Hello and welcome to Extra Bad Gaze, a podcast about all things queer, cultural, political, etc., etc., from the hosts of your hopefully favorite podcast, Bad Gays.

My name's Hugh Lemmy.

And I'm Ben Miller.

Thanks so much for listening.

You may notice that our June episode is a little bit on the late side.

In fact, it may be the very beginning of July when you're hearing this.

We're so sorry.

We had a plan all set up last week.

We had even recorded a shorter version of the

conversation we're about to have to open into a conversation with our previous guest, Sholem Khrushhtalka,

to talk about a new Andy Warhol exhibit here in Berlin where both Sholam and I live. And then

unfortunately, Sholam was unable to record due to a health issue. He's going to be fine. But we had

to make a new plan and re-record the episode.

And so here we are a little bit late to have what will hopefully still be an interesting conversation about Pride Month, which is officially June.

But as I think all of the LG TV Plus community knows can often also encompass July, right? Pride Month in Berlin

is actually July weirdly. Or I used to work for the gay movement in the U.S., the gay, lesbian

and trans movement, I should say. And the most terrifying thing there was realizing that pride season

actually goes from like January to October. Because there's places in the U.S. where you just

cannot have drag queens outside in

June or July because they'll melt. I mean, you can't have drag queens on the street in

Dallas and August. It'll just be a fucking puddle of foundation mascara and a wig floating down

the street. Yeah, we're just starting up our pride season here in Barcelona. I'm going to a

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