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This special episode of Mortified features the story of a closeted teenager who escapes the bullies at school and retreats into his bedroom where h...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2016
  • Length: 34:43
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This collaboration between Israel Story and Radiolab tells the story of Tal and Amir-- an Israeli couple who went to Nepal to pick up their three b...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: 01:05:55
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What do you do when you realize that in order to be true to yourself, you have to shatter everything around you, including the lives of those you l...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 40:52
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A Town Clerk in Kentucky has refused to give out a marriage license to a gay couple, risking jail time, because the two of them marrying “does not...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2015
  • Length: 04:13
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Young people will be crucial to this year?s election, though political activism can take many different forms. Ann Kane talks to youth voters about...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 06:49
  • Purchases: 1
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A young Minneapolis historian—Stewart Van Cleeve —wrote “Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota.” He also created an iPhone and Android...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2014
  • Length: 05:02
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When is wildness on our side, and when does it have to be eliminated?

Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
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Katannya learns an uncomfortable lesson about Bedouins from her tour guide.

  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 14:57
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
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To what lengths have same sex couples had to go, in order to be lawfully married?

  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 03:48
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When a married couple has a baby, is it fair for one of the parents to have to adopt the baby to make it their own? Why do the rules differ for m...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 04:39
Caption: Josh's Mom Gets Her Blood Pressure Taken
Josh's mom was having trouble having a baby, so she headed down to Mexico for an "operation" from a renowned psychic surgeon. This story was sele...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 06:19
  • Purchases: 2
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On a Sunday in April, cheery faces populate the groundbreaking of a new church construction project in South Minneapolis. Almost a year earlier, th...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2013
  • Length: 05:08
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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
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The oldest feminist bookstore in the country closes, after over 40 years in business.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2012
  • Length: 04:39
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Join hosts Devon and Cal for this first episode that follows the emotional journey of Female-to-Male transsexual Kyle Smith and his mother, Leslie,...

Bought by Wild Planet Radio


  • Added: Oct 26, 2012
  • Length: 20:30
  • Purchases: 1
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It's that time again. Every year since 2009, Minneapolis-based Queer Bike Gang has hosted the LGBTQA-themed alley-cat bike race, Cirque du So Gay. ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 22, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Janet Peck and her partner of 33 years, Carol Coughlin, hold hands after the legalization of same-sex marriage in Connecticut in 2008., Credit: Chion Wolf
In the next hour, you’ll hear an exclusive interview in which America’s most famous opponent of same-sex marriage announces that he has changed his...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 44:26
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A sensitive generational discussion on the issues facing those who are transgendered.

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Names are important signifers, but they are also very mutable. This piece focuses on the slipperiness of names: how their meanings can change, why ...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 57:44
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This is a story about two women who attempt to adopt a baby from an abortion clinic. Things don't go exactly as planned, and they end up in over th...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 18:01
  • Purchases: 1
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For all the tragedy, death, destruction and chaos in the world, I really think there is twice as much beauty.

Bought by KUOW, KUT, KCRW, PRX Remix, and KGLT


  • Added: Oct 05, 2010
  • Length: 01:35
  • Purchases: 5
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Older, middle and younger generations discuss being closeted

  • Added: Aug 29, 2010
  • Length: 28:56
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When Nadine Warner and her life partner, Laurie, adopted a child it never occurred to them that they may one day find the Catholic school system to...

Bought by WBEZ, Vocalo.org, and WRIR


  • Added: Jun 09, 2010
  • Length: 12:40
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
There are people who are distressed at the thought of gay marriage.

  • Added: May 12, 2009
  • Length: 02:41