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871: To All The Dogs We've Loved / 872: Rewriting The Romance Script, 2/10/2024
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "To All The Dogs We've Loved" - Picture yourself half way through a thousand mile sled dog race. What do you think about? This hour, adve...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:01
An Interview with Maia Kobabe
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Borrowed and Banned
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Maia Kobabe's debut memoir, Gender Queer, was the most frequently banned book in 2021 and 2022. We talked with Maia about what it's like to be on t...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 17:55
An Interview with George M. Johnson
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Borrowed and Banned
Caption: Borrowed and Banned logo, Credit: John Snowden
George M. Johnson talks about their debut Young Adult memoir All Boys Aren't Blue, the support of their family, their love of Toni Morrison, and th...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 15:31
Matthew Shepard – in his mom’s words
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Matthew Shepard was brutally killed 25 years ago for being gay. His mother Judy founded the Matthew Shepard Foundation 25 years ago this December a...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Finding Growth in the Face of Great Loss with Roberta Kuriloff
From: Katherine Bell
Series: The Dream Journal
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A spiritual lesbian lawyer activist with Jewish roots, our guest tells the story of growing up in an orphanage and then building her home in the wo...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 53:53
In Good Faith - Lon Young & Meghan Decker
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: In Good Faith
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Seemingly intense dichotomies of belief might share greater connection than we initially perceive.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 28, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
Let's Hear from Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Jericho Brown
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jericho Brown, Credit: Brian Cornelius
Jericho Brown reads and discusses his work, his creative process, and Black queer poetry’s capacity to expand concepts of love

Bought by WMPG, WSLR, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZUM and more


  • Added: Jun 13, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
Transgender Experience: Musician, educator details transition in song and talk
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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In the condensed version of our March special, hear about transgender experience from singer-songwriter and foster-parent educator Nick Lawrence. H...

Bought by WORT and WNED Buffalo


  • Added: Jun 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Kemp Harris
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 963 (Air Dates: June 12 - 18, 2023) This week on Art of the Song we talk with Kemp Harris. This Boston based and beloved artist is one of the ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRZA, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUNM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Grandma inspired first lesbian Calif. Supreme Court Justice
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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California Supreme Court Associate Justice Kelli Evans, the first out lesbian on the state's high court, was raised by her grandmother in public ho...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Untold Story of QUEERSPACE Collective Coming to St. Cloud
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Nicki Hangsleben and Mandy Rubink from QUEE...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:26
Holly Near - Women's History
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 951 (Air Dates: March 20 - 26, 2023) For Women's History Month we revisit our 2020 interview with singer/songwriter/activist Holly Near. An i...

Bought by KRZA, WHRV, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUNM, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
775: Journeys Through Gender / 776: Hope: How Do You Make It?, 3/11/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Journeys Through Gender" - Once upon a time there were two genders. He and She. Not anymore. So what are your pronouns? HOUR TWO: "Hop...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
OutCasting 0035x – LGBTQ history – Christopher Z. Hobson
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: Christopher Z. Hobson
February 2023 — The gap that LGBTQ youth experience when their people’s history is suppressed. Originally presented in 2017.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and KECG


  • Added: Jan 31, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Author Dwayne Ratleff on ‘Dancing to the Lyrics’
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Dancing to the Lyrics won Dwayne Ratleff a Best Indie Book Award in the “LGBTQ Coming Of Age” category., Credit: Book cover art by Leann E. Johnson / L&J Graphics
Dwayne Ratleff grew up Black, poor and gay in 1960s Baltimore. As a youngster, his loving grandma taught him: “Don’t explain yourself, be yourself....

  • Added: Oct 21, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
Author Dwayne Ratleff on ‘Dancing to the Lyrics’
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Dancing to the Lyrics won Dwayne Ratleff a Best Indie Book Award in the “LGBTQ Coming Of Age” category., Credit: Book cover art by Leann E. Johnson / L&J Graphics
Dwayne Ratleff grew up Black, poor and gay in 1960s Baltimore. As a youngster, his grandma taught him: “Don’t explain yourself, be yourself.” His a...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KALW, and WORT


  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 4
Reclaiming Land, Culture, & Narrative Through Black, Indigenous, & Queer Stewardship - EcoJustice Radio
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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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
Kemp Harris
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 923 (Air Dates: Sept 5 - 11, 2022) This week on Art of the Song we talk with Kemp Harris. This Boston based and beloved artist is one of the v...

Bought by KRZA, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., WOMR, WCUW 91.3 FM, KZMU Moab Community Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Bianca Cline - Cinematographer - Generation Hope, Winter Thaw, Murder Among The Mormons, Marcel The Shell With Shoes On
From: MergingArts Productions
Series: Spoiler Alert Radio
Caption: Marcel The Shell 1
Bianca Cline - Cinematographer - Generation Hope, Winter Thaw, Murder Among The Mormons, Marcel The Shell With Shoes On

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Aug 21, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
World in Progress 08/11/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Surviving as trans in Iran -- What if the identity you were given at birth didn’t fit with how you felt on the inside? ...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KWIT


  • Added: Aug 12, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
‘Changeling’ dives deep and sings about transition
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Hear about the transgender experience from singer-songwriter Nick Lawrence, a former foster-parent educator on LGBTQ topics. His album, "I Am A Man...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Aug 09, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Jeffrey Perri and Tony Perri
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Jeffrey Perri and Tony Perri on May 7th, 2022 at a family wedding., Credit: Jeffery Perri
Tony Perri speaks with his grandson, Jeffrey Perri, about being an older gay man and the closeness of their relationship.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jul 26, 2022
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 1
Lambda Legal CEO Kevin Jennings on the Fight For Equal Rights (re-broadcast)
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Kevin Jennings
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously instilled optimism with his proclamation that, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward jus...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Women's History Month: How Trans People Are Reclaiming Their Stories: Laverne Cox, Sam Feder
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Trans liberation is the latest frontline in the struggle for civil rights. In their new documentary, Disclosure, director Sam Feder and producer Am...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Their name was Pauli Murray
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Pauli Murray circa 1931, age 21, Credit: Courtesy of Amazon Studios
Pauli Murray was a 20th century Black Queer civil rights trailblazer and legal scholar you’ve probably never heard of. On this edition of Out in th...

Bought by KALW, KVSC, KUT, and WORT


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4