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Matthew Shepard – in his mom’s words
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Matthew Shepard was brutally killed 25 years ago for being gay. His mother Judy founded the Matthew Shepard Foundation 25 years ago this December a...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
All-trans rock band Lipstick Conspiracy reunites
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Cover art of Lipstick Conspiracy 2006 album “A Perfect Alibi”, Credit: Larry Utley
In part as a “joyful antidote” to the escalation of anti-LGBTQ laws across the US, San Francisco’s all-transwomen rock band Lipstick Conspiracy is ...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
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
Author Dwayne Ratleff on ‘Dancing to the Lyrics’
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Dancing to the Lyrics won Dwayne Ratleff a Best Indie Book Award in the “LGBTQ Coming Of Age” category., Credit: Book cover art by Leann E. Johnson / L&J Graphics
Dwayne Ratleff grew up Black, poor and gay in 1960s Baltimore. As a youngster, his grandma taught him: “Don’t explain yourself, be yourself.” His a...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KALW, and WORT


  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 4
OutCasting 101 -- Healthcare issues faced by transgender people – part 2 of 2
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: OutCasting youth broadcasters Carys and Andrew
Transgender people face many obstacles in life. One of the most pressing is the difficulty they can find in getting appropriate healthcare. In th...

Bought by KMUN and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Sep 30, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Don’t ‘pray away the gay’ - we’re ‘Born Perfect’
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Freedom March, a current “ex-gay” group, co-opts queer imagery and holds rallies against conversion therapy bans. Cropped film still from “Pray Away” documentary., Credit: Multitude Films/Netflix
Canada's nationwide ban on conversion therapy took effect January 7. Why no national ban in the US? Despite clear evidence that conversion therapy ...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Jan 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Meet the USA’s first transgender bishop
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Reverend Dr. Megan Rohrer has made LGBTQ and religious history as the first openly transgender bishop in a major Christian denomination. Rohrer spo...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Gay Calif. Supreme Court Justice values struggle
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Martin Jenkins makes history as the first openly gay Supreme Court of California justice, and only the third Black man ever to serve on the state's...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
'Funeral Diva' poet Pamela Sneed: "We can heal"
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Pamela Sneed's poetic memoir "Funeral Diva" is described as a “coming of age in New York City during the late 1980s.”, Credit: Patricia Silva
Pamela Sneed’s prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. She reads selections from her memoir, Funeral Diva, and shares some of her life story. ...

Bought by KALW and WORT


  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
USAF Veteran Lauren Hough: ‘Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing’
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Essayist Lauren Hough in 2018, Credit: Karl Poss IV / Vintage Books
In our queer nod to Veterans Day, we bring you writer Lauren Hough, who grew up in the infamous Christian free-love cult The Family. At 18, she joi...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
June 2021 – Pride and the LGBTQ community
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
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June means LGBTQ Pride in much of the world, but are there issues within the community?

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: May 31, 2021
  • Length: 12:54
  • Purchases: 1
April 2021 – Bullied gay seventh grader
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Justin
How did he deal with it? Was his school helpful? What did he learn from it?

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
March 2021 – An LGBTQ youth considers rainbow capitalism
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCaster Vivian
Is it enough when businesses fly rainbow flags?

  • Added: Feb 27, 2021
  • Length: 05:52
OutCasting 0060 – Trans student sues school over bathroom use
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: Drew Adams and Tara Borelli
OutCaster Andrew speaks with Drew Adams, a transgender student who sued his high school for discrimination, and his lawyer from Lambda Legal, Tara ...

Bought by KZYX, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KWMR


  • Added: Apr 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Falling in Love for Three Minutes
From: University of Montana Journalism
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Zooey, a grad student and dance instructor, loves to both lead and follow. There was never a question about whether or not she would continue to do...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 06:48
  • Purchases: 1
158: My Mormon Valentine
From: The Mortified Podcast
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Celebrate Valentines Mormon-style. It’s hard enough to find love as a teen but what if your fate for all eternity is on the line? And everyone is w...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
Alex not Amy-Growing up transgender in the rural West
From: Denise Dowling
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A 10-year-old boy's journey to legally and socially change his gender in his hometown in the Rocky Mountain West.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Wyoming Public Radio, Boise State Public Radio, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: May 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 6
The Ada Decades
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Paula Martinac
It’s not often I interview the author of a novel on this program. Sometimes, though, a work of fiction can give us insights and perspectives a non-...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Interview with psychologist Ritch Savin- Williams about his book "Being Who I am: Young Men on Being Gay"
From: Out of Bounds
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Lively interview w/ Savin-Williams after years of research about young gay men and how they navigate their lives in the 21st century.

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Before I Do
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Elizabeth Schwartz
The first time a US Supreme Court ruling came out in favor of the LGBT community was in 1958. That was the beginning of a slow and arduous process...

Bought by KUAC and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 06, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
I Wanna Dance With Somebody - A Song Story
From: Will Heron
Series: Song Stories
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Law student and former go-go dancer, Armando Torres' Song Story recalls a time when he was a god above all, transmitting his energy from a box in t...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2015
  • Length: 06:15
The Power of Poetry
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Beck Eldridge, Credit: Laura Flynn
Making Contact partnered with the 2014 National Poetry Slam to produce this special open mic highlighting the power of thoughtful, truth telling, c...

Bought by XRAY.fm and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 22, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Jack and Rose
From: Emma Miller
Caption: Gloria and Rose
Sassy and sagacious Gloria, 85, shares stories of being in both a conventional heterosexual marriage and a long-time same-sex relationship.

Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2014
  • Length: 10:37
  • Purchases: 2
Country Fried Rock Interviews Caitlin Cary of NC Music Love Army #1339
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: We Are Not For Sale: Songs Of Protest, Credit: Skillet Gilmore
Caitlin Cary and Jon Lindsay formed the NC Music Love Army after a long phone conversation inspired by a song quickly written and posted on YouTube...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
M4M
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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With the legalization of same-sex marriage in Maine, Barton Girdwood got to wondering, what about all the gay men in Maine who never found love? S...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 1