From The Mailbag

In this all-advice episode, Steven answers a handful of questions from his mailbag. He’ll tell you whetheryou have to tip the owner of a service business, how to make amends for an RSVP wedding failure, and why it’s okay for a gay southern bachelor to call himself a widower. Plus 1A host Joshua Johnson and queer activist James Parker Sheffield weigh in on digital black face and outing a lesbian’s transgender boyfriend.

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