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Our Last Valentine's Day Together
From: kent Rader
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This piece is about the absurdity that gay marriage will hurt a heterosexual marriage.

  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 02:58
Intolerance Comes to the Party
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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When Narendra Modi came by last week to the Bay Area the titans of tech pulled out all stops to give him a red carpet welcome. Amidst all this jub...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
Carrying Stuff Up Mt. Everest: Spirituality and Job Definitions
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A Town Clerk in Kentucky has refused to give out a marriage license to a gay couple, risking jail time, because the two of them marrying “does not...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2015
  • Length: 04:13
Mrs. Johnson
From: Liz McArthur
Series: The "Get to Know Me" occasional series
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Daphne Shaed talks about what it's like to be a woman with a penis.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 11:49
Lady Jay: Transgendered in prison
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - San Quentin Prison Report
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There are often situations in life when you might want or need a how-to manual, but none exists. One harsh example would be adjusting to life in pr...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:06
  • Purchases: 2
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The White House lit up in a rainbow, Credit: USA Today
After the historic ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on gay marriage, Sandip Roy reflects on... his Facebook feed.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 29, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Kashish (Mumbai LGBT Film Fest)
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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In India the Supreme Court did not realize that when it recriminalized gay sex, society had come a long way. Like toothpaste it just cannot be pus...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
The Interview
From: Marlo Mack
Series: How to Be a Girl
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Marlo Mack interviews her daughter about what it's like to be a six-year-old transgender girl. Her daughter shares her story and offers some advic...

Bought by XRAY.fm, WCPN, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 03, 2015
  • Length: 07:35
  • Purchases: 3
Looking for Love
From: Marlo Mack
Series: How to Be a Girl
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A single mom and her young transgender daughter both hit the dating scene, and then compare notes on the rocky road to romance.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WCPN, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 03, 2015
  • Length: 08:28
  • Purchases: 4
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
Tom Boy Trans Girl
From: Marlo Mack
Series: How to Be a Girl
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How girlie do you have to be to secure your spot in the girl club? And what happens when your own mother questions your girl credentials? Marlo Ma...

Bought by WCPN and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Sep 06, 2014
  • Length: 09:11
  • Purchases: 2
How Old is Gender?
From: Marlo Mack
Series: How to Be a Girl
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How old is gender? Can a six-year-old child really be considered transgender? Marlo Mack explores this question, with a little help from her tran...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Sep 06, 2014
  • Length: 08:54
  • Purchases: 1
Love, DIY Style
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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A meditation on relationships as DIY projects: The great thing — and the scary thing — about relationships is that you get to make it all up as you...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 23, 2014
  • Length: 19:34
  • Purchases: 1
Mama, I'm a Girl
From: Marlo Mack
Series: How to Be a Girl
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A mother comes to terms with the fact that her young son...is actually her daughter.

Bought by XRAY.fm, HowSound, WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 07:17
  • Purchases: 7
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
Congratulations on Us
From: Nathan Callahan
Series: The SoCal Byte
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Liberal Human Rights Perspectives

  • Added: May 07, 2014
  • Length: 06:16
Indian politicians forced out of the closet
From: KALW
Caption: Pride festivities in New Delhi, Credit: Sandip Roy
For the first time ever gay issues are part of the election debate in India.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Stray or Great?
From: KALW
Caption: Seth India Today Cover, Credit: India Today
He is one of the best known Indian writers writing in English these days. But Vikram Seth is a very private man. But Dec. 11, 2013 changed all that.

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Feb 03, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Reversal of Gay fortune
From: KALW
Caption: Aditya and Michael, Credit: Gilles Delage
On December 8th the Indian Supreme Court reinstated Section 377 of the Penal Code making sex against the order of nature a crime again. But India s...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
130203 Watermelon Head Man, Tin Foil Hats, Who Dat and Some Football Game
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Auto Download Version)
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Another night of music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of... Made substantially better via my tin foil hat.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2013
  • Length: 02:53:50
131021 Chicano Sound in Americana Music, NOLA Guitarists
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Auto Download Version)
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And some great interstitials between music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. Americana music from the 1950s to the 1970's. O...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:48:26
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota" -by Stewart Van Cleve
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota" by Stewart Van Cleve
Dan Sinykin provides a comprehensive of the historically illuminating new book "Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota" by Stewart Van ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 1
Voice of a Young Voter: "No Gay Marriages Allowed in My State"
From: KQED
Series: From the West Coast: Voices of Young Voters
Caption: Josh Morrissette
Josh Morrissette of Tacoma, Wash. talked with KPLU about gay marriage.

  • Added: Nov 04, 2012
  • Length: :34
Labor's Honorary Lesbian
From: Dick Meister
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San Francisco labor leader Walter Johnson was a key supporter of gay rights.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2012
  • Length: 04:13