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Happy Lesbian Visibility Week, HTBQers!

Tomorrow is Lesbian Visibility Day, this week is Lesbian Visibility Week, and so in honour of this we reunited with one of our fave lady lovers: MELANIE (she/they)!!!! Since each of us relates in our own way to the word, we discuss how each of us relates to the word lesbian and get into the nitty-gritty of labels and words and how we have come to use the ones we use (or don't use). We are so excited to share this episode with you beautiful humans!

We hope you enjoy the episode! Happy Lesbian Visibility Week! We see you lesbians, and WE LOVE YOU, LESBIAN LISTENERS!!! THIS ONE IS A LOVE LETTER FOR YOU!! Let us know what you think: drop us a line on our Insta, or email us at 

hello@howtobequeer.ca!

We are back to a semi-biweekly-ish schedule, so stay tuned for our next episode coming to your earbuds on May 9th!

We appreciate you so much <3

XOXO

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So you caught feels for your bestie, maybe they did too? Are sparks flying between ya'll but you don't want to ruin your friendship. We've all been there, and we do mean all of us, falling for a friend is, at this point a rite of passage, but unlike a lot of our hetero-counterparts, it doesn't have to end friendships and it doesn't have to end up as a relationship either.

Join Sam and Kellum in the second episode in our How To Be Queer: After Dark series, our semi-monthly spicy🔥series, where Sam and Kellum will be discussing some spicy topics of How To Be Queer!!
Stay tuned next month for a juicy one 🧃

This episode is rated 🌶️ 🌶️ / 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

We hope you enjoy the episode! Let us know what you think: drop us a line on our Insta, or email us at 

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We love you, thank you so much for listening, and we hope you enjoy episode 10 of this beautiful season!!
We are back in the swing of things with biweekly episodes, which means that you will hear from us again on February 28, because gd it is a leap year!
So glad you are here on this journey, with us and we have so much to share with you this season. We appreciate you so much <3

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Hey y'all, welcome back for episode two!

This week, we went interview style, but looked for our guest from within the inner HTBQ circle - Chris! Yes, that's right, Chris takes the hot seat and answers questions from Kellum and Sam, with the conversation orbiting around Chris' experience with and intimate knowledge of education! For context, Chris currently works in a secondary school in Ontario and is the department head of social sciences. Chris is also currently working toward a Master in Social Justice Education, so a lot of equity is discussed. Other topics include: How does Chris run their classroom? How did the pandemic change things? What is going on with teens these days?

Let us know how you like us interviewing from within - wanna hear more about us? Drop us a line on our Insta, or email us at 

hello@howtobequeer.ca!

Uh huh! Yep! We have email. I mean we did last season too, but we thought we would bring it up again in case you forgot.

We love you, thank you so much for listening, and we hope you enjoy episode 2 of this beautiful season!!

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Disclaimer: All viewpoints are our own. Everything that is expressed by a panelist is their own words. The answers are intentionally vague when referring to real situations to protect the identity of any people discussed.

Hey y'all, welcome to our grand opening!

We have returned for a healthy season 4, with lots of tasty morsels for you to enjoy! This week, we went roundtable style for a Styles-centred conversation, because there are few hotter queer icons right now. Harry Styles certainly has been making headlines recently, and caught the attention of the gays a long time ago while he was still in 1D with some of his first mentions he might be into guys too. But now he's notable Hollywood celebrity Harry Styles, of a different calibre and applicable to all. So, due to this, and due to Harry being once again asked "r u gAy?" by the media, this week we get into the nitty-gritty with our focus question of the episode: why won't Harry just come out already?!?!?!!!?

Our format for this episode is different than before, but we enjoyed the roundtable style of our conversation for this episode. If it so pleases the court, we would like to continue with this kind of rich conversation into future episodes. But otherwise, what can you expect from this season of HTBQ? Well, honestly all the same GOQS (good ol queer stuff). We have a few guests lined up already, we have some side episodes/series that we will be launching this season, and we will continue to educate you and keep you abreast (or achest) of the hottest topics in queer culture at any given moment.

We love you, thank you so much for listening, and we hope you enjoy episode 1 of this beautiful season!!

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Harry Styles on Understanding the Mind of a Closeted Gay Man for ‘My Policeman’ — TIFF. Variety.

Hey y'all!

As mentioned, your beloved co-hosts have vacated for the summer. We will be returning, but in the meantime, we wanted to replay some of our fave episodes for you, as well as the faves that you chose to have replayed! Here is the fourth in the series: stonewall uprising activist martin boyce!

Martin was at the Stonewall Uprising back in 1969, the riot that sprung the gay rights movement into visibility and action! Hear about this historical event again in this week's replay episode! Thanks again to International Day of Pink for sponsoring this episode!

Stayed tuned for biweekly summer replay series! And until season 4, enjoy your summer and stay queer!!

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Hey y'all!

As mentioned, your beloved co-hosts have vacated for the summer. We will be returning, but in the meantime, we wanted to replay some of our fave episodes for you, as well as the faves that you chose to have replayed! Here is the third in the series: asian and pacific islander heritage with michael!

Michael rocks and was such a great guest! We learned a lot from our conversation, and definitely look forward to the next time we are able to sit down for a chat - Michael is absolutely filled with beautiful knowledge!

Stayed tuned for biweekly summer replay series! And until season 4, enjoy your summer and stay queer!!

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Hey y'all!

As mentioned, your beloved co-hosts have vacated for the summer. We will be returning, but in the meantime, we wanted to replay some of our fave episodes for you, as well as the faves that you chose to have replayed! Here is the second in the series: sapphic and queer women!

This was only a few months ago, right before Sam's departed on leave, and it's actually one of our most successful episodes of the season! We love that you love sapphic and queer women just as much as we do. Also, if you haven't yet, check out Episode 4 of the Book of Queer, streaming on Discovery+. It features a bit of the history of Sappho and the word Lesbian!

Stayed tuned for biweekly summer replay series! And until season 4, enjoy your summer and stay queer!!

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Hey y'all!

As mentioned, your beloved co-hosts have vacated for the summer. We will be returning, but in the meantime, we wanted to replay some of our fave episodes for you, as well as the faves that you chose to have replayed! Here is the first in the series: chosen families with kellum!

This was the first time Kellum was on the podcast, long before we even knew that they would be joining us as a permanent fixture. We love how the podcast has evolved and how Kellum themself has evolved in that time! After all, a lot can happen in a year and a half!

Stayed tuned for biweekly summer replay series! And until season 4, enjoy your summer and stay queer!!

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Well, beautiful family, that's a wrap on both our Pride Series and Season 3 of How To Be Queer!

This series has been very well-received from our mighty audience. This is why we are doing this - to produce some cool queer content that you can learn from and feel more connected to the queer community. We love you and we are very glad you are here! Thank you for coming on this journey with us.

We would also like to thank everyone who participated in the Pride series, including:

Martin Boyce, Stonewall Uprising Activist, courtesy of International Day of Pink (episode 31)

MJ and Tianna from Glad Day (episode 32)

Raegan from the ArQuives (episode 33)

Taryn (episode 13/14), Michael (episode 27), Shelly (episode 28), and Sara (episode 29)

Thank you for a great season to everyone involved! Stay tuned for when we launch season 4, with a release date of episode 35 in talks right now. For now though, HTBQ is going on hiatus. We will return for season 4 in the fall. In the meantime, we will be replaying 4 episodes: 1 chosen by us, and 3 chosen by you. Check out our Instagram stories on the release date of this episode to vote for your faves to replay! We are also returning to biweekly episodes... for now.

Alright, that is likely not all the updates we wanted to give you but it's all the ones we can currently remember lol. Have an absolutely spectacular summer, babes.

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Instalment 3 of our Pride series! In this week's episode we are talking to Raegan Swanson (she/her) about queer Canadian history. We talk about many significant events from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, and give you some more of the Canadian context! The events in the queer rights movement in Canada did not happen simultaneously to the US, and thus our histories are quite different. Listen to find out more! The ArQuives is open to the public! If you are in Toronto check out their enormous catalogue of queer Canadian history by first booking an appointment and then visiting them at 34 Isabella Street in Toronto, or check out their website or Instagram! A huge thank you to The ArQuives for sponsoring this episode. ... Next week is our last episode in our Pride series - and with it, the end of season 3. It has been a beautiful season, and we cannot wait to see what season 4 has in store! Until that time, we will be going back to a biweekly schedule. During the hiatus we will be re-releasing some of our old episodes we want you to hear again! Hope everyone is having a safe and happy Pride! As always, C U Next Time on How To Be Queer!