# E3 Love Is a Group; S6: Lash my lashes with a leash

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Podcast: [Danger, Vicious Dog](https://stenobird.com/podcast/danger-vicious-dog-7683978)
Published: 2026-05-07T13:45:03+00:00
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“Love Is a Group” wanders through 1987 Los Angeles wearing a tube dress, a student body president pin, and enough contradictory identities to make an entire school district develop stress hives. This episode starts where expulsion paperwork, forged absence notes, bomb threats, student council politics, AIDS-era panic, and adolescent theatre-kid populism all begin collapsing into each other like shopping carts in freeway traffic. Somewhere between Mira Costa High School and the California Association of Student Councils conference, an openly gay teenager with bleached hair accidentally becomes both a symbol and a problem. Not because he wanted to “represent” anyone. God no. Representation is exhausting. This is more about improvisation. About survival through style. About discovering that if the room already thinks you’re dangerous, you might as well become interesting too. There are symposiums on homophobia that never happen. Principals watching “like a hawk.” Anita Bryant floating spectrally through orange juice fascism. Tube dresses. Benson & Hedges Deluxe Ultralight Menthol 100s in a hard pack. Harry Hay. Gay AA. Canadian harm reduction culture. The unbearable weirdness of marriage equality branding. Student elections run like performance art. And somewhere underneath all of it: the realization that institutions panic whenever someone refuses to make themselves smaller for administrative convenience. This isn’t nostalgia. Nostalgia airbrushes things. This is closer to rummaging through psychic debris while laughing at the absurdity of how civilizations manufacture normality. Also: Steve Buscemi dies of AIDS in an indie film review written for a high school newspaper before the writer has even officially come out yet. Which honestly feels like the most 1980s sent…

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