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The gay Diva Podcast is here! Queer people are obsessed with iconic female performers, so hosts Jason Black & Nick Westrate set out to talk to every queer obsessed with a queen. The work of the great Divas is reviewed, classified, culturally contextualized and CELEBRATED. Fandoms collide, learn from each other and grow. Come and Join. Share the love.

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The gay Diva Podcast is here! Queer people are obsessed with iconic female performers, so hosts Jason Black & Nick Westrate set out to talk to every queer obsessed with a queen. The work of the great Divas is reviewed, classified, culturally contextualized and CELEBRATED. Fandoms collide, learn from each other and grow. Come and Join. Share the love.

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English

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Episodes
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Phoebe Snow! DIVA YOU SHOULD KNOW (Re-Run #1) "An Intimate Portrait"

4/2/2024
We are re-airing some of our favorite series, starting with: A Diva You Should Know! Find our full catalogue at patreon.com/forthegirlspodcast Phoebe Snow is a Diva You Should Know! So we are going to paint an intimate portrait of one of the greatest singer-songwriters of all time. We lost this genre-defying performer too soon to a the music industry did know what to do with her, and refused to support women properly. So come back to the early 70s as we rediscover the soaring vocals, poetic imagery and powerful emotion coursing through every note of Phoebe Snow's music. Dive deep with us to celebrate the albums, the jingles, the performances, the legend ..It looks like Snow... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration:01:00:48

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IMMACULATE! Starring Sydney Sweeney! "Rosemary Beads"

3/29/2024
It's Easter Weekend, Battle Angels, so we are rising from the podcast dead to take you to the IMMACULATE church of Sydney Sweeney. That's right it is time to dive into true horror with this Nun-sploitation flick. We have a new favorite final girl, and we want you to throw on a linen nightgown and run through an Italian field soaked in blood with us. Come for the Hers in Habits and stay for devil-Jesus. We get extremely sacrilegious as we worship our diva, so happy Good Friday! We cover horror, housewives, AMC diet coke recipes, have a bit of the book club and preview upcoming horror flicks! Spoilers abound! Ratings and Prayers and Reviews, oh my! Meet us in the convent for an episode you truly cån't face. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration:01:06:22

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Merry Cher-mas! "Christmas: The Cher Album"

12/12/2023
Merry Christmas everyone! Let's celebrate with Cher, babe! We review Cher's new Christmas album, "CHIRSTMAS." It is full of bops and bangers and classics, and we go through it all, babe. So hop into your drop top sleigh ride, and get ready to play some f*cking Christmas music. We cover so many divas, Bette and Cher's relationship, our Christmas traditions, and mostly just kiki about one of our favorite ladies to ever do it, the Dark Lady, Loretta, Babe: CHER! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration:00:20:36

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My Favorite Murder She Wrote 4! The Christmas Episode! "Wanda-Vision"

12/5/2023
We're back with a special Christmas Episode for everyone! While we are now completely moved to Patreon, we wanted to pop back in to remind you all of what you are missing in Heaven...that is, CABOT COVE! So it is time for you to get PRAYED UP for the holidays. Fly down east with us as we celebrate the holiday season with Jessica Fletcher, Dr. Seth, Sherriff Mort, and special guest stars Amy Brenneman and Sela Ward! This episode teaches us about business, Judges named Amy, slut-shaming, illegitimate children, and all about how to keep the Christmas spirit. So come read the good book and get right with God, as we celebrate the ultimate Christmas Diva: Angela Lansbury. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration:01:13:14

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The Patreon Migration! "Haunted Guest House"

8/2/2023
Battle Angels! We are moving the podcast in its entirety to our Patreon! So, we are reuniting on here, to tell you about it, the future of the pod, Barbie, the Meg, Haunted Guest Houses and of course a little Shelley Winters. We are back- kind of. Have a quick listen as we chart our new path. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration:00:19:16

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Tina Turner! with Benjamin Degrèse! "TITAN"

5/24/2023
This episode is from our vault it was originally recorded and released in March 2021 in honor of the documentary "TINA" being released. We are re-releasing this episode in honor of the Diva's passing. We hope it brings comfort to all you fans in mourning. The day has finally come to honor, celebrate and worship the Goddess of Rock: Tina Turner! And just in time to prime you for this weekend's upcoming TINA Documentary, we welcome her superfan, Ben, who runs the Tina Turner Blog and wins every contest involving Tina, so don't even try to. Get ready to do the Pony, shake your manes, and steam up those windows. Put on your shortest dress, and start to strutting, because we are going to tell you about the bad things gay kids do, give you Whatever You Want, and make your Wildest Dreams come true on this episode. Start chanting because we are headed to Nutbush to discuss the impact, the history, the legacy of the Performer, the Voice, the Legend: TINA! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration:01:35:09

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Hocus Pocus 2! "BooooOOOOK!"

10/1/2022
That's right, the witches are back! Someone lit a black flame candle and brought the two of us out of hell and back to the hell of podcasting! We watched the movie last night with the rest of the global population, and then saved all of our takes for the hot mic. This is an unedited, unvarnished one night only return for us, and one way or another we are gonna find ya, and bring you all the goosies, all the nostalgia, and all the Divas. So strap your Roombas on your feet and get ready to fly to Salem, sisters!!!!!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration:01:02:36

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Bette Midler's "For the Boys!" - "We Remember You"

11/22/2021
We’re back! For the 30th Anniversary of FOR THE BOYS we are giving it the full FOR THE GIRLS treatment. That’s right, girls, it’s a holiday special episode where we celebrate Bette Midler’s 1991 War Epic, update you on the past present and future of this podcast, and give you all the Diva News! So light a goddess candle and get ready to Billy-A-Dick down to the U.S.O as we go through every 20th Century American war, all of Bette’s period fashions, the Make-up, the vocals, and the...

Duration:02:03:48

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P!nk! "The Greatest Escape!"

6/22/2021
We're late, we know, but let us make it up to you by taking you into the greater Alecia Moore-iverse! That's right, it is time to touch the hem of the Punk-inspired-singer-song-writer-Pop-Rock-Icon: P!nk! It's time to PARTY, you perfect under-dogs! So get ready as we cover the documentary of her tour: What I Know So Far! We are coming with doc and album reviews, Diva News and Podcast announcements that will make us all cry! We are in full summer celebration mode of our emotional, honest,...

Duration:01:32:34

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Eartha Kitt! with Alexandra Billings! "The Church of the Divas"

6/15/2021
This week we talk about the most fascinating woman in the world, Eartha Kitt, with the most brilliant professor in the world, Alexandra Billings! So meet us in Katie's corner for some deranged and delightful Diva dish. We talk icons, transformation, wigs, the 80s, plagues and bazoomabs! Come and learn why queer people are the Phoenixes of the human experience, how to become sadistic women, and all about navigating chaos. We talk Eartha, Bette, Madonna, Cher, Barbra, Mae West and Judy - it is...

Duration:01:22:26

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Whitney Houston's "I'm Your Baby Tonight!" *From Our Patreon!*

6/8/2021
That's right For the Girls, we are coming at you with a God Tier Album Review of Whitney Houston's 1990 I'm Your Baby Tonight! This episode already aired on our Patreon, so come and see what all the exclusive fuss is about! So hop onto your Nippy-cycle and get ready for Origins, trampoline choreography, 90s shame, self titled albums, and the beginning of the Bobby-era! Don’t try to sing along because it’s Whitney. Everyone just RELAX because Whit is going to explain Monogomy, exorcise a...

Duration:01:08:07

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Doris Day! with Christopher Logan! "The True Illusive Chanteuse"

6/1/2021
Come down to the Easy Listening sections, friends, as we defend the great Diva of Classic Hollywood: Doris Day! We have a guest superfan, Chris Logan, all the way from London to celebrate Calamity Jane, America's Sweetheart, the great voice of her generation, Doris! So join us in reconsidering this unsung Diva who hasn't been properly been given her due. We cover her virginal reputation, Rock Hudson's thighs, the 650 songs she recorded, the dogs, the dogs and the dogs, and the "Almost...

Duration:01:22:29

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The Pointer Sisters! "Super Powers"

5/25/2021
It's Diva You Should Know Week and we are celebrating the truly virtuosic genre-shifting multitudes of Ruth, Anita, Bonnie and June Pointer! Come with us through the Quartet of the 70s, the Trio of the 80s and the musicology of one of the most important music groups in history. We are worshipping these underusing superheroes this week as we review our favorite tracks, discuss their eclectic bop-filled library and cleanse our algorithms with this perfect music. Come for the hits, stay for the...

Duration:01:18:16

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Cate Blanchett! with Jakob Plummer! "The Gift"

5/18/2021
All Bow Down to the Queen of Cinema, Cate Blanchett! This week we grovel at her feet with superfan, Jakob Plummer. We are writing long letters on our typewriters about Jasmine, Carol Aird, Charlotte Grey and Veronica Guerin! We analyze her royal work, her villain work, her elf work and her everywoman work as we swim through the fearless and versatile waters of the reining Ice Queen of the Movies. So get ready to bop through the many Gifts and the greatest hits of this singular,...

Duration:01:28:54

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100th Episode: Part Two! Pat Resnick on 9 to 5!

5/12/2021
Our 100th Episode extravaganza continues with the screenwriter of 9 to 5, Patricia Resnick! And she knows from Diva. So come gab with us about her work on The Cher Show, Robert Altman films, and Better Things. Pat came with Diva stories and tells tales of Lucille Ball, Shelley Winters, Stephanie J Block, Glenn Close, Ruth Gordon, Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, and Bette Bette Bette Bette and Bette. Come hear tales of dancing with Nancy Reagan, creating this iconic film and building a...

Duration:01:08:50

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9 to 5! with LaToya Morgan! "Skinny & Sweet"

5/11/2021
OUR 100th EPISODE IS HERE! And we couldn't think of a better way to celebrate than inviting back returning champion, LaToya Morgan, to discuss one of all of our favorite films: 9 to 5! We are here to worship the divas Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Patricia Resnick, Ann Roth, Elizabeth Wilson, Peggy Pope, Marian Mercer, Esther Sullivan and Roxanne Bonilla-Giannini in this all too prescient classic from 1980. So throw on your work kimono, catch that elevator, and get ready to murder...

Duration:01:19:12

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My Favorite Murder She Wrote 4! "BooYah!"

5/4/2021
Open the Book of Cabot Cove and unleash an episode of Biblical proportions! That's right we are going back to paradise to learn and preach the theology of JB Fletcher. This is our fourth installment of this series and this time we study Season 4, Episode 7: "If It's Thursdays, It Must Be Beverly." So get ready to go to the beauty shop, reunite with Evie Simpson, hear about naughty kitties, Lotharios, Salmon mousse and of course, God herself. We are taking you back to the church of Angela...

Duration:01:02:26

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Some People's Lives! "The Gift of Love"

4/27/2021
Welcome to our second Bette Midler Album Review! That's right, we are going back to the well this week to dig for some gold. So come and celebrate the 7th studio album from our goddess: Bette Midler! This is our next-step-Bible filled with nostalgia, herstory, Marc Shaiman, Dionne Warwick, Diane Warren, Janice Ian, Jennifer Lewis, and Adult Contemporary Charts. So come and find your joy as we dive into the Grammy for Female Pop Vocal Performance, the 90s, Los Angeles fantasies and Leggings!...

Duration:01:22:16

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Nomadland! with Chris Feil! "SaVANnah Guthrie"

4/20/2021
It's Oscar week and we have invited critic, podcaster and Oscar savant, Chris Feil from This Had Oscar Buzz to join us at the altar of the Nomads! That's right, it is time to stan for our divas: Frances McDormand, Chloe Zhao, Linda May and Swankie!!! Tear up those lesson books, kids, because we are talking about art this week. We three matinee ladies are sitting by the fire discussing Community and Solitude, Fran's career, Chloe's meteoric rise and Linda May's Oscar campaign. So grab your 7...

Duration:01:20:27

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Nina Simone Book Club! "To Be Free"

4/13/2021
Book Club!!! We read Nina Simone's autobiography: I Put A Spell On You, and are coming at you with one queer ass book report! How many times can we say "Singular?" Well, take a listen and find out as we etch our new knowledge onto the Mount Rushmore of Divas. We travel from North Carolina to Barbados, from New York to Paris and Liberia to learn about the life and legacy of this complex, beautiful, century shifting virtuoso. We let her own words and story re-contextualize how we listen to her...

Duration:01:30:41