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Caption: D'Arcy Drollinger's character Diana Midnight in his play "Bitch Slap" has just been slapped by another character., Credit: Gooch
We’ve heard of poet laureates. What is a DRAG laureate? And why has drag, an increasingly popular form of entertainment, become a political footbal...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: May 15, 2024
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Cover art of Lipstick Conspiracy 2006 album “A Perfect Alibi”, Credit: Larry Utley
In part as a “joyful antidote” to the escalation of anti-LGBTQ laws across the US, San Francisco’s all-transwomen rock band Lipstick Conspiracy is ...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
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California Supreme Court Associate Justice Kelli Evans, the first out lesbian on the state's high court, was raised by her grandmother in public ho...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Charmed lives lack for something. If you’re born in a state of nirvana or somehow privileged as a member of the elect, what’s the point? It’s only ...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2022
  • Length: 52:04
Caption: Sunset over Provincetown Harbor, Credit: Provincetown Tourism Office
Escape with us to a simpler place and time. Before COVID, before monkeypox, before traveling got so fraught. To a town promoters claimed then was e...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Aug 09, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Marilyn Mitchell‘s “Lives Aligned” album was co-created with musician and audio engineer Craig Dukes.
Singer-songwriter Marilyn Mitchell, a member of San Francisco’s popular 2003-2010 all-trans rock band Lipstick Conspiracy, shares new music and lif...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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A lot had changed since Melvil Dewey came up with a classification system to organize all known and not-yet-known knowledge into a string of number...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 24:50
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Fauxnique portrays Wonder Woman, one of many characters in her show "The F Word" at Oasis cabaret, San Francisco, 2016., Credit: Gareth Gooch
Monique Jenkinson, a.k.a. Fauxnique, was the first cisgender woman to win the title "Miss Trannyshack" in 2003, raising many glittered eyebrows in ...

Bought by WORT and WORT


  • Added: Feb 11, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Composer Blake Allen with his Album Cover Shards Of An Honor Code Junkie, Credit: Blake Allen
Composer Blake Allen wrote a musical treatment of his experience as a gay man while a Mormon and a student at Brigham Young University in Salt Lake...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2021
  • Length: 10:04
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Martin Jenkins makes history as the first openly gay Supreme Court of California justice, and only the third Black man ever to serve on the state's...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Pamela Sneed's poetic memoir "Funeral Diva" is described as a “coming of age in New York City during the late 1980s.”, Credit: Patricia Silva
Pamela Sneed’s prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. She reads selections from her memoir, Funeral Diva, and shares some of her life story. ...

Bought by KALW and WORT


  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Queer comic writer Gabby Rivera and artist Luciano Vecchio, Credit: Collage by Porfirio Rangel. Rivera photo courtesy of Giselle Flores; Vecchio photo courtesy of Luciano Vecchio
It's important for children and young adults to see images like themselves in media. Comics are increasingly popular and LGBTQ characters are poppi...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Jul 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Angela Chen says her book, Ace, "invites everyone to rethink pleasure and intimacy.", Credit: Photo by Sylvie Roskoff.
Quick, what’s your sexuality? Most of us know roughly where we fall on the Kinsey scale that goes from 0 to 6. But have you considered the asexual ...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Jun 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Zooey, a grad student and dance instructor, loves to both lead and follow. There was never a question about whether or not she would continue to do...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 06:48
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Lambert House, Summer 2016, just after a water balloon fight., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/AMY STYER
On Seattle's Capitol Hill, the Lambert House is a space where queer youth are free to be themselves. RadioActive's Amy Styer takes us inside the ho...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 07:27
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Tommy Pico’s first book is one long poem in the form of a text — call it an epic sext. But it doesn’t just chronicle Pico’s dalliances with "boys, ...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 24:54
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Steve Moore
He left the East Coast for the West Coast to become an actor. Instead he became a comedian. And just as his career was taking off, he was diagnosed...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2016
  • Length: 26:34
Caption: Steve Moore
Steve Moore is a slight man, drawn somewhat by the disease he lives with. I’d put him at about 140 pounds. But that might be a little much. Steve’s...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2016
  • Length: 26:08
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David Mitchell, a summer performer in Provincetown, MA, talks about his show and experiences on the stage.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 04:42
Caption: Steve Moore
Charmed lives lack for something. If you’re born in a state of nirvana or somehow privileged as a member of the elect, what’s the point? It’s only ...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2015
  • Length: 26:07
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What do square dancing and the AIDS crisis have in common?

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 03:30
Caption: Cayden Harmon, age 15, in his bedroom, Credit: Nina Tran
Cayden Harmon grew up like most little boys. He always dreamed of growing a moustache. But, ever since he could remember, Cayden also always knew h...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 14:06
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Gloria and Rose
Sassy and sagacious Gloria, 85, shares stories of being in both a conventional heterosexual marriage and a long-time same-sex relationship.

Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2014
  • Length: 10:37
  • Purchases: 2
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Last year, Maine legalized same-sex marriage by popular vote. It's an industry that vendors are still growing into and, for a same-sex couple, the ...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jan 10, 2014
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A student ID that Luis Santiago found years later in his police file.
In conversations with Kelly Cogswell, founder of early feminist and gay groups in Puerto Rico, former New York City councilmember Margarita Lopez d...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2013
  • Length: 05:48
  • Purchases: 1