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.
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.
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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!
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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!!!!!!!
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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 Antifa-Divas of the early 90s. The only Woman’s War Movie must be celebrated! This is the apotheosis of Bette’s career, and it was criminally under-celebrated at the time so let’s get to lauding this true Diva Classic.
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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, true mother-Diva, P!nk. So grab your invisible Nanny, rename yourself Willow and meet us at the Pride Parade, because we are just getting this party started!
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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 truly a symposium this week, and Alexandra is the ultimate teacher. So grab your Cha-Cha Heels, your champagne taste and meet us under the bridges of Paris!
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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 demon named Susan and lend her perfect vocals to the dance-pop framework. You lift us up, you’re all the angels that we need, and so we are giving you this episode reviewing one of our all time favorite albums!
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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 independent Woman" that she was made to play. Whatever will be will be, but our love of Doris is never going to leave us, so come listen to a little Pillow Talk.
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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 music theory. We are out here demanding miniseries, art installations and statues erected to these iconic women of music. It should be Automatic!
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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, trail-blazing, humanitarian Australian who has written her own script and built one of the most dynamic careers in the history of Hollywood.
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Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.
A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.
But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know.
She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and
captivating her local community as well as followers all over the world.
Until one day investigative producer Nancy gets an anonymous tip telling her to look at Amanda’s
blog, setting Nancy on an unimaginable road to uncover Amanda’s secret.
Award winning journalist Charlie Webster explores this unbelievable and bizarre, but
all-too-real tale, of a woman from San Jose, California whose secret ripped a family apart and
left a community in shock.
Scamanda is the true story of a woman whose own words held the key to her secret.
New episodes every Monday.
Follow Scamanda on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
Amanda’s blog posts are read by actor Kendall Horn.