Cameron Esposito
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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I came across this like Buddhist teaching that was like running away from something and running towards something. That's the same thing. So to need to leave and get the hell out of here, which is how I felt a lot of my life or to need to find the solution and get out. ever so close to that, which is the other half of how I felt in my life. It's like a panic.
It's just like an utter panic and just a lack of acceptance, right? It's like that things would need to be different. That's what I've been working on is less running towards in a way.
And more deciding for yourself.
And also more just like sitting, just like sitting still. Cause that's not even a decision. It's more like, maybe there is no decision. It's kind of what I was talking about with the gender. I guess this is what, I guess this is what my body looks like. And it has this head. I guess that's true. I guess that's true. It's been true for 40 years. I guess it's true.
Is that from just now? Yeah. Yeah. You just did. I can't believe I was here when that happened. Just now. Yeah.
I'm going to tell you this. Okay. Here's the thing that I find the most annoying thing on the planet. This is, to me, well... Annoying is the right word because there are things that are like less just or more angering. So I'll just say annoying is the right word.
To me, the most annoying thing on the planet is the idea that we are somehow at a place that like being queer, being gay, being lesbian, being that's like totally chill. I know you have so many different types of listeners. So I mean this with love.
This is often coming from the straight world that seems very surprised that this is still a thing, but I'm going to tell you that it's still stressful to move into a new neighborhood. It's still stressful to be on a plane. It's still stressful to wear a wedding ring. I don't actually think we're done now. less often am I being arrested for holding hands with my wife on the street?
Like that's a thing that used to happen and that is happening less often. So not that there is no change, but I do think that one thing that's very weird is like, Like I feel like when marriage equality happened and it's not just that like trans folks still are marginalized and murdered. It's not just, it's not like, it's that like marriage equality. Okay.
So we have like basic vague legal protections that like are not applied the same in every state, every city by every landlord. Like we didn't really get anywhere. We got somewhere. But when we got to that place, that place was still full of tricks. Yes.
So I think that's the thing that when you ask this question, I feel like the thing that keeps us all, I like being in the fight because I do think it's part of what makes us special is like, is the being in the fight. But like the queering of all things, when my straight sister died,
is in a world where people don't talk about her child's father babysitting their daughter, like then maybe we'll be at a certain place, but I don't think we're like at a place yet.
Right.
And then here's one thing I just want to make sure to revisit to your question about clearance clearance. Yeah. Glennon. I, I didn't get to date the people that I wanted to date when I was in my When I was like in adolescence and puberty, I like had a lot of boyfriends, which is like, I wasn't somebody who didn't get to date people, but everybody that I was dating, they were in the nicest people.
I love my friends. I was in love with my best friends, just a series of best friends. And I wanted to be loved by them, not necessarily noticed, but loved by them. And it was so heart-wrenching and it has been a formative part of my whole life is that like this feeling of wanting and not having a place for that to land that is receptive in the way that I would like for it to be.
Um, and I don't feel like you just got here and I'm pissed. I feel like that sounds so hard for anybody who like, I lived 20 years that way. Um, it sounds so hard to live longer than that. And I just like, I mean, it is really hard to not be yourself.
For any minute of time.
I basically am tearing up. This is really happening. I really, I love you and respect both of you very much. Same. And I just want to say, uh, thank you for the work that you've been doing the last couple of years, especially because, um,
Both of you always putting yourselves out there, but it is so intense, the amount of visibility that you've both been visible for a long time, but it does feel like an increased number of magnifying glasses. It does. And that does seem, again, really challenging. And so just- I see it and I love you.
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