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Louisiana, like many other states, has seen a slew of anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ bills introduced this legislative session. Sophie Ziegler joins to...
Bought by WORT, WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Jul 17, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
I hope when equal rights comes, there will still be room for that ambiguity. That we don’t always need to walk in a straight line.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Dec 12, 2016
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
We begin our show with updates on the National Prison Strike, and then devote the entire episode to Marius Mason, a friend and former Bloomington r...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Oct 03, 2016
- Length: 28:45
- Purchases: 1
It is all very well to castigate the Supreme Court for its failure to affirm gay rights. But rights mean nothing without responsibility and those r...
- Added: Apr 20, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Michele Josue talks dealing with grief, facing new allegations about Matthew Shepard’s murder, and how friendship is always in the present tense.
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 10:46
Culture gives us permission - or denies us permission - to express what we find is true and real in ourselves. There is nothing natural, or inevita...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 20:44
The term "Hinduism" refers to a multitude of traditions, so it's no surprise that Hindu attitudes towards sexuality and homosexuality are complex. ...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 12:27
For Buddhists, whether homosexuality is "right" or "wrong" isn't the question - it's more important to ask whether a behavior is "skillfull" or "un...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 12:27
- Purchases: 1
Like many other conservative-leaning Christian denominations, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially condemns homosexual acts. ...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 11:54
Anita Sherrill knew she was a lesbian since she was a little girl. But reconciling her sexuality with her Christianity, and with her father, hasn't...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 07:40
African-American Christian denominations run the gamut, from Baptist and Evangelical to Roman Catholic. One thing they've have tended to share, tho...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 15:46
Rev. Richard Cizik says he's undergone an "evolution" about the place of gays and lesbians in Evangelical Christianty - and says that American Evan...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 10:48
Compared with mainliners, Evangelical Christians emphasize a more personal relationship with Jesus, and believe they have a sacred duty to share th...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 10:23
Eve Tushnet is gay, Catholic, and proudly celibate. A recent convert, she decided she couldn't be a good Catholic and a practicing lesbian at the s...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 17:00
When Celestine married Hilary 34 years ago, they were a typical heterosexual couple, bound by love and their vows of Catholic marriage. So 17 years...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 05:52
In recent years, the Episicopal church has changed its rules on homosexuality, creating same-sex blessings and ordaining gay clergy. That hasn’t go...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 16:45
Bishop Marianne Budde, the spiritual leader of some 40,000 Episcopalians in the DC-Metro area, shares the church’s official stance on homosexuality...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 15:18
The director of one of the largest mosques in America presents Islam’s traditional approach to homosexuality: being gay is acceptable, but acting o...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 04:38
- Purchases: 1
A gay, devout Muslim man recounts growing up in Pakistan, where being homosexual wasn’t just abnormal, it “wasn’t part of the vocabulary.” After mo...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 10:26
- Purchases: 1
It all started with those two lines in Leviticus - a core text of Judaism. Two rabbis from opposite ends of the theological spectrum explain homose...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 18:53
In Orthodox Judaism, to be both actively gay and "frum," or observant, is a theological taboo. Producer Jon Kalish spoke to four Orthodox men and w...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 10:38
It all started on a Sunday afternoon in October, 1968. Twelve people gathered for worship in a living room in Huntington Park, California. It was t...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 12:05
The Metropolitan Community Church wasn’t the only gay-friendly church in the early 70s. Around the same time, a small crop of churches and synagogu...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 21:38
For thousands of years, scholars have interpreted a handful of passages in the Bible, Torah and Koran as clear condemnations of homosexuality. From...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 12:06
Open any Torah, Bible or Koran, and the passages about homosexuality seem clear: being gay is an abomination, a sin, something that incurs the wrat...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 34:26