves at a time when most public spaces were hostile or unsafe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

46 min
MAY 28 • SLATE PLUS ONLY

America’s Gay Restaurants with Erik Pipenberg

This week, Christina Cauterucci is joined by Erik Piepenburg, author of Dining Out, a new book that explores the history of gay restaurants in the United States. Piepenburg traces how restaurants have long served as essential spaces for queer people as places to gather, connect, and express themselves at a time when most public spaces were hostile or unsafe.

39 min
MAY 8 • SLATE PLUS ONLY

Bonus: Horror, Hacks, and a Touch of Sappho

This week, the hosts are joined by writer Alden Jones to make some critical additions—a horror film, a close read of Hacks' latest season, plus a nod to Sappho, because what's a good agenda without a little ancient poetry?

8 min
MAY 7

Queer Travel Writing with Alden Jones

Outward’s Bryan Lowder and Christina Cauterucci talk to Alden Jones, editor of the new anthology, Edge of the World. With essays from Alexander Chee, Daisy Hernández, Edmund White, and more, the collection makes clear that queer travel writing isn’t just overdue—it’s transformative. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

41 min

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Voted “Favorite Political Podcast” by Apple Podcasts listeners. Stephen Colbert says "Everybody should listen to the Slate Political Gabfest." The Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz, is the kind of informal and irreverent discussion Washington journalists have after hours over drinks. Want more Political Gabfest? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Political Gabfest show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/gabfestplus to get access wherever you listen.

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A show about the law and the nine Supreme Court justices who interpret it for the rest of America. Want more Amicus? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes with exclusive legal analysis. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Amicus show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/amicusplus to get access wherever you listen.

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Anna Sale explores the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation.

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In 1992, hundreds of armed federal agents surrounded a family of white separatists in a ramshackle mountaintop cabin. Eleven days later, three people were dead—and the story of Ruby Ridge was just beginning. Journalist Ruth Graham explores a tragedy that’s become a foundational myth for the modern right, and finds some frightening lessons about power and paranoia. Get full access to Standoff: What Happened at Ruby Ridge with Slate Plus. Join to unlock the full season—plus ad-free listening on all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe from the Standoff show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or visit slate.com/standoffplus for access wherever you listen.

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10/26/2024

No More Jigglies

I am intrigued by the amicus report podcast submitted for US vs Skrmitti. I don’t know the name of it and can’t find it in the submitted materials for the case. I don’t know how amicus reports work. Please put the name of the report in writing somewhere to be able to locate this important historically accurate document. You convinced me to read it in the podcast, but I can’t find it! Thanks for any help you can offer.
Love this pod

Apr 3

ACristancho

I love this podcast because it brings me joy.
was good in the past, now pretty shallow

12/19/2024

bizzlepod

I enjoyed the podcast years ago but it’s become pretty stagnant and superficial. The recent episodes, especially the one reviewing “Queer,” was almost unlistenable. Feels like it’s a flighty attempt at discussing queer culture. Bummer, was a go-to podcast of mine that I won’t be returning to.
Mixed feeling as of late..

03/20/2024

BACNE SPEARS

Been skipping more and more eps ever since they changed the format to weekly single topic eps with rotating hosts. I'll hang in here for a bit longer but we'll see...

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.