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Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast where we're grabbing our handy-dandy notebooks, heading to our Thinking Couch, and playing another round of Lesbian Blue's Clues.

This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) are lowering the flag to half-mast for G Flip and Chrishell and asking a question we never thought we'd have to ask: 

WHERE DID ALL THE LITTLE LEZZIES GO?

According to a...

Help us reach 100 paid patrons by November 1st! Your support helps cover the approximately $800/month it costs to produce Lez Hang Out and keeps our Production Assistant, Kristin, paid for the approximately 700,000 things she does behind the scenes. Join our Patreon for bonus episodes, ad-free content, exclusive Discord access, and more queer shenanigans. One of us! One of us! (Annual subs get a discount!)

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Help us reach 100 patrons at $10/month by November 1st! Your support helps cover the costs of producing Lez Hang Out and keeps our Production Assistant, Kristin, paid for everything she does behind the scenes.

Join our Patreon for bonus episodes, watch parties, and more queer shenanigans. One of us! One of us!

You can also rep the pod with Lez Hang Out merch.

Dearest gentle listeners, welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that would have gotten to the lesbians four seasons ago.

This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida...

Ten seasons. Over a million downloads. Still asking: What if we made it gayer?

Join bi-coastal besties Ellie Brigida and Leigh Holmes Foster for your weekly dose of lesbian life and queer culture, featuring celebrity guests, big feelings, and hot takes on everything from queer dating to the cancellation of your favorite sapphic shows. Come for the Should’ve Been Gay debates, stay for our Lez-ssentials film discussions and conversations about finding your people.

Get a taste in this 90-second trailer, then follow Lez Hang Out (@lezhangoutpod) wherever you listen. Ellie might cry. Leigh probably wo...

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EVERYONE who signs up to our giveaway will receive a FREE Rose suction toy with Bellesa Boutique order! 🌹https://bbvibes.com/lezhangout

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Help keep your favorite LGBTQ+ podcast going! 🌈 We're aiming for 100 Patreon supporters at $10/month by November 1st, and we need just 40 more! Producing Lez Hang Out costs at least $800/month, and while we don't pay ourselves, we do want to keep paying our Production Assistant, Kristin, who keeps approximately 700,000 things running behind the scenes. Join our Patreon for bo...

Lez Hang Out is proud to be sponsored by Bellesa Boutique.

EVERYONE who signs up to our giveaway will receive a FREE Rose suction toy with Bellesa Boutique order! 🌹https://bbvibes.com/lezhangout #bbpartner

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Our Patreon family has given us so many incredible memories over the years, from watch parties and trivia nights to getting to meet some of you IRL. Now we’re trying to hit 100 $10/month patrons by November 1st, which means we need 40 more!

It costs about $800/month minimum just to produce Lez Hang Out, and while we don’t...

Lez Hang Out is proud to be sponsored by Bellesa Boutique.

EVERYONE who signs up to our giveaway wins a FREE spicy toy or gift card for toys! https://bbvibes.com/lezhangout  #bbpartner

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Getting to create and grow our Patreon family has been one of our favorite experiences of the past 10 years. We have so many wonderful memories from watch parties, game nights, trivia, and even getting to meet some of you in person!

Now, we’re asking our community to help us hit a very specific goal: 100 paid $10-tier patrons by...

Lez Hang Out is proud to be sponsored by Bellesa Boutique.

EVERYONE who signs up to our giveaway wins a FREE spicy toy or gift card for toys! https://bbvibes.com/lezhangout 

#bbpartner

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Getting to create and grow our Patreon family has been one of our favorite experiences of the past 10 years. We have so many wonderful memories from watch parties, game nights, trivia, and even getting to meet some of you in person!

Now, we’re asking our community to help us hit a very specific goal: 100 paid $10-ti...

Lez Hang Out is proud to be sponsored by Bellesa Boutique.

EVERYONE who signs up to our giveaway wins a FREE spicy toy or gift card for toys! https://www.bboutique.co/vibe/lezhangout-pod #bbpartner

Getting to create and grow our Patreon family has been one of our favorite experiences of the past 10 years. We have so many wonderful memories from watch parties, game nights, trivias and even getting to meet some of you in person! If you want to become part of our exclusive community (one of us, one of us) you can join...

We hope you have been having a hot gay summer! While you wait for Lez Hang Out to return with our 10th season of lesbian shenanigans, check out this sizzling episode on Love Lies Bleeding from our friends over at But I’m a Lesbian pod.

Don’t want to wait to hear more of Ellie and Leigh? You’re in luck! Join our Patreon family at bit.ly/lezpatreon for as low as $5/month and unlock our growing library of 25+ full length ad-free bonus episodes (as well as a bunch of other perks like free mp3 downlo...

Missing Lez Hang Out? Join our Patreon family for instant access to 25+ full length bonus-episodes! Check out bonus episodes and additional perks like mp3 downloads of all our original music and our entire catalogue of episodes in an ad-free format at patreon.com/lezhangout.

Ellie and Leigh will be back soon with Season 10. While you wait, we invite you to tumble down the #Gaylor rabbit hole with our friends V Arrow and Emily Jaye over at This Week In Fandom History.

This Week In Fandom History gets deep into the who, what, and why behind...

Pride Month may be over, but we’re still here, queer, and full of existential fear. Lez Hang Out Podcast is unfortunately quite an expense to produce and much of our funding comes from our incredible supporters over on Patreon.

You can help us keep our little indie pod afloat for another season by joining our Patreon family at the $5/month tier or higher and unlock our growing library of full-length ad-free bonus episodes, ad-free weekly episodes, mp3 downloads of all our original songs, exclusive Discord access to hang out with us, and more! Get an automatic di...

It’s the final hours of Pride month! Now is a perfect time to join our Patreon at the $5/month tier or higher and unlock our growing library of full-length ad-free bonus episodes, ad-free weekly episodes, mp3 downloads of all our original songs, exclusive Discord access to hang out with us, and more! Becoming a member is the absolute best way to help keep this little pod that could chugging along. Get an automatic discount on your membership by signing up for an annual subscription. 

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that believes all lesbian rel...

If you’re still wondering how you can give back to the community this Pride season, we have the answer! Keep our little indie pod afloat by joining our Patreon at the $5/month tier or higher and unlock our growing library of full-length ad-free bonus episodes, ad-free weekly episodes, mp3 downloads of all our original songs, exclusive Discord access to hang out with us, and more! Get an automatic discount on your membership by signing up for an annual subscription.

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that fell in love with the shape of a wo...

Happy Pride month!  Running this show is unfortunately not cheap, and we need all the community support we can get during Pride and beyond to keep the pod going. Now is a perfect time to join our Patreon at the $5/month tier or higher and unlock our growing library of full-length ad-free bonus episodes, ad-free weekly episodes, mp3 downloads of all our original songs, exclusive Discord access to hang out with us, and more! Get an automatic discount on your membership by signing up for an annual subscription.

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that i...

Happy Pride! 

The best way to support the gays this month is by joining our Patreon at the $5/month tier or higher and unlocking our growing library of full-length ad-free bonus episodes, ad-free weekly episodes, mp3 downloads of all our original songs, exclusive Discord access to hang out with us, and more! Get an automatic discount on your membership by signing up for an annual subscription.

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that would never, under any circumstances, put a Baby Gay in the corner.

This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@e...

Happy Pride month!  Running this show is unfortunately not cheap, and we need all the community support we can get during Pride and beyond to keep the pod going. Now is a perfect time to join our Patreon at the $5/month tier or higher and unlock our growing library of full-length ad-free bonus episodes, ad-free weekly episodes, mp3 downloads of all our original songs, exclusive Discord access to hang out with us, and more! Get an automatic discount on your membership by signing up for an annual subscription.

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that i...

Join our ⁠Patreon⁠ family for as little as $5 per month to unlock 25+ full-length bonus episodes, ad-free weekly episodes, mp3 downloads of our original songs, exclusive Discord access, and more! 

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that’s, “knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door”. This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out and talk about why the 2025 Apple TV dramedy, Eternity, Should've Been Gay.

Eternity asks the genuinely thought-provoking question, ‘what does happiness in the afterlife look like for you’, and dares to answer it in the most heteronormative way possible. Leigh and Ellie ended up...

Join our Patreon for less than a cup of your favorite iced coffee and unlock 25+ full-length bonus episodes, ad-free weekly episodes, mp3 downloads of our original songs, exclusive Discord access, and more! 

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that is currently crying over a gay novel in an internet cafe. 

This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) are hanging out with journalist and editor Yi-Ling Liu (@instalingers), author of The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet. This debut narrative nonfiction follows the lives of five individuals across the pa...

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast for childless cat ladies everywhere.

This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out with graphic memoirist, professor, and podcaster, Nicole J. Georges (@nicolejgeorges), and talk about why the 1990 children’s fever dream, The Witches, Should've Been Gay. If you saw this movie when you were a kid, you just might have a thing for dark haired high femmes with impossibly purple eyes. 

Children’s movies in the 80s and early 90s really went all in on nightmare fuel, and The Witches is no exception. This “baby’s first b...

Join our Patreon for less than a cup of your favorite coffee and unlock 25+ full-length bonus episodes, ad-free weekly episodes, mp3 downloads of our original songs, exclusive Discord access, and more! 

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that truly believes lesbians can save the world. 

This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) is once again holding down the fort without Ellie, but she’s far from lonely! We are excited to present an intergenerational panel of talented filmmakers from the Cinema Systers Film Festival (@cinemasystersfilmfestival), the ONLY all-lesbian film festival in the United States, as they join...

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that is also obsessed with couch time.

This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out with return guests and friends of the pod, co-hosts Kris and Shana of Bad Queers Pod (@badqueerspod), and talk about why the international sensation, K-Pop Demon Hunters, Should’ve Been Gay. 

We are really loving this new trend of all the animated kid’s movies with blatantly queer undertones becoming instant hits. From Frozen to Nimona, there has been a large push to teach kids to embrace differences and be true to th...

Join our Patreon for less than an iced coffee and unlock our growing library of full-length bonus episodes, ad-free weekly episodes, mp3 downloads of our original songs, exclusive Discord access to hang out with us, and more! 

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that is hearing wedding bells. This week, co-hosts Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out and talk about the many differences they’ve observed between gay and straight weddings. Getting married and getting “gay married” may look the same on paper, but the actual weddings themselves tend to be significantly different. 

As mos...

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Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that has a huge lesbian crush on Anne Hathaway. 

This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out with comedian, singer, and writer Sydney Kane (@sydneymorgankane) and talk about why the 2009 smash hit, Bride Wars, Should’ve Been Gay. If watching Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway roll around on top of each other in wedding dresses was your gay awak...

Join our Patreon for less than a boba tea and unlock 25+ full-length bonus episodes, ad-free weekly episodes, mp3 downloads of our original songs, exclusive Discord access, and more! 

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that wants you to gay-se your voice!

This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) holds down the fort without Ellie for a delightfully nerdy and fascinating conversation with founder and speech-language pathologist Nicole Gress, MS, CCC-SLP. Nicole took what they learned from their medical training, lived experience as a genderfluid individual, and years of interacting with gender diverse clients in the Bay A...

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that hopes you find your queerest happily ever after. 

This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out and talk about why the animated fairytale, Charming, Should’ve Been Gay.

One thing Charming does have going for it is a wildly stacked cast. We’re talking Ashley Tisdale, Demi Lovato, Avril Lavigne, John Cleese and Sia all in one place. Unfortunately, even a big name cast couldn’t save this film from receiving a 22% on Rotten Tomatoes. We’re pretty sure the only way to save Charming from a fa...

Join our Patreon for less than a cup of your favorite coffee and unlock 25+ full-length bonus episodes, ad-free weekly episodes, mp3 downloads of our original songs, exclusive Discord access, and more! 

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that wants a hot, older lesbian to step on them. This week, co-hosts Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out and discuss their feelings on age gap relationships.

When we think about an age gap relationship, it isn’t so much about the specific number of years that separate the couple. While there are of course cert...

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that would lovingly hand-feed you a churro. 

This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out and talk about why the 2024 box-office smash hit, Challengers, Should’ve Been Gay(er). Honestly, we went into this movie assuming it was going to be so much gayer than it actually was. All of the promos hyped the threesome and made the story sound super queer, which made us all the more disappointed when it just did not deliver. Luckily, we have plenty of ideas on how to fix Challengers so that it...

Join our Patreon for less than a bubble tea and unlock 25+ full-length bonus episodes, ad-free weekly episodes, mp3 downloads of our original songs, exclusive Discord access, and more! 

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that fully supports hexing your terrible ex. 

This week, co-hosts Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out with screenwriter (Hulu’s Crush, Amazon Prime’s The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy) and return guest Kirsten King (@kirstenlking) to discuss her debut novel, A Good Person, which will be released on March 31, 2026. We chat with Kirsten about pro-bono exorcisms, Boston...

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that wants the dykes on bikes to bring us to The Green Place. 

This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) are rewinding the clock back to our discussion about why the 2015 movie Mad Max: Fury Road Should’ve Been Gay.

Honestly, nothing could have prepared us for how gay and campy this movie is. It’s basically leather daddies vs. dykes on bikes in a post-apocalyptic desert. Furiosa, played by Charlize Theron, is from The Green Place, a lesbian mecca inhabited entirely by women known as the Vuval...

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Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that is currently listening to Tequila Knows Me on a loop.

This week, co-hosts Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out with Shawnee Kish (@shawneekish), a four-time JUNO-nominated 2 spirit Indigenous alternative country artist from Canada. Shawnee released her debut album, Chapter 1, this past summer and was recently nominated for female artist of the year at the 15th Annual Country Music Awards in Alberta. 

W...

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Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that needs everyone to drop what they’re doing and watch Heated Rivalry right now.

This week, co-hosts Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out and talk about the worldwide phenomenon that is Heated Rivalry. Whether or not you’ve actually watched a single episode of the show or read the book the series is based on, you’ve definitely heard of these gay hockey boys...

Join our Patreon to unlock 25+ full-length bonus episodes, ad-free weekly episodes, mp3 downloads of our original songs, exclusive Discord access, and more!

You can also support the show by shopping small at bit.ly/lezmerch & picking up Lez-ssentials songs on Bandcamp.

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that is once again making an entire episode based on a single song. You’re welcome.

This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out and talk about why the hit Katseye song, Gabriela, Should’ve Been Gay. Personally, we have not stopped singing this...

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Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that fully supports you U-Hauling with your girlfriend of two weeks. 

This week, co-hosts Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out and talk about the lesbian divorce rate discourse. If you spend any time on Reneé Rapp’s internet you likely have seen some variation of this so-called “fact” going around about married lesbian couples having a 70% divorce rate. You may even have taken this fact at...

Join our Patreon to unlock 25+ full-length bonus episodes, ad-free weekly episodes, mp3 downloads of our original songs, exclusive Discord access, and more!

You can also support the show by shopping small at bit.ly/lezmerch & picking up Lez-ssentials songs on Bandcamp.

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that is just too good to be true.

This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out with queer actor, writer, and comedian Olivia Levine (@olivialevine19) to talk about why the 1999 cult classic Drop Dead Gorgeous, Should’ve Been Gay. If you’re unfamiliar with...

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You can also support the show by shopping small at bit.ly/lezmerch & picking up Lez-ssentials songs on Bandcamp.

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that really hopes 2026 is “the year that it happens”. 

This week, co-hosts Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out and talk about highlights and lowlights from 2025 as we look ahead to our hopes and dreams for 2026. As far as queer media, it has been a yea...

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You can also support the show by shopping small at bit.ly/lezmerch & picking up Lez-ssentials songs on Bandcamp.

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that is always down for a DCOM. 

This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out with Olive Okoro (@digital.olive), content creator and founder of the nonprofit organization Queer Motherland (@queermotherland), to talk about why the 2009 Disney Channel Original Movie, Princess Protection Program, S...

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You can also support the show by shopping small at bit.ly/lezmerch & picking up Lez-ssentials songs on Bandcamp.

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that actually got Leigh to watch an entire season of a show the same year it was released!

This week, co-hosts Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out to discuss one of the most talked-about new shows of 2025, Netflix’s The Hunting Wives. This qu...

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You can also support the show by shopping small for all your holly-gay apparel at bit.ly/lezmerch & picking up Lez-ssentials songs on Bandcamp.

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that hates gay Halloween– what do you mean you’re Chaguilera?

This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out with self-described “professional lesbian”, writer, podcaster and public sociologist, Erin Brown (@iamerinbrown), to talk about why the 2010 “musical” Burlesque, Should’ve Be...

This episode of Lez Hang Out is brought to you by Wet For Her. 

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Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that still would not sleep with a man even to avoid the outr...