Zack Wickham

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

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

Louisville's a different beast. We also have some of the strongest LGBT protections for workplace, for housing, that includes trans people. It includes the full umbrella. It doesn't just disclude some or...

and it's workplace and housing which you don't have in other cities in the south so as far as that's concerned louisville was great to grow up in i never even though i was catholic i did go to an all boys catholic high school and i mean oh dear god it's probably why i drank smirnoff ice you know as my first drink but um That was a little difficult.

Well, let me put it this way. I was never not myself. So if people wanted to call me gay, they could call me gay. Or then I had my defenders that were like, he is totally straight. He just likes dancing. If it tells you anything, I went to seven. I had to buy a tux. I went to seven tuxes. senior proms at all the all-girl schools. I went to every single Catholic school.

I went to all of their senior proms. And then the only other one was my own. Oh, and then I went to two public school ones as well.

My mom was like, we're buying a tux because I'm not renting a tux every time you let go.

But yeah, I feel like I felt, but it's the not knowing. You don't talk about it. It's never talked about. You have to find out all this stuff about yourself on your own. Like through, you know, men's fitness magazines. And, you know, just like Yahoo Messenger.

Well, then it was.

Yeah, it was. period and actually what's really what's amazing about we ho and something I want to bring up and what's so important about pride too is gay bars so gay bars are actually kind of like the hub of gay the center of like gay life but Granted, in the past 10 to 15 years, it has shifted because gays are more accepted other places so they don't congregate in just gay bars.

And a lot of gay bars have actually been going out of business in smaller towns. But... They are the center of gay life because that's where the knowledge transfer on how to be gay or what it means to be or what has happened in the past. That's where you get that knowledge because you're not going to get it in school.

Exactly. And again, it was like, that is what your chat GPT was. It's the old guy at the end of the bar that is going to tell you what happened in 1980 or 73 or whatever year, you know what I mean? It's like, that is how you learn these things. And, and I feel like that is kind of a disconnect now where I'm like kind of scared.

I'm hoping that we can bridge that gap again to like the younger generation to make sure that they understand how important, um,

And that happens all the time, you know? And it's definitely not easy coming out because, you know, it's the only time where you have to, where you could possibly be disowned from your family. You're probably, I mean, more than likely, you're not going to be disowned from your family for, you know, any other thing really except for that. Yeah. Right off the bat, you know?

struggling have struggled but overall we're moving in the right direction i feel like even when we take these steps back we're we'll we'll i i have some faith in america i have some faith in humanity that okay guys is it better right now or was it better a few years ago like come on come on

There's an energy.

It's definitely palpable.

I feel it in my palple.

Can I just... Let's walk down memory lane of... I remember... Let's not walk too far. Well, let's not walk too far. Actually, I don't want to go with a sad story, but the year after I moved here was the Pulse Club shooting. And I was just in Orlando that day and had just flown back from gay days in Orlando and landed here in L.A., I had just been to pulse to, uh, I can't remember.

Uh, what's the other, whatever, all the like bars. I had just been to gay days at Disney and like come back here. And then like that shooting happens. And then, and then I remember Brittany's working at sir. And I'm just like a wreck. And then I think you guys like, didn't know if you were going to film or not because it was like a little on, on like, nobody knew what was going on.

Yeah, no, it was terrifying.

Oh, is he? Yeah.

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