Like a Virgin
A new pop culture podcast with a mix of news, cultural criticism, and comedy through a queer-trans lens, hosted by Fran Tirado and Rose Dommu. Though they are best friends now, Fran and Rose grew up very differently. Fran was a cult-ish, sheltered Christian camp counselor and Rose had a penchant for writing deranged fanfiction. Now they’re both godless heathens taking a look back at the formative classics that popped their cherries and made them who they are. Each week, the show starts off with a breakdown of the week’s pop culture news, then does a deep dive into one cultural object that one of them might be experiencing for the first time. They’ll also invite writers, comedians, activists, and entertainers to help them break it down. Follow @rosedommu and @fransquishco on Instagram and Twitter.
Episodes
A jam-packed episode devoted solely to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey — and the original Homeric text? You’re welcome! Stories are so powerful.
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In this episode we discuss:
- Why there was no butt sex i...
A juicy episode on the main feed this week discussing the transgender undertones of John Early’s Maddie’s Secret.
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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 ...
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!
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- 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...
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This week, we discuss:
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Recent viewings of:
This week we discuss:
- Rose met Zohran and now they’re in a nonhierarchal poly structure
- House of Dragon S3: MILF porn?
- The State of Olivia Rodrigo, and why her music is for virgins (derogatory)
- The Vampire Lestat: MILF porn???
- Rose’s Reading List:
- So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison
This week we discuss:
- Rose’s late grandma is a fashion icon
- Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day is a little bit about aliens and a lot about mewing
- Adam Shankman has yet another update on the AI controversy surrounding Stop! That! Train! thus vindicating Rose & Fran
- Rose’s recent viewing of Terms of Endearment
- Fra...
This week we discuss:
- We lost our virginities at the Stop! That! train! NY premier and now there’s an AI controversy
- The perplexing Obsession and the horrors of compulsory heterosexuality
- Rose lost her anal virginity at the Vampire Lestat concert
- The end of Euphoria and how every character is a stripper, pimp, or dead !
AS...
Rose and Fran saw the Cats revival on Broadway, and despite a range of trepidations and doubts, the show overdelivered in ways we could barely squeeze into the episode. We share a bit of background on the musical and how one of the longest running shows on Broadway transformed into this modern iteration.
Also discussed in this episode:
- Rose’s recent viewing of The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo&...
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It finally happened. Rose watched Malcolm in the Middle. The Bush-era suburbia sitcom has long been known to virgins as a Top Five in Fran’s formative cultural objects. Rose’s critique may absolutely shock you. Plus, one episode predicted the plot of a recent horror film???
We also discuss mixed reviews on De...
Why aren’t there more movies glamorizing s*x w*rk? Fran and Rose are on Fire Island watching Pretty Woman like transgender Cocomelon.
This episode features:
- Why the latest episode of Hacks is prestige television
- Is All Stars S11 worth watching?
- Serial Mom and why the hell can’t John Waters get a movie funded?
- The Aut...
Girl, we were born to review Devil Wears Prada 2. And not just because we are f*gg*t-of-center, but because we have both survived some of the unique perils and plights of a modern media industry as depicted in this slightly lukewarm sequel.
Did we love this movie? Not really. Did we think its depictions of a dying industry were sharp, satiatingly if-you-know-you-know, and at times scary in their ability to resemble their real...
Dear Virgins, we are back in your feeds for a very special reason: Rose's novel BEST WOMAN is finally being published this month! In this hard hitting interview, Fran and Rose discuss her novel, what inspired it, movie trancasting, and so much more!
If you're in NYC (or nearby) you MUST come see Rose launch her book at The Strand (gag) on 9/23 in conversation with Harron Walker. Get tickets here.
You can also see Rose...
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- 🎶 The only thing to do to celebrate the Season 2 Finale of Like A Virgin is jump over the moon 🎶
- That's right, Fran & Rose are finally talking about RENT
- It's a quintessential episode of Like A Virgin, featuring singing, oversharing, de-virginizing and bleeping
- Plus, a clip from this week's Patreon episode, where Fran & Rose talk about another thing they said they would never do an episode on: American Horror Story. ...
- A truly chaotic culture chitchat about Talk to Me, elevated horror in general, Kylie's new album, The Nun II, Once Upon A Time, a scourge on DIA Beacon, Apples, The Morning Show & Kim K's American Horror Story
- Plus a clip from this week's Patreon episode, where Fran & Rose go even deeper on Apples. Subscribe for weekly bonus episodes!
What's your sick & twisted secret fantasy Disney IP mash-up? Tag our finsta...
- The trials and tribulations of having, cutting, shaving, removing, growing, styling, choosing and being chosen by HAIR
- Plus a clip from this week's Patreon episode all about spirituality in its many forms. Subscribe for weekly bonus episodes!
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- This one's for the girlies who love revenge: an ode to Kill Bill
- Plus a clip from this week's Patreon episode, where Fran & Rose go IN on Selling The OC. Subscribe for weekly bonus episodes!
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- Comedian and host of the podcast StraightioLab George Civeris joins Fran & Rose to discuss iconic queer(?) television show Will & Grace
- And a clip from this week's Patreon episode about gay pirate erotica. Subscribe for weekly bonus episodes!
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- Fran & Rose divulge the comfort shows they watch over and over and over again as well as their comfort films, food, music and places
- Plus, new Carly Rae, The Last Voyage of the Demeter and other Dracula spinoffs, Passages and T-blockers
- And a clip from this week's Patreon episode, where Fran & Rose give their juiciest takes on some recent Love, Simon-esque queer media: Red, White & Royal Blue and Heartstopper. Subs...
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