Fran Tirado Tells The Untold Stories of All Things Queer | Squarespace Making It
In this interview, Fran Tirado introduces himself as a writer, editor, and community maker focused on queer media. He recounts moving to New York with the goal of reshaping queer representation in mainstream media, and after a brief stint in advertising, he quit to pursue his own path. Tirado founded the podcast "Food for Thought," a multiracial gathering of queer writers discussing sex, identity, and literature. He highlights the lack of diverse queer representation—especially for brown, awkward, non‑skinny bodies—in television and film, and emphasizes his mission to create multiplicity of perspectives across the many sub‑communities within queerness. Tirado describes his work as life‑giving and driven by an urgency to address the needs of queer and marginalized people in media, envisioning a future where a broad spectrum of queer identities is visible and celebrated.
