Bob the Drag Queen says Polyamory is Expensive

Death, Sex & Money

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Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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If you lived in Columbus, Georgia in the 90s, you might remember a queer club called Sensations. But Bob the Drag Queen knew Sensations by day, not night – she was in elementary school when her mom owned the place. Bob eventually moved to New York City, and now, she’s an international stand-up comedian and drag star. In this episode, Bob talks to Anna about turning her big ideas into iconic side hustles, trying to move her family into a bigger home, and supporting and collaborating with queer and trans people in small U.S. towns as a co-host of the HBO reality show Elsewhere. Podcast production by Afi Yellow-Duke and Lilly Clark in 2021. Death, Sex & Money is now produced by Slate! To support us and our colleagues, please sign up for our membership program, Slate Plus! Members get ad-free podcasts, bonus content on lots of Slate shows, and full access to all the articles on Slate.com. Sign up today at slate.com/dsmplus. And if you’re new to the show, welcome. We’re so glad you’re here. Find us and follow us on Instagram and you can find Anna’s newsletter at annasale.substack.com. Our new email address, where you can reach us with voice memos, pep talks, questions, critiques, is [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.6	It's the final several weeks
0:32.4	before the presidential election in the US.
0:35.0	Kamala Harris, Tim Walls, J.D. Vance and Donald Trump are crisscrossing the country
0:40.2	making their case about what America is and who belongs here.
0:45.0	Bob the Drag Queen is touring across the country too.
0:49.0	She just launched a national stand-up tour that runs through mid-November.
0:54.3	This week she's stopping in Salt Lake City, then Boise, Seattle, Portland, Oregon.
0:59.3	Then there's a swing through Canada before coming down across the upper Midwest down the East Coast to Florida
1:05.3	and Texas and landing in Las Vegas.
1:09.2	Bob the Drag Queen has fans everywhere. Let that mix up the way you think about this country
1:15.2	when the red and blue essentializes who lives where and what people's values are.
1:21.5	Bob and I talked in 2022 and we wanted to share this episode again. One, because it's a fun
1:27.5	listen. And two, because Bob's story of moving around and finding a place for herself and her people is a nice
1:36.3	antidote to all the political season stories of cruelty and division, and it's a reminder of what's at stake.
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