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Guest: Frankie de la Cretaz, writer at the intersection of sports, gender, culture, and queerness, author of Hail Mary: the Rise and Fall of the National Women’s Football League and Out of Your League newsletter.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2026

Can you talk about why talking about your queerness is important to you?

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025

Adding to the sense of showering Wilde’s comedy in a hail of sequined queerness is the casting of Stephen Fry as the imperious Lady Bracknell.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

Pop culture became increasingly enmeshed in questions of identity, intersectionality, racial justice, gender and queerness.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2025

The humpy-bumpy meadows on top were part of its queerness, too.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen