Jason Jenn
This Way Out Radio Episode #1870: First Black Lesbian U.S. Senator Praises Youth
U.S. Senator Laphonza Butler (D-CA) is the first Black lesbian to ever serve in Congress’ upper chamber. Appointed to fill the seat of...
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Jason Jenn
Jan 23
This Way Out Radio Episode 1869: ILGA's First Asian Foray & Egypt's Queen Boat Bust
The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) started organizing globally in 1978, and in 2004 its 22nd...
Jason Jenn
Jan 16
This Way Out Episode # 1868: Kenyan Mother Bears Queer Children's Burden (Pt. 2)
With two queer daughters in homophobic Kenya, Mary Mumbi talks about spreading the word about tolerance and fairness to other parents and...
Jason Jenn
Jan 9
This Way Out Radio Episode #1867: A Kenyan Mother Bears Queer Children's Burden (Pt. 1)
After coming to terms with one daughter’s sexuality, a Mombasa mom becomes a community confidante and an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights...
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Dec 19, 2023
This Way Out Radio Episode #1864: AOC Fights Transphobia & Tipton Double-Time
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) goes viral by exposing U.S. House Republicans’ gender hypocrisy while questioning National...
Jason Jenn
Dec 12, 2023
This Way Out Radio Episode #1863: A Progressive Texas Christian & McKellen’s Queer Wizardry
In the Texas state legislature, Christian Democratic Representative James Talarico gave a biblically-based rebuke against a Republican...
Jason Jenn
Dec 5, 2023
This Way Out Radio Episode #1862: Defiant Virginia Dad & "Mambo Italiano"
Cody Connor is fighting for his trans daughter in the face of Virginia Governor Glen Youngkin’s “model policies” for schools....
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Nov 21, 2023
This Way Out Radio Episode #1860: Gertrude Loves Alice & "Girls About Town"
Private notes between Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas are the literature of love in “Precious Baby Always Shines” (commentary by Janet...
Jason Jenn
Nov 14, 2023
This Way Out Radio Episode #1859: Stops En Route to US and Canadian Marriage Equality
Two flashback reports in which we covered major high court rulings that led to marriage equality: one in the Canadian province of...
Jason Jenn
Nov 7, 2023
This Way Out Radio Episode #1858: The Consecration of Bishop Gene Robinson
The U.S. Episcopal Church and by extension the worldwide Anglican Communion was rocked by the selection of the first out gay bishop...
Jason Jenn
Oct 31, 2023
This Way Out Radio Episode #1857:“My Life Is Poetry” Workshop
A unique program for LGBTQ seniors led by West Hollywood, California’s first Poet Laureate Steven Reigns uses poetry as a tool to capture...
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Oct 24, 2023
This Way Out Radio Episode #1856: Harlan Pruden’s Two-Spirit Dry Lab
A collaborative of Indigenous and settler researchers is studying the intersections of Indigeneity, gender, sexual orientation and geography
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Oct 10, 2023
This Way Out Episode 1854: Revisiting “The Book of Matthew”
In commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the murder of Matthew Shepard, we rebroadcast our coverage of the 1998 hate crime that...
Jason Jenn
Oct 4, 2023
This Way Out Radio Episode #1853: Lost Bi Music Set & Irish Folkie Found
Skott Freedman’s 2003 anthology “Bi the People” boosted the audibility of bisexual musicians, including Jill Sobule and Leigh Fischer...
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Sep 26, 2023
This Way Out Radio Episode# 1852: Canada’s 2003 Equality Crawl & Out at Oktoberfest
Twenty years ago this month, the marriage equality storyline in Canada was poised at a frustrating turning point. The world’s largest...
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Sep 19, 2023
This Way Out Radio Episode #1851: Section 28 Falls & Queer Duck Flies
The 15-year struggle to bring the U.K.’s “no promo homo” law Section 28 down ended on September 18, 2003. Actor JM J (Jim) Bullock talks...
Jason Jenn
Sep 12, 2023
This Way Out Episode # 1850: Banned Lesbian Poets Lorde and Dickinson
The works of Emily Dickinson and Audre Lorde were standard classroom fare twenty years ago, but these days the right wing is clearing them o
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Sep 5, 2023
This Way Out Radio Episode #1849: 60th Anniversary March on Washington Queer-lights
LGBTQA+ representation was proud and loud when activists returned to the Lincoln Memorial on August 26th for the 60th anniversary of the...
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Aug 29, 2023
This Way Out Radio Episode #1848: 1981-My Gay American Road Trip
The queer cross-country journals of “This Way Out” veteran producer JD Doyle capture a slice of pre-AIDS gay male culture in the U.S.
Jason Jenn
Aug 22, 2023
This Way Out Radio Episode# 1847: Augusts Past: "Dream" March & Early Obama
The anniversary of the historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom comes again when a rightwing political backlash threatens...
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