Lez Hang Out | Lesbian Life & Queer Culture

Help us reach our Season 10 goal of 100 paid Patreon supporters! Join our Patreon now for bonus episodes, ad-free listening, watch parties, and more. One of us! One of us! You can also rep the pod with Lez Hang Out merch. Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that is floating in a most peculiar way. This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out and talk about why the 2026 sci-fi blockbuster Project Hail Mary Should've Been Gay. Leigh's alternate title for the movie? Rock Hard Boys Fist in Space. Honestly, we think it's pretty fitting, considering Rocky spends about 80% of his dialogue telling Grace to "fist my bump." Just maybe don't Google Leigh's version unless you want your search results filled with Pornhub videos. Based on the bestselling novel by Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary stars Ryan Gosling as Ryland Grace, a middle-school science teacher who wakes up on a spaceship tasked with saving humanity and ends up finding the love of his life: an alien that looks like a child built a spider out of rocks, whom he affectionately names Rocky. While Ellie absolutely loved the movie, Leigh has one major complaint. Where the hell was all the science?! Ellie, who didn't read the book, reminds us that this is why you don't read. Then you can just enjoy things. Even before meeting Rocky, Grace is giving us plenty to work with. He's a petty, catty scientist who lost his career for questioning the scientific establishment, has a suspiciously flirty relationship with Carl (Lionel Boyce), and literally goes on a date with him to the gayest store on Earth, Home Depot. Meanwhile, Eva Stratt (Sandra Hüller) is serving ruthless lesbian boss energy, casually crushing karaoke and yeeting men into space against their will. A lesbian would've volunteered to save the world immediately, but Grace? He needs to be drugged and catapulted into the universe. Then there's Rocky, brought to life by queer actor and puppeteer James Ortiz, who spoke with Them about how his own queerness naturally became part of his performance. We have absolutely no idea what gender or sexuality mean to Eridians, but we do know a love story when we see one. These two U-Haul faster than any lesbians we've ever met. Rocky builds a suspiciously suggestive tube to connect their spaceships, immediately moves in, and insists on watching Grace sleep. Meanwhile, Grace is filming Love Island confessionals about his boyfriend, who can hear every word he's saying. So much for personal space! We're talking about Rocky being quite literally a STONE butch, Grace's potential asexuality, and the fact that Rocky already has a partner back home named Adrian. Intergalactic polycule anyone? But beyond all the innuendo, these two have a beautiful romance. They exchange meaningful gifts, repeatedly save each other's lives, and ultimately choose a future together. By the end of the movie, Grace has decided to spend the rest of his life on Erid with his rock husband. He's learned the language, he's got a custom-made biodome, and frankly, who wants to deal with a long-distance relationship between two solar systems? That man did his Eridian Duolingo every single day. He's committed! We know one thing for sure, Project Hail Mary Should've Been Gay. Now we need to know, if saving humanity meant taking what is likely to be a one-way trip into space, would you already be strapped into the spaceship, or would Eva Stratt have to drug you and launch you into the universe like Grace? Let us know! Give us your own answers to our Q & Gay and follow along on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and BlueSky @lezhangoutpod. Email us at [email protected]. Connect with us individually: Ellie Brigida (@elliebrigida). Leigh Holmes Foster (@lshfoster). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ready to get cozy and gay for the holidays? Check out our Queermas designs and support our tiny team by shopping small at bit.ly/lezmerch. Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast where we're grabbing our handy-dandy notebooks, heading to our Thinking Couch, and playing another round of Lesbian Blue's Clues. This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) are lowering the flag to half-mast for G Flip and Chrishell and asking a question we never thought we'd have to ask:  WHERE DID ALL THE LITTLE LEZZIES GO? According to a recent analysis of CDC data, the percentage of ninth-grade girls identifying as lesbian or bisexual dropped from 30% in 2021 to just 17% in 2025. The celesbians are breaking up, the baby gays are disappearing, and we are on the case. Our numbers were the strongest they’ve ever been during the height of the pandemic, but they’ve been dropping ever since. Is long COVID turning teens hetero? If you had all just worn your masks, would you be dating a masc right now??? As two highly qualified lesbian experts armed with nothing but Al Gore's internet and an alarming number of graphs, we're determined to get to the bottom of this. Did Taylor Swift's Eras Tour-to-Travis Kelce pipeline turn an entire generation of teen girls straight? Is JoJo Siwa scaring the youth away from labeling themselves? And can we convince Fox News that HOMO-Schooling is making kids gay so they'll finally start fighting to save public education? We're going to need more graphs. We also take a trip down memory lane to when queer representation was all over our screens and shows like She-Ra, Dickinson, Gentleman Jack, and The L Word: Generation Q were practically handing out sapphic starter packs. Of course, there's also the tiny detail that neither of us was out in the 9th grade. And if you think freshman year of high school is peak lesbian identity, you have clearly never been to Smith College or Mount Holyoke. But seriously, what 14-year-old was going to tell Trump’s government they're a lesbian? Are the teens actually getting straighter, or have they just learned not to tell the feds where to find them? And do the youth even recognize a survey anymore? We’re not entirely sure they’ve been shown how to properly fill in a bubble with a No. 2 pencil. We may not have all the answers, but we do know one thing: The lesbians are NOT going extinct on our watch. Speaking of keeping the lezzies alive, our little independent queer podcast needs YOUR help to keep the chaos coming! Join our Patreon family at any paid-tier at bit.ly/lezpatreon to unlock bonus episodes, ad-free listening, our patron-only Discord, and more. Plus, you can get an automatic discount by choosing an annual membership! Give us your own answers to our Q & Gay and follow along on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and BlueSky @lezhangoutpod. Email us at [email protected]. Connect with us individually: Ellie Brigida (@elliebrigida) and Leigh Holmes Foster (@lshfoster). Sources mentioned in this episode: Original analysis of CDC data — Generation Tech CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System datasets The Washington Post: Number of teens who identify themselves as gay or bisexual is in “free fall” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Help us reach 100 paid patrons by November 1st! Your support helps cover the approximately $800/month it costs to produce Lez Hang Out and keeps our Production Assistant, Kristin, paid for the approximately 700,000 things she does behind the scenes. Join our Patreon for bonus episodes, ad-free content, exclusive Discord access, and more queer shenanigans. One of us! One of us! (Annual subs get a discount!) It's gay Christmas! 👻 Get into the spooky spirit and support our tiny independent podcast by shopping small at bit.ly/lezmerch. Our Gay Ghosties and Brat Skellies are ready to haunt your wardrobe! Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that thinks even your inner demons deserve a snatched waist. This week, co-hosts Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out with artist and author Bill Crisafi (@billsafi) to discuss his new book, The Glam Reaper's Guide to Slaying: Life Lessons for Rebellious Souls. Bill's spooky roots run deep. Growing up around Salem, Massachusetts, he was essentially a spooky gay from birth. By kindergarten, he was already teaching his classmates how to draw witches and attempting to fly around on a mop like Sarah Sanderson. Between Leigh’s own experiences in Salem and Ellie's family hailing from Dorchester, we had plenty of New England nostalgia to bond over. Believe it or not, Bill never even pitched the book! Penguin approached him about turning the delightfully unhinged characters from his artwork into a self-help guide, including the Glam Reaper, a fierce bitch in high heels inspired in part by his mom. When Bill’s mom sadly passed away during the writing process, he found himself working through his own inner demons while creating a guide that could help others do the same. We talk with Bill about the pressures of monetizing creativity, the difference between being a bitch and being THAT bitch, and the absolute horror of accidentally sending a heinous emoji to the ONE straight guy in the Penguin WhatsApp chat. Bill also opens up about coming out at 26 on Christmas Day to his macho Italian family and discovering the joys of the drag community through his partner. If there's anyone we trust to make Halloween a little more slay, it's Bill. With Ellie's wife Bailey dressing as Spider-Man, we needed some help figuring out Ellie's costume. Naturally, Bill's very specific appreciation for certain actresses' teeth leads him to suggest Kirsten Dunst's mouth. I hate gay Christmas. What do you mean you're Kirsten Dunst's MOUTH?! Pick up your own copy of The Glam Reaper's Guide to Slaying and check out Bill's collection of prints, plushies, pins, shirts, and more at billcrisafi.com. What's your spooky root? Give us your own answers to our Q & Gay and follow along on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and BlueSky @lezhangoutpod. Email us at [email protected]. Connect with us individually: Ellie Brigida (@elliebrigida) and Leigh Holmes Foster (@lshfoster). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Help us reach 100 patrons at $10/month by November 1st! Your support helps cover the costs of producing Lez Hang Out and keeps our Production Assistant, Kristin, paid for everything she does behind the scenes. Join our Patreon for bonus episodes, watch parties, and more queer shenanigans. One of us! One of us! You can also rep the pod with Lez Hang Out merch. Dearest gentle listeners, welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that would have gotten to the lesbians four seasons ago. This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out and talk about why Netflix’s Bridgerton Should’ve Been Gay(er). Leigh recently voluntarily suffered through four seasons of Regency heterosexuality, and now we’re making it your problem. With Francesca and Michaela’s romance taking center stage in Season 5, we have a few matters to address before the next social season.  First of all, they are finally giving us a sapphic love story, and somehow it doesn't involve Eloise? Eloise Bridgerton’s closet is literally made of glass. This woman spends season after season rejecting men, marriage, and the entire heterosexual industrial complex, but apparently we're the ones reading too much into things. Whether you’re rooting for childhood besties Eloise and Penelope or the delicious potential of Eloise and Cressida, there are perfectly good lesbians sitting right there. Meanwhile, Penelope has made herself a little anonymous gossip zine to talk shit about everyone she knows. Lady Whistledown is a Regency Regina George with a printing budget. We’re getting into the romance tropes that make us want to flee the marriage mart, the exhausting business of falling for a man when his hot female relative is RIGHT THERE, and why this fantasy version of the early-19th century can re-imagine race but somehow homophobia is the one heirloom nobody is willing to leave behind. The string quartet can play Ariana Grande, yet Eloise dancing with a woman is one historical inaccuracy too far? Benedict is putting the bi in Bridgerton, Queen Charlotte and Lady Danbury are one royal decree away from a lavender marriage, and Eloise has been ready for her lesbian storyline since approximately her first spoken sentence. We’re thrilled the sapphics are finally getting our own season. We just shouldn’t have had to sit through four straight ones to get here. We know one thing for sure, Bridgerton Should’ve Been Gay(er). Give us your own answers to our Q & Gay and follow along on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and BlueSky @lezhangoutpod. Email us at [email protected]. Connect with us individually: Ellie Brigida (@elliebrigida). Leigh Holmes Foster (@lshfoster). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lez Hang Out is proud to be sponsored by Bellesa Boutique. EVERYONE who signs up to our giveaway will receive a FREE Rose suction toy with Bellesa Boutique order! 🌹https://bbvibes.com/lezhangout #bbpartner ****************************************** Help keep your favorite LGBTQ+ podcast going! 🌈 We're aiming for 100 Patreon supporters at $10/month by November 1st, and we need just 40 more! Producing Lez Hang Out costs at least $800/month, and while we don't pay ourselves, we do want to keep paying our Production Assistant, Kristin, who keeps approximately 700,000 things running behind the scenes. Join our Patreon for bonus content, community fun, and a whole lot of gay nonsense. One of us! One of us! (Annual subscriptions get a discount!) ****************************************** Calling all horror gays! 🦇 Celebrate spooky season with Lez Hang Out and Cruising Pod at Queer Horror Trivia Night on Sunday, October 25, from 9–11 PM ET at NYC’s iconic lesbian bar, Henrietta Hudson! Come in costume, bring your coven (teams of up to 6), and test your knowledge of queer horror, cult classics, and iconic final girls. 🎃 Get your tickets! 👻 Can't make it? Get into the Halloween spirit with our Lez Hang Out merch, featuring gay ghosties and gender-neutral skellies! ****************************************** Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast where supporting lesbian bars shouldn't require a degree in conflict resolution. This week, co-hosts Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) are talking about late-stage capitalism, the impossibly high standards of being a lesbian in 2026, and the viral controversy surrounding The Last Ditch, a COVID-conscious lesbian bar in Greenfield, Massachusetts. The Last Ditch discourse has taken social media by storm, and we wouldn't be a responsible lesbian podcast if we didn't talk about it. Leigh actually used to live in Western Mass, and it's impossible to understand what happened without considering the local culture. People move to the Pioneer Valley for a reason, and the viral Boston Globe article (which reads like The Onion but is somehow real) has put this tiny queer community under a microscope that glosses over that context. It's a very specific brand of lesbian and queer person who settles in the area, and the dynamics aren't necessarily comparable to larger LGBTQ+ communities like LA or NYC. That said, there's plenty here that applies to the greater queer community. We'd be remiss if we didn't discuss the polycule breakdown, the clown college situation, and the white progressive pearl-clutching of it all. When The Last Ditch announced one mask-optional night a week to stay financially afloat, the backlash escalated from an Instagram announcement and a therapist-mediated town hall to hate crime accusations and even a public comment wishing for the bar to be firebombed. Firebombing should not be step one! And we're saying this as people who still take COVID precautions and wear masks in various situations. There were so many opportunities for an open community discussion about accessibility and the bar's financial struggles, but instead we got a perfect example of what happens when we leave absolutely no room for nuance. It sucks that we live under late-stage capitalism, but we cannot ignore reality. The Last Ditch's owner is reportedly living in her car because of the debt she's taken on trying to keep the bar open, yet proposing one mask-optional night has people sending her death threats. Our society runs on women's unpaid emotional labor, and patriarchy doesn't magically disappear within the LGBTQ+ community. Lesbian bars are expected to meet every community need, provide endless care and accessibility, and somehow remain financially sustainable, while gay men's bars aren't asked to shoulder any of that responsibility. A gay men's bar could make the exact same decision without being expected to answer for the failures of an entire society. There are already so few lesbian bars left in the United States, and we'll keep losing them if we don't actually show up and support them. We cannot jump straight to canceling a queer-owned business over one misstep. We're all human, many of us are neurodivergent, and maybe we all need to touch grass and have a little empathy for a woman who's doing her best to serve her community while also trying not to be literally homeless. The people we need to be fighting are not each other. Having this discourse coexist with the Cornell 7 controversy is honestly breaking our brains. The double standard in how society excuses appalling behavior from men while holding women to impossible standards is staggering. Accessible queer spaces are essential, but so is keeping them open. We have to make room for both without expecting lesbian bars to somehow operate outside the financial realities of late-stage capitalism. We want to hear your thoughts! Give us your own answers to our Q & Gay and follow along on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and BlueSky @lezhangoutpod. Email us at [email protected]. Connect with us individually: Ellie Brigida (@elliebrigida) and Leigh Holmes Foster (@lshfoster). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lez Hang Out is proud to be sponsored by Bellesa Boutique. EVERYONE who signs up to our giveaway will receive a FREE Rose suction toy with Bellesa Boutique order! 🌹https://bbvibes.com/lezhangout #bbpartner ****************************************** Our Patreon family has given us so many incredible memories over the years, from watch parties and trivia nights to getting to meet some of you IRL. Now we’re trying to hit 100 $10/month patrons by November 1st, which means we need 40 more! It costs about $800/month minimum just to produce Lez Hang Out, and while we don’t currently pay ourselves, we do want to keep paying our Production Assistant, Kristin, who keeps approximately 700,000 things running behind the scenes. One of the most direct ways to support the pod is to join our Patreon for $10/month (and choose annual billing for a discount!). One of us! One of us! You can also rep the pod with Lez Hang Out merch. ****************************************** Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast where the gays get to be in the room even when Hollywood would rather hide us backstage. This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out and talk about why the 2017 musical The Greatest Showman Should’ve Been Gay. All circuses are inherently queer and this circus is no exception. We’ve got outsiders finding their people, Lettie the Bearded Lady (Keala Settle) choosing to fully embrace herself, and This Is Me, which may be one of the gayest songs ever put on film. Meanwhile, PT Barnum (Hugh Jackman) is busy exploiting the very people who make his show a success, and somehow Hollywood straightwashes him into the hero he never was. We’re getting into Jenny Lind (Rebecca Ferguson) and Charity (Michelle Williams)’s VERY interesting chemistry, the forbidden-love duet that desperately needed a lesbian rewrite, and our theory that PT and Phillip (Zac Efron) are one lingering eye contact away from this becoming a very different movie. Then Jenny Lind arrives, PT is practically levitating over her performance, and she somehow thinks he’s into her. Jenny, babe, he’s looking at you like you just walked onstage at Beyoncé’s Renaissance Tour. Phillip is right there, but apparently the movie’s gaydar is on airplane mode. For a movie about outsiders, The Greatest Showman sure does spend a lot of time telling PT Barnum’s story while giving us surprisingly little of the people who actually make the circus worth watching. We barely know half their names, let alone who they are beyond the spectacle. Nearly a decade later, we’re still asking: why does the garbage man get the hero edit? We know one thing for sure, The Greatest Showman Should’ve Been Gay. Give us your own answers to our Q & Gay and follow along on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and BlueSky @lezhangoutpod. Email us at [email protected]. Connect with us individually: Ellie Brigida (@elliebrigida). Leigh Holmes Foster (@lshfoster). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lez Hang Out is proud to be sponsored by Bellesa Boutique. EVERYONE who signs up to our giveaway wins a FREE spicy toy or gift card for toys! https://bbvibes.com/lezhangout  #bbpartner ****************************************** Getting to create and grow our Patreon family has been one of our favorite experiences of the past 10 years. We have so many wonderful memories from watch parties, game nights, trivia, and even getting to meet some of you in person! Now, we’re asking our community to help us hit a very specific goal: 100 paid $10-tier patrons by October 1st. It costs us about $800 every month just to produce Lez Hang Out, regardless of how many people listen. And while we don’t currently pay ourselves for hosting and producing the show, we do want to continue paying our Production Assistant, Kristin, who keeps approximately 700,000 things running behind the scenes. Your Patreon support helps cover the real costs of making this show and allows us to keep compensating the person doing the behind-the-scenes work that keeps Lez Hang Out going. If you want to become part of our exclusive community (one of us, one of us!), you can join today for $10/month. Choose the annual option at sign-up for an automatic discount! 100 patrons at $10/month would make a huge difference for us. If you love Lez Hang Out and want to help us keep making it, this is one of the most direct ways you can support the show.  Do you feel that chill in the air? Stock up now for hoa hoa homo season at bit.ly/lezmerch with our special collection featuring gay ghosties and the skeletons that refused to stay in the closet.  ****************************************** Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that knows figuring out who you are is rarely a straight line. This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) is joined by award-winning author, KB Brookins (@earthtokb), for a discussion about their 2025 Lambda Award Winning debut memoir, Pretty, now available in paperback!  In Pretty, KB explores the complicated gap between how we see ourselves and how the world sees us. Part memoir, part cultural critique, it’s a love letter to Black trans masculinity and a powerful call for all humans to question the assumptions and expectations we inherit from being raised within a structurally racist, cisheteronormative society. Using a mix of poetry and prose, KB reflects on growing up in the ’90s and 2000s, when “no homo” was a punchline, “that’s so gay” was a common insult, same-sex marriage was still illegal, and the language available for understanding queer and trans identities was often limited, stigmatizing, or outright harmful.  Honestly, Emma Specter of Vogue said it perfectly already–Pretty, “at its heart is a carefully sketched-out–and often devastating–portrait of what it means to be Black and transmasculine in Texas, a state that continues to criminalize both of those identities”.   While today’s greater visibility of trans and nonbinary identities gives people more opportunities to question, explore, and understand themselves, KB’s journey was also shaped by the specific cultural expectations and assumptions attached to being perceived as a Black girl in Texas. Pretty traces that winding process of unlearning those expectations, questioning who they were told they should be, and ultimately finding the freedom to recognize themselves as the Black transmasculine person they have always been inside. Don’t forget to support your local bookstores by snagging your own copy of Pretty at Bookshop.org.  Lez Hang Out is an independently produced show. Find us on Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Tiktok and Bluesky (@lezhangoutpod) or email us at [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lez Hang Out is proud to be sponsored by Bellesa Boutique. EVERYONE who signs up to our giveaway wins a FREE spicy toy or gift card for toys! https://bbvibes.com/lezhangout  #bbpartner ****************************************** Getting to create and grow our Patreon family has been one of our favorite experiences of the past 10 years. We have so many wonderful memories from watch parties, game nights, trivia, and even getting to meet some of you in person! Now, we’re asking our community to help us hit a very specific goal: 100 paid $10-tier patrons by October 1st. It costs us about $800 every month just to produce Lez Hang Out, regardless of how many people listen. And while we don’t currently pay ourselves for hosting and producing the show, we do want to continue paying our Production Assistant, Kristin, who keeps approximately 700,000 things running behind the scenes and is basically the reason anything gets done.  Your Patreon support helps cover the real costs of making this show and allows us to keep compensating the person doing the behind-the-scenes work that keeps Lez Hang Out going. If you want to become part of our exclusive community (one of us, one of us!), you can join today for $10/month. Choose the annual option at sign-up for an automatic discount! 100 patrons at $10/month would make a huge difference for us. If you love Lez Hang Out and want to help us keep making it, this is one of the most direct ways you can support the show.  You can also support (and rep!) the pod by shopping small at bit.ly/lezmerch. ****************************************** Get in gays, we’re all going to Spooky Island for some fun conversion camp highjinks! This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out and talk about why the 2002 box office smash hit, Scooby-Doo, Should’ve Been Gay. If you, like us, are a gay of a certain age, this live action version of the classic cartoon has lived rent free in your head ever since you first laid eyes on Linda Cardellini as Velma.  The Mystery Incorporated polycule has been wrecking villains’ plans since 1969! Every iteration of Scooby-Doo from that very first cartoon onward has gotten gayer and gayer– to the point that Velma is canonically a lesbian in 2022’s Trick or Treat, Scooby-Doo. And we would have had gay Velma on our screens much, much earlier if it hadn’t been for those meddling homophobes in Hollywood #releasethekiss. The fact that a kiss between Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Daphne and Linda Cardellini’s Velma was filmed and then hidden from us for 24 years is a hate crime against the queer community. We have never recovered. We may never recover. We ride at dawn. We know one thing for sure, Scooby-Doo Should’ve Been Gay. Give us your own answers to our Q & Gay and follow along on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and BlueSky @lezhangoutpod. Email us @[email protected]. Connect with us individually: Ellie Brigida (@elliebrigida). Leigh Holmes Foster (@lshfoster). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lez Hang Out is proud to be sponsored by Bellesa Boutique. EVERYONE who signs up to our giveaway wins a FREE spicy toy or gift card for toys! https://www.bboutique.co/vibe/lezhangout-pod #bbpartner Getting to create and grow our Patreon family has been one of our favorite experiences of the past 10 years. We have so many wonderful memories from watch parties, game nights, trivias and even getting to meet some of you in person! If you want to become part of our exclusive community (one of us, one of us) you can join today for just $5/month (do yourself a favor and choose annual at sign up for an automatic discount).  Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that is officially entering the double digits club. This week, co-hosts Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) reminisce about the past ten years, beginning with the airport phone call that started it all.  Lez be honest, it’s been an absolute rollercoaster of a decade. Queer media and fandom have changed almost beyond recognition. Weekly releases, longer seasons, queer-focused conventions, sapphic shows, and highly engaged casts once gave fandoms room to grow. It wasn’t perfect. Hollywood still loved burying our gays once we got attached; but at least we had them. Now, queer characters are harder to find, seasons are shorter, and if we do get a queer show, there’s a good chance it won’t even make it to season two.  We have been yelling about the importance of positive LGBTQ+ representation on screen for literally 10 years. If you have been with us from the beginning, we’d love to hear from you!  Find us on Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Tiktok and Bluesky (@lezhangoutpod) or email us at [email protected] and let us know your favorite (and least favorite) episodes, moments, guests, or events. And don’t forget to enter our giveaway where everyone is a winner!  Feeling a chill in the air? Stock up for spooky season at bit.ly/lezmerch with our special collection featuring gay ghosties and gender neutral skellies. Leaving a rating/review is an easy (& free!) way to support the podcast. Your review helps others find our community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We hope you have been having a hot gay summer! While you wait for Lez Hang Out to return with our 10th season of lesbian shenanigans, check out this sizzling episode on Love Lies Bleeding from our friends over at But I’m a Lesbian pod. Don’t want to wait to hear more of Ellie and Leigh? You’re in luck! Join our Patreon family at bit.ly/lezpatreon for as low as $5/month and unlock our growing library of 25+ full length ad-free bonus episodes (as well as a bunch of other perks like free mp3 downloads of ALL our original songs). ------------------------------------------------ Love Lies Bleeding is not your average sapphic romance, and honestly?Thank goodness! This week, we’re breaking down the murder, the muscles, and the bad decisions that make this film such a wild (yet fun) ride! We get into the twisted love story at the center, the extremely hot actors, and the way desire spirals into something dangerous. It’s gritty, intense, and unapologetically gay- and we’re unpacking what works, what shocks us, and what lingers long after the credits roll (hint: it’s a sex scene that we can’t stop thinking about). Join us for a chaotic, spoiler-filled conversation about love, power, and just how far you’d go for your lady love! Make sure to stay for the full episode, because we go through a history of scissoring/tribbing to clear up all the misconceptions we have heard! But I’m a Lesbian is hosted and produced by Katlynn Beatty and Angelina Herrera. Production and Mixing by Victoria Shifflett. Creative direction and video editing provided by Juanita Iriarte. Music by Stiletto Falsetto. Do you need some sapphic advice? Send in your dilemma for our "Dear Dykes" segment at tinyurl.com/BIAL-Dear-Dykes. This is your chance to be featured in a pod episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices