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5 ways America's Courts Could Change Health Care in 2024
From: Tradeoffs
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Key court decisions in 2024 about prescription drug prices, abortion bans, gender affirming care and the Affordable Care Act could change the way h...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2024
  • Length: 18:49
Blooming Underground with Maia Williams
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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KQAL's Jiovani Bermudez speaks with local artist Maia Williams about her new work, Blooming Underground. Original air date: 11/08/22

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 26:03
The Whale
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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Brendan Fraser plays a morbidly obese teacher who is facing imminent death while trying to reconcile with his angry teenage daughter.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:21
Tár Film Review
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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Tár is the name of a new film written and directed by Todd Field.

  • Added: Nov 15, 2022
  • Length: 03:26
Benediction Film Review
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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For many modern historians, the First World War, from 1914-18, has a special significance, as the point at which an older version of civilization f...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 03:33
Loving v Virginia & Obergefell v Hodges
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: Civil Rights
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The story of marriage equality in the United States, told through two Supreme Court cases.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WCMU Michigan, KUPR low power FM, WYAP, WFAE and more


  • Added: Aug 19, 2021
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 13
S2E3 A Queer Pagan Handfasting
From: Colleen Thomas
Series: Shame Piñata
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Nick & Thom were married in a big, open field in Oakland California. This was right after same-sex marriage was legalized in the US and it was a hu...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2021
  • Length: 21:38
S2 Trailer New Beginnings
From: Colleen Thomas
Series: Shame Piñata
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On the second season of Shame Piñata, we explore rites of passage for real-life transitions such as reaching a certain age, facing a significant lo...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 02:29
F-Word: If the President Had HIV He Could Be in Prison
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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"Could Donald Trump be charged with a crime for knowingly exposing others to an infectious disease? He could if that disease was hepatitis. If th...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
Breaking the Code
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A genius entrusted with national secrets who made no effort to conceal his own

Bought by WPCA-LP, KFCF FM, KCRW, KMUN, KWMR and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 23
1969-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: First Man On The Moon, Credit: 50th Anniversary
Traveling through Time & Space back to 1969 with Richard Nixon, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Walter Cronkite, Ted Kennedy, Arthur C. Clark, Ronald ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KMXT


  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 01:55:02
  • Purchases: 2
Cricket and the Goddess
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Author Devdutt Pattanaik, Credit: Sandip Roy
Now that the Indian Supreme Court has decriminalized homosexuality, the real battles begin. The battle over what is and isn’t “Indian."

  • Added: Sep 17, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Dig #207
From: Kim Clark
Series: Dig!
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On deck: records by Iron Butterfly, the Chocolate Watchband, the Turtles, Fairport Convention, the Haunted, Fire, Yvonne Fair, the Buckinghams, We ...

Bought by KMXT, KRZA, GCR (Global Community Radio), KWIT, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: May 08, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Dig #206
From: Kim Clark
Series: Dig!
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Records by the Bobby Fuller Four, Traffic, the Isley Brothers, the Jelly Bean Bandits, garage band 45s, a sweet one by Stevie Wonder that was recor...

Bought by KRZA, KMXT, KMXT, KSRQ, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: May 01, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
Dig #205
From: Kim Clark
Series: Dig!
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Lined up for you this hour are records by Solomon Burke, the Trolls, the Yardbirds, the Stained Glass, and the Remo Four, plus a 1968 global hit fo...

Bought by KRZA, KMXT, KRZA, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMXT and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Out Takes: The Unheard Stories of LGBTQ Teens
From: Safe Space Radio
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This hour-long special is about the courage of teenagers who come out at a time in life when it is hardest to be different. So many of the legal an...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Interlochen Public Radio, WFAE, KMUN and more


  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 23
Intolerance Comes to the Party
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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When Narendra Modi came by last week to the Bay Area the titans of tech pulled out all stops to give him a red carpet welcome. Amidst all this jub...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
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
Kashish (Mumbai LGBT Film Fest)
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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In India the Supreme Court did not realize that when it recriminalized gay sex, society had come a long way. Like toothpaste it just cannot be pus...

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


  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Could a once-a-day pill end the HIV epidemic in San Francisco?
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Mural portrait of Esteban Cuaya-Muñoz at the Oakland Museum of California, by artist Brett Cooke
In November, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors approved legislation allocating $300,000 to help San Franciscans who want PrEP to get access to i...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2015
  • Length: 05:21
Indian politicians forced out of the closet
From: KALW
Caption: Pride festivities in New Delhi, Credit: Sandip Roy
For the first time ever gay issues are part of the election debate in India.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Discrimination's Religious Cloak
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
According to a couple of cases coming up before the Supreme Court, the United States, which was founded on the principle of religious freedom, has ...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
The Week In LGBT
From: David Feldman
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Zack Ford from Think Progress LGBT provides a quick survey of this week's major issues facing the LGBT community and those who want to persecute them,

  • Added: Nov 07, 2013
  • Length: 05:33
Out Loud
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Olympia Dukakis
Starring Oscar Winner Olympia Dukakis, There You Are, the first of three short plays portraying the gay experience, is about two widows who meet ag...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUPR low power FM, KUNM, KUER and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 13
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota" -by Stewart Van Cleve
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota" by Stewart Van Cleve
Dan Sinykin provides a comprehensive of the historically illuminating new book "Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota" by Stewart Van ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 1