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Friendsgiving (Half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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For many, the Thanksgiving holidays are a time to gather with your biological relatives. But what if you don’t have the traditional, Norman-Rockwel...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, Kansas Public Radio, Harford Community Radio, WLIW and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 9
Women Warriors: The Voices of Change - Chapter 12, 'We Will Honor Her'
From: Crossover Media Max Horowitz
Series: Women Warriors - The Voices of Change podcast series
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Women Warriors: The Voices of Change multimedia concert performed by Orchestra Moderne NYC, under the direction of Amy Andersson, features the musi...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Sep 23, 2019
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Elizabeth Coffey-Williams and Jennifer Coffey
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Elizabeth Coffey-Williams and Jennifer Coffey at their StoryCorps interview in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 8, 2019., Credit: By Jud Esty-Kendall for StoryCorps.
Elizabeth Coffey-Williams tells her niece, Jennifer Coffey, about what it was like to come out as transgender to her family in the early 1970s.

Bought by KALW, WDBM, and WHRV


  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 3
A Very Gay Divorce
From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Summer 2019
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My piece is about my mom and her story of being gay and how that led to my parents divorce.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2019
  • Length: 06:14
TC Tolbert + Eve Rifkin
From: KXCI
Series: In Our Own Voices
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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
StoryCorps: Dee Westenhauser
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Dee Westenhauser speaks to her childhood friend, Martha Gonzalez, about the one person in her life who saw her for who she truly was.

Bought by KALW, KRVS, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and WCQS


  • Added: Apr 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:25
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Larry Dearmon and Stephen Mills
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Larry Dearmon and Stephen Mills met during the height of the AIDS epidemic in Little Rock, Arkansas. They remember the loss that eventually brought...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 5: A Private Life
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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Nino and Drew kept their relationship a secret for more than 40 years. And then, they decided to do something that forced them into the spotlight.

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, PRX Remix, and HowSound


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 22:50
  • Purchases: 3
OutCasting 0046 – Gay parenting – interview with James Howe, well known author - part 2 in a series
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: James Howe (r) with OutCasting youth participant Jamie
James Howe, a well-known author, talks with OutCasting youth participant Jame about his experiences with raising a child as a gay parent, coming ou...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Feb 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
OutCasting 0045 – Gay parenting – interview with Gabriel Blau, longtime LGBTQ advocate
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: Activist Gabriel Blau
OutCaster Jamie talks with Gabriel Blau about his and his husband’s experiences being gay parents and adopting their son.

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jan 31, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Untold Story of the Untold Stories from the St. Cloud State University LGBT Resource Center: The Story Project
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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It’s called The Story Project and its mission is just as straightforward as its name, to documents the stories of students, faculty, staff, and alu...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 26:32
RDD: A Safe and Supportive Environment
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week we're talking to Wendy Wester. Wendy is a Development Officer at United Way and before we met that's what I thought we were going to talk...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 02, 2017
  • Length: 06:27
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Emily Addison
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Emily Addison
On June 12, 2016 a lone gunman killed 49 people at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida.Among those killed was Deonka Drayton. She was 32. Deon...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Darrow Brown and Juan Calvo
From: StoryCorps
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Now, a conversation that reminds us how being a father can be about much more than biology. In 2007, after volunteering to care for infants born ...

Bought by KRVS


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 1
June 11th: Ongoing Support for Marius Mason and His Family
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week on Kite Line we feature Arianna Staiger, daughter of Marius Mason, an anarchist prisoner who used to live and organize in Bloomington. Ar...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 29:55
Linden Jordan: How To Be a Man
From: The Art of Risk
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Linden Jordan took enough risks to last a life time: coming out as gay to a conservative Southern Baptist family; leaving a lucrative and prestigio...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 46:16
Episode 63: Rochester, 1991
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Kim Dadou says she wishes she had a nickel for every person who has asked why she didn’t leave her abusive boyfriend. They stayed together for four...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2017
  • Length: 26:32
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps OutLoud: Leslye Huff and Mary Ostendorf
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Leslye Huff (left) and Mary Ostendorf (right)
When they met in 1983, Leslye was open about her sexuality while Mary kept hers private. With a family Thanksgiving approaching, that all changed.

Bought by KRVS, Radio Catskill, WMUU-LP, and Public Radio for All


  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 02:14
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps OutLoud: Drew Cortez and Danny Cortez
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Pastor Danny Cortez and his son, Drew, recall the sermon Danny gave to his church congregation after Drew told his father that he was gay.

Bought by KALW and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 29, 2016
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 2
58 Forbidden Crushes Part 3: My Secret Gay Crush
From: The Mortified Podcast
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Part 3 of our series on Forbidden Crushes features a closeted teen who wants to pour her heart out to her crush but fears outing herself.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2016
  • Length: 24:05
RDD: The RDD Meets TSN
From: WGTE Public Media
Caption: A copy of a Toledo Streets Newspaper
This week The Rough Draft Diaries was introduced to the Toledo Streets Newspaper, a paper with a mission. We met Courtney Billian, the Workforce De...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2016
  • Length: 06:22
StoryCorps OutLoud: Carole Smiley with Seth and Octavius Smiley-Humphries
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Seth Smiley and Octavius Humphries had their first date on Christmas Eve. They discuss that and other memorable holiday events they have shared.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps OutLoud: Claudia Anton and Diana Keough
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Claudia Anton (L) and Diana Keough (R)
Sisters from Wisconsin recount what it was like to find out both of their parents had AIDS, and to lose them both to the disease in the early 1990s.

Bought by WMUU-LP, Blue Mountain Radio , WEZU, and WTJU


  • Added: Nov 30, 2015
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 4
Man, I Feel Like a Woman
From: Israel Story
Series: Israel Story Podcast
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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
StoryCorps: Michelle Kreifels and Patrick Kreifels
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Patrick (L) and Michelle (R) Kreifels
Patrick Kreifels and his older sister, Michelle, discuss how their differences have brought them together.

  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 02:11