And so that was the question I kept asking: What is this? What does this mean? And hopefully, the show answers that. What I wanted to capture was for queer people who grew up without the option of marriage, what does marriage mean now to them? We weren’t straight people who were always thinking about their wedding.
It’s only six years old, but there’s something about writing a major event that is already in a time capsule that I enjoy a little more because you’re not trying to be relevant, you’re trying to be accurate. It was so recent, but it instantly feels so long ago that the podcast is almost like a period piece. And so much happened in that year in America. It begins in June 2015 and it ends in June 2016. The story takes place over a year with a group of friends. Grady: It is just a moment that I have such a vivid memory of and I always think about.
