Hello, hello, and welcome back to a bit fruity. I'm so happy that you're here. If you like this show and you would like to support it and also perhaps want more of it, you can join our Patreon. It's now live. You are going to get a monthly bonus episode. So this first one, which will be up by the time this podcast episode

is up, is about this article that the New York Times

just published which is a 5,000 word speculation on Taylor Swift's sexuality

we're over on Patreon going to be doing a close reading of that and

examining the ethics of publishing something like it and put it in the context of these larger conversations around things like queer-bating,

which is also why we're here today, so it'll tie in nicely.

And today we are joined by Becky Albertally whose maiden name I recently

learned is Becky Goldstein she's a Jew. She is an author and a former psychologist. She's best

known for writing the 2015 young adult novel Simon versus the Homo sapiens which in 2018 was adapted into the movie

that you and I both know Love Simon but then in 2020 the Hulu series spin-off

Love Victor.

Love Simon was the first gay teen romcom

to be released widely by a major film studio.

Becky, I am so grateful that you're here today and talking to me, especially because long ago,

you could have written me off as a prickly asshole and told me to fuck off for reasons that we'll get into soon.

But, you know, welcome to a bit fruity.

I am really excited to get into this topic and to talk about it with you.

I think we're going to touch upon a lot of stuff that I'd like to talk about.

A small part of me was stuff that I'd like to talk about.

A small part of me was a little nervous going into this episode because I have to do something

that as a stubborn homosexual is like the most difficult thing for me to do, which

is admit that I was wrong about this.

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