Love, Simon (Queer Coming Out‪)‬ Queer Movie Podcast

This episode we talk about Love, Simon - and whether it's a Bad Movie or if Rowan is just reading too much into it. Let's chat gay high school romance, queer YA, and #ownvoices.
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This is a queer movie watch party for your ears, hosted by Rowan Ellis and Jazza John. Join us as we take a look at the queer film canon, one genre at a time. From rom-coms to slashers, contemporary arthouse cinema to comedy classics - Queer Movie Podcast is a celebration of all things queer on the silver screen!
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JAZZA:  Welcome to the Queer Movie Podcast celebrating the best and worst in LGBTQ+ cinema one glorious genre at a time. 
ROWAN:  I'm Rowan Ellis.
JAZZA:  And I am Jazza John.
ROWAN:  Each episode, we discuss a movie from a different genre of cinema.
JAZZA:  This episode's genre is 
JAZZA AND ROWAN:  Queer Coming Out. 
JAZZA:  Oh, Oh, lovely have we used up all of the possible teen categories that we could have done in we're struggling.
ROWAN:  Yes. We've done queer high school, queer coming of age, queer  romance, so we really weren't struggling but you know what these movies are coming out so it still counts. So this week, we're going to be reviewing the first gay film ever made. Love Simon, the film from 2018 based on the book Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli. That was a little joke courtesy of Jazza because he likes to write these little intro bits and then I have to say them, and he knows I have a we'll get into it later. But I have a little bee in my bonnet about the way this film was marketed. But spoilers for later on in this episode.
JAZZA:  We have plenty of time to talk about it. But Rowan does have a 45-minute video titled, The Problem with Love Simon, so this shouldn't be really good.
ROWAN:  I kind of spoilt it myself by anything I've ever said about this film on the internet. Which is why I was like I this is this episode has been a long time coming. I feel like this has been something that's been requested quite a lot. So we thought why not give the people what they want?
JAZZA:  100% we're going to be doing our best to avoid retreading that video. I can't wait to see what Rowan really thinks about this movie. But before we get into that, Rowan, what is the gayest thing you've done since the last episode?
ROWAN:  So I probably shouldn't say this because I've been, I've been-
JAZZA:  A lesbian? 
ROWAN:  But I'm a lesbian. No, I– I am writing a little thing that has some characters in it. And I just decided that they're all g