We're late, we know, but let us make it up to you by taking you into the greater Alecia Moore-iverse! That's right, it is time to touch the hem of the Punk-inspired-singer-song-writer-Pop-Rock-Icon: P!nk! It's time to PARTY, you perfect under-dogs! So get ready as we cover the documentary of her tour: What I Know So Far! We are coming with doc and album reviews, Diva News and Podcast announcements that will make us all cry! We are in full summer celebration mode of our emotional, honest, true mother-Diva, P!nk. So grab your invisible Nanny, rename yourself Willow and meet us at the Pride Parade, because we are just getting this party started!

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P!nk! "The Greatest Escape!"

This week we talk about the most fascinating woman in the world, Eartha Kitt, with the most brilliant professor in the world, Alexandra Billings! So meet us in Katie's corner for some deranged and delightful Diva dish. We talk icons, transformation, wigs, the 80s, plagues and bazoomabs! Come and learn why queer people are the Phoenixes of the human experience, how to become sadistic women, and all about navigating chaos. We talk Eartha, Bette, Madonna, Cher, Barbra, Mae West and Judy - it is truly a symposium this week, and Alexandra is the ultimate teacher. So grab your Cha-Cha Heels, your champagne taste and meet us under the bridges of Paris!

Eartha Kitt! with Alexandra Billings! "The Church of the Divas"

That's right For the Girls, we are coming at you with a God Tier Album Review of Whitney Houston's 1990 I'm Your Baby Tonight! This episode already aired on our Patreon, so come and see what all the exclusive fuss is about! So hop onto your Nippy-cycle and get ready for Origins, trampoline choreography, 90s shame, self titled albums, and the beginning of the Bobby-era! Don’t try to sing along because it’s Whitney. Everyone just RELAX because Whit is going to explain Monogomy, exorcise a demon named Susan and lend her perfect vocals to the dance-pop framework. You lift us up, you’re all the angels that we need, and so we are giving you this episode reviewing one of our all time favorite albums!

Whitney Houston's "I'm Your Baby Tonight!" *From Our Patreon!*

Come down to the Easy Listening sections, friends, as we defend the great Diva of Classic Hollywood: Doris Day! We have a guest superfan, Chris Logan, all the way from London to celebrate Calamity Jane, America's Sweetheart, the great voice of her generation, Doris! So join us in reconsidering this unsung Diva who hasn't been properly been given her due. We cover her virginal reputation, Rock Hudson's thighs, the 650 songs she recorded, the dogs, the dogs and the dogs, and the "Almost independent Woman" that she was made to play. Whatever will be will be, but our love of Doris is never going to leave us, so come listen to a little Pillow Talk.

Doris Day! with Christopher Logan! "The True Illusive Chanteuse"

It's Diva You Should Know Week and we are celebrating the truly virtuosic genre-shifting multitudes of Ruth, Anita, Bonnie and June Pointer! Come with us through the Quartet of the 70s, the Trio of the 80s and the musicology of one of the most important music groups in history. We are worshipping these underusing superheroes this week as we review our favorite tracks, discuss their eclectic bop-filled library and cleanse our algorithms with this perfect music. Come for the hits, stay for the music theory. We are out here demanding miniseries, art installations and statues erected to these iconic women of music. It should be Automatic! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Pointer Sisters! "Super Powers"

All Bow Down to the Queen of Cinema, Cate Blanchett! This week we grovel at her feet with superfan, Jakob Plummer. We are writing long letters on our typewriters about Jasmine, Carol Aird, Charlotte Grey and Veronica Guerin! We analyze her royal work, her villain work, her elf work and her everywoman work as we swim through the fearless and versatile waters of the reining Ice Queen of the Movies. So get ready to bop through the many Gifts and the greatest hits of this singular, trail-blazing, humanitarian Australian who has written her own script and built one of the most dynamic careers in the history of Hollywood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cate Blanchett! with Jakob Plummer! "The Gift"

Our 100th Episode extravaganza continues with the screenwriter of 9 to 5, Patricia Resnick! And she knows from Diva. So come gab with us about her work on The Cher Show, Robert Altman films, and Better Things. Pat came with Diva stories and tells tales of Lucille Ball, Shelley Winters, Stephanie J Block, Glenn Close, Ruth Gordon, Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, and Bette Bette Bette Bette and Bette. Come hear tales of dancing with Nancy Reagan, creating this iconic film and building a truly incredible career in Hollywood as a writer for over 40 years. Come grab a little inspiration from one of the greats! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

100th Episode: Part Two! Pat Resnick on 9 to 5!

OUR 100th EPISODE IS HERE! And we couldn't think of a better way to celebrate than inviting back returning champion, LaToya Morgan, to discuss one of all of our favorite films: 9 to 5! We are here to worship the divas Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Patricia Resnick, Ann Roth, Elizabeth Wilson, Peggy Pope, Marian Mercer, Esther Sullivan and Roxanne Bonilla-Giannini in this all too prescient classic from 1980. So throw on your work kimono, catch that elevator, and get ready to murder the patriarchy and throw its corpse into the trunk of a car! We are going to do M&Ms, drink some Skinny&Sweet, and then Sexualize, Hunt and Murder our Bosses. We are keeping a spot for you at our lunch table to celebrate these iconic women and our own centenary! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

9 to 5! with LaToya Morgan! "Skinny & Sweet"

Open the Book of Cabot Cove and unleash an episode of Biblical proportions! That's right we are going back to paradise to learn and preach the theology of JB Fletcher. This is our fourth installment of this series and this time we study Season 4, Episode 7: "If It's Thursdays, It Must Be Beverly." So get ready to go to the beauty shop, reunite with Evie Simpson, hear about naughty kitties, Lotharios, Salmon mousse and of course, God herself. We are taking you back to the church of Angela Lansbury so hop on your bike, confess your sins and PRAY. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

My Favorite Murder She Wrote 4! "BooYah!"

Welcome to our second Bette Midler Album Review! That's right, we are going back to the well this week to dig for some gold. So come and celebrate the 7th studio album from our goddess: Bette Midler! This is our next-step-Bible filled with nostalgia, herstory, Marc Shaiman, Dionne Warwick, Diane Warren, Janice Ian, Jennifer Lewis, and Adult Contemporary Charts. So come and find your joy as we dive into the Grammy for Female Pop Vocal Performance, the 90s, Los Angeles fantasies and Leggings! We hope you all are staying sane while keeping From A Distance, and just put this on to do a little Moonlight Dancing, Miss Otis! Let's go One More Round! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Some People's Lives! "The Gift of Love"

It's Oscar week and we have invited critic, podcaster and Oscar savant, Chris Feil from This Had Oscar Buzz to join us at the altar of the Nomads! That's right, it is time to stan for our divas: Frances McDormand, Chloe Zhao, Linda May and Swankie!!! Tear up those lesson books, kids, because we are talking about art this week. We three matinee ladies are sitting by the fire discussing Community and Solitude, Fran's career, Chloe's meteoric rise and Linda May's Oscar campaign. So grab your 7 gallon bucket, name your travel van and meet us out on the range. We are diving deep into the genius well of Chloe Zhao's work, stories of returning to an actual movie theater and of course everything Academy Awards. So pick up your ballot and get ready to mark every box for the transcendent movie of the year: NOMADLAND. Swankie Hive RISE!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nomadland! with Chris Feil! "SaVANnah Guthrie"

Book Club!!! We read Nina Simone's autobiography: I Put A Spell On You, and are coming at you with one queer ass book report! How many times can we say "Singular?" Well, take a listen and find out as we etch our new knowledge onto the Mount Rushmore of Divas. We travel from North Carolina to Barbados, from New York to Paris and Liberia to learn about the life and legacy of this complex, beautiful, century shifting virtuoso. We let her own words and story re-contextualize how we listen to her music. So come hear about her days with Lorraine Hansberry, her nights with Odetta, her improvs with Al Shackman and her protests with James Baldwin as we pay tribute to the genius, Nina, who put a spell on us all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nina Simone Book Club! "To Be Free"

Claws Out, Claws Up, it's time to worship the Mother Monster herself: Lady Gaga! We have her superfan and internet lip-syncing sensation, Ben Yahr, with us this week to break down everything about the Fame Monster. So grab your freak flag and get ready to plant it on planet Chromatica. We are building the ultimate outlet for your coven of Monsters. We are analyzing, rhapsodizing, and immortalizing this free woman, songwriter, performance artist, actress, provocateur, activist and beacon for the weird and wondrous. rSo prepare yourselves to hatch the enigma that is Lady Gaga! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lady Gaga! with Ben Yahr! "The Electric Chapel"

Hop onto the Nostalgia Trolley, Friends of Judy, as we go back to 1944 Hollywood and 1903 St. Louis to celebrate one of the great movie musicals of all time: Meet Me in St. Louis! Just in time for Easter we are ready to worship any resurrection of the work of Divas: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremmer and Marjorie Main! We are coming with the earm worms, so grab your gin, meet us in the bathtub and get ready for origins, confessions, Chintz, thirst and us being the most Horrible! We celebrate the counterpoint and beautiful tension of this masterpiece as well as its horny sisters on trolley Cars! We swoon, we sigh, and we say ICONIC,  So put us on your dance card and get ready for Art on art on art on art. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Meet Me in St. Louis! "We Need to Talk About Tootie."

The day has finally come to honor, celebrate and worship the Goddess of Rock: Tina Turner! And just in time to prime you for this weekend's upcoming TINA Documentary, we welcome her superfan, Ben, who runs the Tina Turner Blog and wins every contest involving Tina, so don't even try to. Get ready to do the Pony, shake your manes, and steam up those windows. Put on your shortest dress, and start to strutting, because we are going to tell you about the bad things gay kids do, give you Whatever You Want, and make your Wildest Dreams come true on this episode. Start chanting because we are headed to Nutbush to discuss the impact, the history, the legacy of the Performer, the Voice, the Legend: TINA! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tina Turner! with Benjamin Degrèse! "TITAN"

The gay Diva Podcast is here! Queer people are obsessed with iconic female performers, so hosts Jason Black & Nick Westrate set out to talk to every queer obsessed with a queen. Fandoms collide, learn from each other and grow. Come and Join. Share the love.

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