H. Alan Scott: Give It Up For All The Queer Jews

LGBTQ&A

Jeffrey Masters

Society & Culture

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Just like the queer experience, what it means to be Jewish is dramatically changing. TV writer and comedian H. Alan Scott has a new documentary, Latter Day Jew, that captures this change as Scott, a former Mormon, converts to Judaism, prepares for their bar mitzvah, and tries to figure out exactly what being Jewish looks like for them on a personal level. On this week's episode, H. Alan Scott talks about surviving cancer, why they're uncomfortable with how gendered Judaism is, and how that gendering is something that will hopefully fade away.

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0:00.0	Biddy Bode Biddy Bum, Biddy Bum, Biddy Biddy Bum.
0:06.0	Hello and happy, happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate.
0:10.0	If all goes as planned, I'll be back at my mother's house and eating a fresh potato
0:14.8	laca at the very moment that you're listening to this episode, which today is with the very, very funny comedian
0:21.7	H. Allen Scott.
0:24.3	They've got a brand new documentary out about their life called Latter-day Jew.
0:28.9	It tells the true story of H. Allen leaving Mormonism, finding Judaism, and along the way,
0:34.6	getting testicular cancer.
0:36.8	It's a comedy, I promise.
0:38.4	And it ends with a bar mitzvah,
0:40.3	so a truly happy ending.
0:43.0	From Luminary Media, I'm Jeffrey Masters,
0:45.7	and this is LGBTQ and A.
0:53.1	Holiday is here. It's a happy time of year.
1:01.0	What was it about getting cancer and going through I'm converting to Judaism?
1:03.0	Yeah, a lot of people ask that because it is, I think, we and the people have an obsession
1:10.0	with something is because of this.
1:13.6	There has to be a catalyst for something.
1:15.6	You have to have a reason for doing something.
1:17.6	We live in like a black and white, I think, mentality when like most of life happens in the gray area and the nuance of things.
1:23.6	And people want to say, oh, you got cancer.
1:25.6	You were scared of dying, you convert into Judaism.
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