The Gay American Life
Highlighting LGBTQ+ lives and businesses and our allies in the United States. Season Two is coming soon!
Episodes
7 episodes
Episode 7: Crafting Masculinity
In this episode, James & Franco talk about the covid urban exodus and how they have traded their big-city lives for the quieter pace of the desert and the mountains. They also talk to their friend Frank Vignola about his upco...
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Episode 7
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1:11:03
Episode 6: I'm Still Here!
James & Franco...MIA for the last several months. We're back...catching you up on what's been going on in our lives and our plans for The Gay American Life. Recorded in our new Palm Springs studio.
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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44:04
Episode 5: Free Lunch
Franco and I talk about when I knew I was gay and we blame it on too much adult tv and Aaron Spelling. Then I call a childhood church friend to validate a memory about playing with dolls and discussing their genitalia. And then we speak with au...
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Episode 5
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58:29
Episode 4: ...So This White Boy Stumbles into a Latin Gay Bar...
In this episode, James discovers the world of Club Cobra & Club Chico and meets a new set of friends. Franco and James sit down with Gaby, one of those friends to talk about her experiences growing up in Ecuador, moving the the U.S. as a te...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:05:56
Episode 3 - Dating & Friendships: Social Media
Dating through apps...meeting people through apps...What's that like now compared to before we had them. Is it really better to have someone's details before the first date? What was life like when we didn't. Are we addicted to endorphins from ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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39:09
Episode 2: Religion
James & Franco cover religion...what it was like growing up gay and trying to reconcile our sexuality with our spirituality. I talk about my college days in a cult, caught between the rock of Jesus and a 'hard' place. Then we talk to our bu...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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46:20
Thanksgiving: The First Episode
James & Franco's first episode! We talk about how we were inspired to create a podcast, the technical and creative aspects of the process of creating it, James' first high school sex tape, future guests, and how one of our friends is probab...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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43:54