Realizing Things: Overcompensating is managing your inauthenticity

@bennydrama7’s new Amazon Prime show Overcompensating hit so close to home that Hunter and Tucker had to do a whole episode about the pressure to fit in and how it drives so many of us to overcompensate (sometimes to the point of literally twisting your sacrum).This episode explores the lifelong performance of queer identity: the pressure to blend in before coming out, and the pressure to be the “right kind of gay” after. From Tucker saying yes to a straight guy mountain biking trip to Hunter faking a porta potty hookup, it’s a look at the different lives queer folks have to live before we finally get to live authentically.