Zack Wickham

speaker

690 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2025 last heard 28 Jan

Zack Wickham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Detox Retox with Tom Schwartz · Celebrating Pride with The Valley's Zack Wickham · 3 Jun 2025 podcast

Oh, absolutely. Also, we're also seeing the rise again of people wanting to host these straight pride rallies or whatever. And I'm just like, you're missing the point because it has nothing to do with well, if one has it, the other should have it. It's like, that's not what it is because when you say straight pride, when you say like white pride, stuff like that, that is actually taking away.

You don't have to have, those are not things you have to have pride in because you can be it openly and it's not a problem. It's not looked down upon. It's not marginalized when it comes to being gay. The reason you're, you're celebrating it and being proud is because you're trying to

amplify and make it a positive thing whereas like when you're taking something like straight pride you're saying you like basically you're trying to come into a space where you're already the majority like you exactly you don't need to be proud of that like it's Zach, that was beautifully stated. And by the way... It could have been stated better.

I was also trying to dance around my words to not get canceled.

It was Samir and I, my, well, this story has been out there. So I'm not mom and dad, you already know this, but my best friends, Kayla, Colleen and Hope, we all turned 18. It was right before Thanksgiving, like the day before Thanksgiving of our senior year, her parents. So we're like, oh, let's have one drink. And so her parents like, let us have one drink.

And then, and then it just kind of spiraled and I got drunk for the first

Had you also, can I say how much I love it? How you say Smirnoff? How do you say it? Smirnoff. Smirnoff. Smear. Smear. There's no C8. Okay, I'm sorry. No, I just love the way you say it. It's funny.

Am I seeing you out for the rest of the time?

No, I didn't. I came out when I was still 18, but not... I came out to a girl that I just met. The first time was like maybe December. So I still hadn't come out yet.

But, um, I had some inklings, you know, there was some, there's some, there was some red flags in my, in my own psyche where I was like, maybe you're gay.

No. Okay. No. Mine was very undercompensating. I was like, no, I'm definitely gay.

Yeah, like, it's funny because if we didn't have the way society says, like, oh, you're... Like, what girl do you like? And it pushes you into these lanes. If people just listened to their kids or said, oh, like, the choices... I would have been gay at five. Like I knew I liked boys right off the bat. Yeah. Like boys were so much more interesting to me.

What's crazy is my family is the most supportive, caring part of the community. My dad, when he was at Humana, which is where he worked, he was part of the... I don't even know what they call it. The work group for the LGBT... He was always involved. My mom was involved with the LGBT group on our college campus once I came out. They were super open, super whatever. However...

Besides Will and Grace being the only thing our family had ever talked about being gay or like seeing a gay portrayal.

Well, and it broke her career for a while. Yeah. You know, when she decided to do that... and be so brave. Like she lost her career for many years.

Yeah. And, and it, it took her a while to recover. And then after Ellen and I don't remember what year that was, but then until willing grace was on in 1998 was when it premiered, there wasn't like that, you know, there was like queer as folk and some other things, but they were on like HBO or Showtime or, you know, Oh, my God. Do you remember on HBO Taxi Confessionals? Taxicab Confessions.

Oh, my God. Now, that was a sexual awakening. It was called like real sex, blah, blah, blah. Like 71 or whatever. They always had a dick somewhere and I'd never seen them in the wild before.

Oh my God.

Yeah. I mean, I'm going to say, I'm definitely going to say it's gotta be, I mean, I'm not, I'm kidding. Yeah.

but Louisville is different. Louisville is one of the most progressive cities in the South. It has one of the largest gay populations randomly per capita. We have very strong gay community. Also pretty much every politician that has been around since I've been around or like been alive has been a Democrat or liberal. Like our mayors have given speeches at the gay club and, So our pride is huge.

Showing 581–600 of 690 · page 30 of 35