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PRIDE SHOW with Ben Greene - on How to Make New Friendships, Finding Joy & Whimsy, & What Pride Means in 2026
HAPPY PRIDE! This is the last episode before we take our summer break, and I couldn’t be more excited to share this one with you. It’s perfect for Pride, perfect for summer, perfect for friendship, and perfect for you!
In this episode, Ben...
PRIDE SHOW with Ben Greene - on How to Make New Friends, Finding Joy & Whimsy, & What Pride Means in 2026
HAPPY PRIDE! This is the last episode before we take our summer break, and I couldn't be more excited to share this one with you. It's perfect for Pride, perfect for summer, perfect for friendship, and perfect for you!
In this episode, Ben...
Gay Shame Researcher - on the Male Gaze, Sex with Your Friends, and how Compulsive Dating is Actually a Shame Response
If you find yourself stuck in endless cycles of bad dating, unfulfilling friendships, and bad sex, this episode will help you get untangled.
In this episode, you and I sit down with Jordan Gonsalves to talk about the hidden impact of shame...
Gay Shame Researcher - on the Male Gaze, Sex with Your Friends, and how Compulsive Dating is Actually a Shame Response
If you find yourself stuck in endless cycles of bad dating, unfulfilling friendships, and bad sex, this episode will help you get untangled.
In this episode, you and I sit down with Jordan Gonsalves to talk about the hidden impact of shame...
Love & Connection Expert - on Why Gay Dating Feels so Hard, Modern Relationships & Hinge's 2026 LGBTQ DATE Report
If you’re fed up with modern dating, this episode is for you.
In it you and I sit down with Hinge’s Love & Connection Expert Moe Ari Brown to bring you actionable data from Hinge’s 2026 LGBTQ+ D.A.T.E. Report! We talk about what dating loo...
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A gay writer in NYC writing about relationships, sex, and Queer culture, all the while fueled by curiosity and empathy and striving to enhance connection. \ud83c\udff3️\ud83c\udf08
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Author of Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto. Editor-in-Chief of BOYSLUT, a digital zine sharing nonfiction and fiction erotica from kinksters across the globe, along with the occasional thought piece.
Political Strategist. Founder of Oath. Anita Bryant's worst nightmare.
Transgender author, advocate, and public speaker. I came out 10 years ago and live to be the person I needed when I was younger. Always looking for reasons to be joyful!
Contributing Editor @ Blue Amp Media, child-wrangler, sometimes-filmmaker, Missoulian dropped on my head in NYC. Wandering Agent-lessly Signal: @redpencilscript.10, [email protected], (She/Her)
A NYC-based, reclaimed creative yearning for witnessing, connection, and diving fearlessly into imagination. Subscribe to my publication, Pathway to Tenderness, a Black, queer, erotic philosophy of the body.
hairy jewess. host of “that’s a gay ass podcast”
\ud83c\udfa7 Co-creator and producer of the podcast Cruising. \ud83c\udfa7 \ud83d\udcdaAuthor, THE LESBIAN BAR CHRONICLES coming May ‘26 from Beacon Press. Preorder now! ⬇️
A man of trans experience, going through some trans experiences. This is NOT my typical theater stuff, it's more musings and nerdery about gender. Also, if you're my family or something, maybe don't read the spicy ones?
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