Gay2K Podcast

Gay2K Podcast

6 Episodes

A queer media project exploring culture, memory, and how meaning gets made — curious, conversational, and unafraid to look twice at the stories we thought we knew.

Gay2K Podcast
  • Don't Cry for Madonna

    Episode 1

    Your hosts explore what it meant to grow up as a queer millennial under the influence of the Queen of Pop—a woman who provided a roadmap for reinvention, provocation, and unapologetic identity long before social media made it a requirement.
    The duo unpacks Madonna’s role as a "surrogate mother" f...

  • Ur So Gay2K Katy Perry

    Episode 2

    Grab your cherry chapstick, because this week on Gay2k, Sarah and John-Paul are talking about one of the most legendary—and deeply complicated—pop girls of our generation: Katy Perry.
    In this episode, the hosts dive headfirst into the late-2000s and early-2010s to explore the duality of the Katy ...

  • You & I and Lady Gaga

    Episode 3

    This week on Gay2k, Sarah and John-Paul take a deeply personal look at the "Gaga-sized" shift in their musical DNA, tracing how the Mother Monster changed the radio landscape just as they were entering young adulthood. As members of the Class of 2005, the hosts reflect on being Gaga’s literal pee...

  • RuPaul: The RuVolution

    Episode 4

    In "RuPaul: The RuVolution," the team dives deep into the glittery trenches of NYC’s downtown club scene to trace Mother’s iconic glow-up from gritty street queen to global CEO. They kick things off by obsessing over that legendary "Love Shack" cameo—reminiscing about the pure, unadulterated joy ...

  • Roses for Rosie

    Episode 5

    For those of us coming of age in the 90s and early 00s, Rosie was the ultimate "one of us" before we even had the words for it. Long before she officially joined the fam, she was giving us major queer-coded energy as the tough-talking, fiercely loyal Doris Murphy in "A League of Their Own" and se...

  • Ellen Element

    Episode 6

    This week Gay2k dives into Ellen DeGeneres. Sarah and John-Paul explore their feelings on the Icon. Ellen changed the world by coming out, but she lost her audience when her brand of "kindness" felt more like a mask than a mission. She started as a revolutionary but did she end as a cautionary ta...