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Before You Were Born, A Song Story
From: Will Heron
Series: Song Stories
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Jossie Chavira's Song Story is dark and disturbing. As an undocumented Trans, Jossie is daily reminded in the media, at work and in her social lif...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2018
  • Length: 04:57
Queering Christianity: A Conversation with Angela Yarber
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Angela Yarber and Family
Rev. Dr. Angela Yarber discusses the revolutionary work of the Holy Women Icons Project. As an intersectionally ecofeminist organization, the Holy ...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Apr 24, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
90: "I am powerful by just living" - Sarah McBride, author of "Tomorrow Will Be Different"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Sarah McBride, Credit: B Proud
Sarah McBride made history in 2016 as the first transgender person to speak at a national political convention. As of 2018, more than half of LGBTQ...

Bought by KWIT, KWMR, KUT, KKRN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Unbelievable: A Conversation with Critic of Christianity, Bishop John Shelby Spong
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Bishop John Shelby Spong with host John Shuck
Bishop John Shelby Spong talks with me about his life’s work, Christianity’s future, and a faith that asks the right questions.

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Apr 15, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
87: What Trans Women Can Teach Cis Women - Daniela Petruzalek, Diversity Activist
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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Daniela Petruzalek is an accomplished software engineer from Brazil, who started working with computers at the age of 14. She’s now a software engi...

Bought by WCPN, KWIT, WLPR , WNIN, KUT and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 7
Queer youth, you'll belong at this old Seattle house
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: Lambert House, Summer 2016, just after a water balloon fight., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/AMY STYER
On Seattle's Capitol Hill, the Lambert House is a space where queer youth are free to be themselves. RadioActive's Amy Styer takes us inside the ho...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 07:27
The Douglas Coleman Show w_ Trey Pearson
From: Douglas Coleman
Series: The Douglas Coleman Show
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Trey Pearson is a Singer/songwriter from Columbus OH. He was formerly with the band Everyday Sunday. He made news last year by publicly coming out ...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2017
  • Length: 59:23
It's Very Indian to Watch AbFab
From: The Organist
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Tommy Pico’s first book is one long poem in the form of a text — call it an epic sext. But it doesn’t just chronicle Pico’s dalliances with "boys, ...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 24:54
  • Purchases: 1
Listening to Ladies: Ingrid Stölzel
From: Elisabeth Blair
Series: Listening to Ladies
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Composer Ingrid Stölzel talks about annoying church bells, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and the importance of mentorship.

  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 23:54
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
Nikkita Oliver: Dare Me!
From: The Art of Risk
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Because she promised her students she’d never make them do something she wouldn’t do, Nikkita Oliver performed for the first time at the 2012 Seatt...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 43:07
When her daughter became her son (and vice versa)
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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What happens when the person you thought was your daughter becomes your son, and vice versa? Two mothers struggle to accept their transgender child...

Bought by KVSC and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Dec 28, 2016
  • Length: 33:37
  • Purchases: 2
Orthodox: 6 Minute Version
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS: Short Versions
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A short form version of the non-narrated ARRVLS feature "Orthodox". What happens when your religious faith and sexual identity directly contradic...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: 23:43
  • Purchases: 1
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
#33 Dan Savage
From: How To Be Amazing
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Dan Savage's authentic openness and empathy informed from growing up a closeted gay in a Catholic family that might not fully accept him made him r...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:11
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
32: Teresa Younger, CEO of The Ms. Foundation for Women & Jill Tietjen, Author of "Her Story. A Timeline of Women Who Changed America"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Teresa Younger
It's been over 40 years since the Ms. Foundation for women was formed to help women and girls. Yet many groups still feel excluded from the feminis...

Bought by KUT, KUNM, KSJD, WMUU-LP, KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
51: How Not To Win An Oscar
From: The Mortified Podcast
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In honor of Awards Season, we present two tales of teenagers whose attempts at writing an epic screenplay fell far short of Oscar consideration. W...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Feb 22, 2016
  • Length: 32:44
  • Purchases: 1
Fallen Heroes of 2015
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Juan Evans
Thousands of local social justice organizers passed away this year. People doing crucial work in their communities, whose deaths didn t make the he...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR


  • Added: Dec 10, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Terry Anderson and Tricia Andrews of Chickadees Ceremonies, Bemidji, MN
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Call of the Wild
Caption: Tippy, Credit: Karen Oothoudt
Milt Lee interviews Terry Anderson and Tricia Andrews of Chickadees Ceremonies.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 06:52
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law Episode #70: Live Law - Truth or Dare
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Truth or Dare? What’s it gonna be? On this episode, we have three stories told live: two truths and a dare.

  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 31:25
International Performance Artist Tim Miller Visits SCSU Creative Art Series
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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Using humor to address the complicated issues of the artistic, spiritual, and political nature of being gay, Tim Miller was in town for the SCSU Cr...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2015
  • Length: 30:30
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The White House lit up in a rainbow, Credit: USA Today
After the historic ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on gay marriage, Sandip Roy reflects on... his Facebook feed.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 29, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
#17 MIW Eve Minax - Kink Educator, Trainer, and Author
From: Allegra Bandy
Series: Making It Work Radio
Caption: Eve Minax on MIW, Credit: Oddua Productions
With our host, Akeisha Johnson, on this episode of Making It Work we will find out how someone becomes a kink educator and trainer while living in ...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2015
  • Length: 32:17