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Dearest gentle listeners, welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that would have gotten to the lesbians four seasons ago.
This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out and talk about why Netflix’s Bridgerton Should’ve Been Gay(er). Leigh recently voluntarily suffered through four seasons of Regency heterosexuality, and now we’re making it your problem. With Francesca and Michaela’s romance taking center stage in Season 5, we have a few matters to address before the next social season.
First of all, they are finally giving us a sapphic love story, and somehow it doesn't involve Eloise? Eloise Bridgerton’s closet is literally made of glass. This woman spends season after season rejecting men, marriage, and the entire heterosexual industrial complex, but apparently we're the ones reading too much into things. Whether you’re rooting for childhood besties Eloise and Penelope or the delicious potential of Eloise and Cressida, there are perfectly good lesbians sitting right there. Meanwhile, Penelope has made herself a little anonymous gossip zine to talk shit about everyone she knows. Lady Whistledown is a Regency Regina George with a printing budget.
We’re getting into the romance tropes that make us want to flee the marriage mart, the exhausting business of falling for a man when his hot female relative is RIGHT THERE, and why this fantasy version of the early-19th century can re-imagine race but somehow homophobia is the one heirloom nobody is willing to leave behind. The string quartet can play Ariana Grande, yet Eloise dancing with a woman is one historical inaccuracy too far?
Benedict is putting the bi in Bridgerton, Queen Charlotte and Lady Danbury are one royal decree away from a lavender marriage, and Eloise has been ready for her lesbian storyline since approximately her first spoken sentence. We’re thrilled the sapphics are finally getting our own season. We just shouldn’t have had to sit through four straight ones to get here.
We know one thing for sure, Bridgerton Should’ve Been Gay(er).
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