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Waymon Hudson
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Queer. Deaf. Loud.
✍️ Memoirist | 🎭 Musical Creator | 📣 Marketing Futurist
Dispatches from the jungle, the page, and the stage.
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Queer. Deaf. Loud. ✍️ Writer of memoirs & musicals. 📣 Marketing futurist. Jungle-based dog dad. I write Notes from the Jungle on queer life, reinvention & storytelling. Subscribe + connect: waymonhudson.com #QueerWriters #Substack #MusicalTheatre
Waymon Hudson | Queer Memoir Writer & LGBTQ+ Musical Creator
Waymon Hudson – Queer memoirist, Broadway musical writer, and inclusive brand strategist. Discover bold stories, creative work, and lifestyle content that connects.
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There’s a cost to being adored.
Sometimes, it leaves bruises.

Broadway has always known this — especially for queer characters.

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#Broadway #musicals #broadwaymusicals #theatre
When Queer Broadway Characters Refuse to Stay Supporting
From La Cage aux Folles to Fun Home to to Speakeasy, these are the moments when queer characters stop apologizing and start taking up space.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The world loves palatable queerness.
Be funny. Be fierce. Be fabulous.
But don’t be angry. Don’t be political. Don’t be too much.

🧵 A thread about performative acceptance & conditional love.

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#lgbt #LGBTQ #queer #gay #politics #culture
I've Got Bruises Shaped Like Praise
When the world loves you for what you give, not who you are.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My new dance pop anthem "Talk With Your Hands" — out now.

It’s loud. Flirty. And the most fun I’ve ever had writing a song.

But it’s also about something deeper: how I connect with the world as a deaf artist.

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#music #Newmusic #newmusicfriday #pop #dancemusic
“Talk With Your Hands” — Waymon Hudson’s Dance Pop Anthem About Touch and Connection
Deaf artist Waymon Hudson turns silence into rhythm with Talk With Your Hands — a dance pop track where desire and communication move through touch.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Everyone posts the *dream* of living in Costa Rica — sunsets, sloths, smoothie bowls. 🌴

But here’s the real story:
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#CostaRica #PuraVida #Expat #DigitalNomad #LGBTQ #Travel
Costa Rica Expat Challenges: The Hard Stuff No One Posts on Instagram
From potholes and power outages to language barriers and missing conveniences, here’s the honest (and hilarious) truth about expat life in Costa Rica — and why it’s still paradise.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
#Queer #Broadway has often sung from the shadows — but that era’s ending.

This week’s #BehindBroadway dives into love that refuses to hide.

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Queer Broadway: Love That Refuses to Stay Hidden
From Falsettos to Wicked to the Color Purple to Speakeasy, queer Broadway characters are taking center stage — messy, magnetic, and unapologetically alive.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
We’ve been sold a lie:
That surviving is enough.
That dragging yourself from one crisis to the next counts as strength.

But let’s be honest: survival isn’t living. It’s just a prettier name for barely hanging on.

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#Survivor #surviving #MessyReinvention
Surviving Isn’t Living. Thriving is the Rebellion
Survival keeps you alive. Thriving reminds you why. How I stopped mistaking exhaustion for purpose... and started living again.
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November 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
They won’t teach you this in school:

In the 1920s & 30s, queer performers ruled nightlife. They called it The Pansy Craze.

Before Stonewall. Before Pride parades. Before RuPaul told us to sashay away.

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#LGBTQHistoryMonth #LGBT #Queer #History #Pride
They Danced, They Dazzled, They Disappeared: The Lost Era of Queer Joy in America
This LGBTQ History Month, let’s remember when queerness ruled the stage... and why it was silenced. A forgotten drag revolution in 1930. A warning from history. A love letter to queer joy.
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October 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
So… the jungle’s gone. 🐒✨

When I started my Substack, I called it "Notes from the Jungle." It fit — I’d just moved to Costa Rica, burned out, broken, and desperate to start fresh.

But the more I wrote, the more I realized… this wasn’t really about the jungle.
October 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I hadn’t seen this version of me in years.
The one who wasn’t exhausted or anxious.
The one who laughed easily and slept deeply.

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#Reinvention #Burnout #AntiHustle #MessyReinvention #costarica #Expat
The Gospel of Messy Reinvention
Sometimes the only way to save your life is to blow it up — imperfectly, dramatically, and with a touch of glitter and attitude.
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October 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🎭 New Behind Broadway just dropped:
Broadway’s Queer Emcees & the Power of Invitation.

From Cabaret’s Emcee to Speakeasy’s Merc, these characters don’t just open the show — they open the door.
They turn performance into protest, and joy into survival.

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Broadway’s Queer Emcees & the Power of Invitation
From the Kit Kat Club to the Velvet Boot, Broadway’s queer emcees welcome us into places where performance becomes protest — and joy becomes survival.
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October 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We’re told to tone it down.
Make it palatable.
Find a smaller version of ourselves that doesn’t make anyone too uncomfortable.

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#Joy #LGBT #QueerJoy #WritingCommunity #writing #reinvention
The Power of Invitation (and Other Dangerous Acts of Joy)
In a world that tells us to hide, stay quiet, or shrink, every act of self-invitation is rebellion. Especially when it comes with glitter and a subversive wink.
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October 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
We don’t owe civility to oppressors who want us erased.
Kindness doesn’t mean compliance.
Community doesn’t mean compromise.

💌 New Substack: Finding Your People When the World’s on Fire.

Because connection isn’t weakness — It’s how #resistance is born.

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Finding Your People When the World’s on Fire
When cruelty gets louder, real connection becomes rebellion. This week’s dispatch is about building community — not with those who wish us harm or oppress, but with those who keep us human.
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October 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🎭 Every #Broadway show has a breaking point.

That moment when tenderness meets rage — and something inside snaps.

🧵 A thread on Broadway’s confrontation songs — and why they wreck us (ft. Last Call from Speakeasy).

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#Musicals #MusicalTheatre #Music #theater
Broadway Confrontation Songs: Rage, Grief, and the Ghost of the Soft Boy
What happens when softness meets fury? From Les Misérables to Speakeasy, this Behind Broadway deep dive explores the art of musical confrontation — and how rage can still sing.
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October 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I didn’t grow up in a world that encouraged softness.
Feelings were something you hid.
And if you were a boy — especially a different kind of boy — you learned fast to smile through it.

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#broadway #musical #musicaltheatre #music
How Musicals Gave Me a Language for Pain
Growing up, I didn’t have words for what I was feeling or going through — so I learned to sing them instead. And now, my musical Speakeasy helps me face the same ghosts I grew up running from.
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October 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
💔 Before I Go — out now.

The quietest goodbye I’ve ever written.
The moment you realize love shouldn’t make you disappear.

🎧 Stream it here: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

#Music #NewMusic #NewMusicFriday #NewMusicAlert #NewMusic2025 #popmusic #Deaf
October 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
💔 My new single Before I Go comes out this Friday.

But this song isn’t about slammed doors or dramatic finales.

It’s about the quiet goodbye — the kind where you realize you’re shrinking to be loved.

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#NewMusic #Music #Pop #Ballad #Musica
💔 Before I Go: A Quiet Goodbye That Comes Back Louder
Sometimes love means leaving, choosing yourself, finding clarity, and singing my new song that drops Oct 10.
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October 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
💔 New song alert.

Before I Go drops Oct 10 — but paid subscribers just got the exclusive first listen today.

It’s raw. Quiet. A love song about finally choosing yourself.

💌 Upgrade to hear it early + get future music drops before the world does: open.substack.com/pub/waymonhu...

#NewMusicFriday
🎶 A Special Gift: Your First Listen to My New Song "Before I Go"
It’s a song about the quiet ways we slip away when we’re no longer being seen. It’s about love that doesn’t look like love anymore — just habits and heartbreak.
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October 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The most common question I get about moving to Costa Rica isn’t about visas or rent.

It’s this: “Can I bring my dog?” 🐾

Answer: Yes.

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#CostaRica #ExpatLife #RescueDogs #AdoptDontShop #Expat #puraVida #traveltips #travelblogger #LGBTQ #Gay
Pets in Paradise 🐾 | Bringing Your Dog or Cat to Costa Rica + Rescue Life
Yes, you can bring your pets to Costa Rica — and you might just adopt one here. From import rules to vet care to jungle rescues, here’s the real guide.
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October 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
💣 #Broadway isn’t all glitter & jazz hands.

Some of its most gut-punching songs wrestle with something darker: toxic masculinity.

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#BehindBroadway #MusicalTheatre #musicals #Broadwaymusicals
Broadway, Bloodlines, and the Cost of Being a Man
From Falsettos to Hadestown to Speakeasy, musicals have long explored the weight of manhood and the trauma fathers pass down. Here's why those songs hit so hard — and what happens when softness fights...
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September 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Excited to announce I’ll be speaking at the #CostaRica LGBTI Trade Mission Sept 22–23 at the Hilton Sabana, San José 🌴

I’ll be on a panel about moving to Costa Rica + building #queer community here.

📩 Tickets/info: [email protected] or ccdcr.org/trade-mission-lgtbqcostarica

Come join us! 🌈✨ #LGBTQ
September 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Everyone loves the #CostsRica dream: beaches, sunsets, pura vida. 🌴

But if you move here, you’re not just an “expat.” You’re a guest here. And how you show up matters.

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How to Be a Good Immigrant in Costa Rica 🌴 | The Expat Guide You Actually Need
Don’t be “that” gringo. Learn how to be a good immigrant in Costa Rica: respect Pura Vida, hire locals, support communities, pay into Caja, and live responsibly in paradise.
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September 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM