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.

In this week’s episode Warren reintroduces himself under his new to you but old to him name, Warren Hastings, as the besties discuss that though he is a Hastings he does not come from ~generational wealth~. They then get into their Queer News Alert where they discuss everything from Madonna doing poppers on live to TikTok personality Dylan Mulvaney speaking with President Joe Biden about trans rights. Sloan and Warren then dig into all the nuances of friendship, and specifically what their dynamics have been like in queer friendships and relationships.

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 bring on film buff, co-host of The Film Majors pod, and Sloan’s boyfriend, Zack Harris, to further their discussion on homoeroticism within straight male relationships through both personal experiences and moments in media such as, ‘The Lord Of The Rings,’ ‘The Bear,’ and ‘Top Gun,’ as well as to discuss the good ole bromance, and how we should all be kissing the homies goodnight. S&M also chat about Sloan falling asleep during ‘Bros,’ how the best romcom trope is someone falling, hitting their head, and forgetting their past, and how Velma from Scooby Doo is and has always been ~gay~, in this week’s Queer News Alert.

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.