Lez Hang Out | A Lesbian Podcast

Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) talk about why I Love Lucy should have been gay. Lucy and Ethel are the 1950s gal pals of our dreams. From working together at the candy factory, opening up their own business together, fighting over their own ship name (should it be Ethelu or Lucel?), snuggling on the roof together, wallpapering Lucy's living room in overalls and bandanas and trying to...

Leigh and Ellie dive into Professor Marston and the Wonder Women for this Lez-ssentials episode, a recurring segment on the essential movies and TV shows in the lesbian canon. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is a 2017 movie about the polyamorous relationship between Professor William Marston, Elizabeth Marston and Olive Byrne told through the lens of Professor Marston's creation of the comi...

Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) talk about why Wicked should have been gay. We talk about #gelphie, their sudden and new lesbian feelings, why Fiyero doesn't matter, how Elphaba and Galinda should have just run away with each other during "Defying Gravity." Because we knew you, we have been gayed for good. They also read Positions and Secret Confessions by Emerald-Tranquility, one of...

Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) talk about the classic lesbian myth of U-hauling...or is it a myth? From two of the biggest U-haulers we know, we talk about why lesbians move quickly and the beautiful in between phase of Screw-hauling. Follow along on Twitter: Lez Hang Out (@lezhangoutpod) and answer our Q & Gay at the end of every episode. Leigh Holmes Foster (@lshfoster) and Ellie B...

Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) talk about why How I Met Your Mother should have been gay with Kate from Hey, Beautiful! the HIMYM Podcast (@heybeautifulpod). We talk about Lily's canon bisexuality. Martinis make her want to make out with Robin, she totally wanted to have a lesbian phase in college and let's be real #scherbaldrin is end game. We talk about Robin's lesbian doppelganger...

Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) talk queer comics with Al Fletcher(@pogo_and_work), the comic book expert on Gotham Arcade (@gothamarcade), a podcast where two queer best friends talk comic books and video games. We chat about why comics are innately queer, why queer people love comic books and why the CW's Arrowverse is chock full of gays and some of Al's favorite comic book to scree...

Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) talk about why Practical Magic should have been gay. The Owens women are cursed to have all of the men that they love die. Obvious solution, love women instead! And don't even get us started on their "eccentric" aunts. We all know eccentric is code word for lesbian. We recast the detective as Reese Witherspoon and totally ship a Sandra Bullock and Reese...

Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out with Mey Rude(@meyrude), bisexual trans Latina writer. We chat about being her Autostraddle article, "How to have lesbian sex with a trans woman", LGBTQ sex education, body positivity and which DCOM is the gayest. Follow along on Twitter: Lez Hang Out (@lezhangoutpod) and answer our Q & Gay at the end of every episode. Leigh Holmes Foster (@lsh...

Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) are joined by Tracey Levesque and Mika Epstein from Lez Watch TV (@lezwatchtv) to talk about why The Facts of Life should have been gay. Our lesbian synopsis is a group of girls, attending a boarding school, tackle issues throughout teenage life and later adulthood without realizing the huge lesbian living among them. Tracey and Mika should totally be h...

Leigh and Ellie dive into But I'm A Cheerleader for this Lez-ssentials episode, a recurring segment on the essential movies and TV shows in the lesbian canon. But I'm A Cheerleader is a 1999 movie about gay conversion camp starring Natasha Lyonne and Clea Duvall. Leigh and Ellie love this movie in all it's CAMP-y glory and have a lot to say about the Pepto Bismol colored outfits, finding their roo...

Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) talk about why Disney Channel Original Movie Motocrossed should have been gay. Our synopsis is nothing happens in this movie, there are a lot of Motocross races, Andi is the lesbian daddy to end all daddies and helps the clueless Dean with girls. OR Andi is a trans man who falls in love with Dean and they make the cutest gay twin male couple ever (becau...

Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out with Amanda Holland(@awkwardholland), who makes up the entire GirlShipTV(@girlshiptv) team, creator, writer, director, editor and actor extraordinaire of Parallel, Project Inferno, Drunk Lesbians Watch and Carol's A Demo. We chat about being a Youtube creator, getting drunk with lesbians, queer censorship and learning how to take a hit. Follow...

Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) talk about why 10 Things I Hate About You should have been gay with some help from Tina Kakadelis, the author of I Didn't Start the Fire and Burn Before Reading. Hear us out. Our lesbian synopsis is a pretty, popular teenager can't go out on a date until her ill-tempered sister stops being such a huge lesbian. Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles) doesn't date m...

Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out with Zoe Chao(@zchao), who plays the bisexual lead character, Isobel Song, in Strangers, a Facebook Watch series. We chat about platonic queer friendships, wanting to be a positive representation for women of color and bisexual women, her lifelong friendship with Strangers creator and director Mia Lidofsky and the journey they've both taken fro...

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out Season 2! Ellie and Leigh dive into the best things that 20Gayteen has blessed us with. We talk music from Hayley Kiyoko, Janelle Monae, Kehlani and Demi Lovato. Some of our favorite movies from Disobedience, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Oceans 8, Blockers and Call Me By Your Name, 20gayteen has blessed us all. And don't even get us started on TV: Wynonna Earp, Ri...

Leigh and Ellie answer the age old question: why do straight girls love lesbians? In episode 3 we discussed why lesbians love straight girls, but you can't ignore the other half of the equation. From lesbians being stand in boyfriends to fascination with lesbian sex and straight women who even have sex with lesbians, straight girls love lesbians and we love them too. If you or a loved one is strug...

Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) talk about why Legally Blonde should have been gay. Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) would be the ultimate femme lesbian heroine. We ship her with Vivian Kensington (Selma Blair), Professor Stromwell (Holland Taylor) or Paulette (Jennifer Coolidge). We discuss how Warner is Vivian's beard, lesbian sorority sisters, how Margot and Serena would make one hel...

Leigh and Ellie talk about their first and favorite Prides. From the year Leigh and her wife got married to Ellie and her Boston queer friends oil wrestling in their backyard, they've got quite the Pride experiences. We also discuss our Pride pet peeves because everyone has them! Follow along on Twitter: Lez Hang Out (@lezhangoutpod) and answer our Q & Gay at the end of every episode. Leigh Holmes...

Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) talk about why Gilmore Girls should have been gay. Gilmore Girls stars Alexis Bledel as Rory Gilmore and Liza Weil as Paris Geller. Leigh and Ellie talk about how all of Rory will never find happiness with a man, the hate to love slow burn that could have been #Gellmore and read a fan fiction about Rory and Paris' Boston Marriage. Follow along on Twitte...

Leigh and Ellie hang out with Rachael Zimmerman (@rachaelzimmermanphotography), the Denver photojournalist behind Inside the Black Triangle (@insidetheblacktriangle), a photojournalism series exploring queer women beyond societal stereotypes. We chat about her favorite photo shoots, what it means to look queer, her experiences photographing women in South America and Cuba, and her chasing down Meg...

Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) talk about why She's The Man should have been gayer because let's face it, this movie is already pretty queer. She's The Man stars Amanda Bynes as Violet/Sebastian, Laura Ramsey as Olivia and Channing Tatum as Duke Orsino. eigh and Ellie talk about how Viola/Sebastian blurs gender roles, why real Sebastian is lame and how Olivia and Viola would be so mu...

Leigh and Ellie hang out with actor, activist, and real-life bisexual Nicole Pacent (@NicolePacent). We chat about her experience on the well-known web series Anyone But Me, bi invisibility in the media, our embarrassing college faux-hawk days, and "The Kiss" poster that literally every queer girl had up in her dorm room. Follow along on Twitter: Lez Hang Out (@lezhangoutpod) and answer our Q & Ga...

Oh, Jenny's Wedding. Time we will all never get back in our lives. Join Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) as they discuss how - despite the film's mediocre efforts - Jenny's Wedding will likely go down as the least gay lesbian film ever made. Featuring Katherine Heigl and Alexis Bledel as "awkward roommates who have clearly never done it even once in their lives" couple Jenny and Kitty,...

Buckle up Creampuffs! Leigh and Ellie discuss the Carmilla Movie on this episode of Lez-ssentials, a recurring segment on the essential movies and TV shows in the lesbian canon. Everyone's favorite lesbian vampire and human journalist and the gang from Silas University are back for their first full length movie. The Carmilla Movie is a 2017 movie starring Natasha Negovanlis as Carmilla and Elise B...

Let's talk about Jules. Because Jules. Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) talk about why Jules, played by Keira Knightley and Jess played by Parminder Nagara clearly should have been gay in Bend It Like Beckham. If you just edit the movie to completely get rid of Joe, it's the soccer lesbian movie of our dreams. From rumors that director Gurinda Chadha originally wrote the film as a lesb...