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. <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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. <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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Recent Episodes
June 24, 2026
So Long Outward, Long Live the Gay Agenda!
Host Bryan Lowder and writer Christina Cauterucci interview producer June Thomas to reflect on eight years of LGBTQ+ cultural and political conversations and update the Gay Agenda.
April 24, 2026
When We All Get to Heaven Just Won a Peabody Award!
Host Lynne Gerber explores the Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco's resilience and community strength during the AIDS epidemic, featuring unearthed audio recordings.
January 23, 2026
Beyond Gay Marriage
<p>Our friends at Selects bring you this documentary from 2010 looking at the debate among LGBTQ folks in San Francisco around the fight for gay marriage and the cost of that fight borne by other parts of the broader community. </p><br><p><a href="https://selects.supportingcast.fm/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Selects Podcast is a free, twice-monthly show</a> that is bringing you unearthed audio works that we’ve found buried in web archives, radio streams, and early podcasts. It’s hosted by Mitra Kaboli, whose work you may have heard on Welcome to Provincetown and The Heart. </p><br><p>In addition to the free podcast, there’s a whole collection with exclusive shows and robust show notes looking at the history of these works and how they fit into the bigger audio landscape.</p><br><p>The Selects Podcast aims to preserve work that is being lost to digital time - these are award-winning documentaries made by some of the best in the medium, but they are getting lost in web archives and defunct podcast feeds. Listening helps give these works a new life, something that can help make the audio industry more sustainable.</p><br><p>Learn more about Selects at <a href="https://selects.supportingcast.fm/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://selects.supportingcast.fm/</a></p><br><p>Beyond Gay Marriage was hosted and produced by Lisa Dettmer and co-produced bt Elena Botkin-Levy. Financial support was provided by Astraea Foundation and Making Contact at the National Radio Project. Lisa Dettmer is a radio producer with the feminist radio show "Women’s Magazine" at KPFA Radio in Berkeley, California, which can be heard at kpfa.org/program/womens-magazine. </p><br><p><br></p><br><p>Learn more about Selects at <a href="https://selects.supportingcast.fm/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://selects.supportingcast.fm/</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
182 total episodes available with 28 transcripts
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