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Father and daughter Kurt and Ellie Johnson talk about their Minnesota Book Award winning novel "The Barrens"

  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 10:06
Caption: Sex Ed: A Sex Prov is a variety show that encourages talking about sex, Credit: Matthew Schneeman
Sex is hard to talk about. We often speak about it so indirectly. In Minnesota, many of us are even more adept to tiptoeing around the issue. But S...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2023
  • Length: 07:42
Caption: "Straight Pride", Credit: OutCasting Media
Addressing the aggrieved people who lament the lack of a "Straight Pride" celebration.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2023
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 1
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We're celebrating National Poetry Month with a nod to what Missouri-born poet T.S. Eliot called THE CRUELEST MONTH. Listen to ten poets, reflectin...

Bought by KFCF FM, WNMU-FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
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Today on Don't Cha Know, we talk to Eileen Mueller who is the managing director at the Frozen River Film Festival. The Frozen River Film Fest is an...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2023
  • Length: 42:07
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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: Pacifica Municipal Pier, Credit: Toni Mirosevich
How do we find human connection? Being “in with the out crowd?" Author and poet Toni Mirosevich finds peers on the pier. She reads from her latest ...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 1
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On this show we explore the world of Shelterwood Collective, a Black, Indigenous, and LGBTQ-led community forest and retreat center that seeks to h...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
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
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A postcard from Los Angeles, California

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
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Coming of age in the comforting glow of late-night TV.

Bought by KKRN, KWMR, KCRW, KMUN, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 32
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A 2016 interview with Joe Exotic. At the time he was running for president.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2020
  • Length: 13:00
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Award-winning poet, performer, novelist, and activist Staceyann Chin has just published her first anthology of poems. She has been featured on Bro...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WRIR


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
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TC Tolbert talks with Sarah Gonzales about Queer Joy

  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: 04:17
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What happens when a boy fears his mom may have the hots for his teacher?

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Oct 06, 2019
  • Length: 21:11
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Donnie Pedrola and Tom Gasko at their StoryCorps interview in Rolla, Missouri on June 26, 2019. , Credit: By Dupe Oyebolu for StoryCorps.
Tom Gasko has been a vacuum repairman for some 35 years, but his passion for vacuums extends far beyond that and into a collection of hundreds and ...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:21
Caption: Aaron Jordan-Peterson in Grand Rapids, Minn.
When Aaron Jordan-Peterson moved back to rural Minnesota three years ago, he decided not to try to hide his gay identity like he had earlier in lif...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2019
  • Length: 05:30
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
Caption: Jeffrey McHale, San Francisco, CA 6/28/19, Credit: Andrea Chase
Jeffery McHale talks turning tides, cracking intentions, and crossing lines.

  • Added: Jul 21, 2019
  • Length: 14:26
Caption: Mike Doyle and Scott Evans, San Francisco, CA 6/26/19, Credit: Andrea Chase
Mike Doyle and Scott Evans talk neurological confusion. not scaring the horses. and getting to use the word jejune.

  • Added: Jul 17, 2019
  • Length: 17:08
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A contentious and comedic look at the fear, superstition, and silence that characterized the early years of the AIDS epidemic.

Bought by KKRN, KUNM, Spokane Public Radio, KFCF FM, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jun 18, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 18
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With Walt Whitman's 200th birthday on May 31st, we're revisiting the time just before the Civil War with Justin Martin's book, REBEL SOULS: WALT WH...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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On this week's episode Julian reads an essay he reads an essay about a relationship coming to an end and the feeling that sometimes you're in a com...

  • Added: May 17, 2019
  • Length: 15:27