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Guest interviews
Video podcast
English
United States
29 episodes
since Dec. 4, 2024
episodic

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Veteran folk-rock musician Danni Hoshino surprised everyone — not least herself — when she came out as a transgender woman in 2022, just weeks before her planned wedding. But her gender identity wasn’t the only thing that changed. She moved from her native Boston to New York, changed her stage name…

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Kestral Gaian brings a queer sensibility to their new book, The Boy From Elsewhere, putting a queer spin on that universal trope: the hero’s quest to conquer evil and save the world. It’s a genre-bending story featuring a young-adult cast of characters on a trek through the multiverse. The landscap…
In the early 1980s, the LGBTQ movement experienced the first tremors of a shockwave that would shake its very foundations. A disease outbreak diagnosed in just five gay men in Los Angeles in 1981 would eventually claim the lives of more than 700,000 Americans. Nearly 60% of the dead would be gay or…
Jennie Arnau lives and works in New York City. But her childhood home is in the American South, in Greenville, South Carolina. It’s the place she discovered her passion for music. And the place that called her back in a time of loss and grief.  As she ends a self-imposed break from songwriting and …
The world faces a refugee crisis. More people are displaced today — by war, famine and climate — than at any time in human history. Among the most vulnerable are people persecuted for their sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics. But even as the number of refugees and asylum-se…
In a wide-ranging interview with David Hunt, Jessica Stern recounts pivotal moments in her career, from her work as a scholar and global human rights activist to her tenure as the top queer diplomat in the U.S. State Department during the Biden administration.  Stern, now a senior fellow at the Car…
Mainstream news outlets regularly cover LGBTQ stories, reporting on everything from queer culture and the arts to political and legal struggles for equality around the world. But that’s a relatively recent phenomenon. Until the 1990s, most news organizations paid little attention to LGBTQ news beyo…
Jennifer Knapp burst onto the Christian music scene in the late 1990s with an energy and honesty that resonated with thousands of young people searching for meaning and connection. Knapp’s first three albums sold over 1 million copies and earned the singer/songwriter two Grammy nominations and a Do…
Over 5 billion people around the world use social media — and each of them spends, on average, about two-and-a-half hours a day texting, watching videos, gossiping, posting cat pictures and getting the latest news. But in an era of A.I. hallucinations and deepfakes, can you really trust what you he…
The drive for legal equality for LGBTQ people has faced strong headwinds in the Caribbean in recent years. In February 2024, a court in St. Vincent and the Grenadines dismissed a challenge to the nation’s archaic antigay criminal codes, saying the laws were justified on the grounds of public health…
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