Subscribe to our Patreon for an upcoming deep dive two-parter on Dolly Parton and Tim Curry: patreon.com/LikeaVirgin This free episode discusses: Shallow thoughts on surviving gay 9/11 (ahead of deeper thoughts on Dolly/Tim on Patreon) This podcast does not formally recognize the passing of racist Instagram backdrop designer Yayoi Kusama Galliano and the hypocrisy of the fashion world Doll Invasion debrief and Charlene Incarnate’s “Piss Gate” Fran and Rose’s favorite Dolly Parton songs Tim Curry’s sexuality  Legend (1985) starring Tim Curry as satan and twink Tom Cruise with his pre-transition teeth Fran watched Annie (1982) also starring Tim Curry and that turned into a conversation about Sarah Jessica Parker’s hair Our official OFFICIAL FOR REAL THIS TIME statement on whether or not we will discuss Doo Doo Caca on HBO aka Harry Potter Support our independent work by subscribing to two bonus episodes per month: Patreon.com/LikeaVirgin   XOXO ROSE AND FRANSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

No new episode this week as we are recovering from Doll Invasion, but that means you get a special treat: one of our Patreon bonus episodes! We release two of these a month, so subscribe now and get more of us in your ears!  Refer to our free post on Patreon to see photos of each dress and superlative category: Best Disney Dresses, Ranked Worst Dress Best Separates Unconventional Materials Challenge Tboy Swag Crone Realness Sasha Velour Award for Excellence in Nightgowns Best Cloak/Outerwear Xoxo Fran & Rose Follow us on IG for memes and show updates: @likeavirgin42069See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Next week, we will be discussing nothing but Dolly Parton. This episode, recorded hours before the passing of the one and only Dolly Parton, features the following:    Why everyone should come to Doll Invasion The Ren Faire docuseries just might get us to reconsider the documentary genre Our X3 viewing Recent casting controversy in the upcoming Harry Potter series The Gilded Age is returning and infinitely better than Harry Potter Two recommendations from Rose’s Book Corner: Red X by David Demchuk (2021) Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo (2021) 2 Trans 2 Furious What Fran and Rose would do with $10M+ in inheritance Birkin discourse The Bisexual Problem by VerilyBitchie How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong   Subscribed virgins get two bonus episodes this month: One explaining Mr. X-Toon controversy (plus extended personal gossip) and another with a Disney Villain Smackdown. Subscribe to bonus episodes on Patreon.com/LikeAVirgin   LOVE Y’ALL XOXO ROSE AND FRANSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode discusses two films we’ve lovingly labeled as the “queer homework” genre. Both films are about sex, and some kind of unlocking, and both films are very firmly in an indie filmmaker canon for the Criterion-enjoyer:  Jane Schoenbrun's Sex & Death at Camp Miasma and Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex For deeper-dives into the culture of yore twice a month, subscribe to our bonus episodes at: Patreon.com/LikeAVirgin Follow us on IG for memes and show updates: @likeavirgin42069  XOXO Rose & FranSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s a Girls Girling episode! Rose and Fran conduct unstructured gossip and the latest in culture. For highly researched deep-dive episodes twice a month, subscribe at Patreon.com/LikeAVirgin This week, we discuss: Baela get your gun! And more on the House of Dragon S3 finale Titane’s place in the trans canon Is Muriel’s Wedding better than the Odyssey? Someone Please Buy Rose the $2200 Franklin Mint Rose from Titantic Doll Trunk Set More X-Men gossip Next week we’ll discuss Jane Schoenbrun's Sex & Death at Camp Miasma and Greg Arakki’s I Want Your Sex Follow us on IG for memes and show updates: @likeavirgin42069See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

IMPORTANT TRAN-DATE FOR VIRGINS! Please take two seconds to give our podcast a 5-star review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.  You are listening to the free episode of Like a Virgin. For bimonthly bonus episodes, head on over to our Patreon. Our most recent bonus episode was an Action Movie Diva Smackdown — bracket style! On week’s episode we discuss: Fran’s current planning phase for Doll Invasion on Fire Island Aug 28-30 Why is Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender literal porn? The highs and lows of Tom Holland’s fourth Spider-man movie: Brand New Day X-Men casting rumors and what lies ahead for the MCU XOXoxoxox Fran & Rose Follow us on IG for memes and show updates: @likeavirgin42069See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A jam-packed episode devoted solely to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey — and the original Homeric text? You’re welcome! Stories are so powerful. Love the deep dive discussion? You’re only getting half the story! Head to patreon.com/likeavirgin for twice-monthly bonus episodes where we tend to do more of the excavational analysis. In this episode we discuss: Why there was no butt sex in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey? Zeus’s Law, and what the film tries (and fails) to say about war. Spoiler alert: war bad Background on the collapse of the Bronze Age and how Nolan inverts the myth of the “Sea People.” How The Odyssey’s redemption of Men™ mirrors Nolan’s other films Was Zendaya a goddess or Odysseus' conscience? Does it matter?? Why Tom Holland turned every scene into gay porn Why Anne Hathaway will win the Oscar Why Samantha Morton will also win the Oscar The role of Women™ in The Odyssey — both Homerically and Nolanly Dr. Emily Wilson’s eviscerating take on Nolan’s Odyssey Odysseus’ Obstacles, Ranked on the Suck-o-meter: The Cyclops/Polyphemus The Giants/The Laestrygonians Circe Tiresies/The Shades of the Underworld The Sirens Scylla and Charybdis Helios’ Cattle Calypso Boat of Idiots (aka Odysseus’ men) All These Hoes (aka Antinous and the suitors) The Official Like a Virgin Guide to Peeing During The Odyssey Does Ludwig Göransson deserve to get his ass ate? Does Christopher Nolan deserve to get his ass ate? Is The Odyssey better than Disney’s Hercules? Is The Odyssey better than Uptown Girls? MADELINE MILLER YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS!!!!!!!! XOXoxoxox Fran & Rose Follow us on IG for memes and show updates: @likeavirgin42069 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A juicy episode on the main feed this week discussing the transgender undertones of John Early’s Maddie’s Secret.  Love the free episode? You’re only getting half the story! Head to patreon.com/likeavirgin for twice-monthly bonus episodes. On this week’s free episode we discuss: How to enjoy John Early’s Maddie’s Secret when some of its comedic sensibility rests on a man dressed as a woman. The influences and precarious precedent of Maddie’s Secret’s “gender comedy”: Oh! Mary, Madea, Big Momma’s House, Mrs. Doubtfire, John Waters, Tootsie, The Birdcage, White Chicks, and more. The grotesque soullessness of the Avengers: Doomsday trailer The resounding disappointment of The Vampire Lestat The bloodlust of Project Runway’s 78th season. Homework: Everyone go see Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey in time for next week’s discussion. XOXoxoxox Fran & Rose Follow us on IG for memes and show updates: @likeavirgin42069See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to bonus episodes on patreon.com/likeavirgin - this month, jam-packed dive into Madonna’s Confessions 1 and 2.  On this week’s free episode we discuss: Going to Club Confessions God Tier Madonna Remixes The Xmen reboot HATES women ?  Avatar: the Last Airbender live action is the most unfunny shit!  Why The Americans is required viewing  Vampire Lestat in its flop era? (But Sheila Atim tore!) The Invite is neo-hetero propaganda  Evil Dead: Burn  Lee Cronin’s The Mummy Ormund Hightower’s ass Why Industry was robbed in the Emmy nominations XOXoxoxox Fran & Rose Follow us on IG for memes and show updates: @likeavirgin42069See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is a free episode of Like a Virgin! Support our independent work and get bonus episodes and ad-free episodes on Patreon.com/LikeAVirgin ! Rose is a recent Sniffies convert thanks to Sniffiesvangelist Fran A gay history of a circulating meme featuring photo-chopped Madonna from 2006 that’s weirdly entwined with Rose and Fran’s career Rose and Fran’s abbreviated thoughts on Confessions 2.  (Head to Patreon for a Confessions 1 & 2 deep-dive discussion, album/era history, track analysis, and more on a bonus episode very soon.) Rose’s review of John Early’s Maddie’s Secret Fran and Rose saw the gay horror film Leviticus Discussion of Rhaenyra’s first days in office XOXoxoxox Fran & Rose Follow us on IG for memes and show updates: @likeavirgin42069See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.