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North Carolina's LGBTQ Community Stands Against Domestic Terrorism
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Join Laura Flanders as she speaks with residents of Moore County affected by a targeted power outage during a drag show, uncovering potential motiv...

Bought by WORT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, KWMR and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
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
Noah Creshevsky
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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When Noah Creshevsky learned he was dying of bladder cancer two years ago, he decided to decline medical treatment. Soon, he and his husband David ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 07:41
A new lawsuit says the VA has failed to live up to its promises about gender-affirming care
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough (right) talks with VA social worker Art Akkerman at a June 2022 LGBTQ Pride event in Denver, Colorado., Credit: Elaine Buehler / U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
The Transgender American Veterans Association is suing the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, two years after the department said it would provid...

Bought by KPBS, WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, KUT, and WHRV


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 5
Special Report - Power Grids Under Attack: The Threat is Domestic Terrorism – Not Drag Artists
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Last December, an attack on two electrical substations in Moore County, North Carolina left 45,000 households and businesses without power for up t...

Bought by Radio Catskill, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KWMR and more


  • Added: Dec 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
25 years since Matthew Shepard: Where are we now?
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Where are we with LGBTQ+ civil rights and safety since Matthew Shepard's brutal 1998 murder? How can we curtail ongoing hate-based violence? The Ma...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Oregon Public Broadcasting, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZYX, KUOW and more


  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 53:31
  • Purchases: 9
Before 2011, the military forced out thousands of LGBTQ+ troops. Now, some are suing.
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Jules Sohn (left), who now is the LGBTQ+ Liaison for the Los Angeles Police Department, is among the plaintiffs in the lawsuit seeking to upgrade the discharges of thousands for LGBTQ+ former service members., Credit: Courtesy Jules Sohn
The federal lawsuit seeks upgraded discharges for more than 30,000 former service members.

Bought by North Country Public Radio, KMXT, Texas Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WRFA-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 09, 2023
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 8
2023-09-24 What Is Masculinity?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Ideals of manhood differ across times and cultures—why think there’s any one thing it means to be a man?

Bought by KJZZ, WVTF, KTSW 89.9, KUOW, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 18
Drag Story Hour Under Attack: What Can Media Do?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As Pride 2023 is in full swing, we explore the activism of drag queens and trans people who bore the brunt of the violence during the Stonewall Rio...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Jun 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 9
Pride Pioneers Holly Hughes & Esther Newton: How Queer Kinship Ties Help Us Survive
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Holly Hughes and Esther Newton are radical in their fields and a couple for more than 30 years. In this Pride special, they talk with Laura about t...

Bought by KWMR, KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and WNYE


  • Added: Jun 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Pride Then and Now
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The South Asian contingent at the San Francisco Pride Parade in 2016 and also the last time I was there during Pride. , Credit: Sandip Roy
At a time when June is celebrated as Pride month both in Kolkata and San Francisco, Sandip reflects on a what it took to reconcile both parts of on...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
2325: What is Gender?, 6/20/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Is Gender an oppressive system that sorts people into pink and blue boxes, or is it a critical part of people’s identities?

  • Added: Jun 12, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
PRIDE SPECIAL- Imara Jones: Countering The Anti-Trans Hate Machine
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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549 bills banning books, medical treatment, even access to the bathroom were introduced in 2023. As today’s guest says, the people driving the anti...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, Radio Catskill, KDNK and more


  • Added: Jun 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Dissent at BYU towards LGBTQ+ students
From: KRCL
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Christie Porter of Salt Lake Magazine on her recent article about dissent at BYU. Check out her story, The State of LGBTQ+ activists at BYU, online...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 13:50
Grandma inspired first lesbian Calif. Supreme Court Justice
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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California Supreme Court Associate Justice Kelli Evans, the first out lesbian on the state's high court, was raised by her grandmother in public ho...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: Resistance, Money, and the Struggle for Trans Rights
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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2022 will go down in history for the number of anti-trans bills introduced into state legislatures. Over 300 bills banning books, medical treatment...

Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Passion for politics in 'Paul for Pete'
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg in January 2020 at a supporter’s home in Denver, Colorado., Credit: Leslie Ginsburg
With crucial midterm elections underway, how can individuals make an impact? “Paul for Pete” author Paul Mason Barnes, a key volunteer on Pete Butt...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 05, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Future of the AIDS Memorial Quilt
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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The AIDS Memorial Quilt is displayed in San Francisco. "Civic" hears from activists and officials about future plans for combating AIDS.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
OutCasting 0098 -- Using religion to discriminate against LGBTQ people -- part 23 of an in-depth exploration
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: Jennifer C. Pizer, OutCaster Isha, Credit: Jennifer Pizer image - Lambda Legal
Right-wing myths and the dismantling of the separation between church and state.

Bought by Radio Catskill, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 30, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Pride Month: Imara Jones, The Anti-Trans Hate Machine
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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2022 will go down in history for the number of anti-trans bills introduced into state legislatures. Over 300 bills banning books, medical treatment...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WMPG, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
Coping 101: Gender Identity & Coming Out
From: C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
Series: Coping 101
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Taking the step to come out to family and friends can be a very stressful time and support from loved ones makes a world of difference. As we celeb...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 21:43
  • Purchases: 1
SCOTUS abortion case leak shows queer rights at risk too
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Out in the Bay's federal courts analyst details how the US Supreme Court's anticipated decision in Mississippi abortion case jeopardizes LGBTQ rights., Credit: Courtesy ACLU/AP
How deeply are LGBTQ civil liberties threatened by abortion cases now before the conservative-led U.S. Supreme Court? Federal courts journalist Lis...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: May 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Women's History Month: How Trans People Are Reclaiming Their Stories: Laverne Cox, Sam Feder
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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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 C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
How SCOTUS abortion cases could affect us all
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Out in the Bay's federal courts analyst says the US Supreme Court's anticipated decision in Missouri abortion case could jeopardize LGBTQ rights., Credit: ACLU / AP
How much are our most personal rights threatened by abortion cases now before the U.S. Supreme Court? For example, in addition to abortion, our ri...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
OutCasting 0091 -- Using religion to discriminate against LGBTQ people -- part 16 of an in-depth exploration
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: Jennifer C. Pizer, OutCaster Isha, Credit: Jennifer Pizer image via Lambda Legal
The bill of rights and the vehemence of Justices Thomas and Alito on religious liberty vs. LGBTQ equality.

Bought by RADIOLEX and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 30, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2