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

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
March 2019 – Trans teen has bad doctor experience
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Andrew
OutCaster Andrew talks about his experience with a doctor who was insensitive to the needs of her trans patient.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2019
  • Length: 06:26
April 2019 – The importance of pronouns to trans people
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
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OutCasting youth participant Amalee talks about the importance of using preferred personal pronouns, especially for trans people.

Bought by KUAF Public Radio, PRX Remix, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Mar 29, 2019
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 3
May 2019 – trans teenager talks about using public bathrooms
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Andrew
OutCaster Andrew talks about what it’s like to use public bathrooms as a transgender person and why it’s important to respect the rights of trans p...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Apr 30, 2019
  • Length: 08:04
  • Purchases: 1
June 2019 – Stonewall 50 and importance of knowing LGBTQ history
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Andrew
OutCaster Andrew talks about why it’s important for both LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ people to have an awareness of LGBTQ history.

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 05:20
  • Purchases: 1
July 2019 – Addressing queer stereotypes
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Alex
July 1, 2019 - OutCaster Alex talks about a stereotype about bisexual people and how his own coming out story fits into it.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2019
  • Length: 04:06
August 2019 - "Straight Pride." Yes, really.
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Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: "Straight Pride"
August 1, 2019 - OutCaster Alex takes a humorous look at the "Straight Pride" parade planned for later this month in Boston.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 05:59
September 2019 – Becoming a passionate straight ally at OutCasting
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Dhruv
OutCaster Dhruv talks about how OutCasting has made him a passionate straight ally. It's not enough, he says, to just say you're an ally.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and WOUB


  • Added: Aug 30, 2019
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
October 2019 - Oversexualizing gay identity
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasters Andrew and Amalee
October 1, 2019 - OutCasters Andrew and Amalee consider why some people think that showing anything to do with gay people is inappropriate for chil...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Sep 30, 2019
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 1
November 2019 - Gender dysphoria - part 1 of a 2 part conversation
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasters Andrew and Kaspar
November 1, 2019 - Is it a mental illness? Do trans people have to medically transition to really be trans? OutCasters Andrew and Kaspar discuss....

  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 14:46
December 2019 - Gender dysphoria - part 2 of a 2 part conversation
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participants Kaspar and Andrew
December 1, 2019 - Is it a mental illness? Do trans people have to medically transition to really be trans? OutCasters Andrew and Kaspar discuss....

  • Added: Nov 30, 2019
  • Length: 12:01
January 2020 - Back in the closet
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Jamie
January 1, 2020 -- OutCaster Jamie changed colleges and ended up in a college in their home town -- a move that, as a practical matter, required Ja...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 28, 2019
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 1
February 2020 - Teaching LGBTQ history in schools
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Sarah
February 1, 2020 -- OutCaster Sarah talks about why LGBTQ history should be taught in schools, just like the history of other minorities.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KRZA, and WOUB


  • Added: Jan 31, 2020
  • Length: 06:25
  • Purchases: 3
March 2020 - Superficial representation of LGBTQ people in recent Disney films
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participants Amalee and Chris
Superficial representation of LGBTQ people in recent Disney films

  • Added: Feb 29, 2020
  • Length: 05:20
April 2020 - Comparing the outbreaks of COVID-19 and AIDS
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Chris
Comparing the outbreaks of COVID and AIDS

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Mar 31, 2020
  • Length: 07:45
  • Purchases: 1
May 2020 - Voice dysphoria experienced by trans people
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
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Trans youth describes her discomfort with her own voice.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2020
  • Length: 04:49
July 2020 - Black gay teenager considers #BlackLivesMatter
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCaster Justin
July 1, 2020 -- OutCaster Justin, who is black and gay, considers recent police killings of black citizens and the nationwide protests in support o...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 08:17
August 2020 – Black Lives Matter protest
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: Woman holding a rainbow flag with BLM, Credit: OutCaster Justin
Gay teenager attends a Black Lives Matter protest in a suburb of NYC.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 08:15
September 2020 - Covid quarantine gives gay youth an opportunity for self-exploration
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCaster Lucas
OutCaster Lucas talks about how the Covid quarantine has given him to explore aspects of himself that he didn't have when life was normal.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2020
  • Length: 05:23
October 2020 – The legacy of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for LGBTQ youth
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCaster Chris
OutCaster Chris considers the legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to LGBTQ youth. The Supreme Court icon died on September 18, 2020.

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1
November 2020 – LGBTQ youth react to the anti-marriage equality statement from Supreme Court Justices Thomas and Alito
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCaster Lil
OutCaster Lil presents OutCasters' views on statement from Justices Thomas and Alito attacking marriage equality

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 30, 2020
  • Length: 08:33
  • Purchases: 1