April 1988 Teen Life: AIDS, Divorce & Dating A Rock Star

Feb 23, 2021, 10:00 AM

We're back to TEEN LIFE topics, now in the April 1988 issue!

Christina Kelly gets a first-person account from a man whose friend died of AIDS as a teen. Karen Catchpole demystifies what it's actually like to date a rock star, killing some Beastie Boys crushes in the process. Karen then dares to tell the truth about boys' bodies -- not just the parts in their boxer shorts, though that is admittedly what we're mostly interested in. And Catherine Gysin prepares readers for how their lives might change after their parents' divorce.

Christina returns with the Short Short Story "What Sudie Didn't Tell Me." On The Road takes a trip to Austin (a place all your co-hosts have lived and loved!). Body Talk moves from Fashion to Teen Life, and with it our comments on its reporting on pap smears, golf, and cross training. Help has some truly wild questions we must pray are fake before closing things out with What He Said: "What do you think of girls who make the first move?"

We're back to TEEN LIFE topics, now in the April 1988 issue! Christina Kelly gets a first-person account from a man whose friend died of AIDS as a teen. Karen Catchpole demystifies what it's actually like to date a rock star, killing some Beastie Boys crushes in the process. Karen then dares to tell the truth about boys' bodies -- not just the parts in their boxer shorts, though that is admittedly what we're mostly interested in. And Catherine Gysin prepares readers for how their lives might change after their parents' divorce. Christina returns with the Short Short Story "What Sudie Didn't Tell Me." On The Road takes a trip to Austin (a place all your co-hosts have lived and loved!). Body Talk moves from Fashion to Teen Life, and with it our comments on its reporting on pap smears, golf, and cross training. Help has some truly wild questions we must pray are fake before closing things out with What He Said: "What do you think of girls who make the first move?"

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TOPICS

๐ŸŽง Hello, It's April 1988

๐ŸŽง Us In April 1988 & Spine Line

๐ŸŽง Feature: My Best Friend Died Of AIDS

๐ŸŽง Feature: Dating A Rock Star: What Itโ€™s Really Like

๐ŸŽง Feature: The Truth About Boysโ€™ Bodies

๐ŸŽง Feature: The Divorce Is Only The Beginning

๐ŸŽง Fiction: What Sudie Didnโ€™t Tell Me

๐ŸŽง On The Road: Austin

๐ŸŽง Body Talk

๐ŸŽง Help

๐ŸŽง What He Said

๐ŸŽง Goodbye For Now

NOTES

โš ๏ธ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.

๐Ÿ‘ผย Angels In America on HBO Max

โ™ฅ๏ธย The Normal Heart on HBO Max

๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿฝโ€๐Ÿฆฐย Pose on Netflix

๐Ÿ“–ย The World Only Spins Forward by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois

๐Ÿ“ปย Perfect Tunes by Emily Gould

๐Ÿงผย Brian Bloom on the cover of the December 1987 YM

๐ŸŒฎย Chuy's Barton Springs

๐Ÿ“ทย Tony O'Dell on Instagram

๐ŸŒดย The Again With This podcast

๐Ÿ™‹โ€โ™€๏ธย April 1988 Quiz: How Compatible Are you?