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World’s first Drag Laureate shares art, joy, politics of drag
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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
After taking a "breather," Paul Chan debuts new work
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Paul Chan: Breathers is on display at the Walker Art Center through July 16, 2023, Credit: Sheila Regan
Artist Paul Chan took a break from making in art in 2009. This "breather" helped him reimagine his art, and it is the focus of his new exhibit titl...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2023
  • Length: 06:56
Angelic Troublemaker: Bayard Rustin
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On today's program we honor Bayard Rustin, one of the most central figures in the African American struggle for Civil Rights and Freedom. Rustin wa...

Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The New Morality: A Conversation with Eden Collinsworth
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Eden Collinsworth
What is right, wrong, good, bad? A discussion of morality in changing times.

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 1
The New Morality
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Eden Collinsworth
What is right, wrong, good, bad? A discussion of morality in changing times.

Bought by KPIP-LP, KZYX, and WETS


  • Added: Apr 20, 2017
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 3
Reclaiming Public Schools: Education in the Trump Era
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In this edition of Making Contact, we look at two major changes to statewide curriculum in California, and where schools nationwide may be headed u...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXDU, XRAY.fm, and WRIR


  • Added: Mar 12, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Where Richard Becomes Bianca: Inside Miss Vera's Crossdressing Academy
From: George Bodarky
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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
StoryCorps OutLoud: Jeff Dupre and David Phillips
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: David Phillips (L) and Jeff Dupre (R)
Jeff Dupre remembers his friend Air Force Tech. Sgt. Leonard Matlovich who appeared on a 1975 cover of Time with the headline, “I Am a Homosexual.”

Bought by KALW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KRVS, Blue Mountain Radio , and WTJU


  • Added: Oct 30, 2015
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 5
StoryCorps: Walter Naegle and Ericka Naegle
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Ericka Naegle (L) and Walter Naegle (R)
Walter Naegle tells his niece, Ericka, about the unconventional decision that he and his partner, Bayard Rustin, made to protect their union.

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
LIVE LAW 4: Soundtrack to History
From: LIVE LAW
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"She called us on the phone and said, 'You will not be allowed to return to the Y.'"

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 1
Allusionist 12: Pride
From: The Allusionist
Series: The Allusionist
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It’s June; the President of the USA has officially designated it LGBT Pride Month, and there’ll be Pride events around the world. But how did the w...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZMU Moab Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 14:08
  • Purchases: 3
Free to Be at Forty
From: Feinstein Center for American Jewish History Temple University
Caption: Free to Be....You and Me album cover (1972), Credit: Free to Be Foundation
In 2014, Free to Be... You and Me, the iconic feminist children's album, turned forty. Despite its age, the music and its message of gender equalit...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2014
  • Length: 19:12
Community Policing in Provincetown
From: Annabel Lang
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Provincetown has long been known as a bastion of tolerance, but hate crimes in the late eighties and early nineties threatened the town's reputatio...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2014
  • Length: 11:48
GOD LOVES UGANDA -- Roger Ross Williams Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Roger Ross Williams, San Francisco, CA 11/1/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Roger Ross Williams talks culture wars, beacons of hope, and why it is a small world after all.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2013
  • Length: 17:26
Eurovision Culture for the Uniniated
From: Ben Weisz
Caption: Excited for Sweden?, Credit: www.digitalspy.co.uk
Lucy Wark (Cam FM, PopTarts) gives you the lowdown on Eurovision pop culture ahead of the final in Malmo, Sweden on Saturday 18th May.

  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 05:35
Surviving Ex-Gay Therapy
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The growth of the ex-gay movement in the last two decades gave rise to hundreds of therapy programs aiming to change people’s sexual orientation. B...

Bought by KISU, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KSFR, KVSC, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Forty Years of Feminist Books
From: Cassie Wagler
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The oldest feminist bookstore in the country closes, after over 40 years in business.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2012
  • Length: 04:39
Episode 1: Stealth in School
From: Callum Angus
Series: Transwaves
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Join hosts Devon and Cal for this first episode that follows the emotional journey of Female-to-Male transsexual Kyle Smith and his mother, Leslie,...

Bought by Wild Planet Radio


  • Added: Oct 26, 2012
  • Length: 20:30
  • Purchases: 1
Behind the Facepaint
From: outLoud Radio at Youth Radio
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outLoud Radio producer Mykel takes us inside the world of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of fabulous queer San Francisco community or...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KSFR, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 13, 2012
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 3
GLBT history finds permanent home in San Francisco
From: KALW
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San Francisco’s Castro District may still be licking its wounds after The Advocate, a national gay publication, declared early this year that San F...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2011
  • Length: 06:51
  • Purchases: 2
Introduction: youth and gender
From: Y-Press
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Gender roles don’t seem to have quite the pull they used to have. In 2008, the U.S. came close to having a woman in the Oval Office. Engineering sc...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 02:53
Learning to Think Critically
From: The Tibet Connection
Caption: Tenzin Seldon, a Tibetan student from Stanford who created a class in critical thinking for Tibetan Students
What does it mean to have an opinion on a controversial topic? Stanford student Tenzin Seldon, who is Tibetan, created a class in critical thinking...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 02, 2011
  • Length: 06:31
  • Purchases: 1
Electro-cellist Jami Sieber's "Unspoken"
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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An electric cellist goes global

  • Added: May 02, 2008
  • Length: 03:30
Gay-Straight Alliances
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A exploration of the history of Gay-Straight Alliance clubs in Anchorage high schools.

Bought by KOOP


  • Added: Nov 02, 2007
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 1