Jerry Portwood & Les Fabian Brathwaite Kiki About Pop Culture and More!

After reading Lester Fabian Brathwaite’s recent post about the gay cheerleader Les in the Bring It On movie—which debuted 25 years ago this month—I knew we had to hop on a Substack LIVE and kiki about more gay s**t. We started off discussing the new “story” published by New York magazine’s The Cut titled, “We’ve Reached Peak Gay Sluttiness,” and how Les was enjoying his own “slutty” summer. We moved on to his views on “Bizarro Hayden Panettiere, Riley Gaines,” the shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis and what it meant that it was a trans woman who was responsible for the murder of innocents, before moving on to some lighter topics.Turns out Les has written the first five chapters of his novel as a follow up to his debut nonfiction/memoir, Rage: On Being Queer, Black, Brilliant… and Completely Over It, that was published last year. Watch the full conversation above and let us know what you think!Thank you Clint Collide, Emillio Mesa, Rande Iaboni, Lee Tsiantis, and many others for tuning into my live video with Lester Fabian Brathwaite! Join me for my next live video in the app. Get full access to The Queer Love Project at queerloveproject.substack.com/subscribe