I am intrigued by the amicus report podcast submitted for US vs Skrmitti. I don’t know the name of it and can’t find it in the submitted materials for the case. I don’t know how amicus reports work. Please put the name of the report in writing somewhere to be able to locate this important historically accurate document. You convinced me to read it in the podcast, but I can’t find it! Thanks for any help you can offer.

To describe this as "whip-smart" is laughable. You can't take someone serious who is confused why a male boxing a female is unfair, especially after they cause the women to quit 46 seconds into the fight. If you want to feed your delusions, subscribe! Emotion over reason, without an ounce of intellect or logic to bring to the table.👎

This is a really good show! It's very helpful, since I live in Texas (I and a lot of my friends are LGBTQ+; I'm genderqueer/bi). Also why are people leaving homophobic and transphobic reviews? Didn't you CHOOSE click on this podcast? Anyways very wonderful! - Axolotl Boy, he/they

Been skipping more and more eps ever since they changed the format to weekly single topic eps with rotating hosts. I'll hang in here for a bit longer but we'll see...

Now a Subscriber. Heart felt and knowledgeable conversations. Advocates for us Queer folks very refreshing to say the least. - what’s not refreshing is two of the speakers (3-15-23) injecting the filler word “like” into sentences multiple times. Maybe it’s a regional thing- but locally for me - not used to hearing it. And certainly not up to 5 times in one sentence. Just sayin. (It’s annoying) other than that- 5 stars!!

So woke they don’t realize that some of the views they push are actually homophobic - quite anti same sex. There is a lot of cluelessly misogynistic crap here too. The hosts don’t seem to understand how journalism works - they whine and squeal about the Times not advocating for causes when that is not the role of journalists.

Won’t be listening to a second more of this show. The League Of their Own episode should be taken down. Gratuitously gay? Lip service? And you didn’t even know the name of the main character. The lack of thought that went into this was awful and insulting and disappointing. How harmful to put out into the world that a beautiful, meaningful, researched, queer-fronted show is gratuitously gay. That show is exactly the kind of authentic representation we need, and you just call it gratuitous?

Ditto to the last unsubscribing review- was a 3 year listener (since the Brandon Tensley days) and grew pretty frustrated by the over analysis of rom coms like the holiday episode and the Fire Island episode. Is that really the stuff they set out to do? And with one pod a month, is that the best use of anyone’s time? The culture stuff clearly doesn’t bring them joy (Bryan even says he hates rom coms in the Fire island episode) when the filmmakers are working so hard to bring joy to others in this joyless world. Let rom coms be rom coms and stick to the doom and gloom facing our community that you cover quite well!

I love this podcast. It brings consistently thoughtful perspectives from informed hosts with a good blend of topics across the LGBTQ spectrum. I’ve discovered so much queer content thanks to their recommendations over the years. 🙏

I have been a far on this podcast for a couple years and really have loved almost every episode! I love all the hosts’ personalities and feel like they all have different but interesting things to say. 💓💓

Lonnnnnng time listener who has been growing tired of the show having a static idea of what queerness is. Finally had to unfollow today after the discussion of how “some queer content shouldn’t be made”. As someone who believes that we need MORE queer content and celebrates the fact that now we have so much content we can even celebrate the bad … I’m gonna celebrate this pod and the years of listening by giving you a 4 star rating but also unsubscribing.

Speaks volumes.

This forum consistently provides entertaining, thought-provoking, and insightful discussions about queer culture that never fail to make me laugh, learn, and re-evaluate my own takes on queer life. It’s not stuffy at all but rather very engaging talk about books, movies, people and pop culture that I’ve come to see as invaluable.

Wow. The recent reviews say it all. I identify as a queer man and found it really strange that the first thing they start with is stuff that bothers them. The person in the FIRST episode said people who wear harnesses that aren’t in the leather community ‘provoke’ them…it doesn’t even make sense when I read it! Queer communities cannot be created and sustained when you immediately tear folks down for not participating in the ways that you deem acceptable. Disappointed to see that later episodes still feature a lot of gate keeping. Gross.

Really can’t stand them.

What is the point of having three hosts who all agree on every point? It feels like these hosts would simply trash talk anyone who disagreed with them behind the person’s back. Listening to the hosts, I actually now understand how the right feels about the left. The podcast has a strangely Stalinist quality.

Give her an award for tolerating the vapid, pointless hosts.

I discovered this podcast through the culture gabfest. I’m a gwm in my 50s and have been out and proud since I was 20. I started listening from the beginning but had to quit. The hosts are mostly there to police queer culture. They’re continually “provoked” by the smallest missteps by allies like Joe Biden, yet never discuss truly toxic people like Aaron Schock (maybe they get to him in a more recent episode). None of the current hosts are single and the show never touches on the experience of single gay people. It’s completely east coast centric. Almost no attention is paid to older gay people. They criticize others from a position of privilege without a hint of self-awareness. It’s upsetting to see everything my generation fought for devolve into this mess.

I was please to get an into to this podcast, via The Waves podcast, but after listening to 4 or 5 episodes, I'm out. It's way too navel-gazing and self-congratulatory. Now? I resent the heck out of the fact that Slate keeps forcing this on me, via my subscription to The Waves. Slate, to paraphrase Regina George, "Stop trying to make Outward happen!"

We have been sadly lacking in intelligent and fun LGBTQ talk until now! Thanks for doing this, nice job peeps.

I was excited to try this podcast but...During each episode I listened to, I kept cringing & eventually had to stop. Not everyone’s journey is the same. Stop bashing people for what they do not know. Or for feeling the way they feel because it is not exactly like your feelings. How hypocritical. To each their own. Not everyone was coming out had the capabilities to be educated on every single aspect of LGBTQIA history since the beginning of time or the random facts people create everyday to describe some random sex position or preference of who they like from a visual stand point. Make this more of a fun happy experience and discussion.

It gets old listening to essentialist takes on queerness and sexuality. Not every person has had the privilege of community when forging their identity, and not everyone’s experience can be reduced down to whatever fits into mainstream queer culture. WNYC’s Nancy does a much better job of approaching LGTBQIA+ topics without disdain, condescension, etc.

I enjoyed listening to this until the topic of Mayor Pete came up. Apparently he is not gay enough for them and every little action by Pete needs to be dissected and evaluated. Oh you don’t like the words he used when speaking about his sexuality and coming out? He doesn’t know enough about queer history? Is he part of a scene? Talk like this will only give us 4 more years of you know who.

Decent podcast. The hosts certainly have good chemistry. But the Mayor Pete stuff is absurd. A look at how Queer people are overanalyzing Mayor Pete’s relationship to queerness, to the point of sabotage would have been more interesting than, well...another over-analyzation of Mayor Pete’s relationship to queerness. Won’t listen again.

Wow!!!

the irony of watching the hosts talk about removing litmus tests on trans and bi folks while also being the first to call out already established queer voices for micro slights is apparently lost on the editor/s of this show if there indeed are any. virtue signaling porcelain fragile hosts take call out laden twitter hot takes and regurgitate them into your headphones. but that may just be me.

A thoughtful, interesting, and entertaining podcast. I wish it was more frequent!

Many have talked about the great queer content and discussion of timely topics. I second this whole-heartedly. In addition, I would like to add that I find the voices of the hosts very soothing.

I especially like the shout-outs at the end of the show, I’ve gotten turned on to many things I never would have known about otherwise!

The hosts have chemistry and can talk about anything queer, high or low, and make it both entertaining and insightful. Which is what I want from a podcast. Has quickly become one of my favs.

I listen to a lot of podcasts that I love and admire. But even they, at times, can feel obligatory. Like something I need to catch up on. This show is the ONE exception. Whenever it pops up in my feed, I just feel joy. I devour it almost immediately (and get impatient when I have to wait!). Such smart hosts, guests, topics, conversations. xoxo

Love Bryan and Christina’s take on these topics. Always a good listen for me.

The Outward podcast is my favorite source of Queer media, news, and community. I find I really connect with the folks on the show and am interested in the guests they bring on. From main stream musings to actual Queer history, I find the information relatable and fun. It’s the best thing I listen to every month!

What I most appreciate about Outward is its lack of dependence on sex as a topic. There is a wider breadth of issues discussed than I find in some similar podcasts. The primary drawback of this podcast, for me, is how there are often references to an idea of “gay culture” that I and many others have been excluded from in various ways. I am plugged into parts of queer culture, and it would be great to see Outward expand to more ways queer people live.

The hosts are very interested in and passionate about queer and LGBTQ issues. There is a lot to be said for having the voices available and the information being shared. That said, I am not certain that these are the voices to share our history. The hosts are very precise and opinionated in a manner that does not honor gay history or the struggles of previous generations particularly well. Those prejudices aside, (as well as an abundance of “likes”, “ums” and vocal crutches) aside, the podcast is entertaining most of the time.

That’s all I’ve got to say Bran..

Thanks for the discussions---though the show is well-structured, it also feels free-flowing. Though there are great pleasures to all of our different queer existences, this show feels optimistic in approaching all of our various burdens too.