For Spotify, Pride is about creating a permanent space for LGBTQIA + people and their stories, and providing the opportunity for a sense of belonging that is so central to the coming out process. On the new original Spotify podcast Coming Out: Shared Emotions, We set out to find iconic community creators to ask about their resilience history, experiences, and lessons.
Coming out was originally released in France. Now, in its new season in Mexico, it presents the guest stories as Christian Chávez, Raymix, The Witch of Texcoco, artist RADAR México, and sports journalist Marion Reimers, among others.
These are some of the intimate stories that listeners will be able to discover exclusively on Spotify during the month of June.
Actor and singer Christian Chavez He is known to millions of fans for being a part of the pop phenomenon RBD. And while many of them know of her ordeal coming out of the closet, they have never heard her story so personally. In the first episode of the series, Christian recounts his difficult time in a Catholic school where he was bullied, gives a graphic account of his first kiss, and shares his first visit to a gay club. He also describes his public experience coming out of the closet after being blackmailed by a tabloid in March 2007.
“I wrote a statement crying and could not even write the word ‘gay'”, shares in the episode. “The next day there was applause and expressions of support, although much of the press was hypocritical because then the media turned against me to write sensational stories. “
After several projects were canceled due to discrimination, Christian decided to resume his solo career and wrote Liberty, a song about being yourself.
Marion Reimers is a successful storyteller and commentator and the voice on the original Spotify podcast Soccer to the Death. In his episode in Coming Out speaks of sports journalism as a homophobic, macho and patriarchal space that took too long to include a lesbian woman in its ranks. Since she was a child, she felt the urge to challenge the heteronorm and always preferred to play pirates rather than house.
“I’m very proud of who I am,” Marion says in her episode. “The deconstruction of social norms is an everyday job, it is very heavy because we live in a society that taught us to be ashamed and there are those who continue to use this discourse to disqualify me. I feel strong, I have an environment of friends, family and colleagues at work that have helped me. You don’t do it alone, you do it through the community. “
Fabian Chairez is a Mexican plastic artist. Much of his work is a questioning of toxic masculinity. Leap to mainstream fame for his work Revolution showing a Emiliano Zapata in heels and on top of a white horse. The work caused a scandal in conservative groups that entered the Palace of Fine Arts determined to set it on fire. They were detained by museum staff, many of them LGBT +.
“They showed me the image when they were beating one of them and it immediately took me to that moment in Chiapas when two men threatened me with a knife just because I was holding hands with my boyfriend. And I said no, that can’t happen again. If you want to fight, here I am. I started giving interviews and making my voice present. “
Ana Julia Yeye He’s a stand-up comedian and maybe that’s why his coming out is the funniest on the podcast. He tells of the time he dated a girl with the intention of showing her that he was not a lesbian and ended up realizing just the opposite. His first kiss made all the pieces of his life fit together.
There is no more powerful force to change minds and hearts than being able to tell our stories. That’s why Spotify joined It Gets Better México to offer help to LGBT + youth with mental health, sexual issues or support groups.
Discover the stories of LGBTQIA + creators and listen to Coming Out: Shared Emotions below.
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