TRAILER: Extra Bad Gays January 2026: Heated Rivalry

About this episode

This trailer previews the episode discussing the discourse around gay romance and related social media phenomena.

This trailer is just a preview–for the full episode, click here to subscribe on Patreon, or subscribe directly through Apple Podcasts. We heard you, we see you, we're here for you: it's our take on Heated Rivalry, or at least on the Discourse surrounding it––straight women loving gay romance, social media shitstorms targeting out actors, and shipping. Then we take Gaggony Guncles questions from someone in love with an English public school boy who can't open up and a woman demanding our analysis of the fg hg (or fruit fly!) phenomenon.

Topics covered

• gay romance
• social media
• shipping
• relationships
• discourse

Keywords

• Heated Rivalry
• straight women
• gay romance
• social media shitstorms
• Gaggony Guncles
• English public school boy
• fg hg phenomenon

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Heated Rivalry

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