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Caption: D'Arcy Drollinger's character Diana Midnight in his play "Bitch Slap" has just been slapped by another character., Credit: Gooch
We’ve heard of poet laureates. What is a DRAG laureate? And why has drag, an increasingly popular form of entertainment, become a political footbal...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KERA, Spokane Public Radio, KZYX, Baltimore Public Media and more


  • Added: May 15, 2024
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: Roger Mayo and Jim Neal at their StoryCorps interview in Portland on November 4, 2023., Credit: By Black Owl Studio for StoryCorps.
Former romantic partners Jim Neal and Roger Mayo remember Drop Me A Line, a shop they used to operate in Portland, Maine. The tiny card and gift sh...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 02:57
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Kal Penn talks with Chasten Buttigieg, author of the memoir "I Have Something to Tell You."

Bought by WBHM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Jul 28, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on the Live Feed we return to Boats and Bluegrass 2022 for a live performance from The Last Revel. After a 5 year hiatus, the original La...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:19
Caption: Fauxnique portrays Wonder Woman, one of many characters in her show "The F Word" at Oasis cabaret, San Francisco, 2016., Credit: Gareth Gooch
Monique Jenkinson, a.k.a. Fauxnique, was the first cisgender woman to win the title "Miss Trannyshack" in 2003, raising many glittered eyebrows in ...

Bought by WORT and WORT


  • Added: Feb 11, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Action Tours protest at the Macy’s 34th St Store in NYC on Nov 29, 1991., Credit: Meryl Levin
On Black Friday 1991, AIDS activists protested the department store's refusal to rehire a Santa who had HIV. The man who inspired the protest recon...

Bought by KALW and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:13
  • Purchases: 2
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with visiting lecturer Dr. Corey Yeager, Team Ps...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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For National Pride Month, we'll hear from 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winner Jericho Brown, who describes the joy he finds in writing poetry and how his wo...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WNJR


  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Tim turning into Reina del Taco. October 2019. Martha's Vineyard, Credit: Andrea Betanzos
Next for WCAI’s Ways of Life series, a story about searching for just the right way to be in the world. Which isn’t always easy. Andrea Betanzos ha...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 29, 2019
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Elizabeth Coffey-Williams and Jennifer Coffey at their StoryCorps interview in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 8, 2019., Credit: By Jud Esty-Kendall for StoryCorps.
Elizabeth Coffey-Williams tells her niece, Jennifer Coffey, about what it was like to come out as transgender to her family in the early 1970s.

Bought by KALW, WDBM, and WHRV


  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 3
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Remember the first time you learned about death? Or when you realized YOU could go next? Find out what happens when teenagers face the possibility ...

  • Added: May 21, 2019
  • Length: 36:19
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The strange, brutal and barbaric things grade school kids do when struck by Cupid’s arrow. The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia fr...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Mar 31, 2019
  • Length: 26:19
  • Purchases: 1
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Liz Barnez and Lori Daigle felt an immediate spark when they met as teenagers. At StoryCorps, they sat down to remember how they reconnected decade...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2019
  • Length: 02:37
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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
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A soap opera helps a girl come out to her mom. The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Support independent artists by donat...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2018
  • Length: 17:40
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A small town boy becomes consumed with The Guiding Light. The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Listen to all eps at getm...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2018
  • Length: 23:33
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Mortified's celebration of LGBTQ Pride month continues with stories of first generation kids whose search for happiness takes them in unexpected di...

Bought by KALW and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 10, 2018
  • Length: 30:03
  • Purchases: 2
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In this episode, we discuss the opportunities that Spencer Pride Inc. work to provide for LGBTQ Youth with our guest Jonathon Balash, the president...

  • Added: May 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: Jay O. Sanders
In James McLindon’s I Don’t Know, an old school drill sergeant is faulted by his new recruits and desperately, hysterically longs for the time when...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 23:39
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A teenage metal head gets desperate when she can't find any other lesbians in her school. Because, the 80s. The Mortified Podcast is a proud member...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2017
  • Length: 25:07
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Grab your bag, cover your textbooks and decorate your new locker! Celebrate the joys and pains of back to school season with tales of being the new...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2017
  • Length: 22:30
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A teenager tries to find love on AOL without revealing her true identity. The Mortified Podcast is part of Radiotopia from PRX. Listen @ getmortifi...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2017
  • Length: 18:08
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What happens when you live in fear of everyone in school finding out your moms are gay? The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from ...

  • Added: May 07, 2017
  • Length: 20:05
Caption: Bobby Miller in his studio., Credit: Ron Amato
This is a profile of Bobby Miller, a photographer in Provincetown, MA.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2016
  • Length: 04:45
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A man shares the diaries he kept as an awkward adolescent girl. Support the Trans community at transequality.org and thetrevorproject.org.

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Dec 04, 2016
  • Length: 22:36
  • Purchases: 1