- How does it work?
Queer sex.
Go, 30 seconds.
(Jen laughing)
- 30 seconds to talk about queer sex?
- Yep, go.
(shot glass thudding)
(Jordyn laughing)
("A Little Night Music")
- [Interviewer] Hi!
Who are you and what are you doing here?
- I'm Jordyn and I am here with my lovely parent.
- And I'm Jen, the lovely parent.
(Jordyn laughing)
- We're here to play truth or drink.
- Jordyn's the purple sheep in the family,
surrounded by a giant sea of queer human beings.
And Jordyn grew up to be straight
and we love her just the way she is.
She's perfect.
(Jordyn laughing)
- [Interviewer] Do we wanna start with a shot?
- I've never seen Jen take a shot now.
Yes.
So you cheers?
Tap the top and now take it.
(Jen laughing)
Okay.
Who was your first queer crush?
- I was in high school and it was the gym teacher
because I am boring.
(Jordyn laughing)
I remember standing next to her, looking up at her
with her flowing feathered hair.
I was totally crushed out on my gym teacher.
And she was so tall.
That was easy.
- Easy.
You're starting us easy.
(Jen blowing raspberries)
Oh, my God.
- Um.
(Jordyn laughing)
No, no.
- Read it, read it,
read it, read it.
You have to read it.
Do you think I have good taste in partners?
- Ooh.
- Your turn.
(both laughing)
- Rachel is great.
I love Rachel.
- Isn't she great?
- Rachel's amazing.
- She's the best.
- She's so good.
I will speak to no other partner.
- Including your mom?
- Mom's great.
- Mom's great, good.
- [Interviewer] Jen, you're no longer
with Jordyn's other parent?
- No.
- We've been divorced for like 10 years,
and we now live together.
- They're now roommates.
My divorced parents live with each other
and they each have their own partners.
My mom, who's not here,
her current partner is also renting a room in Jen's house.
(Jordyn laughing)
- It's not weird.
- It's so weird.
- Okay, it's weird.
(Jen laughing)
Your turn.
- No, your turn.
No, my turn.
(Jordyn laughing)
- I just asked you.
- You're right.
How does it work?
Queer sex.
Go, 30 seconds.
(Jen laughing)
- 30 seconds to talk about queer sex?
- Yep, go.
(shot glass thudding)
(Jordyn laughing)
Just try.
- It's good.
(Jordyn laughing)
Done. (woman laughing)
- Good job.
Your turn. - Queer sex.
- I'll just.
- Just grab it.
- Were you ever embarrassed that you had a queer parent?
- Oh, what?
I don't need that.
(Jordyn laughing)
I was never embarrassed.
I think I was like mad at other people's reactions.
- Mm.
- Or I would get my teacher pants on
and be very political in the way
that I would educate people about my queer parents.
I don't think I was ever embarrassed by you guys.
No, that's a lie.
(both laughing)
- You were absolutely embarrassed by me
'cause I'm a big fat dork.
- I was never embarrassed by your queerness.
- Okay, that's fair.
(Jen laughing)
- Are you a top or bottom?
I think, here's my.
You're not gonna say!
I think that if you are a top in your life,
that you're a bottom in bed.
I mean, you're a nurse manager
and you've been a nurse for like 16 years.
And so I think you're bottom.
- You're wrong.
- Shit!
- In my sexual life, I like to express my authentic self.
My nature is to direct.
- So it's the matches.
- So it matches for me. - Okay.
- Do you ever worry about my safety?
- Yeah, I do.
You and mom were both very open
about the fear when Trump was elected.
- Oh, yeah.
- Obviously nothing happened,
but I think that was a really scary moment in my life.
- I mean, through your whole life,
it's been true that we've been worried about our family.
- Yeah. - Being safe.
- And I mean, I feel like we were relatively keyed
into that as kids.
- We didn't terrify you, did we?
- No, but you were like open with us,
you know? - [Jen] Yeah.
- I think you did a good job
of educating us and keeping us in the conversation,
but not to the point where you scared us.
You managed it well to how old we were
and the concepts we had about the world,
like feel that was good.
- Cool, cool.
- What was something about parenting
that people warned you about that never came true?
- Oh, my God.
When they're teenagers, watch out.
I set it up so you were good.
You were yourself.
You got high, you told me.
You had sex, you wait a little while,
you told me. (Jordyn laughing)
You were awesome.
Teenagers were awesome.
There's this propaganda in American society
that teenagers are rebellious and they're stupid.
And I really think it's all about the parents panic.
Everybody should not fear teenagers.
They're the best if you just stay open.
- Awesome.
- [Interviewer] Who is next?
- Me.
- You.
- Was I a good parent to you when you were growing up?
What could I have done differently?
Oh, boy.
- You were a great parent in all the parenting things.
I wouldn't have replaced you for anyone ever anywhere.
Love you.
- Love you too.
That being said.
- That being said.
There was way too much told to me
in high school. - Yeah.
- I was too involved in your relationship.
And I think it was like borderline codependent.
I was 14 and you're like,
"Should I get back together with them?"
And I'm like, "I'm 14 and I can't,
I don't have the authority to tell you that."
But since I left home, my freshman year of college,
I got distance and was like,
"Oh, that was too much information for our relationship."
And I feel like since I left,
we've maintained pretty good boundaries.
- I feel like it is true that every adult who arrives
at age 21 needs therapy
to talk about their parents.
- Yeah, I agree.
- And I am your parent.
- So there you go.
- So, yeah.
- Is a little part of you disappointed that I'm straight?
That I would love for you
to say yes. - No.
(Jordyn laughing)
You want me to say yes?
- I think it would be hilarious if you said yes.
- I'm so sad you're straight, but it's okay
'cause we accept you just the way you are.
I'm not just okay with you being straight,
I'm happy that you're straight.
But what it means to me is that you are yourself
and you are okay in our relationship being yourself.
- Yeah.
- I love yourself.
I love you.
(Jordyn laughing)
- [Interviewer] I just want to know
if you would play this with your whole family.
- Heck yes.
Meg, my ex, her partner, my girlfriend,
and you, and your nothing.
- Either way, whatever happens, it's gonna be great.