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Caption: Freedom March, a current “ex-gay” group, co-opts queer imagery and holds rallies against conversion therapy bans. Cropped film still from “Pray Away” documentary., Credit: Multitude Films/Netflix
Canada's nationwide ban on conversion therapy took effect January 7. Why no national ban in the US? Despite clear evidence that conversion therapy ...

Bought by KALW and WORT


  • Added: Jan 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Reverend Dr. Megan Rohrer has made LGBTQ and religious history as the first openly transgender bishop in a major Christian denomination. Rohrer spo...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Martin Jenkins makes history as the first openly gay Supreme Court of California justice, and only the third Black man ever to serve on the state's...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Pamela Sneed's poetic memoir "Funeral Diva" is described as a “coming of age in New York City during the late 1980s.”, Credit: Patricia Silva
Pamela Sneed’s prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. She reads selections from her memoir, Funeral Diva, and shares some of her life story. ...

Bought by KALW and WORT


  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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For National Pride Month, we'll hear from 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winner Jericho Brown, who describes the joy he finds in writing poetry and how his wo...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WNJR


  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Essayist Lauren Hough in 2018, Credit: Karl Poss IV / Vintage Books
In our queer nod to Veterans Day, we bring you writer Lauren Hough, who grew up in the infamous Christian free-love cult The Family. At 18, she joi...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Inter-racial and LGBTQ dating stories

  • Added: Jun 04, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
Caption: Dr. Ada-Rhodes Short, Credit: Dr. Ada-Rhodes Short
Mechanical engineer Dr. Ada-Rhodes Short studies robot brains, having previously worked in industry and academia for commercial toy companies, NASA...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2021
  • Length: 39:09
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Anni discusses her dating etiquette related experiences and insights. Anni self-identifies as a CIS-gender female who has fluid sexuality. #lesbi...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 58:48
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Canadian Poet Rebecca Salazar talks about her new collection, "Sulphurtongue."

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, WCNY, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
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One day in the spring of 1986, a woman in Hot Springs, Arkansas named Ruth Coker Burks was visiting a friend in the hospital. She noticed a door do...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 27:33
  • Purchases: 1
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HOUR ONE: "Rewriting The Romance Script" - Love is in the air, as it has been every Valentine's Day since 496. And we're still trying to get it rig...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:58
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This year on making contact, instead of our normal end of year show commemorating movement leaders we've lost, and highlighting their work, we reme...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
Caption: Ed Ayres, Credit: Supplied
Ed Ayres is a Radio presenter and classical musician. It took a 10,000 mile bike ride and a job teaching in one of the world’s most dangerous count...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Nov 22, 2020
  • Length: 12:20
  • Purchases: 1
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Interviews with National Geographic Magazine editor Susan Goldberg and memoirist Molly Wizenberg.

Bought by WCMU Michigan and WKAR


  • Added: Sep 13, 2020
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
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On this episode of Making Contact, we will look at transgender activism and the call for inclusion and intersectionality in the movement for Black ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KDNK


  • Added: Aug 19, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Kenneth Felts and Rebecca Mayes after their StoryCorps interview in Arvada, Colorado in July 2020., Credit: Kenneth Felts and Rebecca Mayes for StoryCorps.
In the late 1950s, Kenneth Felts met the love of his life, Phillip. But he kept their relationship a secret for more than 60 years. It wasn’t until...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WERA-LP


  • Added: Jul 20, 2020
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 2
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Russell King sat down with his music teacher Paige Macklin, to tell her about a choice she made, and how it changed his life.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Linda Romero talks with Lola about coming out. Part 2.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2020
  • Length: 08:36
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Linda Romero shares her coming out story with Lola. This is part one.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2020
  • Length: 03:45
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Lola talks with Tracye about Split Seed Productions.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2019
  • Length: 04:38
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Alan Pelaez Lopez shares their forthcoming work, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien. They also read several pieces.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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When Cecilia Gentili was growing up in Argentina, she felt so different from everyone around her that she thought she might be from another planet....

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 31:31
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In this interview, TC Tolbert and Erin Russ talk about the importance of community participation and some of the progress we've made in our own com...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2019
  • Length: 03:33
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TC Tolbert interviews Eve Rifkin about queer mothering. In Our Own Voices offers listeners a glimpse into the experiences of the various voices th...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2019
  • Length: 04:11