Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast podcast

Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast

Outward, Slate's queer podcast, is a whip-smart monthly salon in which hosts and guests deepen the audience’s understanding of queer culture and politics, delight them with unexpected perspectives, and invite listeners into a colorful conversation about the issues animating LGBTQ communities.

Outward, Slate's queer podcast, is a whip-smart monthly salon in which hosts and guests deepen the audience’s understanding of queer culture and politics, delight them with unexpected perspectives, and invite listeners into a colorful conversation about the issues animating LGBTQ communities.

 

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10: AIDS Isn’t Over | When We All Get to Heaven

In the final episode of When We All Get to Heaven, we catch up on what’s happened in the m... more

10 Dec 2025

52 MINS

52:48

10 Dec 2025


#175

9: AIDS Energy | When We All Get to Heaven

In 1996 everything changed. With the introduction of antiretroviral medications called the... more

03 Dec 2025

53 MINS

53:15

03 Dec 2025


#174

8: Conversion | When We All Get to Heaven

In 1995 Rev. Jim Mitulski became HIV positive -- what's known as seroconversion. It was 14... more

26 Nov 2025

1 HR 00 MINS

1:00:23

26 Nov 2025


#173

7: Dress Rehearsals | When We All Get to Heaven

Scott and Bruce were the hottest couple in church. Scott, a hula dancer, seemed destined f... more

19 Nov 2025

49 MINS

49:12

19 Nov 2025


#172

Interlude: Tired of Dying | When We All Get to Heaven

The Sunday after Magic Johnson announced his HIV-status, Jim Mitulski preached a sermon on... more

16 Nov 2025

30 MINS

30:40

16 Nov 2025


#171

6: Attacked | When We All Get to Heaven

San Francisco’s gay/lesbian community in the 1980s wasn’t just facing an AIDS crisis, they... more

12 Nov 2025

1 HR 03 MINS

1:03:30

12 Nov 2025


#170

5: Healing Without a Cure | When We All Get to Heaven

When Rev. Ron Russell Coons got diagnosed with AIDS he thought a lot about what healing me... more

05 Nov 2025

56 MINS

56:46

05 Nov 2025


#169

4: Friends in the Fire | When We All Get to Heaven

As MCC grew as a denomination, they tried to figure out if and how to relate to other chur... more

29 Oct 2025

50 MINS

50:44

29 Oct 2025


#168

3: “A Church with AIDS” | When We All Get to Heaven

In the late ‘80s, two MCC San Francisco ministers wrote an article called “We Are the Chur... more

22 Oct 2025

46 MINS

46:54

22 Oct 2025


#167

2: A New Gospel for Gay Sinners | When We All Get to Heaven

Why would an out queer person in the Gay Liberation Days of the 1970s go to church? What c... more

15 Oct 2025

58 MINS

58:47

15 Oct 2025


#166

Making ‘When We All Get to Heaven’

As Outward proudly presents the 10-episode series When We All Get to Heaven, from Eureka S... more

15 Oct 2025

31 MINS

31:14

15 Oct 2025


#165

1: Setting The Table | When We All Get to Heaven

In 1993, more than 10 years into the AIDS epidemic, the Metropolitan Community Church of S... more

15 Oct 2025

26 MINS

26:21

15 Oct 2025


#164

Introducing: When We All Get to Heaven

When We All Get to Heaven tells the story of one of the first LGBTQ-positive churches, the... more

10 Oct 2025

01 MINS

01:52

10 Oct 2025


#163

From What Next: Trans and Shut Out in Trump’s America

Trans rights and access to health care have been under attack on the state level for years... more

03 Sep 2025

26 MINS

26:23

03 Sep 2025


#162

From Hit Parade: The Hidden History of Queer Pop Icons Pt. 2

Outward is going on a little summer break, in the meantime we’re leaving you with a deligh... more

06 Aug 2025

1 HR 03 MINS

1:03:09

06 Aug 2025


#161

From Hit Parade: The Hidden History of Queer Pop Icons

Outward is going on a little summer break, in the meantime we’re leaving you with a deligh... more

23 Jul 2025

1 HR 00 MINS

1:00:30

23 Jul 2025