For this patreon-only conversation, we met up at a local favorite, Americano Lounge, to discuss the many forms catfishing takes in queer communities.

Both of us have been catfished more times than we can remember. Once you spend enough time on the apps, you of course develop something of a sixth sense when it comes to grainy, overcropped photographs and chatty blank profiles.

But we also recognize the pressures bearing down on us—the pressures to be fit, masc, white, and young in order to be deemed desirable and make connections. When we meet each other increasingly less and less in the real world, how do men who believe they’re #betterinperson meet other men?

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A culture podcast by two insufferable queer introverts in the South who really need to know who’s gonna be there before they commit to anything.

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Member of the ‘Tennessee Three’ Rep. Gloria Johnson is an educator at heart. Sometimes, that means being a teacher voice in the legislature (read: asking her republican colleagues ‘if you can hear me clap once!’ ‘if you can hear me clap twice!’), but it always means standing in the gap for all Tennesseeans. Join us in this honest conversation about Gloria’s new podcast, Standing Tall with Gloria Johnson, and spilling a little sweet tea on corruption in Tennessee politics.

• Rep. Gloria’s Socials: votegloriaj | standingtallpod
• Standing Tall with Gloria Johnson
• Gloria Johnson, Knox News Sentinel

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A culture podcast by two insufferable queer introverts in the South who really need to know who’s gonna be there before they commit to anything.

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There are at least three things that you’re likely to experience in a Rasheed Newson novel: 1) A feeling of period-correctness 2) A well-researched ethical dilemma 3) Sex — fortunately his latest book, There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood, is no exception. Our hosts talk with Rasheed about his career as a screenwriter and novelist, but also about the importance of letting historical figures be real people.

• Rasheed’s Socials: Instagram | Website
• There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood
• My Government Means to Kill Me
• Diahann Carroll
• Sidney Poitier
• Bayard Rustin
• Andrew Goodman

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Flanked by a giant spinning wheel of party guests and all the extroverted energy they can muster, our hosts head to Nashville Pride! There, they talk to historian Sarah Calise of Nashville Queer History on just how not new Southern Prides are and how we can all become queer archivists. Listen as festival goers (maybe you?) spin the game wheel to decide if they’re going to the party or not and leave us with their Pride hot takes!

• Sarah’s Socials: Instagram | Website
• Jackie Shane
• The Jackie Shane Papers

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Sometimes not succeeding at things can be good, especially if we’re talking about gay conversion therapy. There’s no better person to reflect on this than Timothy S. Rodriguez, author of the recently-released memoir, Conversion Therapy Dropout: a Queer Story of Faith and Belonging (Broadleaf). Recounting his experience with gay conversion therapy programs and ministries such as Exodus International, and his work as a digital strategist for megachurches like Hillsong and Willow Creek Community Church, Timothy walks us through his path to a kind of freeing failure, and success at living his truth. Timothy joins the hosts for a game of smash or pass, Christian men edition.

• Timothy’s Socials: Instagram | Website
• Conversion Therapy Dropout
• Garrard Conley
• Church Clarity
• NASHVILLE PRIDE FESTIVAL

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We’ll be at Nashville Pride on Bicentennial Mall from 11AM – 6PM this Saturday, June 27th! Stop by to hear interviews with special guests and for your chance to play the game with us (and maybe even be featured on the pod!)

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In this episode, we look at the anti-capitalist afrosurrealist film I Love Boosters (Boots Riley), and the highly-anticipated anti-something The Devil Wears Prada 2 (David Frankel). We explore the common threads (sorry!) of fashion versus capitalism, the depictions of the right kind of billionaire, and the importance of soul sucking demons. Of course, we talk Marxist theory as it applies to fashion production (so, Karl by Karl Marx?) and which film embodies the world we’d like to live in.

• Boots Riley
• David Frankel
• The Devil Wears Prada 2
• I Love Boosters
• Dialectical Materialism

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‘Blue dot fever’ happens when you look at a concert seating chart and see mostly unsold seats (blue dots). As the epidemic worsens with a flood of cancelled tours, our hosts explore archival live performances as a cure to blue dot fever. Join as they analyze style, scene, and technique in six recorded shows.

• Patti LaBelle: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
• Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now
• Whitney Houston: All the Man That I Need
• Beyonce: Daddy Lessons
• Michelle Williams: Say Yes
• Bruce Hornsby: The Way It Is

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A culture podcast by two insufferable queer introverts in the South who really need to know who’s gonna be there before they commit to anything.

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