Talk About Gay Sex TAGSPODCAST

• Robin Byrd as a sex-positive pioneer and ally

• Late-night cable as a form of queer visibility

• Safe sex conversations during the AIDS crisis

• Madonna, Confessions II, and gay liberation through music

• The dance floor as a place of healing, sexuality, and freedom

• How TAGSPODCAST has evolved over 8+ years

• What gay men are still afraid to confess

• Sex, shame, aging, kink, intimacy, and honesty

• The people and places that taught us we were not alone

At its heart, this episode is about permission — permission to talk, to desire, to confess, to laugh, to learn, and to stop apologizing for who we are.

Hot Topic: Titanique Review on Broadway by Steve V

Hot Topic: Frankie Grande speaks out after Kiehl's the brand sides with a shady comment...

Hot Topic: Madonna's Confessions 2 is reviewed by Steve V

Hot Topic: Diving Champ Bryan Hattie wears a string thong and we're here for it...

Hot Topic: Hudson Williams in a mankini...

Hot Topic: What is 'summer penis'???

Hot Topic: Homobloc concert in Manchester features all lgbtq performers...

Hot Topic: People are attracted to bigger in new book

Advice: How to get confident as a nudist or go to the nude beach..

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GOOSE and the promise of a “better” gay app

Allegations around AI-generated or inauthentic promotional accounts

Why fake intimacy feels especially insulting in queer spaces

The difference between marketing, fantasy, and manipulation

Dating app fatigue and the hunger for real-life gay community

Invite-only culture, social status, and who gets to belong

Why hookup culture is not the enemy

Meetup groups, gay social clubs, and the return of offline connection

The business of gay loneliness — and why we keep buying in

Hot Topic: Turkey bans Atlantis Cruise from docking...

Hot Topic: A gay couple experienced homophobia at a baseball game that was supposed to be date night...

Hot Topic: Would you stay at Lisa Vanderpumps new hotel in Vegas?

Hot Topic: Speedos or Trunks this Summer? Plus Luke Evans rocks both!

Hot Topic: Stonewall Veteran Victoria Cruz dies and Pansexual Adult Performer Dale Savage suddently dies at 62 from a Stroke.

Advice: A boy in every port sounds great but now he's debating settling down...

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Episode Question:
Are gay men really looking for another app, or are we just looking for more honest ways to meet each other?

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Topics include:

Public persona vs. private truth

When outrage becomes a brand

Why “nice in person” does not erase public harm

The roles gay men learn to play for safety and acceptance

Performing masculinity, confidence, and sexual experience

Bedroom roles, fantasy, and authenticity

When sexual labels feel freeing — and when they become limiting

Why honesty is essential to queer storytelling

The difference between privacy, performance, and self-betrayal

What happens when we finally stop playing the role

The hosts ask: Are we being real, or just performing? And in sex, love, community, and public life — who are we when we finally tell the truth?
Hot Topic: Jussie Smollett and Karamo Brown are dating so soon after Jussie calls off engagement

Hot Topic: Minneapolis officially lifts its AIDS era ban...

Hot Topic: Gays do it better - the tale of two proposals...

Hot Topic: The wait is over Madonna is about to release her 15th album!

Advice: Situationship or Slow moving?

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Steve V. and Kodi are back in studio for a fun, sexy Pride Week follow-up conversation.

Steve and Kodi continue the Pride Week conversation by asking: What happens when sex stops feeling shameful and starts feeling like yours?

The hosts talk about entering their shameless era — becoming more confident, more direct, and more honest about what turns them on.

The hosts talk about the founder of Nasty Pig, David Lauterstein and embracing his Daddy era and his nudge to his fellow men of a certain age to get out and just be confident wherever you are...

From flirting and DMs to hookups, attraction, confidence, and knowing what you want, Steve and Kodi explore how sex changes as gay men get older.

They discuss the difference between youthful sexual energy and earned sexual confidence — and why getting older can actually make you bolder, sexier, and less apologetic.

The conversation gets into what they’re no longer embarrassed about, what turns them on now, and how confidence itself may be the ultimate kink.

Plus: Pride, aging, desire, directness, daddy energy, and the freedom of no longer needing to be everyone’s fantasy.

Hot Topic: Mateo Lane breaks silence on splitting with husband and boyfriend

Hot Topic: Frankie Grande on his new memoir and how he related to Superman...the hosts relate

Advice: Exploring exhibitionism...

Advice: Should I go to a leather/nudist party alone...

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It’s Pride Week, and we’re talking about belonging — not just to a community, but to ourselves as gay men.

We ask: When did sex stop feeling shameful and start feeling freeing?

Steve, Kodi, and Sebastian explore how gay bars, Pride, hookups, leather spaces, chosen family, and queer community helped shape their confidence.

The hosts get honest about sexual shame, body image, desire, kink, aging, and the pressure to be “desirable” in gay spaces.

We discuss how getting older can bring a deeper, sexier confidence — knowing what you want, what you don’t, and no longer apologizing for either.

Plus: the beauty and complexity of Pride — celebration, protest, flirtation, connection, and yes, a little shamelessness.

A conversation about sex without apology, community without exclusion, and aging into queer power.

Hot Topic: Do gays really walk fast and why? Studies show this can also be healthy

Hot Topic: Broadway Bares just wrapped supporting HIV and AIDS. Sebastian recounts his time on the sexy stage...

Hot Topic: Billy Porter gets real about Fire Island and the infamous 'meat rack'....

Hot Topic: Pornhub: What are we looking up on the platform....the stats are out for Pride...

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