OutCasting Overtime

Series produced by Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media

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Additional shorter-form content from OutCasting, public radio's LGBTQ youth program.

Additional shorter-form content from OutCasting, public radio's LGBTQ youth program. Often personal in nature, these essays and discussions have covered the Pulse massacre in Orlando, bisexual erasure, coming out, gender norms, and why young LGBTQ people often have to lie. Typically 3-6 minutes.


70 Pieces

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Gay voice
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCaster Alex
OutCasting youth participant Alex reflects on his "gay voice"

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 04:21
  • Purchases: 1
Developments for the LGBTQ community since the Orlando massacre
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
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OutCasting youth participant Brianna remembers the 2016 massacre at the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida, and considers the turbulent develo...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2017
  • Length: 09:12
Gay and bisexual men being killed in Chechnya
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Dante
In this short opinion piece, OutCasting youth participant Dante reflects on the the ongoing campaign of violence against gay and bisexual men in Ch...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2017
  • Length: 05:06
Transgender military ban
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Max
On July 26th, the president tweeted his intentions to ban transgender individuals from serving in the US military without prior consultation with a...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:35
Being outed by friends
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCaster Alex
OutCasting youth participants Callie and Alex talk about being outed by friends.

  • Added: Oct 31, 2017
  • Length: 04:59
OutCasting Overtime - December 2017 - Labeling our sexuality
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Lauren
In this piece, OutCasting youth participant Lauren talks about her search for a label for her sexuality.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 1
OutCasting Overtime - January 2018 - Is being bisexual queer enough for the LGBTQ community?
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: Samantha, a youth participant at OutCasting's bureau at Michigan State University
In this piece, OutCasting youth participant Samantha, a participant in our bureau at Michigan State University, ponders on what it means to be bise...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Dec 27, 2017
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 1
Hate Crimes
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participants Andrea and Dhruv
OutCasters Andrea and Dhruv reflect on anti-LGBTQ hate crimes in an essay read by Andrea.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 01, 2018
  • Length: 07:21
  • Purchases: 1
OutCasting Overtime - March 2018 – Straight Ally
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Max
Being a young straight ally to the LGBTQ community

  • Added: Feb 28, 2018
  • Length: 05:43
OutCasting Overtime - April 2018 - Was Alexander the Great gay?
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Lucas
The changing meaning and social significance of homosexuality.

Bought by Cards Against Humanity: The Good News Podcast


  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
OutCasting Overtime - May 2018 – Marlon Bundo
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
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A pet bunny gets recast as gay in a children’s book parodying a similar book created by members of VP Mike Pence’s family.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 27, 2018
  • Length: 04:33
  • Purchases: 1
OutCasting Overtime - June 2018 – Straight appropriation of LGBTQ culture
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Andrea
Straight people sometimes appropriate LGBTQ culture in ways that can be detrimental to LGBTQ people.

  • Added: May 31, 2018
  • Length: 04:05
OutCasting Overtime - July 2018 – Youtube tagging transgender videos as unsuitable for advertisers
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participants Lucas and Dhruv
Trans content on Youtube – Controversy over tagging trans videos as unsuitable for advertisers, pairing with anti-LGBTQ ads.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jun 30, 2018
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 1
OutCasting Overtime - August 2018 - Dating while queer in high school.
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participants Alex, Lauren, Andrea
OutCasting youth participants Alex, Andrea, and Lauren talk about the particular challenges young LGBTQ people face in dating while in high school.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KRZA


  • Added: Aug 01, 2018
  • Length: 21:47
  • Purchases: 2
OutCasting Overtime - September 2018 – Queer vs. gay
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Alex
September 2018 — OutCasting youth participant Alex talks about how we have reclaimed a slur and why it may be a better label for him.

Bought by Cards Against Humanity: The Good News Podcast


  • Added: Aug 30, 2018
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 1
LGBTQ youth suicide
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participants Lucas and Dhruv
A nine-year-old gay boy recently committed suicide after being bullied in school. OutCasting youth participants Dhruv and Lucas talk about ways to...

Bought by KRZA, Radio Catskill, and WORT


  • Added: Sep 28, 2018
  • Length: 05:24
  • Purchases: 3
November 2018 - Political violence in the Trump era
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participants Lucas and Dhruv
Pipe bombs, the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre, and a president who legitimizes hate.

  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 04:02
December 2018 - The importance of LGBTQ candidates
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Alex
December 2018 - OutCaster Alex talks about the rarity and importance of having LGBTQ elected officials.

  • Added: Nov 30, 2018
  • Length: 05:06
January 2019 – Labels within the LGBTQ communit
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Dante
OutCaster Dante comments on increasingly specific labels within the LGBTQ community.

Bought by RADIOLEX and KRZA


  • Added: Dec 30, 2018
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
February 2019 – Remembering Gilbert Baker
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Alex with Gilbert Baker at OutCasting's studio
OutCaster Alex reflects on his speech at the Gilbert Baker memorial and his hopes for what it might represent in his life.

  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 04:09