Formerly Straight

Before taking a break for the ‘22 holidays, Sloan & Warren address the Club Q shooting & give Sam Smith & Kim Petras their flowers for going number one on the charts with their song “Unholy,” during their iconic show segment, Queer News Alert (QNA). The besties then get into one of their most vulnerable topics yet: the vagina. Sloan takes us through how her vagina went from broken to partially repaired, as she describes what pelvic floor physical therapy is, how vaginismus sounds kinda like a holiday, and how despite what the legends may say, sex isn’t supposed to hurt.

Happy Queer History Month! In this week’s Queer News Alert the besties discuss Madonna (maybe?) coming out, the implications of having a green velvet couch and Ed Sheeran’s strange habit of gifting penis statues. S&M then dive into some queer history, while discussing how our language has evolved over the years to become more inclusive, including the shifts that have occured in how we understand being queer within ourselves and as a society.

*This episode was inspired by a Queer History thread that Sloan found on Twitter by Hugh Ryan, a writer, historian, and curator who specializes in queer topics.

The besties rehash a Central Cee lyric from their last episode with some new context, and chat about Shake Shack taking over a historical landmark in LA that was a part of the LGBTQ+ Civil Rights movement in this week’s Queer News Alert. S&M then get into the relationship between masculinity and homoeroticism, if certain affection that women show each other is also seen as homoerotic, and how homophobia might play a part in it.

In a very special episode with their very first guest, Morgan Roberts, aka Drag King Robert Morgans, Sloan, and Moose dive into the world of drag. Between establishing which ‘RuPaul's Drag Race’ season to watch first to the disparity between drag queen & king representation in the media and "the scene,” these 3 long-time friends discuss their journeys with one of the alphabet mafia's most profitable art forms. S&M also dissect an ~interesting lyric~ and dive DEEPER into the history and cultural relevancy of "cunt.”

In this week’s Queer News Alert, Sloan and Moose follow up on some recent pop culture queer baiting from their last episode and ask whether one particular pop star is guilty of gay erasure. The besties then discuss the reclaiming of terms that have traditionally been used against the queer community, providing historical context for their origins, and have thrilling debates on who should and shouldn’t say them (is Sloan cancelled?). They even go on a side quest to explore the “vulvatic region.”