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A Seat in Soho: Thien Tran
From: Samuel Robinson
Caption: Thien Tran, Credit: Orlando Gili
'A Seat in Soho: Thien Tran' is a firsthand profile of long-time Soho, London resident Thien Tran. In this poignant piece, Thien discusses the chal...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 10:00
Bold Women of Montana - 0329 - Diane Sands
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Steve Moore: Tears of a Clown
From: Charles McGuigan
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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
KBFT Native Writing Fest - Brian Malloy
From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
Series: Native Writing Festival 2021
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KBFT Native Writing Fest Series is a Live Community Writers Event & Interview with the world's most notable writers! In this segment we meet with B...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 05:39
Episode 33: On the Way to Dinner
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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On August 28th, 2000, Danny Stewart got on the subway to meet his boyfriend Pete Mercurio for dinner in New York City. As he was exiting the statio...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 36:50
Peppermint: Owning Your Confidence
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Peppermint, Credit: Shefik
Identity - The hardest working woman in show business, drag queen and recording artist Peppermint has conquered the New York scene with her high-en...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 04:29
95,000 Names: Gert McMullin, Sewing the Frontline
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: The Keepers
Caption: Cleve Jones and Gert McMullin, 1987, Credit: Deanne Fitzmaurice / SF Chronicle
Gert McMullin, The "Mother of the AIDS Memorial Quilt" memorializing those who died in the AIDS pandemic, is now sewing masks for nurses and health...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 3
Ep. 17: Fresh Fruit: Over 40 Years Of Queer Radio
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture Podcast
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Fresh Fruit is the longest running queer radio program in the US. It has aired on KFAI Community Radio in Minneapolis, Minn. for over 40 years. Min...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 22:40
Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive
From: Devon Strolovitch
Series: Inside the National Recording Registry
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Originally released as a B-side, so many deejays began playing Gloria Gaynor's “I Will Survive” that the record company reissued it as a single. It...

Bought by PRX Demo Station, KPIK-LP, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), KUER, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 03, 2017
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 8
Life of the Law #86: Winter of Love
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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
Dying Words: The AIDS Reporting of Jeffrey Schmalz
From: Kerry Donahue
Caption: Jeffrey Schmalz
Twenty-five years ago, New York Times reporter Jeffrey Schmalz ended up in the middle of one of the biggest stories of our time: He had AIDS. His w...

Bought by Central Florida Public Media, WNYC, WVTF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WGTE Public Media and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 91
Not the 'Right' Kind of Gay
From: WNYC
Caption: "When I first met other young gay boys I thought it was going to be easier, that I could just be accepted" - Dakota Salcedo, Credit: (Isaak J. Liptzin/WNYC)
In some ways, being feminine made life harder for Dakota than his sexuality. *Just in time for the end of Pride month*

  • Added: Jun 25, 2015
  • Length: 06:32
The Fight for Marriage Equality
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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Hear stories of how some same-sex couples created marriage traditions in the absence of marriage equality in Washington state prior to November 2012.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2013
  • Length: 14:16
Episode 1: Stealth in School
From: Callum Angus
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An interview with Female-to-Male teen Kyle Smith about his experience as a transgender high school student.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 20:30
Fighting Homophobia in the Classroom
From: Anny Celsi
Caption: The cast of Creating Bias-Free Classrooms, Credit: Gloria Juang
Teens in Los Angeles use live theater to battle homophobia in the classroom.

Bought by XRAY.fm, KRZA, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 04, 2012
  • Length: 06:06
  • Purchases: 3
Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, July 20, 2007
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Although she was physically tiny ... just four foot eleven ... we saw her on television living an outrageous sort of large life, an amazing roller ...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Finding Miles
From: Sarah P. Reynolds
Caption: Megan
A story of transition; from Megan to Miles.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KGNU Community Radio, KGNU Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 27:11
  • Purchases: 5
Steve Moore: Tears of a Clown Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Twenty years ago actor turned comedian Steve Moore was diagnosed with AIDS. He became the first comedian who laughed the disease in the face.

  • Added: May 04, 2010
  • Length: 25:58
Matthew
From: Helena Keeffe
Caption: Matthew Wearing Mask, Credit: Helena Keeffe
Matthew and I met during printmaking workshops I led at Laguna Honda Hospital. As the workshops were wrapping up he asked me to work with him to cr...

Bought by PRX Remix and Remix Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2010
  • Length: 18:45
  • Purchases: 2
After the Forgetting
From: Erica Heilman
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This is a story about a Vermont family's experience living with an elderly member's progressive dementia. What happens to love when there is no mem...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 24:49
  • Purchases: 1
How Are You Who You Are?
From: Eric Winick
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A disinhibited love story.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT, KUT, KCRW, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2008
  • Length: 21:13
  • Purchases: 9
Gay in the Heartland
From: Sarah Neal (Neal-Estes)
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A picture of gay America that is rarely portrayed by the media - one of gay Americans who choose to live in small, heartland towns.

Bought by KRCB 104.9, WGBH Radio Boston, and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 12, 2008
  • Length: 10:35
  • Purchases: 3
Prom Queens
From: Outright Radio
Series: Outright Radio Series 2000
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A Gay Prom: gay and lesbian youth have a regional dance and the adults who protect them from protesters

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KRCB 104.9, KPFA, and KWCW


  • Added: May 28, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4
Portraits of our Elders
From: Outright Radio
Series: Outright Radio Series 2003
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Stories of growing old with grace.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WGDR, and KWCW


  • Added: May 27, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Out on the Streets
From: Outright Radio
Series: Outright Radio Series 2003
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Award-winning stories of queer kids abandoned by their parents to the streets.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WAMU, WGDR, and KWCW


  • Added: May 27, 2006
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 4