Hang out with Ellie Brigida and Leigh Holmes Foster, the lesbians you'd want at your potluck! From lesbian life and sapphic dating to queer culture, community, and LGBTQ+ representation in entertainment, media, and pop culture, Lez Hang Out is your go-to podcast for unapologetically queer conversations, plenty of laughs, and a lot of sapphic socialization.
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Ten seasons. Over a million downloads. Still asking: What if we made it gayer?
Join bi-coastal besties Ellie Brigida and Leigh Holmes Foster for your weekly dose of lesbian life and queer culture, featuring celebrity guests, big feelings, and hot takes on everything from queer dating to the cancellation of your favorite sapphic shows. Come for the Shouldâve Been Gay debates, stay for our Lez-ssentials film discussions and conversations about finding your people.
Get a taste in this 90-second trailer, then follow Lez Hang Out (@lezhangoutpod) wherever you listen. Ellie might cry. Leigh probably wonât. Lez Hang Out!
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1003: Three Discourse Meal
Season 10 · Episode 3
Tuesday, October 13, 2026 âą Duration 01:10:16
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Help keep your favorite LGBTQ+ podcast going! đ 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!)
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Calling all horror gays! đŠ Celebrate spooky season with Lez Hang Out and Cruising Pod at Queer Horror Trivia Night on Sunday, October 25, from 9â11 PM ET at NYCâs 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. đ Get your tickets!
đ» Can't make it? Get into the Halloween spirit with our Lez Hang Out merch, featuring gay ghosties and gender-neutral skellies!
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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 lezhangoutpod@gmail.com. Connect with us individually: Ellie Brigida (@elliebrigida) and Leigh Holmes Foster (@lshfoster).
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EVERYONE who signs up to our giveaway wins a FREE spicy toy or gift card for toys! https://bbvibes.com/lezhangout #bbpartner
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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, weâre 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 donât 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.Â
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.Â
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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!Â
In Pretty, KB explores the complicated gap between how we see ourselves and how the world sees us. Part memoir, part cultural critique, itâs 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 â90s and 2000s, when âno homoâ was a punchline, âthatâs so gayâ 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.Â
Honestly, Emma Specter of Vogue said it perfectly alreadyâPretty, âat its heart is a carefully sketched-outâand often devastatingâportrait of what it means to be Black and transmasculine in Texas, a state that continues to criminalize both of those identitiesâ. Â
While todayâs greater visibility of trans and nonbinary identities gives people more opportunities to question, explore, and understand themselves, KBâs 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.
Donât forget to support your local bookstores by snagging your own copy of Pretty at Bookshop.org.Â
Lez Hang Out is an independently produced show. Find us on Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Tiktok and Bluesky (@lezhangoutpod) or email us at lezhangoutpod@gmail.com.
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SBG 171: Scooby-Doo
Episode 171
Tuesday, September 22, 2026 âą Duration 01:08:22
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/lezhangoutÂ
#bbpartner
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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, weâre 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 donât 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.Â
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.Â
You can also support (and rep!) the pod by shopping small at bit.ly/lezmerch.
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Get in gays, weâre 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, Shouldâve 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.Â
The Mystery Incorporated polycule has been wrecking villainsâ plans since 1969! Every iteration of Scooby-Doo from that very first cartoon onward has gotten gayer and gayerâ to the point that Velma is canonically a lesbian in 2022âs Trick or Treat, Scooby-Doo. And we would have had gay Velma on our screens much, much earlier if it hadnât been for those meddling homophobes in Hollywood #releasethekiss. The fact that a kiss between Sarah Michelle Gellarâs Daphne and Linda Cardelliniâs 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 Shouldâve Been Gay.
Give us your own answers to our Q & Gay and follow along on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and BlueSky @lezhangoutpod. Email us @lezhangoutpod@gmail.com. Connect with us individually: Ellie Brigida (@elliebrigida). Leigh Holmes Foster (@lshfoster).
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1001: Tenacious D-ykes
Season 10 · Episode 1
Tuesday, September 15, 2026 âą Duration 01:14:31
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).Â
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.Â
Lez be honest, itâs 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 wasnât 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, thereâs a good chance it wonât even make it to season two.Â
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, weâd love to hear from you!Â
Find us on Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Tiktok and Bluesky (@lezhangoutpod) or email us at lezhangoutpod@gmail.com and let us know your favorite (and least favorite) episodes, moments, guests, or events. And donât forget to enter our giveaway where everyone is a winner!Â
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.
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But Iâm a Lesbian Podcast: Scissoring, Stretching & Seeing Red
Tuesday, August 18, 2026 âą Duration 01:11:08
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 Iâm a Lesbian pod.
Donât want to wait to hear more of Ellie and Leigh? Youâre 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).
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Love Lies Bleeding is not your average sapphic romance, and honestly?Thank goodness! This week, weâre 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. Itâs gritty, intense, and unapologetically gay- and weâre unpacking what works, what shocks us, and what lingers long after the credits roll (hint: itâs a sex scene that we canât stop thinking about). Join us for a chaotic, spoiler-filled conversation about love, power, and just how far youâd 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 Iâm 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!
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This Week in Fandom History: #shirtgate, Or: The Gaylor Episode
Sunday, August 16, 2026 âą Duration 01:31:58
Missing Lez Hang Out? Join our Patreon family for instant access to 25+ full length bonus-episodes! Check out bonus episodes and additional perks like mp3 downloads of all our original music and our entire catalogue of episodes in an ad-free format at patreon.com/lezhangout.
Ellie and Leigh will be back soon with Season 10. While you wait, we invite you to tumble down the #Gaylor rabbit hole with our friends V Arrow and Emily Jaye over at This Week In Fandom History.
This Week In Fandom History gets deep into the who, what, and why behind fandom culture's highest highs and weirdest lows. In this episode, V and Emily connect Glee's #shirtgate incident with gay Taylor Swift fanfic. They don't usually cover celebrity gossip but this tale was so delicious, how could even they resist. This is but a taste of their monthly TGIF/F or Thank God It's Femslash Friday feature.
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SBG 170: Lemonade Mouth with Franco Stevens and Jen Rainin of The Curve Foundation
Episode 170
Wednesday, July 8, 2026 âą Duration 01:18:22
Pride Month may be over, but weâre still here, queer, and full of existential fear. Lez Hang Out Podcast is unfortunately quite an expense to produce and much of our funding comes from our incredible supporters over on Patreon.
You can help us keep our little indie pod afloat for another season by joining our Patreon family at the $5/month tier or higher and unlock our growing library of full-length ad-free bonus episodes, ad-free weekly episodes, mp3 downloads of all our original songs, exclusive Discord access to hang out with us, and more! Get an automatic discount on your membership by selecting an annual subscription at checkout.Â
You can also support the pod by shopping small at bit.ly/lezmerch & picking up our Lez-ssentials songs on Bandcamp.
Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that is coming to you live from detention.Â
This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out with the co-founders of The Curve Foundation (@curvefdn), Franco Stevens (@frankostevens), the founder of Curve Magazine (@curvemag), and wife, filmmaker Jen Rainin (@franklyspeakingfilms), and talk about why the Disney Channel Original Movie, Lemonade Mouth, Shouldâve Been Gay. With Hayley Kiyokoâs directorial debut, Girls Like Girls, currently playing in theaters, we thought it would be fun to take a trip back to 2011 when a young Hayley Kiyoko rocked the stage (and an aggressively asymmetrical bob) as Stella.Â
Lemonade Mouth is actually the first DCOM that Franco and Jen have ever seen! We are delighted to have opened this door for them to the tween-Hallmark Movie experience. But even for a DCOM, Lemonade Mouth is on another level when it comes to being a queerer Breakfast Club with flip-phones. Hayley Kiyokoâs lesbian-coded âStellaâ isnât even the gayest thing about this movie, and sheâs literally an anticapitalist vegetarian teenager with a rock band.Â
We know one thing for sure, Lemonade Mouth Shouldâve Been Gay.
How do your favorite lesbian movies and tv shows hold up against The Curve Test?Â
Give us your own answers to our Q & Gay on Instagram and follow along on Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and BlueSky @lezhangoutpod. Email us @lezhangoutpod@gmail.com. Connect with us individually: Ellie Brigida (@elliebrigida). Leigh Holmes Foster (@lshfoster).
This is our final episode for Season 9. Thank you so much for all of your support. We couldnât keep making this pod without you! Weâll see you in late August for Season 10.
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922: Couple Trouble with Rev. Anne-Marie Zanzal and Anna Empey
Season 9 · Episode 22
Wednesday, July 1, 2026 âą Duration 01:23:59
Itâs the final hours of Pride month! Now is a perfect time to join our Patreon at the $5/month tier or higher and unlock our growing library of full-length ad-free bonus episodes, ad-free weekly episodes, mp3 downloads of all our original songs, exclusive Discord access to hang out with us, and more! Becoming a member is the absolute best way to help keep this little pod that could chugging along. Get an automatic discount on your membership by signing up for an annual subscription.Â
Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that believes all lesbian relationships can be improved through color-coded journaling.Â
This week, co-hosts Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) are joined by two very special guests. First up, we have Rev. Anne-Marie Zanzal (@annemariezanzalcoaching), a LGBTQIA+ coach specializing in helping women who are questioning their sexualities and going through the journey of coming out. Anne-Marie also runs the âAuthentically Us Communityâ for late-in-life lesbians alongside hosting the Coming Out & Beyond Podcast. Next, we are joined by Anna Empey (@anna.empey), a business development consultant and LGBTQ+ coach with 14+ years of experience.Â
Together in collaboration with lesbian psychologist, Dr. Robin Sesan, Anne-Marie and Anna have created the Healthy Lesbian Relationships course, a lifetime access course that provides pre-recorded video lessons, journaling prompts, a workbook with lesson-specific exercises, and a private online community of lesbian couples to connect with. Whether you are a late-in-life lesbian or a right-on-time lesbian, the Healthy Lesbian Relationships course can help you and your partner to build patterns of positive interaction for lasting intimacy, better understand one anotherâs communication and attachment styles, manage emotional triggers, and master the art of the âdo-overâ conversation.Â
Weâve talked a lot this season about lesbian marriage, and although we pride ourselves in being experts, we thought maybe it was time to bring on some actual, legitimate experts. We chat with Anne-Marie and Anna about the unique challenges that lesbian couples face, that annoying divorce rate statistic that the straights always use against us, the pathologization of âlesbian bed deathâ, and the casual intimacy of coming home to clean dishes.Â
If you are questioning your sexuality, the free âMaybe Iâm Not Straightâ guide is the perfect place to begin your journey.
If youâre already in a sapphic relationship and looking to make it even better, check out the free guide, âTips for Strengthening Your Lesbian Relationshipâ.Â
Donât forget to show your support for our tiny (and mighty!) podcasting team by shopping small this summer at bit.ly/lezmerch & picking up our original Lez-ssentials songs on Bandcamp.Â
Give us your own answers to our Q & Gay on Instagram and follow along on Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and BlueSky @lezhangoutpod. Connect with us individually: Ellie Brigida (@elliebrigida). Leigh Holmes Foster (@lshfoster).Â
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