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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
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 57
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two episodes about people coming into their own.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 28, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
Episode 32: Among the Oak Trees
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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One day in the spring of 1986, a woman in Hot Springs, Arkansas named Ruth Coker Burks was visiting a friend in the hospital. She noticed a door do...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 27:33
  • Purchases: 1
Time To Transition
From: Edwina Stott
Caption: Ed Ayres, Credit: Supplied
Ed Ayres is a Radio presenter and classical musician. It took a 10,000 mile bike ride and a job teaching in one of the world’s most dangerous count...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Nov 22, 2020
  • Length: 12:20
  • Purchases: 1
Black Voices in Healthcare - Ep.3: Home
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Black Voices in Healthcare
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As healthcare workers, many of us have had to leave our home and go wherever our profession takes us. This week we asked you to reflect on what hom...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 19, 2020
  • Length: 31:03
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 115: Cecilia
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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When Cecilia Gentili was growing up in Argentina, she felt so different from everyone around her that she thought she might be from another planet....

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 31:31
(Almost) Like Any Other Mom
From: Michelle Dahlenburg
Caption: Producer Michelle Dahlenburg with Joe DePrang
Joe DePrang knows that embracing his new identity is what's right for him, but worries about how it will affect his two young children.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 14, 2019
  • Length: 06:33
  • Purchases: 2
Not Alone
From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Summer 2018
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My story is about the LGBTQ+ community and personal experiences of being in the closet, as well as having homophobic parents. I chose this topic be...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 07:18
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
Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive
From: Devon Strolovitch
Series: Inside the National Recording Registry
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Originally released as a B-side, so many deejays began playing Gloria Gaynor's “I Will Survive” that the record company reissued it as a single. It...

Bought by PRX Demo Station, KPIK-LP, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), KUER, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 03, 2017
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 8
Girls Rock NC
From: Hillary Rea
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Girls Rock NC is a summer music camp that doesn't hide being a feminist organization that embraces all gender identities. Ninety-five teens and twe...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 29, 2016
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #86: Winter of Love
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: John and Stuart celebrate after legally marrying in 2008., Credit: Bella Pictures
Marrying the person you love is the ideal, right? So what happens when you finally get to do that, only to have the government tell you, never mind...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 31:17
  • Purchases: 1
Coming Out Meatless (Gravy Ep. 21)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: Choya Webb and his father, Choya Webb Sr.
What does *not* eating meat say about you? In one young biracial man’s family, his dietary change was construed as white, elite, even feminine. In ...

Bought by KVLU, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 24:40
  • Purchases: 3
Allusionist 12: Pride
From: The Allusionist
Series: The Allusionist
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It’s June; the President of the USA has officially designated it LGBT Pride Month, and there’ll be Pride events around the world. But how did the w...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZMU Moab Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 14:08
  • Purchases: 3
Staying in the Gray
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Hannah Young giving her boifriend Clem Breslin a smooch.
Many spaces are designated for either men or women: bathrooms, clothing stores, hair salons. But some people don’t subscribe to being a man or a wo...

Bought by XRAY.fm and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 08:01
  • Purchases: 2
Belonging
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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This week, four stories of people who don’t quite belong in the world where they live, who take matters into their own hands to create belonging.

Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Strangers (podcast): "Two Men and a Baby"
From: Lea Thau
Series: Strangers
Caption: Steve & Patrick with "Violet", Credit: F Delventhal
On this episode of Strangers...a four-day old baby shows up with a few hours notice at the home of a gay couple. Complications ensue.

Bought by Public Radio for All, XRAY.fm, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 5
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
The Squeamer & Me
From: Chloe Stannard
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Sonja Hammer, a.k.a 'The Squeamer', is the host and producer "Sci-Fi & Squeam" a weekly pop culture radio program broadcast on the LGBTIQ community...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2014
  • Length: 17:21
In Between
From: Vanessa Barchfield
Caption: Performers wave to their audience at the close of the Fantasia Follies., Credit: Vanessa Barchfield
Every October for the past 39 years, Provincetown, Massachusetts has hosted the Fantasia Fair – the oldest transgender conference in the world. Van...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 09:22
  • Purchases: 1
The Fight for Marriage Equality
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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Hear stories of how some same-sex couples created marriage traditions in the absence of marriage equality in Washington state prior to November 2012.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2013
  • Length: 14:16
Small Town Pride
From: Jennifer Jerrett
Caption: 2012 Moab Pride Visibility March, Credit: Moab Pride
Red state, rural America isn't exactly the first place that pops into your mind when you think about pioneering LGBTQ pride movements.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Radio Catskill, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 04, 2013
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 9
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