Everything & Anything...and a bit gay Podcast

The rainbow flags are missing this June — and the silence is telling. In this Pride Month episode, Zach goes deep on rainbow washing (a.k.a. rainbow capitalism): what it is, where it came from, how it took over Pride, and why corporations are now retreating in record numbers. From the 1969 Stonewall riots to Subaru's coded 1990s lesbian marketing, from the Bud Light and Target blowups of 2023 to t...

Are we losing LGBTQ+ unity — or do we just need to rebuild what it looks like? In this Friday's Gay Bit, Zach digs into the division he's been watching play out inside the community: gay men turning on trans folks, bisexual and pansexual people getting invalidated, non-binary identities misunderstood, and comment sections full of people who'd rather criticize than get curious. He reflects on the i...

Episode Title: The Hyphenated Life — Dr. Han on Intersectional Identity, Queer Mental Health, and Surviving the In-Between Guest: Dr. Han (drhanren.com) Zach sits down with Dr. Han — psychologist, author, and TikTok creator — who specializes in liberation psychology and anti-oppressive care for children of immigrants, queer people, and Asian Americans. Dr. Han grew up as a 1.5 generation immigrant...

Everything & Anything…and a Bit Gay David Archuleta: Devout, Coming Out, and Owning Your Sexual Health Zach sits down with David Archuleta — the beloved American Idol runner-up, recording artist, and now New York Times bestselling author — for a conversation that is equal parts honest, hopeful, and necessary. David opens up about his debut memoir Devout , the immediate bestseller that explores wha...

Episode Title: Kevin James Thornton on Big Baby , Coming Out Late & Finding Fame at 50 Episode Summary: Zach sits down with Kevin James Thornton — author, comedian, musician, and TikTok sensation — for a candid, warm, and hilarious conversation about his upcoming memoir Big Baby , out June 2, 2026. From growing up in Indiana and getting swept into a church youth group to spending two decades chasi...

Episode Summary It's Pride Month, and Zach is getting into all of it — the joy, the history, the politics, and the very real threats facing the LGBTQ+ community in 2026. This isn't just a celebration episode; it's a call to remember why Pride exists in the first place. In This Episode The magic of NYC Pride and what makes it unlike anything else Why Pride started — the Stonewall riots, Marsha P. J...

Episode Title: From Small-Town Connecticut to 200K Followers — Spencer Thomas Gets Bit Gay Episode Summary: Spencer Thomas is a 23-year-old NYC-based TikTok creator, writer, and author of Goodbye to Boyhood — a self-published collection of short stories about queer identity, solitude, and growing up. He's amassed over 200K followers on TikTok by doing exactly what he set out to do: more gay shit....

Episode Summary: Zach recaps his Memorial Day Weekend trip to Provincetown during Baby Dyke Week — and officially walks back his short-lived "Boston gays aren't so bad" take. Spoiler: they are. In This Episode: The last-minute ferry trip to P-Town with friends from New York and a 3-day Airbnb right on Commercial Street Tea dance at the Boat Slip, strong drinks, gummies, and a lesson Zach apparentl...

The Gay Bit | Hookup Apps vs. Real Connection In this week's episode of The Gay Bit , Zach gets into one of the most talked-about (and exhausting) topics in gay culture right now: dating apps and whether they're actually helping anyone find what they're looking for. Zach runs through the full landscape — from the gay-specific apps like Grindr, Scruff, Jacked, Hornet, Growlr, Her, and Sniffies, to...

Zach sits down with the electric Dani Kelly — Brazilian dancer, entrepreneur, podcast host, and force of nature who traded Rio de Janeiro for Los Angeles over 25 years ago and never looked back. Dani's story starts at age five, watching Bolshoi ballerinas on Brazilian TV and dragging her mom to audition after audition. She trained at one of Brazil's most prestigious ballet schools, mastered everyt...

What if you could heal almost anything — without surgery, without meds — just by mastering your mind? That's exactly what Max Reader did. After leaving the Navy at 22, Max was dealing with a reverse cervical curve, sciatica, narcolepsy, severe depression, an ACL/PCL tear, tinnitus, crippling social anxiety, and an astigmatism so bad he couldn't read words on a page. Doctors said most of it would n...

Justin Elizabeth Sayer has been called "Oscar Wilde meets Whoopi Goldberg" by legendary columnist Michael Musto — and after this conversation, you'll understand exactly why. A novelist, playwright, television writer, and cabaret performer, Justin brings a depth of queer cultural knowledge that is as entertaining as it is essential. In this episode, Zach and Justin cover: The 14th annual Night of a...

Show Notes: Guest: Con Chapman, author and attorney based in the greater Boston area Book: Queer Street: The Curious Connections Between Boxing and the Homoerotic — available for pre-order on Amazon and at lutterworth.com. Publishing April 30. Episode Summary: Con Chapman spent over a decade researching the parallel histories of boxing rules and laws governing consensual sex between men — and the...

Show Notes: Title: The Skincare Secret You're Missing: Why Glow Starts from the Inside with Francois Vix Episode Summary: Zach sits down with Francois Vix, a veteran of L'Oreal and Johnson & Johnson who spent 18 years leading skincare and dermatology brands around the world — then left it all at 40 to co-found ISOCELL. Francois breaks down the science behind Superoxide Dismutase (SOD), why your in...

Episode Summary Zach opens with some personal reflection — starting with a story about getting a facial and hearing his husband called exactly that: his husband. It's a small moment that lands big. He also unpacks a news story about a civil engineer suing his employer over a Pride flag, and shares a conversation with a dinner guest who said he didn't "understand" transgender people — and what Zach...

Chosen Family | The Gay Bit Zach opens with a rabbit hole of coming-out videos — and the way they split almost perfectly between parents who said "we love you no matter what" and parents who said "get out." That contrast sent him somewhere deeper: a meditation on chosen family, the strange art of disappearing in rooms where you can't be fully yourself, and the people who have quietly held him toge...

Episode Notes: How it started: Dr. Blechman trained at NYU and did a fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center, where he focused on breast reconstruction for cancer patients. In 2016, a trans patient came in seeking a mastectomy — and everything shifted. Top surgery isn't one thing: The term is often used to mean chest masculinization, but Dr. Blechman walks through the full range — from complete ch...

This week, Zach sits down with Justin Alexander — writer, director, and producer — for a wide-ranging conversation about his debut feature film Mean Boys and the raw personal experience behind it. Justin shares how growing up as an outsider, being bullied, and looking up to popular jocks in school became the foundation for a story that's part bisexual love triangle, part cautionary tale about fent...

About Lennon Torres Lennon Torres is a professional dancer, trans activist, and advocate for online safety and social media reform. She is a core voice at the Heat Initiative , an organization fighting to hold Big Tech companies accountable for harms to children and young people. She also writes the Diary of a Palatable Trans Woman on Substack — an honest look at what it's like to navigate spaces...

Kelly O'Hearn is back, and this one goes deep. One of Zach's all-time favorite guests — and it's easy to hear why. Their conversation flows like two old friends who can't stop finishing each other's thoughts, covering everything from quarters mysteriously appearing after a loved one's passing to the quantum physics of tarot to what it means when a baby's soul comes through during a reading and cha...

In this episode:  • Isaac's debut novel Six and a Half Days in the City — what's real vs. fictional  • Coming out as bisexual at 17: the notes app, Facebook post, and a very supportive mom  • Growing up Native American and Mexican American with a bisexual mother  • Why people still deny bisexuality exists — and why Isaac no longer cares  • Hookup culture, Grindr, Hinge, and making real friends off...

The Gay Bit — Cliques, Categories & The Truth About the LGBTQ+ Community In this week's Gay Bit, Zach gets real about something we all see, experience, and — if we're honest — participate in: the silent rules about who belongs where inside the LGBTQ+ community. From twinks and bears to Grindr exclusion lists to fem-on-fem policing to the obsession with masculinity, Zach holds the mirror up to the...

Zach sits down with Margot Grant-Witz, third-generation CEO of Elizabeth Grant Skincare, a privately owned brand founded in 1948 by her grandmother — now 103 years young — who developed the world's first at-home serum after suffering bomb blast damage to her skin during WWII. They cover the real reason your neck is sagging (hint: it's your phone), why bar soap is destroying your face, the truth ab...

Board-certified plastic surgeon and President Emeritus of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons Dr. Steven Williams joins Zach for a wide-ranging, refreshingly honest conversation about plastic surgery ethics, body autonomy, the GLP-1 revolution, transgender surgery, medical tourism risks, social media's toxic impact on beauty standards, and why your NAD supplements probably aren't doing what y...

Zach sits down with Nicole Gress (she/they), speech-language pathologist and founder of Undead Voice — a virtual trans voice training platform helping transgender and gender-diverse people find voices that feel affirming. Nicole shares why the traditional medical path can take 3–5 years, how Undead Voice cuts that to just 4–6 months, and the free Jumpstart program that's already helped over 40,000...