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- 0:00Wrap it up, pack it up guys, that's gay.
- 0:03I don't care what people say. Welcome back gaspers to Gasp,
- 0:18the pod, the podcast for the gays, the girls, and especially
- 0:22the gay girls. It's the meme on your For You
- 0:25page. It's the front cover of the
- 0:27magazine you pass in the grocery store.
- 0:29It's the Facebook video that your mom sends you a week after
- 0:33this already happened. It's the video of Cynthia Areevo
- 0:36swooping in like a lesbian night to save Ariana Grande from a
- 0:42crazed fan during the press tour of Wicked.
- 0:45For good with the second part of Wicked Did the movie releasing
- 0:49this week. This viral moment was just one
- 0:52of so many trending videos taking over the Internet showing
- 0:56the intense, seemingly sapphic bond that is shared between
- 1:01Ariana Grande and Cynthia Rivo, AKA Glinda and Alphaba, the two
- 1:06witches. I know what you might be
- 1:08thinking. I didn't know this was
- 1:10happening. The concept of Alphaba and
- 1:12Glinda as a sapphic couple. Is it true?
- 1:15Could Glinda really swing for the green?
- 1:18If you haven't seen all the evidence, I'm going to present
- 1:20it to you. And you know, we're unsure if
- 1:23they're together, so you can make your own assumption.
- 1:25And yes, it's OK to assume that people are gay because we do it
- 1:28all the time for two straight actors, when they're like, at a
- 1:32press tour for a movie, we're always like, we are there
- 1:35together. So we're going to do the same
- 1:37thing for two women. OK.
- 1:39I'm going to unearth the most lesbian moments that have
- 1:42happened over the course of the Wicked movie press tour slash
- 1:46fever dream. There are so many like viral
- 1:50moments and like crazy things that have happened over the
- 1:53course of the last few years of promotion of these two films.
- 1:58And it's like honestly overwhelming.
- 2:00So I'm only going to talk about the gay parts.
- 2:02Like there's a lot of like bizarre moments.
- 2:04There's a lot of like weird things.
- 2:06There's a lot of funny moments. Like there's so much.
- 2:08So I'm not going to go into all of that.
- 2:10This is going to be specifically queer.
- 2:12And even in the queer moments, there's been so many.
- 2:14So I've decided to break these up into three categories. 3 pots
- 2:19of evidence, if you will. Category one is gay
- 2:22clarification. So times that Cynthia, Ariana
- 2:26have like clarified the gayness either in their relationship or
- 2:30the relationship of their characters or the movie itself,
- 2:33right? Category 2 is going to be called
- 2:36loving each other on such a level that only a lesbian couple
- 2:39has the capacity for. I feel like that's kind of
- 2:42self-explanatory. And category 3 will be sexual
- 2:45tension, right? Let's dig in.
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- 4:08Let's move on to category one. I will put the like picture of
- 4:12the screenshot from the clip I'm talking about in the YouTube
- 4:14video that I'm posting. And so you can kind of see in
- 4:18reference what I'm talking about.
- 4:19I'm also going to play the audio over it.
- 4:21Their relationship. And yes, I do believe that like
- 4:25you can be friends and very close friends.
- 4:28Like I think female friendship is so important and also like
- 4:32love that this movie be like Wicked franchise in general is
- 4:35like one of the only like franchises.
- 4:37I feel like that really the center is female friendship.
- 4:41However, that does not take away from the gayness.
- 4:44It almost adds to the queerness. Like I think it's so frustrating
- 4:49seeing on the Internet people are like, or they could just be
- 4:51friends. It's like what has been
- 4:53demonized though guys? They're like, have you ever
- 4:56heard of friends? It's like, yeah, everyone's only
- 4:58heard of 2 girls being friends. Have you ever heard of lesbians?
- 5:02It is so possible that they're very close friendship bond has
- 5:06turned sexual or romantic or like, just homoerotic in
- 5:10general. We know Cynthia Rivo is out as
- 5:12queer. We know Ariana Grande has
- 5:15unlabeled herself and like has had many moments where she's
- 5:18like, hinted at herself being queer.
- 5:20So it's not beyond comprehension that these two bitches admits
- 5:24their emotional bond also got to a romantic level.
- 5:29And don't start with like Oh no they're both in relationships.
- 5:34Pretty sure SpongeBob and Ariana broke it off.
- 5:37Second of all, Cynthia and Lena Wait, I'm also pretty sure are
- 5:41broken up and I don't really care because Lena Wait is a
- 5:43cheater anyways, so she deserves to get cheated on.
- 5:47You heard that right. So do I really think that
- 5:49they're like an active couple? I don't know.
- 5:53I don't think they're like in a relationship, but I feel like
- 5:55what they share is homoerotic at minimum.
- 5:59And probably it's been more than that.
- 6:02There's something else going on and whatever we're seeing is gay
- 6:07on the screen. A lot of this also might be for
- 6:09promotion, but I do believe that they are actually very close in
- 6:13real life. All right, let's get into it.
- 6:15Category 1, gay clarification. We're just going to go through
- 6:18all these moments together. They're not all from the most
- 6:22recent press tour. They're like from the whole
- 6:25press tour. OK, The first one is Ariana
- 6:29wanting to interject when Cynthia is talking about Alphaba
- 6:34and Fiero, like being in love. A lot of these gay clarification
- 6:38moments are Ariana and and Cynthia.
- 6:40But like a lot of the times, Ariana clarifying that like
- 6:44we're maybe interpreting the movie in a straighter way than
- 6:48it was intended to be. And like she loves pointing out
- 6:54the connection between Alphaba and Glenda.
- 6:57So like, I'll put the picture up, OK, I'm going to play the
- 6:59audio. And they they're.
- 7:02In love. And it takes them a second to to
- 7:06find out who they are and find each other and I think.
- 7:09That literally Arianae face when Cynthia is talking about Alphaba
- 7:14and Fiero being in love, she's like about to be like no, I
- 7:17don't think that they're in love.
- 7:18I think actually the love story is Glenda and Alphaba.
- 7:20Like she is peeved at the idea that like Fiero and Alphaba are
- 7:26like lovers or like true lovers, right?
- 7:29Okay, this next one is Ariana saying that Glenda might be a
- 7:32little in the closet. Like you cannot get gayer than
- 7:37like someone talking about a character that they played and
- 7:40being like, I think that they're in the closet, which I think a
- 7:44lot of queer people interpreted this ANYWAYS, that like she only
- 7:48wants to be with Fiera because he's popular and like she's
- 7:50giving hyper femme, which is so amazing to like hear an actual
- 7:53actress like say that. Whether it's romantic or
- 7:56platonic or, you know, maybe Glynda might be a little in the
- 7:59closet, but if there were time, you know, you never know.
- 8:03Give it a little more time. But no, I, I, I mean, it is just
- 8:07a true love. And I think that is like
- 8:10transcends sexuality. It's just kind of a deep safety
- 8:14within each other. She literally puts her hand like
- 8:17in the gay flop way when she says that I just so fucking
- 8:21iconic that she's like Yep I think the clit does send the
- 8:25claws at this point. Cynthia is like, sure, I guess
- 8:28like what? But I agree like I think it
- 8:31makes sense like that she would be in the closet.
- 8:35And they say so many times how connected they are with their
- 8:37characters. It's like, bitch, you're in the
- 8:39closet too. Someone who wasn't a little
- 8:41annoyed that they were perceived constantly straight would not be
- 8:45trying to clarify this much gayness because, like, she's
- 8:49thinking about queerness all the time if she's, like, constantly
- 8:52bringing up the connection, the, like, romantic connection
- 8:57between Alphaba and Glenda, and then even saying Glenda's in the
- 9:00closet. OK.
- 9:01And then we have Cynthia saying that Alphaba is just, like you
- 9:04when she's talking about, like, what she wants to say to the
- 9:07queer community. And so that's pretty much her
- 9:10saying that Alphaba is queer. Hello.
- 9:14That I love you. Alpha BA is just like you.
- 9:18Hello. How many times do they have to
- 9:20say that these characters are queer and fell in love?
- 9:23Mainstream media is not getting it.
- 9:25OK, OK. And then in the same interview,
- 9:27this is with GLAAD, Ariana is saying that he goes, I love my
- 9:32queer brothers and sisters. And like people can interpret
- 9:35that as her being like an ally, but it's really giving like we
- 9:40are siblings, like we are related because I am queer as
- 9:44well. Beautiful community in the
- 9:46entire world and yeah, I love my queer brothers and sisters so
- 9:51much more than anything. Giving gay bitch.
- 9:54And then we have the quote of Oz is a very queer place.
- 10:00Do we think that maybe Fiero likes the attention from both?
- 10:03I don't know. Well.
- 10:04Oz is Oz is a very queer place. I've always been.
- 10:07Yeah, even from the L Frank Baum books, it's always been queer.
- 10:11Yeah. I think so for sure.
- 10:13Gay. Yeah.
- 10:14So that's cementedly gay. Like, there's no other way to
- 10:18interpret that. They're saying Oz is gay.
- 10:21The characters are gay. They fell in love and like, just
- 10:27and like how much they like, felt, felt their characters.
- 10:31You wouldn't be trying to talk about how queer your characters
- 10:35were for no reason if you weren't also feeling that
- 10:40connection with each other. It's just so funny, like how
- 10:43much conversation has been about gayness over this movie and
- 10:47their relationship. And like, could really easily
- 10:49miss that in the movie. Like straight people are going
- 10:52to watch this movie and not catch any gayness besides like
- 10:55the main characters that are supposed to be gay, like Bowen
- 10:58Yang's character, you know, besides that, a straight eye
- 11:02would not catch the queerness between the two.
- 11:05But that's why it's so funny that they're like talking about
- 11:07gayness all the time with the movie.
- 11:10Moving on to category two, you guys loving each other on such a
- 11:14level that only a lesbian couple has the capacity for this is
- 11:18something that is very easily disguised and covered up by the
- 11:22idea of female friendship. And I kind of touched this on my
- 11:25last episode on Victoria's Secret.
- 11:27But how like we assume that people are like just friends
- 11:31because girls like touch each other all the time and that
- 11:35that's like normal. And yet like that also could be
- 11:40gayness. That also could just could be
- 11:41lesbian sapphic Ness. And it's kind of annoying.
- 11:44Like just because you're saying that this is queer does not take
- 11:48away from female friendships. Female friendships are OK.
- 11:51They're good. Who's not OK in the world right
- 11:54now? Lesbians.
- 11:55So we can assume people are gay sometimes because we've all had
- 11:59female friends. We know what a female friendship
- 12:01is like. This is a hypermax level.
- 12:05And just because 2 girls like can hold hands as friends
- 12:09doesn't mean it's, it's not all so queer to do that.
- 12:12Like it's just annoying because like, I feel like you can't say
- 12:15anyone's gay because everyone's like, Oh my God, they're just
- 12:17friends. Like Karlie Kloss and Taylor
- 12:19Swift. It's like who holds hands
- 12:21walking into a basketball game like that, like looking all
- 12:24proud. But we can just be like, Oh my
- 12:26God, they're friends because like everyone holds hands with
- 12:28their friends. There's a distinction, OK?
- 12:30There is a lesbian level of friendship that supersedes a
- 12:36normal relationship and a normal friendship.
- 12:40And the way that these two talk about each other is just the
- 12:44level that only lesbians, not lesbians, queer women can really
- 12:50see in each other as two women. It is a friendship that is like
- 12:54an emotional love that is beyond platonicness.
- 12:58And I don't care what you say, I'm sorry.
- 13:00First of all, the touching in the interviews, they constantly
- 13:04are touching. They're constantly wanting to be
- 13:07in each other's space. It's giving EU hauled and like
- 13:10they got connected on the set and then they never wanted to
- 13:13stop being around each other. Then the crying in interviews,
- 13:17like constantly tearing up when the other person is not even
- 13:20saying anything. Everyone's so confused because
- 13:22they're like what happened on this set and it's like they're
- 13:24in love. That's why they're crying so
- 13:26much because they found each other.
- 13:28Like it's so lesbian to be like crying about how grateful you
- 13:31are about the other person. Like that's not a normal
- 13:35friendship unless they were trauma bonded, which that as
- 13:38well. It's possible to do both.
- 13:40Cynthia during like red carpet interviews and just like at all
- 13:45times whenever there's a camera on them is constantly
- 13:48readjusting Ariana's clothing and jewelry to a point where we
- 13:53all see that there's nothing going on.
- 13:56There's nothing wrong with Ariana's jewelry that needs
- 13:58fixing and she just wants to touch her and like dote on her.
- 14:02I know a lot of people have talked about like, not saying
- 14:05that Cynthia is a stud just because she's like black and
- 14:08bald. And I think that's a really
- 14:09important conversation because when Cynthia like, saved Ariana
- 14:14from this crazed fan, people started calling her like a stud.
- 14:17And it's like, OK, she is like pretty femme, but I also think
- 14:21that you can be gay and also protective.
- 14:23Like she is obviously this like more protective doting partner.
- 14:29Like to Ariana. Like it's just so obvious that
- 14:32she has that like instinct to like save her.
- 14:35That doesn't mean she's like a mask.
- 14:37And that doesn't mean that she's like a stud, but I do feel like
- 14:40she is like the lesbian night for Ariana because she is just
- 14:45constantly looking to see if she can like find a way to touch
- 14:48her. And in this interview, I'm about
- 14:50to show you, Ariana literally is like, umm, there's nothing
- 14:54wrong, but she just likes to do this.
- 14:55Like imagine what happens behind closed doors, guys.
- 14:59Imagine what happens. Like this is only what we're
- 15:01seeing. Imagine what what they're like.
- 15:03Like one of them comes over to the other person's apartment.
- 15:05I'm sorry, not they don't have apartments.
- 15:07They have fucking mansions. I don't know what I'm talking
- 15:08about. Like they're going to be,
- 15:11they're probably cuddling as they sleep.
- 15:12Like they are all up in each other's personal space.
- 15:16The other damning aspect of their relationship.
- 15:19And I'll show the clip in a second.
- 15:20Leno Waithe posting Instagram Stories about how she's, like,
- 15:24pretty much, like, jealous and peeved of their relationship on
- 15:27the press tour. It would be one thing if, like,
- 15:29you thought that this was all for promotion of the movie.
- 15:32And, like, you know, you knew that your partner was aware this
- 15:35is for promotion of the movie. But Len is over here seeing this
- 15:38and being like, what the fuck is going on?
- 15:41And I do think they broke up because of it.
- 15:43And that's why I think there might have been something more
- 15:46to this. They actually got together.
- 15:50I mean, burn SpongeBob broke up. I will never call him his real
- 15:53name. I'm sorry.
- 15:54I mean, I kind of feel bad for him.
- 15:55Wait, no, actually I don't because he cheated on his wife.
- 15:58Probably. But whatever.
- 15:59Let me, let me roll the clip. Something's bothering her.
- 16:03She's gonna fix something. Sorry.
- 16:05She's she's getting the fixing itch.
- 16:07But Cynthia Aretho, guys. Like what are you doing?
- 16:10Like it kind of goes on for a while where like the interview
- 16:12where like is like doesn't know if he should like keep talking
- 16:15to her. And because Ariana is just like
- 16:18silent and Cynthia is just like kind of touching her neck.
- 16:21So he's like, like, the interview was probably like,
- 16:24should I leave? Like, what's going on here?
- 16:26Just, OK. Trying to find, like, a real
- 16:27reason to be able to touch her in public.
- 16:30Come on. OK.
- 16:31Not only do they, like, hold hands, they're touching each
- 16:33other all the time, but they also, like, kiss each other's
- 16:36hands. You can't make this shit up.
- 16:39Everyone's like, female friendship.
- 16:41Have you guys ever had a female friend?
- 16:42I can't imagine that I ever kissed their hand when I was
- 16:47holding their hand if I did hold their hand.
- 16:51And maybe I'm not the most touchy emotional person, but
- 16:53like, when are we gonna admit that that's gay as fuck?
- 16:58OK. And then we have this clip of
- 17:00Ariana says, like, about talks about their connection in like,
- 17:04the most dramatic way, almost like an Emily Dickinson love
- 17:09letter. You can't make this shit up.
- 17:11I learned. So much spending time with
- 17:14Alphabet and with Cynthia. It reconfigured my DNA as a
- 17:19human being. She reconfigured my DNA.
- 17:25There's nothing else to say more touching more touching between
- 17:28them because they can't take their skinnies off of each
- 17:32other. Sorry.
- 17:32It's not wrong to say I'm going to show these pictures, but like
- 17:35how they touch each other is so crazy and then they're also just
- 17:38saying I love you like all the time it's giving couples
- 17:41supporting each other on the red carpet.
- 17:44OK, then we have a moment that I'm going to call quote, look
- 17:46into her eyes. It's.
- 17:48Otherworldly. I'll never forget a, you know,
- 17:50filming with. Her.
- 17:51It's so easy to be in a scene with her because you look at her
- 17:54eyes and you know she's telling the truth.
- 17:55Gay. Hey.
- 17:56And if you're wondering, OK, this is like sisterhood love.
- 17:59They're not in love. Really because Ariana says that
- 18:04they fell in love with each other.
- 18:06And yeah, you could be like, guys, that's just female
- 18:08friendship. Girls say that all the time.
- 18:10But at what point, besides practically kissing each other
- 18:14on the mouth, can we say it's lesbian?
- 18:20It's sapphic. Very different women just fall
- 18:23completely in love with each other and that is mirrored
- 18:26experience of what happened with Cynthia and I.
- 18:29She's saying that the characters fall in love with each other and
- 18:33she and Cynthia fell in love with each other.
- 18:37Wrap it up. Pack it up, guys.
- 18:39That's gay. I don't care what people say.
- 18:41All right, our final category, category three, sexual tension.
- 18:45Because no, this movie and this press tour is not all just
- 18:50sapphic longing and clarifying that the characters are gay.
- 18:54There is also sexual tension between these two gay bitches.
- 18:57Let's talk about it. Can I submit evidence?
- 19:00A a piece that I like to call work baby, Work baby.
- 19:07And like, I see the assumption that this is like, all right,
- 19:12get it, queen, You know what I mean?
- 19:14But, and this is on a red carpet, Cynthia cheering on
- 19:17Ariana and saying work baby. It just feels like you're
- 19:21supporting your wife. Like she's watching her up there
- 19:25and she's like, work it baby, love you baby.
- 19:28Like I can't. OK.
- 19:31And then we have this deleted scene that I don't know if you
- 19:34guys have seen has been taken out out of the movie.
- 19:37And apparently there's like a few deleted scenes.
- 19:40I'm going to put the screenshots up, but there's one where
- 19:43they're like looking at each other and and I I know that
- 19:50Cynthia's not masked and I don't think alphabet is masked either,
- 19:53but like she looks like a Prince and her like femme Princess here
- 19:58like they're. That is a lesbian couple that
- 20:02we're looking at and then that was taken out of the movie.
- 20:05That is lesbian prom. And then we also have this scene
- 20:10that like Ariana, not Ariana, Glenda and Alpha, but like catch
- 20:14each other, like looking at each other.
- 20:16And I, there's no way to interpret what we're seeing here
- 20:20in the Stelia scene besides lesbian sexual tension, like
- 20:26wanting to explore something, being curious about something
- 20:29that is not a friendship look. And so I do wonder if maybe
- 20:33people would have gotten a gayer idea if these scenes were kept
- 20:38in. And let's remember, Ariana and
- 20:42Cynthia did actually film these scenes, so that might have led
- 20:45them to even more of a sapphic level of a relationship, right?
- 20:51Then we have this time where Ariana describes hearing
- 20:55Cynthia's voice as raw, her raw voice.
- 20:59And I understand she's talking about her like unedited voice,
- 21:03but it's you can't make this shit up.
- 21:06I also do feel like, you know that like Internet thing where
- 21:09it's like, oh, like you fell first.
- 21:11I fell harder. I feel like Cynthia fell first.
- 21:13Ariana fell harder because the way that Ariana talks about
- 21:17Cynthia, I know they both, but I feel like Ariana is like in love
- 21:22and has never had this level of relationship with someone and is
- 21:25just like not used to maybe the emotional depth that you can get
- 21:30with someone. That's kind of what it's giving
- 21:32because a lot of these are like pushed on by Ariana, her like
- 21:36being gayer than the out. Queer woman here.
- 21:39To like literally the back of the and be alone during.
- 21:41I'm not that girl so that I can just watch and cry.
- 21:44I'm very spoiled to have spent the whole year with just her raw
- 21:48voice in my. Very spoiled to have had her raw
- 21:51voice in me. Moving on this.
- 21:54We only have like 2 more. OK this is one of the most
- 21:57absurd things I've heard. That is how close you feel like
- 22:02with a girlfriend and also like the sexual aspect.
- 22:06I'm just going to let you guys hear it if you guys haven't
- 22:08already heard this because what do you mean Ariana?
- 22:12I feel like she's like in her first WLW relationship and
- 22:14cannot control herself every time.
- 22:16She opens her mouth. I pee.
- 22:19So silly. Cynthia's like, girl, you've got
- 22:23to play it cool. What do you mean?
- 22:25Every time she opens her mouth, I pee.
- 22:29There's nothing else to say. Finally, the final chapter of
- 22:33the sexual tension proof is the iconic finger hold.
- 22:37No one wants to touch a girl's finger as much as a gay girl
- 22:42does. I'm just telling you like,
- 22:43that's a fact. Why are you trying to touch her
- 22:45all the time and like, support her with like even just the
- 22:49finger holds? It's bizarre.
- 22:52And the reason why it's bizarre is because they're not just
- 22:54friends. It's because they're also
- 22:55lovers. And when are we going to get hip
- 22:57to that? I don't know.
- 22:59What do you guys think? Are you convinced?
- 23:01Do you think that there is any level of romanticism or
- 23:05homoeroticism between these two? Do you think that the original
- 23:09intent of Wicked was to be that these two witches were actually
- 23:13like in love with each other? Do you think that they edited
- 23:16that out? What do you guys think?
- 23:18Let me know your thoughts. I will see you in in two weeks
- 23:22and I will have a special guest with me.
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