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Caption: Corey and Lisa Harvard at their StoryCorps interview in Mobile, Alabama on October 29, 2023, Credit: Chapin Montague for StoryCorps
Corey Harvard talks with his mother, Lisa Harvard, about how coming out led him to his work with LGBTQ+ youth.

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Borrowed and Banned logo, Credit: John Snowden
George M. Johnson talks about their debut Young Adult memoir All Boys Aren't Blue, the support of their family, their love of Toni Morrison, and th...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 15:31
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This episode features an in-depth exploration of women's storytelling, from talking about the roots of Julia's business, Herstry, to the reasons wh...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Felipa Deleon Mousseau and Monique “Muffie” Mousseau at their StoryCorps interview in Rapid City, South Dakota on January 31, 2023, Credit:  By Savannah Winchester for StoryCorps.
Felipa Deleon Mousseau and Monique “Muffie” Mousseau came to StoryCorps to remember how they met, and their efforts to make a safe place for Two Sp...

Bought by KALW, KRVS, Allegheny Mountain Radio, and WYAP


  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 4
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After facing a difficult coming out, one couple changed a mother’s heart

Bought by KALW, KRVS, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 3
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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81-year-old Navy veteran Joseph Patton remembers his service and the discrimination he faced as a gay man in the 1950s.

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Feb 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: T. Chick McClure and Chas McClure in Los Angeles, California., Credit: T. Chick McClure.
T. Chick McClure speaks with their father, Chas McClure, about the hard times in their relationship, and the road trip that brought them together a...

Bought by WYAP and WERA-LP


  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Leonard Slatkin, Credit: RCA
Leonard Slatkin on Corigliano Symphony #1

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 1
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Russell King sat down with his music teacher Paige Macklin, to tell her about a choice she made, and how it changed his life.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Elizabeth Coffey-Williams and Jennifer Coffey at their StoryCorps interview in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 8, 2019., Credit: By Jud Esty-Kendall for StoryCorps.
Elizabeth Coffey-Williams tells her niece, Jennifer Coffey, about what it was like to come out as transgender to her family in the early 1970s.

Bought by KALW, WDBM, and WHRV


  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 3
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Liz Barnez and Lori Daigle felt an immediate spark when they met as teenagers. At StoryCorps, they sat down to remember how they reconnected decade...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2019
  • Length: 02:37
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At a young age, Nadav Schwartz realized that he was attracted to men, but growing up in an Orthodox community he also realized that was not good ne...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 21:36
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Cecilia Hayden-Smith finds god in adulthood to overcome trauma, addiction — and to come out.

Bought by WJAB


  • Added: Sep 10, 2018
  • Length: 29:37
  • Purchases: 1
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Military war veterans John Banvard (100) and Jerry Nadeau (72) live in a veterans home for seniors in Southern California. At StoryCorps, they talk...

Bought by KALW, Radio Catskill, WCQS, and WEZU


  • Added: Feb 13, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
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In this episode we hear from Saleem Haddad, author of Guapa. Saleem explores his Palestinian identity through storytelling and discusses shaming, g...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2017
  • Length: 33:30
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Now, a conversation that reminds us how being a father can be about much more than biology. In 2007, after volunteering to care for infants born ...

Bought by KRVS


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Miss Vera’s Finishing School for Boys Who Want to be Girls bills itself as the world’s first crossdressing academy. We spend time with its founder,...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 27, 2016
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Leslye Huff (left) and Mary Ostendorf (right)
When they met in 1983, Leslye was open about her sexuality while Mary kept hers private. With a family Thanksgiving approaching, that all changed.

Bought by KRVS, Radio Catskill, WMUU-LP, and Public Radio for All


  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 02:14
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Joel Tucker (left) and his friend, Gordon Blake (right)
In this special StoryCorps production, Joel Tucker and his friend Gordon Blake share Joel’s experiences following an anti-LGBTQ incident from 2000.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: John and Stuart celebrate after legally marrying in 2008., Credit: Bella Pictures
Marrying the person you love is the ideal, right? So what happens when you finally get to do that, only to have the government tell you, never mind...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 31:17
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Claudia Anton (L) and Diana Keough (R)
Sisters from Wisconsin recount what it was like to find out both of their parents had AIDS, and to lose them both to the disease in the early 1990s.

Bought by WMUU-LP, Blue Mountain Radio , WEZU, and WTJU


  • Added: Nov 30, 2015
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 4
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 you do when you realize that in order to be true to yourself, you have to shatter everything around you, including the lives of those you l...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 40:52
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Julianne Moore and Ellen Page talk emotional truth, putting bullies in their place, and not letting society dictate your life.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2015
  • Length: 07:48