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Writer and trailblazer Felice Picano has died at 81. He wrote fiction, nonfiction, poetry, plays, and screenplays and founded one of the U.S.'s first publishers focused LGBT writers.
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Musician and drag queen Thorgy Thor reflects on her time as a young violist growing up on Long Island. The Ronkonkoma native would eventually take her talents to Connecticut, studying music at the University of Hartford.
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In his album Amours Interdites (Forbidden Love) French pianist David Kadouch explores music by gay composers who concealed their sexuality in 19th and 20th century societies that wouldn't accept them.
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Dr. Rachel Levine is the highest ranking, out transgender person ever to serve in the federal government. Her tenure at HHS ran concurrent with an explosion in state legislation targeting transgender people.
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NPR's Leila Fadel talks with actor Elliot Page as he makes his return to the big screen in "Close to You." The film tells the story of a trans man reuniting with his family.
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ChamberQUEER operates as a collective of performers, composers, and creators, hosting events like Open Mic Nights and Sight Reading Parties to networking opportunities, performances and workshops. Suzanne Bona speaks with 3 of ChamberQUEER's founding members - Jules Biber (cello), Danielle Buonaiuto (soprano), Brian Mummert (baritone).
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NPR's Scott Detrow talks to founder and host of the podcast "Making Gay History" Eric Marcus about the how LGBTQ Pride has evolved through the years.
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In what she calls "Books Not Bans," Becka Robbins sends titles to groups that want them in the face of a movement by conservative advocacy groups and lawmakers to ban them from schools and libraries.
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In this week's StoryCorps, a couple talks about how they met and fell in love thanks to ballroom dancing.
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Everyone’s coming out journey is different. This is mine.