Hey sweet ice teas! I hope you’re enjoying your summer, the most glorious time of the year to frolic in the sun! While you’re hanging by the pool, chilling at the park or traveling to a really rad place, you should totally listen to the A+ Podcast!
This episode is all about our baby queer years — those years when you were just realizing you were queer or just coming out. Up first is Mey who shares a Facebook thread of when she was coming out as trans to her friend and then Laura Mandanas and her girlfriend M give a dramatic reading of an AIM conversation of when they were first trying to figure each other out. Gabby and Laura Wooley hold a hilarious conversation about what they did when they were baby queers and Nikki tells you an embarrassing story that involves a girl in a bar. Then Yvonne reads some excerpts from her diary when she was a baby gay in high school and early college and Maddie tells you about her first girlfriend set to the tune of Goo Goo Dolls’ “Slide.”
This episode was produced by Samara Breger. You can listen right here or download it. Enjoy!
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holy damn that AIM conversation, too real. I had to stop and do breathing exercises and remind myself that I am no longer a 15 year-old mess.
(I’m a mid-twenties mess now, but at least I can buy beer and I have my very own cell phone to send emotionally fraught messages from)
*hugs*
IT’S OKAY!
…also, I was 23 when I participated in that conversation. Hahaha.
Wow this AIM Convo really is too real. My brain thinks I am back in my baby gay relationship and it’s freaking out!
Yesssss saving this as a treat for somewhere in my 24 hour flight on Monday. Thanks a bunch!
Man, I really wished I had So Jealous on my phone right now. I have a strong urge to listen to it!! Loved this podcast!
Best yet! These stories are so real – thanks for sharing these moments. Listening a second time now…
joined A+ just so I could listen to this podcast. this is perfect. thank you.
Oof, I do not miss the baby gay days one bit. I recently reread my diary from grade 9, which is when I first started questioning my sexual orientation while angsting about how none of the boys in my class liked me, and I just wish I could time travel and give 14-year old kaybo the biggest hug.
Can’t wait to listen! Any chance you guys will be making the podcast available for apps like Downcast (etc) in the future, or is that too complicated? (Or is it already there and I’m too dumb to find it?)
This just kept me up while driving home alone after having slept NOTHING for a week away. And it was great!
Also I love listening how your voices sound like (is that creepy?)
Nope!
Omg. I don’t have enough time to finish all of this, but:
1) Mey, your message was/is SO helpful to my understandings, thank you
2) Laura W and Gabby, please be in my life always, that was wonderful.