Are you ready for the next best pop culture podcast on all things reality TV? Get Queer is here. A product of Xtra magazine, Get Queer questions and celebrates LGBTQ2S+ representation in pop culture. Join reality TV fan and host Mel Woods in the show’s first season for a candid analysis of unscripted television’s history in a bid to answer a central question: “How has reality TV shaped queer identity in the community, in the world and in the mirror?" Through interviews with stars, experts and fan favourites, including Zeke Smith (Survivor), Wes Culwell (Boy Meets Boy), and Racquel Chevremont (The Real Housewives of New York City), Get Queer takes listeners behind the scenes of reality TV’s most shocking and compelling moments to unravel how they were made and their lasting impact.
Get Queer debuts May 8, 2025, with new episodes dropping weekly.
00:01
Voiceover
Previously on Boy Meets Boy.
00:03
Of all the three final mates, one of them is straight.
00:11
Voiceover
Wow.
00:13
Mel Woods
Wow indeed.
00:18
Mel Woods
The pleasant lesbians on House Hunters in 2002, you know, walked so that we could have a fivesome in the boom-boom room.
00:24
Voiceover
When I went in for my interview, I spent the entire time, the casting interview, spewing gay politics. Did I see that on the show? No.
00:35
Voiceover
Logo produced one season of The A-List: New York. And the tagline was “Housewives with Balls.”
00:42
Voiceover
Reality TV is especially, like, supposed to be, like, chaotic and messy and it’s time that we recognize that will result in representations of, like, queer messes.
00:52
Voiceover
Let’s remember that as much of this is an opportunity for representation, that there are going to be a lot of people who don’t have another reference to what queer people are like.
01:04
Mel Woods
This is Get Queer and I’m Mel Woods. This season we’re looking at reality TV and its effect on queer identity: in the community, in the world and in the mirror.
01:14
Voiceover
Here’s the thing—all trans guys now? They dress exactly like me. And I feel like I am an unacknowledged fashion icon.