Guy Branum: Emotions Are Scary

LGBTQ&A

Jeffrey Masters

Society & Culture

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Guy Branum talks about the stories pop culture tells about fat people—they're lazy, they're dumb, they're cowards—and how despite everything, he loves his body a great deal. Guy also talks about the lack of gay standup comedians who've found mainstream success, why he doesn't care about writing jokes that are considered "nice and acceptable," and managing depression. Guy is the author of the new memoir, My Life As A Goddess. Never miss an update! Sign up for our (short!) newsletter at www.LGBTQpodcast.com Join GLAAD's #AmpYourVoice campaign and make sure your voice is heard this election year. Click here to take the pledge to vote. LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters and is part of The Advocate Magazine.

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0:00.0	From The Advocate magazine, this is LGBTQ and A.
0:07.2	I'm Jeffrey Masters, and today I'm talking to Guy Branum.
0:12.0	Guy is a writer and stand-a-comedian.
0:14.4	He also has a new memoir out called My Life as a Goddess.
0:17.5	And we talk a lot about the stories that we tell in the media about fat people,
0:22.5	all of the assumptions and misconceptions that people have. We also discuss the lack of any
0:27.4	out gay male comics who have found any real mainstream success and why that is. We talk about
0:33.1	why he doesn't care about writing jokes that are nice or acceptable. And then what his relationship is like with his parents, who he says, so much of his life just
0:40.7	doesn't make sense to them.
0:42.4	So all of that is coming up.
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0:59.7	All right, let's get to the interview.
1:01.1	Without further ado, here's Guy.
1:07.4	So a large portion of your book is a breaking apart of stereotypes, be it about gay people, fat people, Jewish people.
1:18.6	But regarding fat people, you write that there are certain assumptions that we have, that they're smart, they're not intellectuals, they're lazy, dumb.
1:27.3	And I bring that up because it sounds simple, but I almost feel like these stereotypes about
1:31.8	fat people are almost socially acceptable to hold.
1:35.2	Well, I think there's a way that people can feel like noble or justified in like
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