Intake Interviewg wh Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Clients: Startg om a Place of Affirmatn

‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
HOW TELEVANGELIST TAMMY FAYE MSNER BEME A GAY IN
INTAKE INTERVIEWG WH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR CLIENTS: STARTG OM A PLACE OF AFFIRMATN
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
EIGHT QUEER PODSTS TO LISTEN TO DURG PRI MONTH AND BEYONDFROM THE RADIL ROOTS OF PRI TO STORI OF TRANS PEOPLE THE WILD WT, THE SHOWS N EXPAND LISTENERS’ KNOWLEDGE OF QUEER HISTORY THE UNED STAT.BY JTE GOOJUNE 24, 2020ILLTRATN BY ALICIA TATONE.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEPRI LOOKS DIFFERENT THIS YEAR. WH BLACK LIV MATTER PROTTS PROLIFERATG ACROSS THE NATN THE MONTH OF JUNE, THE UAL CELEBRATORY ATMOSPHERE OF PRI MONTH—WHICH RECENT YEARS, HAS FEATURED CREASGLY RPORATE EVENTS—HAS SHIFTED TO SHOW SOLIDARY WH THE CURRENT CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AGAST SYSTEMIC RACISM.BUT PRI AND AND BLACK LIV MATTER ARE FAR OM MUTUALLY EXCLIVE; FACT, GAY LIBERATN AND BLACK LIBERATN ARE HISTORILLY TERWED, WH BLACK TRANS ACTIVISTS RTG AT THE CENTER OF BOTH MOVEMENTS. AND AS MANY AMERINS ARE SEEKG TO EPEN THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF BLACK HISTORY, SO TOO SHOULD THEY SEEK TO UNRSTAND THE HISTORY OF QUEER PEOPLE AMERI AND BEYOND, WHICH HAS BEEN SIARLY ELID OM OUR TEXTBOOKS.THE PODSTS ARTFULLY LK THE PAST TO THE PRENT, REVEAL HIDN HISTORI, OFFER A SENSE OF REPRENTATN AND MUNY, AND HONOR THE ORIGS OF PRI SELF—WHICH WAS, AFTER ALL, A RT.NANCYHOSTED BY KATHY TU AND TOB LOW, NANCY HAS BEEN HIGHLY ACCLAIMED SCE S LNCH 2017, NOT LEAST BEE S HOSTS’ INTI AND PERSONAL JOURNEYS HAVE BEEN WOVEN TO THE SHOW’S DNA OM THE JUMP. IN NANCY’S FIRST EPISO, TU AND LOW BOTH TERVIEWED THEIR MOTHERS—WHO GREW UP TAIWAN AND CHA, RPECTIVELY—ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENC G OUT, TO VERY DIFFERENT RULTS. SCE THAT SEMAL EPISO, NANCY HAS PROVID A PLATFORM WHERE VAR LGBTQIA+ EXPERIENC N BE UNPACKED, SHARED, AND CELEBRATED. FEATURG A MIX OF CELEBRY TERVIEWS, QUEER HISTORY, POP-CULTURE ANALYIS, AND ANK NVERSATNS ABOUT THE STGGL QUEER PEOPLE AMERI NTUE TO FACE, ’S AN IMPRSIVELY WELL-ROUND SHOW, AND ONE OF WNYC’S CROWN JEWELS.LISTEN: “BLACK TRANS LIV MATTER,” A NVERSATN WH AWARD-WNG JOURNALIST IMARA JON ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF CLUDG BLACK TRANS PEOPLE THE BLACK LIV MATTER MOVEMENT, AND THE RADIL ROOTS OF PRI.SUPPORT NANCYGENR REVEALRELEASED EVERY MONDAY, GENR REVEAL AMPLIFI THE STORI OF TRANS AND NONBARY FOLKS. STILL NOT QUE SURE WHAT “NONBARY” MEANS? THAT’S OKAY—GENR REVEAL ALSO PRIS SELF BEG A EE ROURCE FOR THOSE SEEKG TO TE THEMSELV ABOUT GENR. ITS PILOT EPISO, “GENR 101,” EXPLAS TERMOLOGY LIKE “CISGENR,” “TERF,” “GENRQUEER,” AND MORE (LISTENERS N THEN GRADUATE TO “GENR 102,” “GENR 103,” “GENR 201,” “GENR 202,” “GENR 301,” “GENR 401,” “GENR 402,” “GENR 501,” AND “GENR 502”). HOST TUCK WOODSTOCK, WHOSE FECT LGH PUNCTUAT EACH TERVIEW, HAS FEATURED MORE THAN 60 GUTS OVER THE URSE OF FIVE SEASONS, MAKG THIS THE PERFECT PLACE TO GET ACQUATED WH QUEER AND NONBARY PEOPLE WHO ARE TRANSFORMG THEIR MUNI AND THE WORLD.LISTEN: “DOMIQUE, RIAH, LAYLEEN, AND ALYSSA PARIAH,” A NVERSATN WH ACTIVIST ALYSSA PARIAH ABOUT BLM, BLACK TRANS LIBERATN, AND HOW BAIL FUNDS N SAVE BLACK TRANS LIV.SUPPORT GENR REVEALMAKG GAY HISTORYOVER THE URSE OF SEVEN SEASONS, MAKG GAY HISTORY HAS REVEALED THE HIDN HISTORY OF THE LGBTQIA+ CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT THROUGH THE VOIC OF S MOST PROMENT LEARS. FEATURG ARCHIVAL TERVIEWS WH GAY-RIGHTS ACTIVISTS CLUDG SYLVIA RIVERA, MARSHA P. JOHNSON, BARBARA GTGS AND KAY LAHEN, AND BAYARD RT, MAKG GAY HISTORY’S UNPARALLELED ACCS TO PRIMARY SOURC MAKE THIS SHOW A PARTICULARLY POWERFUL LISTEN. HOST ERIC MARC NDUCTED THE TERVIEWS HIMSELF OVER S, AND THE RULT IS A WI-RANGG ORAL HISTORY PROJECT THAT FEELS BOTH TIMATE AND IMMEDIATE.LISTEN: “STONEWALL 50: EPISO 2: EVERYTHG CLICKED… AND THE RT WAS ON,” A FIRST-PERSON ACUNT OF THE 1969 STONEWALL UPRISG AS TOLD BY MARSHA P. JOHNSON AND OTHER QUEER ACTIVISTS WHO WERE AT THE RT.MOST POPULARRUDY GIULIANI: I HAVE “SCIENTIFIC EVINCE” THE 2020 ELECTN WAS STOLEN FROM DONALD TMPBY BS LEVHOW MK, THIEL, ZUCKERBERG, AND ANDRESEN—FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS—ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE, AUTOCRATIC REALYBY JONATHAN TAPL25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISSUPPORT MAKG GAY HISTORYAOQUEER PODSTHOSTED BY SELLY THIAM, A JOURNALIST, ORAL HISTORIAN, AND PRODUCER, AOQUEER CELEBRAT THE LOVE STORI OF QUEER AINS, FEATURG THE EXPERIENC OF PEOPLE OM BOTH THE AIN NTENT AND THE DIASPORA. THE BETIFULLY PRODUCED EPISOS EXPLORE TOPICS CLUDG AIN G-OUT STORI, THE DISAPPEARANCE OF A QUEER SOMALI WOMAN MNEAPOLIS, THE STORY OF A UGANDAN MAN WHO PLANNED TO HOST FIRST GAY PRI EVENT AT A REFUGEE MP, AND THE PLITED DYNAMICS OF G GRDR AI, WHERE SOME UNTRI STILL CRIMALIZE HOMOSEXUALY. THROUGH A MIX OF LIVE STORYTELLG, TERVIEWS, AND VTIGATIVE REPORTG, THE PERSONAL NARRATIV THAT THIAM UNVERS ARE PROFOUNDLY MOVG, AND WILL UNDOUBTEDLY EXPAND LISTENERS’ UNRSTANDG OF THE LIVED EXPERIENC OF QUEER BLACK PEOPLE ACROSS THE GLOBE.LISTEN: “HOW ARE YOU DOG?,” WHICH EXAM HOW THE PANMIC HAS BEEN AFFECTG QUEER AIN MUNI ALL OVER THE WORLD, OM UGANDA TO SWEN TO WT AI TO BOSTON.SUPPORT AOQUEER (NONE ON RERD)QUEER AMERIQUEER AMERI SEEKS TO TE LISTENERS ON THE LGBTQIA+ HISTORY THAT WAS NOT TGHT CLASSROOMS, WH EPISOS THAT ARE SPECIFILLY SIGNED FOR STUNTS AND TEACHERS WHO WANT TO TEGRATE QUEER HISTORY TO THEIR STANDARD CURRICULUM. THIS MEANS THAT EPISOS ALTERNATE BETWEEN THOUGHTFUL HISTORIL ANALYSIS (CLUDG DISCSNS OF THE LAVENR SRE, “ROMANTIC IENDSHIPS” BETWEEN LBIANS THROUGHOUT HISTORY, HOW WW II IMPACTED GAY AND LBIAN MUNI, AND THE AIDS EPIMIC), AND PRACTIL GUIS TO RPORATG QUEER HISTORY TO CLASSROOMS. A SPECIAL SERI OM TEACHG TOLERANCE, A PROJECT OF THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER, EACH EPISO PAGE OF QUEER HISTORY CLUS A THOROUGH ROURCE AND READG LIST TO HELP LISTENERS FURTHER TE THEMSELV. HOSTED BY LEILA RUPP AND JOHN D’E, QUEER AMERI IS AS PELLG AS IS PREHENSIVE.LISTEN: “THE EXPERIENCE OF TRANS PEOPLE,” A NVERSATN WH HISTORIAN AND WRER GENNY BEEMYN ABOUT THE HISTORY OF TRANS AND GENR NONNFORMG FIGUR, OM THE WILD WT TO THE MORN DAY.SUPPORT QUEER HISTORY (SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER)QUEERWOC: THE PODSTQUEERWOC IS AN ONLE MUNY CREATED SPECIFILLY FOR “PEOPLE WH FEME ENERGI, MARGALIZED GENRS, SEXUALTI, AND RAC” TO MEET AND SOCIALIZE. ITS ACPANYG PODST (“AN SURGENT PODST FOR QUEER WOMEN OF LOR”) IS HOSTED BY FOUNRS NIKEETA, AN ANIZER AND ACTIVIST, AND MONEY, A MENTAL HEALTH UNSELOR AND DOCTORAL NDIDATE, WHOSE NATURAL BANTER F EVEN THE MOST DIFFICULT TOPICS WH A SENSE OF LEVY AND MARARIE. TOGETHER, NIKEETA AND MONEY HOLD SPACE FOR NVERSATNS AROUND FATPHOBIA THE LBIAN MUNY, WHY PEOPLE GET TRIGGERED, COVID-19 AND THE REVOLUTN, AND HOW AUDRE LOR’S WRG N HELP FACILATE HEALG. THEY ALSO FEATURE SEGMENTS CLUDG “MENTAL MOMENT,” WHICH ENURAG TROSPECTN AND OFFERS TOOLS FOR SELF-PRERVATN, AND “LEFTIST LBIAN LUMARY LABOR LECTURE,” WHICH T LISTENERS ON THE LGO OF THE SOCIAL-JTICE MOVEMENT.MOST POPULARRUDY GIULIANI: I HAVE “SCIENTIFIC EVINCE” THE 2020 ELECTN WAS STOLEN FROM DONALD TMPBY BS LEVHOW MK, THIEL, ZUCKERBERG, AND ANDRESEN—FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS—ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE, AUTOCRATIC REALYBY JONATHAN TAPL25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISLISTEN: “YA GAY AUNTI ‘DIGG’ FOR GEMS’ FT. QUEERWOC,” A WI-RANGG NVERSATN WH HANIFAH WALIDAH AND RED SUMMER OF THE PODST YA GAY AUNTI ABOUT RECENT PROTTS, THE “BLACK YEEHAW AGENDA,” BLACK ROLLER-SKATG CULTURE, AND MORE. AND AS NIKEETA NOT AT THE TOP OF THIS EPISO, QUEERWOC DON’T NEED A FEATURE PUBLITNS LIKE THE NEW YORK TIM OR, SAY, VANY FAIR, TO VALIDATE THE WORK THEY’RE DOG—BUT THEY WELE ALL NEWFOUND LISTENERS WILLG TO EMBRACE THEIR MSAGE.SUPPORT QUEERWOC: THE PODSTOUTWARDA MONTHLY “SALON” HOSTED BY RUMAAN ALAM, J. BRYAN LOWR, AND CHRISTA CTECCI, OUTWARD DIV EP TO QUEER CULTURE, CURRENT EVENTS, AND LGBTQIA+ HISTORY. THROUGH TERVIEWS WH ACTIVISTS, JOURNALISTS, AND THORS, THE HOSTS LVE TO THE PLEXI OF TOPICS CLUDG RADIL MOVEMENTS, CHOSEN FAY, TRAVELG AS A GAY PERSON, AND QUEER SEX. LISTENG TO OUTWARD EPISOS OFTEN FEELS LIKE STG AT A DNER PARTY WH A BUNCH OF FASCATG, OPNATED PEOPLE—LISTENERS WILL BE PELLED TO LEAN FORWARD AND SOAK UP EVERY WORD OF THE THOUGHT-PROVOKG, ROUNDTABLE-STYLE NVERSATNS.LISTEN: “COVID-19, AIDS, AND COMMUNY,” WHICH THE HOSTS DRAW PARISONS BETWEEN THE COVID-19 PANMIC AND THE AIDS EPIMIC WH ALPHONSO DAVID, PRINT OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— AUTHOR UZODMA IWEALA ON WHE SIGNS AT BLACK PROTTS— “GEE FLOYD WAS KILLED MY NEIGHBORHOOD”— 15 YEARS AFTER KATRA, A SEND STORM—CORONAVIS—HS NEW ORLEANS— HOW MEGHAN MARKLE DECID TO FALLY SPEAK OUT ABOUT GEE FLOYD— NIKKA OLIVER ON SEATTLE’S EXTRAORDARY PROTTS AND WHAT COM NEXT— WHERE J.K. ROWLG’S TRANSPHOBIA COM FROM— FROM THE ARCHIVE: THE ORIG OF “STRANGE F,” BILLIE HOLIDAY’S BALLAD AGAST RACISMLOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.JTE GOO

‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’

Tammy Faye Msner (formerly Bakker) was mp rnate. While she’s remembered for her wildly over-the-top makp and garish animal-prt ensembl, what also endur is the seemgly scere love she had for her gay fans. * interview with gay person *

That's part of the this behd gay liberatn slogans like "We're Here, We're Queer, Get Used to It" and "Gay is Good, " and many of the mastream LGBTQ+ rights movement's greatt polil gas, cludg same-sex marriage or the cultural acceptance driven by Pri celebratns natnwi, have been propelled by the ia that all queer people want to be out, loud, and the past has shown that many people n (and do) discrimate agast queer people, even when queer people are among their clost panns. This means I have to make sure to not only act a certa way but to not tat my fay's reputatn as they know my parents as quarante has begun and SAQTC went virtual, I had to start anizg and facilate events and workshops om home while livg wh my parents our small two-bedroom apartment, who have no ia that their dghter is gay. You so obvly nnot be gay, was her implitn, bee this is good was 2006, a full five years before Lady Gaga would set the Born This Way argument atop s unassailable cultural perch, but even then the popular unrstandg of orientatn was that was somethg you were born wh, somethg you uldn’t change.

But what feels most accurate to say is that I’m gay – but I wasn’t born this people may fd their sir changg directn - and n't jt be explaed as experimentatn (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)In 1977, jt over 10% of Amerins thought gayns was somethg you were born wh, acrdg to Gallup.

Throughout the same perd, the number of Amerins who believe homosexualy is “due to someone’s upbrgg/environment” fell om jt unr 60% to ias reached cril mass pop culture, first wh Lady Gaga’s 2011 Born This Way and one year later wh Macklemore’s Same Love, the chos of which has a gay person sgg “I n’t change even if I tried, even if I wanted to. ” Around the same time, the Human Rights Campaign clared unequivolly that “Beg gay is not a choice, ” and to claim that is “giv unwarranted crence to roundly disproven practic such as nversn or reparative therapy.

HOW TELEVANGELIST TAMMY FAYE MSNER BEME A GAY IN

The Fletcher Fom terviewed Graeme Reid, the director of Human Rights Watch's Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Rights Program, November 2017, followg Mr. Reid's participatn on a panel discsg 'Queerg Internatnal Relatns' as part of the 2017 Conference on Genr & Internatnal Affairs. * interview with gay person *

”People who challenge the Born This Way narrative are often st as homophobic, and their thkg is nsired backwardAs Jane Ward not Not Gay: Sex Between Straight Whe Men, what’s tertg about many of the claims is how transparent their speakers are wh their polil motivatns. ”Gay rights do not have to hge on a geic explanatn for sexualy (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)For Aravosis, and many gay activists like him, the public will only accept and affirm gay people if they thk they were born gay.

Inial teractns between lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr (LGBT) clients and psychotherapists n reveal existg bias om both parti. LGBT * interview with gay person *

In fact, the homophobic and non-homophobic rponnts he studied shared siar levels of belief a Born This Way Samantha Allen not at The Daily Beast, the growg public support for gays and lbians has grown out of proportn wh the rise the number of people who believe homosexualy is fixed at birth; would be unlikely that this small change opn uld expla the spike support for gay marriage, for stance.

“It don’t seem to matter as much whether or not people believe that gay people are born that way as do that they simply know someone who is currently gay, ” Allen spe of the studi, those who ph agast Born This Way narrativ have been heavily cricised by gay activists. Siarly, Ward has received her own hatemail for phg agast the lg LGB narrativ, wh some gays tellg her she’s “worse than Ann Coulter, ” the ntroversial US thor of books like If Democrats Had Any Bras, They’d Be Republins. There is a unanimo opn that gay “nversn therapy” should be rejectedLet’s first be clear that whatever the origs of our sexual orientatn, there is a unanimo opn that gay “nversn therapy” should be rejected.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

The efforts are potentially harmful, acrdg to the APA, “bee they prent the view that the sexual orientatn of lbian, gay and bisexual youth is a mental illns of disorr, and they often ame the abily to change one’s sexual orientatn as a personal and moral failure. The APA, for example, while notg that most people experience ltle to no choice over their orientatns, says this of homosexualy’s origs:“Although much rearch has examed the possible geic, hormonal, velopmental, social and cultural fluenc on sexual orientatn, no fdgs have emerged that perm scientists to nclu that sexual orientatn is termed by any particular factor or factors. ”Siarly, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn wr a 2013 statement that while the of heterosexualy and homosexualy are currently unknown, they are likely “multifactorial cludg blogil and behavral roots which may vary between different dividuals and may even vary over time.

” Acrdg to LeVay’s rearch, a specific part of the bra, the third terstial nucls of the anterr hypothalam (INAH-3), is smaller homosexual men than is heterosexual as they might, scientists have stggled to inty any particular gen that nsistently predict the directns of our love and sire (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)Read moreYou n spot the problem wh this study a e away: were the gay bras LeVay studied born that way, or did they bee that way? Bis the dividual criqu leveled agast each new study announcg some gay gene disvery, there are major methodologil cricisms to make about the entire enterprise general, as Grzanka pots out: “If we look at the raveno pursu, particularly among Amerin scientists, to fd a gay gene, what we see is that the ncln has already been arrived at. ” Our sir may exprs themselv many different ways that do not all nform to existg notns of ‘gay’, ‘straight’ or ‘bisexual’ is one of the bt takeaways of Ward’s Not Gay, a peratg analysis of sex between straight whe men.

”Gay or not, our sir are oriented and re-oriented throughout our liv (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)In fact, the straight-intified men Ward studied for her book sometim found themselv suatns that sparked the sire for homosexual sex: aterni, ployments, public rtrooms, etc.

EIGHT QUEER PODSTS TO LISTEN TO DURG PRI MONTH AND BEYONDFROM THE RADIL ROOTS OF PRI TO STORI OF TRANS PEOPLE THE WILD WT, THE SHOWS N EXPAND LISTENERS’ KNOWLEDGE OF QUEER HISTORY THE UNED STAT.BY JTE GOOJUNE 24, 2020ILLTRATN BY ALICIA TATONE.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEPRI LOOKS DIFFERENT THIS YEAR. WH BLACK LIV MATTER PROTTS PROLIFERATG ACROSS THE NATN THE MONTH OF JUNE, THE UAL CELEBRATORY ATMOSPHERE OF PRI MONTH—WHICH RECENT YEARS, HAS FEATURED CREASGLY RPORATE EVENTS—HAS SHIFTED TO SHOW SOLIDARY WH THE CURRENT CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AGAST SYSTEMIC RACISM.BUT PRI AND AND BLACK LIV MATTER ARE FAR OM MUTUALLY EXCLIVE; FACT, GAY LIBERATN AND BLACK LIBERATN ARE HISTORILLY TERWED, WH BLACK TRANS ACTIVISTS RTG AT THE CENTER OF BOTH MOVEMENTS. AND AS MANY AMERINS ARE SEEKG TO EPEN THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF BLACK HISTORY, SO TOO SHOULD THEY SEEK TO UNRSTAND THE HISTORY OF QUEER PEOPLE AMERI AND BEYOND, WHICH HAS BEEN SIARLY ELID OM OUR TEXTBOOKS.THE PODSTS ARTFULLY LK THE PAST TO THE PRENT, REVEAL HIDN HISTORI, OFFER A SENSE OF REPRENTATN AND MUNY, AND HONOR THE ORIGS OF PRI SELF—WHICH WAS, AFTER ALL, A RT.NANCYHOSTED BY KATHY TU AND TOB LOW, NANCY HAS BEEN HIGHLY ACCLAIMED SCE S LNCH 2017, NOT LEAST BEE S HOSTS’ INTI AND PERSONAL JOURNEYS HAVE BEEN WOVEN TO THE SHOW’S DNA OM THE JUMP. IN NANCY’S FIRST EPISO, TU AND LOW BOTH TERVIEWED THEIR MOTHERS—WHO GREW UP TAIWAN AND CHA, RPECTIVELY—ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENC G OUT, TO VERY DIFFERENT RULTS. SCE THAT SEMAL EPISO, NANCY HAS PROVID A PLATFORM WHERE VAR LGBTQIA+ EXPERIENC N BE UNPACKED, SHARED, AND CELEBRATED. FEATURG A MIX OF CELEBRY TERVIEWS, QUEER HISTORY, POP-CULTURE ANALYIS, AND ANK NVERSATNS ABOUT THE STGGL QUEER PEOPLE AMERI NTUE TO FACE, ’S AN IMPRSIVELY WELL-ROUND SHOW, AND ONE OF WNYC’S CROWN JEWELS.LISTEN: “BLACK TRANS LIV MATTER,” A NVERSATN WH AWARD-WNG JOURNALIST IMARA JON ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF CLUDG BLACK TRANS PEOPLE THE BLACK LIV MATTER MOVEMENT, AND THE RADIL ROOTS OF PRI.SUPPORT NANCYGENR REVEALRELEASED EVERY MONDAY, GENR REVEAL AMPLIFI THE STORI OF TRANS AND NONBARY FOLKS. STILL NOT QUE SURE WHAT “NONBARY” MEANS? THAT’S OKAY—GENR REVEAL ALSO PRIS SELF BEG A EE ROURCE FOR THOSE SEEKG TO TE THEMSELV ABOUT GENR. ITS PILOT EPISO, “GENR 101,” EXPLAS TERMOLOGY LIKE “CISGENR,” “TERF,” “GENRQUEER,” AND MORE (LISTENERS N THEN GRADUATE TO “GENR 102,” “GENR 103,” “GENR 201,” “GENR 202,” “GENR 301,” “GENR 401,” “GENR 402,” “GENR 501,” AND “GENR 502”). HOST TUCK WOODSTOCK, WHOSE FECT LGH PUNCTUAT EACH TERVIEW, HAS FEATURED MORE THAN 60 GUTS OVER THE URSE OF FIVE SEASONS, MAKG THIS THE PERFECT PLACE TO GET ACQUATED WH QUEER AND NONBARY PEOPLE WHO ARE TRANSFORMG THEIR MUNI AND THE WORLD.LISTEN: “DOMIQUE, RIAH, LAYLEEN, AND ALYSSA PARIAH,” A NVERSATN WH ACTIVIST ALYSSA PARIAH ABOUT BLM, BLACK TRANS LIBERATN, AND HOW BAIL FUNDS N SAVE BLACK TRANS LIV.SUPPORT GENR REVEALMAKG GAY HISTORYOVER THE URSE OF SEVEN SEASONS, MAKG GAY HISTORY HAS REVEALED THE HIDN HISTORY OF THE LGBTQIA+ CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT THROUGH THE VOIC OF S MOST PROMENT LEARS. FEATURG ARCHIVAL TERVIEWS WH GAY-RIGHTS ACTIVISTS CLUDG SYLVIA RIVERA, MARSHA P. JOHNSON, BARBARA GTGS AND KAY LAHEN, AND BAYARD RT, MAKG GAY HISTORY’S UNPARALLELED ACCS TO PRIMARY SOURC MAKE THIS SHOW A PARTICULARLY POWERFUL LISTEN. HOST ERIC MARC NDUCTED THE TERVIEWS HIMSELF OVER S, AND THE RULT IS A WI-RANGG ORAL HISTORY PROJECT THAT FEELS BOTH TIMATE AND IMMEDIATE.LISTEN: “STONEWALL 50: EPISO 2: EVERYTHG CLICKED… AND THE RT WAS ON,” A FIRST-PERSON ACUNT OF THE 1969 STONEWALL UPRISG AS TOLD BY MARSHA P. JOHNSON AND OTHER QUEER ACTIVISTS WHO WERE AT THE RT.MOST POPULARRUDY GIULIANI: I HAVE “SCIENTIFIC EVINCE” THE 2020 ELECTN WAS STOLEN FROM DONALD TMPBY BS LEVHOW MK, THIEL, ZUCKERBERG, AND ANDRESEN—FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS—ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE, AUTOCRATIC REALYBY JONATHAN TAPL25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISSUPPORT MAKG GAY HISTORYAOQUEER PODSTHOSTED BY SELLY THIAM, A JOURNALIST, ORAL HISTORIAN, AND PRODUCER, AOQUEER CELEBRAT THE LOVE STORI OF QUEER AINS, FEATURG THE EXPERIENC OF PEOPLE OM BOTH THE AIN NTENT AND THE DIASPORA. THE BETIFULLY PRODUCED EPISOS EXPLORE TOPICS CLUDG AIN G-OUT STORI, THE DISAPPEARANCE OF A QUEER SOMALI WOMAN MNEAPOLIS, THE STORY OF A UGANDAN MAN WHO PLANNED TO HOST FIRST GAY PRI EVENT AT A REFUGEE MP, AND THE PLITED DYNAMICS OF G GRDR AI, WHERE SOME UNTRI STILL CRIMALIZE HOMOSEXUALY. THROUGH A MIX OF LIVE STORYTELLG, TERVIEWS, AND VTIGATIVE REPORTG, THE PERSONAL NARRATIV THAT THIAM UNVERS ARE PROFOUNDLY MOVG, AND WILL UNDOUBTEDLY EXPAND LISTENERS’ UNRSTANDG OF THE LIVED EXPERIENC OF QUEER BLACK PEOPLE ACROSS THE GLOBE.LISTEN: “HOW ARE YOU DOG?,” WHICH EXAM HOW THE PANMIC HAS BEEN AFFECTG QUEER AIN MUNI ALL OVER THE WORLD, OM UGANDA TO SWEN TO WT AI TO BOSTON.SUPPORT AOQUEER (NONE ON RERD)QUEER AMERIQUEER AMERI SEEKS TO TE LISTENERS ON THE LGBTQIA+ HISTORY THAT WAS NOT TGHT CLASSROOMS, WH EPISOS THAT ARE SPECIFILLY SIGNED FOR STUNTS AND TEACHERS WHO WANT TO TEGRATE QUEER HISTORY TO THEIR STANDARD CURRICULUM. THIS MEANS THAT EPISOS ALTERNATE BETWEEN THOUGHTFUL HISTORIL ANALYSIS (CLUDG DISCSNS OF THE LAVENR SRE, “ROMANTIC IENDSHIPS” BETWEEN LBIANS THROUGHOUT HISTORY, HOW WW II IMPACTED GAY AND LBIAN MUNI, AND THE AIDS EPIMIC), AND PRACTIL GUIS TO RPORATG QUEER HISTORY TO CLASSROOMS. A SPECIAL SERI OM TEACHG TOLERANCE, A PROJECT OF THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER, EACH EPISO PAGE OF QUEER HISTORY CLUS A THOROUGH ROURCE AND READG LIST TO HELP LISTENERS FURTHER TE THEMSELV. HOSTED BY LEILA RUPP AND JOHN D’E, QUEER AMERI IS AS PELLG AS IS PREHENSIVE.LISTEN: “THE EXPERIENCE OF TRANS PEOPLE,” A NVERSATN WH HISTORIAN AND WRER GENNY BEEMYN ABOUT THE HISTORY OF TRANS AND GENR NONNFORMG FIGUR, OM THE WILD WT TO THE MORN DAY.SUPPORT QUEER HISTORY (SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER)QUEERWOC: THE PODSTQUEERWOC IS AN ONLE MUNY CREATED SPECIFILLY FOR “PEOPLE WH FEME ENERGI, MARGALIZED GENRS, SEXUALTI, AND RAC” TO MEET AND SOCIALIZE. ITS ACPANYG PODST (“AN SURGENT PODST FOR QUEER WOMEN OF LOR”) IS HOSTED BY FOUNRS NIKEETA, AN ANIZER AND ACTIVIST, AND MONEY, A MENTAL HEALTH UNSELOR AND DOCTORAL NDIDATE, WHOSE NATURAL BANTER F EVEN THE MOST DIFFICULT TOPICS WH A SENSE OF LEVY AND MARARIE. TOGETHER, NIKEETA AND MONEY HOLD SPACE FOR NVERSATNS AROUND FATPHOBIA THE LBIAN MUNY, WHY PEOPLE GET TRIGGERED, COVID-19 AND THE REVOLUTN, AND HOW AUDRE LOR’S WRG N HELP FACILATE HEALG. THEY ALSO FEATURE SEGMENTS CLUDG “MENTAL MOMENT,” WHICH ENURAG TROSPECTN AND OFFERS TOOLS FOR SELF-PRERVATN, AND “LEFTIST LBIAN LUMARY LABOR LECTURE,” WHICH T LISTENERS ON THE LGO OF THE SOCIAL-JTICE MOVEMENT.MOST POPULARRUDY GIULIANI: I HAVE “SCIENTIFIC EVINCE” THE 2020 ELECTN WAS STOLEN FROM DONALD TMPBY BS LEVHOW MK, THIEL, ZUCKERBERG, AND ANDRESEN—FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS—ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE, AUTOCRATIC REALYBY JONATHAN TAPL25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISLISTEN: “YA GAY AUNTI ‘DIGG’ FOR GEMS’ FT. QUEERWOC,” A WI-RANGG NVERSATN WH HANIFAH WALIDAH AND RED SUMMER OF THE PODST YA GAY AUNTI ABOUT RECENT PROTTS, THE “BLACK YEEHAW AGENDA,” BLACK ROLLER-SKATG CULTURE, AND MORE. AND AS NIKEETA NOT AT THE TOP OF THIS EPISO, QUEERWOC DON’T NEED A FEATURE PUBLITNS LIKE THE NEW YORK TIM OR, SAY, VANY FAIR, TO VALIDATE THE WORK THEY’RE DOG—BUT THEY WELE ALL NEWFOUND LISTENERS WILLG TO EMBRACE THEIR MSAGE.SUPPORT QUEERWOC: THE PODSTOUTWARDA MONTHLY “SALON” HOSTED BY RUMAAN ALAM, J. BRYAN LOWR, AND CHRISTA CTECCI, OUTWARD DIV EP TO QUEER CULTURE, CURRENT EVENTS, AND LGBTQIA+ HISTORY. THROUGH TERVIEWS WH ACTIVISTS, JOURNALISTS, AND THORS, THE HOSTS LVE TO THE PLEXI OF TOPICS CLUDG RADIL MOVEMENTS, CHOSEN FAY, TRAVELG AS A GAY PERSON, AND QUEER SEX. LISTENG TO OUTWARD EPISOS OFTEN FEELS LIKE STG AT A DNER PARTY WH A BUNCH OF FASCATG, OPNATED PEOPLE—LISTENERS WILL BE PELLED TO LEAN FORWARD AND SOAK UP EVERY WORD OF THE THOUGHT-PROVOKG, ROUNDTABLE-STYLE NVERSATNS.LISTEN: “COVID-19, AIDS, AND COMMUNY,” WHICH THE HOSTS DRAW PARISONS BETWEEN THE COVID-19 PANMIC AND THE AIDS EPIMIC WH ALPHONSO DAVID, PRINT OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— AUTHOR UZODMA IWEALA ON WHE SIGNS AT BLACK PROTTS— “GEE FLOYD WAS KILLED MY NEIGHBORHOOD”— 15 YEARS AFTER KATRA, A SEND STORM—CORONAVIS—HS NEW ORLEANS— HOW MEGHAN MARKLE DECID TO FALLY SPEAK OUT ABOUT GEE FLOYD— NIKKA OLIVER ON SEATTLE’S EXTRAORDARY PROTTS AND WHAT COM NEXT— WHERE J.K. ROWLG’S TRANSPHOBIA COM FROM— FROM THE ARCHIVE: THE ORIG OF “STRANGE F,” BILLIE HOLIDAY’S BALLAD AGAST RACISMLOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.JTE GOO

I’m claimg that at some pot durg llege, my sexual and romantic sir beme reoriented toward menThkg back to my llege romanc wh women and men, I n beg to unrstand how my own experienc might have helped me to ‘cultivate’ my sire for homosexualy. “Limg our unrstandg of any plex human experience is always gog to be worse than allowg to be plited, ” he gay rights activists pared sexualy to relign - a ccial part of our life that we should be ee to practise however we like (Cred: Ignac Lehamann)So what are we to do wh the Born This Way rhetoric?

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