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Roger Ross Williams talks creative license, self-acceptance, and being blown away.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 09:16
Caption: Neal Bennington, Credit: Shefik
Destiny - Neal Bennington founded Broadway Sings for Pride, in response to tragic suicides within the LGBTQ+ community. The live concert series has...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2021
  • Length: 03:18
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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 WORT, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
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A few months into the COVID-19 pandemic, we heard from 90-year-old Kenneth Felts, a man who amidst quarantine, decided it was time to confront a tr...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:20
Caption: Michael Alig, Credit: Shefik
Resilience - Michael Alig is an artist and party promoter, who served almost 17 years in prison for manslaughter. He was a co-founder and ringleade...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 04:07
Caption: Mike Doyle and Scott Evans, San Francisco, CA 6/26/19, Credit: Andrea Chase
Mike Doyle and Scott Evans talk neurological confusion. not scaring the horses. and getting to use the word jejune.

  • Added: Jul 17, 2019
  • Length: 17:08
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Psychiatrist Matthew Hirschtritt turns to lessons from his Jewish upbringing when caring for a patient with severe refractory depression.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2019
  • Length: 29:34
Caption: Alan Poul and Lauren Morelli, San Francisco, CA 4/10/19, Credit: Andrea Chase
Lauren Morelli and Alan Poul talk the queer cultural divide, the universe as co-conspirator, and the conversations that aren’t happening.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 09:17
Caption: Isaac Butler, co-author of The World Only Spins Forward
2018 is the 25th anniversary of Angels In America. Author of its oral history, The World Only Spins Forward discusses the influence of the play.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Jun 22, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jay O. Sanders
In James McLindon’s I Don’t Know, an old school drill sergeant is faulted by his new recruits and desperately, hysterically longs for the time when...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 23:39
Caption: Michael Urie
Starring Harriet Harris and Michael Urie. After gay marriage is legalized in New York, one mother will stop at nothing to get her son to the altar....

  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 19:52
Caption: Matt Sobel,  San Francisco, CA 3/22/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Matt Sobel talks bad dreams, family reunions, and why he wore a tuxedo to Cannes.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2016
  • Length: 18:25
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Mika Kaurismaki talks power struggles, free will, and what Greta Garbo really wanted.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 11:08
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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: Frankie Valenti as Todd in TIGER ORANGE
Frankie Valenti talks staying creative, learning to be unlikable, and being very tidy.

  • Added: Jun 09, 2015
  • Length: 11:25
Caption: Charlotte Cushman as Romeo with her sister, Susan as Juliet
The life of Charlotte Cushman who specialized in playing Romeo in the mid-1800s

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 29:11
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ira Sachs, San Francisco, CA 8/11/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Ira Sachs talks romance, self-discovery, and floating anxiety.

  • Added: Aug 28, 2014
  • Length: 22:06
Caption: Chris Mason Johnson, San Francisco, CA 6/2/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Chris Mason Johnson talks being alert, Rock Hudson as a touchstone, and perplexing Millennials.

  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 18:10
Caption: John Krokidas, San Francisco, CA 10/7/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
John Krokidas talks taking small liberties, exploding into the new, and the tender side of David Cross.

  • Added: Oct 31, 2013
  • Length: 16:44
Caption: H.P. Mendoza, San Francisco, CA 3/10/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
H.P. Mendoza talks subversion, creative boosting, and the haunting nature of memory.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2013
  • Length: 15:28
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
Caption: Ira Kip
In Brooklyn, theater director Ira Kip talks to Cathy Byrd about her new play "She'Baltimore" and the raw space between medical politics and domesti...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 15:58
Caption: Zach Booth & Ira Sachs, San Francisco, CA 6/21/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Director/co-director Ira Sachs and co-star Zach Booth talk using Dogme 95 as inspiration, feeling like an outsider, and why it's best to get the se...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2012
  • Length: 11:07
Caption: Dee Rees, San Francisco, CA 10/11/11, Credit: Andrea Chase
Writer/director Dee Rees talks breakthrough poetry, gender fluidity, and the healing power of ice cream.

  • Added: Jan 10, 2012
  • Length: 15:04
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Chris Whitney tells his friend Erin Kuka about being diagnosed HIV positive early on in the AIDS crisis.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WUTC, WEZU, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 12, 2011
  • Length: 02:17
  • Purchases: 4