OutCasting Overtime

Series produced by Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media

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Additional shorter-form content from OutCasting, public radio's LGBTQ youth program.

Additional shorter-form content from OutCasting, public radio's LGBTQ youth program. Often personal in nature, these essays and discussions have covered the Pulse massacre in Orlando, bisexual erasure, coming out, gender norms, and why young LGBTQ people often have to lie. Typically 3-6 minutes.


70 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
December 2019 - Gender dysphoria - part 2 of a 2 part conversation
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participants Kaspar and Andrew
December 1, 2019 - Is it a mental illness? Do trans people have to medically transition to really be trans? OutCasters Andrew and Kaspar discuss....

  • Added: Nov 30, 2019
  • Length: 12:01
November 2019 - Gender dysphoria - part 1 of a 2 part conversation
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasters Andrew and Kaspar
November 1, 2019 - Is it a mental illness? Do trans people have to medically transition to really be trans? OutCasters Andrew and Kaspar discuss....

  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 14:46
October 2019 - Oversexualizing gay identity
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasters Andrew and Amalee
October 1, 2019 - OutCasters Andrew and Amalee consider why some people think that showing anything to do with gay people is inappropriate for chil...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Sep 30, 2019
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 1
September 2019 – Becoming a passionate straight ally at OutCasting
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Dhruv
OutCaster Dhruv talks about how OutCasting has made him a passionate straight ally. It's not enough, he says, to just say you're an ally.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and WOUB


  • Added: Aug 30, 2019
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
August 2019 - "Straight Pride." Yes, really.
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: "Straight Pride"
August 1, 2019 - OutCaster Alex takes a humorous look at the "Straight Pride" parade planned for later this month in Boston.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 05:59
July 2019 – Addressing queer stereotypes
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Alex
July 1, 2019 - OutCaster Alex talks about a stereotype about bisexual people and how his own coming out story fits into it.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2019
  • Length: 04:06
June 2019 – Stonewall 50 and importance of knowing LGBTQ history
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Andrew
OutCaster Andrew talks about why it’s important for both LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ people to have an awareness of LGBTQ history.

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 05:20
  • Purchases: 1
May 2019 – trans teenager talks about using public bathrooms
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Andrew
OutCaster Andrew talks about what it’s like to use public bathrooms as a transgender person and why it’s important to respect the rights of trans p...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Apr 30, 2019
  • Length: 08:04
  • Purchases: 1
April 2019 – The importance of pronouns to trans people
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
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OutCasting youth participant Amalee talks about the importance of using preferred personal pronouns, especially for trans people.

Bought by KUAF Public Radio, PRX Remix, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Mar 29, 2019
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 3
March 2019 – Trans teen has bad doctor experience
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Andrew
OutCaster Andrew talks about his experience with a doctor who was insensitive to the needs of her trans patient.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2019
  • Length: 06:26
February 2019 – Remembering Gilbert Baker
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Alex with Gilbert Baker at OutCasting's studio
OutCaster Alex reflects on his speech at the Gilbert Baker memorial and his hopes for what it might represent in his life.

  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 04:09
January 2019 – Labels within the LGBTQ communit
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Dante
OutCaster Dante comments on increasingly specific labels within the LGBTQ community.

Bought by RADIOLEX and KRZA


  • Added: Dec 30, 2018
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
December 2018 - The importance of LGBTQ candidates
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Alex
December 2018 - OutCaster Alex talks about the rarity and importance of having LGBTQ elected officials.

  • Added: Nov 30, 2018
  • Length: 05:06
November 2018 - Political violence in the Trump era
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participants Lucas and Dhruv
Pipe bombs, the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre, and a president who legitimizes hate.

  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 04:02
LGBTQ youth suicide
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participants Lucas and Dhruv
A nine-year-old gay boy recently committed suicide after being bullied in school. OutCasting youth participants Dhruv and Lucas talk about ways to...

Bought by KRZA, Radio Catskill, and WORT


  • Added: Sep 28, 2018
  • Length: 05:24
  • Purchases: 3
OutCasting Overtime - September 2018 – Queer vs. gay
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Alex
September 2018 — OutCasting youth participant Alex talks about how we have reclaimed a slur and why it may be a better label for him.

Bought by Cards Against Humanity: The Good News Podcast


  • Added: Aug 30, 2018
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 1
OutCasting Overtime - August 2018 - Dating while queer in high school.
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participants Alex, Lauren, Andrea
OutCasting youth participants Alex, Andrea, and Lauren talk about the particular challenges young LGBTQ people face in dating while in high school.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KRZA


  • Added: Aug 01, 2018
  • Length: 21:47
  • Purchases: 2
OutCasting Overtime - July 2018 – Youtube tagging transgender videos as unsuitable for advertisers
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participants Lucas and Dhruv
Trans content on Youtube – Controversy over tagging trans videos as unsuitable for advertisers, pairing with anti-LGBTQ ads.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jun 30, 2018
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 1
OutCasting Overtime - June 2018 – Straight appropriation of LGBTQ culture
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Andrea
Straight people sometimes appropriate LGBTQ culture in ways that can be detrimental to LGBTQ people.

  • Added: May 31, 2018
  • Length: 04:05
OutCasting Overtime - May 2018 – Marlon Bundo
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
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A pet bunny gets recast as gay in a children’s book parodying a similar book created by members of VP Mike Pence’s family.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 27, 2018
  • Length: 04:33
  • Purchases: 1