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Fly Robin Fly: That Disco-Crazed Moment When The Gay 90's Came Out Of The Closet
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: The Gay 90's in downtown Minneapolis. , Credit: Minnesota Historical Society
In downtown Minneapolis, there's a gay bar with several dance floors conveniently named the Gay 90's. The Gay 90’s hasn’t always been gay. The bar...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:06
Episode 32: Among the Oak Trees
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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One day in the spring of 1986, a woman in Hot Springs, Arkansas named Ruth Coker Burks was visiting a friend in the hospital. She noticed a door do...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 27:33
  • Purchases: 1
The Keepers: Archiving the Now with Host Frances McDormand
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: The Keepers
Caption: Host, Frances McDormand, Credit: Alison Rosa
The Keepers: Archiving the Now — a new hour-long special from The Kitchen Sisters and PRX with host, Academy Award-winner Frances McDormand. Storie...

Bought by Prairie Public, WJCT, WABE, WNMU-FM, WCQS and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 54:25
  • Purchases: 70
Time To Transition
From: Edwina Stott
Caption: Ed Ayres, Credit: Supplied
Ed Ayres is a Radio presenter and classical musician. It took a 10,000 mile bike ride and a job teaching in one of the world’s most dangerous count...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Nov 22, 2020
  • Length: 12:20
  • Purchases: 1
Black Voices in Healthcare - Ep.3: Home
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Black Voices in Healthcare
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As healthcare workers, many of us have had to leave our home and go wherever our profession takes us. This week we asked you to reflect on what hom...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 19, 2020
  • Length: 31:03
  • Purchases: 1
Michael Alig: I Spent a Lot of Time in Solitary Confinement
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Michael Alig, Credit: Shefik
Resilience - Michael Alig is an artist and party promoter, who served almost 17 years in prison for manslaughter. He was a co-founder and ringleade...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 04:07
Kevin Smith Kirkwood: Some of My Favorite Christmas Memories
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Kevin Smith Kirkwood, Credit: Shefik
Christmas - Kevin Smith Kirkwood is an actor, known for "Condemned" (2015) and the 71st Annual Tony Awards (2017). He currently stars in the musica...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2020
  • Length: 02:20
Jason Stuart: When You Come From a Family That's Very Dysfunctional
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Jason Stuart, Credit: Shefik
Forgiveness - Jason Stuart has a major role in the historic bio film "The Birth of a Nation". He has worked with heavy hitters George Clooney, Faye...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 02:02
Peppermint: Owning Your Confidence
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Peppermint, Credit: Shefik
Identity - The hardest working woman in show business, drag queen and recording artist Peppermint has conquered the New York scene with her high-en...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 04:29
95,000 Names: Gert McMullin, Sewing the Frontline
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: The Keepers
Caption: Cleve Jones and Gert McMullin, 1987, Credit: Deanne Fitzmaurice / SF Chronicle
Gert McMullin, The "Mother of the AIDS Memorial Quilt" memorializing those who died in the AIDS pandemic, is now sewing masks for nurses and health...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 3
Re:sound - The Whatever Suits You Show
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2020 Re:sound Specials from Third Coast
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This hour, the suits we wear and the impressions we make.

Bought by KUHF, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Prairie Public, KCPW Salt Lake City, Troy Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Episode 129: Panic Defense
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1995, two men filmed an episode of daytime talk show, The Jenny Jones Show. A few days later, one of the men was dead. The shooter later claimed...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2020
  • Length: 37:18
Crashing Into Love
From: Israel Story
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In 2012, Jordan got a wakeup call. A strong-headed college student from a conservative Christian Arkensas family, she found herself in the Middle E...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2020
  • Length: 26:27
Ep. 17: Fresh Fruit: Over 40 Years Of Queer Radio
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture Podcast
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Fresh Fruit is the longest running queer radio program in the US. It has aired on KFAI Community Radio in Minneapolis, Minn. for over 40 years. Min...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 22:40
The Big Pond #46: Black Art, Berlin Stories – Looking for Alain Locke
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In 1925, the African-American philosopher Alain Locke (1886-1954) launched a revolutionary black arts movement now known as the Harlem Renaissance....

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO


  • Added: Sep 18, 2019
  • Length: 34:12
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 115: Cecilia
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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When Cecilia Gentili was growing up in Argentina, she felt so different from everyone around her that she thought she might be from another planet....

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 31:31
(Almost) Like Any Other Mom
From: Michelle Dahlenburg
Caption: Producer Michelle Dahlenburg with Joe DePrang
Joe DePrang knows that embracing his new identity is what's right for him, but worries about how it will affect his two young children.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 14, 2019
  • Length: 06:33
  • Purchases: 2
A Very Gay Divorce
From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Summer 2019
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My piece is about my mom and her story of being gay and how that led to my parents divorce.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2019
  • Length: 06:14
Outbeat Extra Celebrates The 50th Anniversary of Stonewall with Making Gay History - Part 1
From: KRCB 104.9
Series: Outbeat News In Depth
Caption: LGBTQ News From The North Bay And Beyond, Credit: Greg Miraglia, Host and Producer
Features interview by Eric Marcus with Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin.

  • Added: Aug 04, 2019
  • Length: 58:39
Generation AIDS: Minnesota's HIV/AIDS Crisis
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: Bruce Brockway and Rene Valdes, 1980., Credit: Alan Lessik
In July 1981, the New York Times published an article about a mysterious illness plaguing gay men in New York City. After reading the article, Bruc...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 01:31:39
Guerneville
From: KRCB 104.9
Series: WONDERLAND RADIO HOUR
Caption: Fire Mountain Pageant
Gay History on the River; Fire Mountain Retrospective; Laurie Lippin, Accordionist; Young Poets of G’Ville School

  • Added: Jun 17, 2019
  • Length: 57:30
A Different Kind of Coming Out: A 'Nancy' Pride Special
From: [redacted] [redacted]
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Coming out means taking a risk and sharing something deeply personal with another person. In this hour-long episode of Nancy, the critically acclai...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KERA, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WFDD, WFIU and more


  • Added: Jun 03, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 23
"I Didn't Forget It": LGBT Aging and Medical Care
From: Camille Petersen
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Many LGBT seniors grew up facing stigma and discrimination, including from doctors. As they get older they have more health problems. And they end ...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA


  • Added: May 07, 2019
  • Length: 21:37
  • Purchases: 1
"Deborah"
From: Alexander Charles Adams
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A euology for the great St. Ann pothole, Deborah. [A Satire Piece on the State of Roads in New Orleans, LA]

  • Added: Sep 10, 2018
  • Length: 05:06
Not Alone
From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Summer 2018
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My story is about the LGBTQ+ community and personal experiences of being in the closet, as well as having homophobic parents. I chose this topic be...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 07:18

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