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In the aftermath of the Elon Musk chainsaw gutting the United States Agency for International Development, LGBTQ+ people around the world were robbed of more than a hundred programs geared to promote their health, safety and human rights. UCLA Law School's Williams Institute senior fellow and director of international programs Ari Shaw worries that the days of U.S. leadership on global queer rights are over (interviewed by David Hunt). And in NewsWrap: the Czech Republic's sterilization pre-requisite for a transgender or nonbinary person seeking to change their legal gender is condemned by the European Court of Human Rights, researchers find young bisexual women leading the way in the surging numbers of Australians over the age of 15 who openly identify as “L-G-B-plus,” World Pride 2025 climaxes with a joyous parade and a defiant International March on Washington for Freedom, Tel Aviv's LGBTQ Pride is canceled in expectation of retaliation for Israel's airstrikes against Iran, 52 U.S. Congressional Democrats demand proof of life for renditioned gay Venezuelan make-up artist Andry José Hernández Romero, U.S. Air Force veteran Gina Ortiz Jones becomes the first out LGBTQ candidate to be elected Mayor of San Antonio, and more international LGBTQ+ news reported this week by Michael Taylor Gray and Sarah Montague (produced by Brian DeShazor). All this on the June 16, 2025 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

The Municipal Elections Committee of Los Angeles had a brief, shining romance with progressive candidates that began in the 70s, but in the 90s AIDS brought about the demise of the first LGBTQ political action committee in the United States (Part 2 of 2 produced by David Hunt). And in NewsWrap: Indonesian authorities arrest 56 men during a raid at a private gathering they label a “gay sex party” in a Jakarta hotel, Argentina's far-right President Javier Milei signs a decree banning gender-affirming healthcare for trans and nonbinary patients under 18, U.S. President Donald Trump's attempt to ban transgender treatments for young patients by decree is blocked by two court rulings, transgender and nonbinary people sue the U.S. State Department to demand it continue offering the “X” gender marker for passports and other federal government documents, hundreds protest the National Park Service's removal of the “T,” “Q” and plus sign from LGBTQ+ on the official website of the Stonewall National Monument, and more international LGBTQ+ news reported this week by Elena Botkin-Levy and Michael Taylor Gray (produced by Brian DeShazor). All this on the February 17, 2025 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

The killer who stalked Los Angeles gay bars in the early 80s slipped away twice (for reasons explained by Deputy D.A. Dino Fulgoni), but investigating officer Mike Thies wouldn't give up. Years later, lesbian policy manager Madeline Brancel rediscovered the life of her gay great-uncle, who was one of the victims (Part 2 of 2, produced by David Hunt). And in NewsWrap: protections for women and the rights of queer people are among the stumbling blocks to finalizing a deal at the U.N.'s COP29 climate conference, the Parliament of Vanuatu amends its Marriage Act to bans marriage equality, a three-judge panel of the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifts the barrier on implementing Indiana's ban on pediatric gender-affirming healthcare, black gay actor Jussie Smollett's 2019 conviction for staging a racist and anti-queer hate crime attack on himself is overturned on a technicality, U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson appeases South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace with a policy to restrict use of sex-segregated Capitol facilities based only on birth certificate gender, encouraging words for first-time voters from comedian Wanda Sykes, and more international LGBTQ news reported by Ava David and Michael Taylor Gray (produced by Brian DeShazor).  All this on the November 25, 2024 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/ NOTE TO RADIO STATIONS: The weekly program uploaded to SoundCloud will soon include a pitch for This Way Out/Overnight Productions (Inc.). Stations can download a pitch-free version from radio4all.net or Pacifica's AudioPort.Org. For more information, contact Brian@ThisWayOut.org.

The bold, brash and bawdy life and artistry of Sophie Tucker is captured in a risqué and raucous one-woman cabaret show written and performed by Laural Meade (interviewed by Brian DeShazor). And in NewsWrap: the largest LGBTQ Pride March in Serbia's history had several thousand people marching through the capital of Belgrade in defiance of violent threats, an accusation of theft in the midst of a contentious break-up gets two gay male Zimbabweans arrested for sodomy, the Australian Bureau of Statistics is refining questions about sexual orientation and gender identity for its 2026 Census, New South Wales has produced a study on puberty blockers for transgender young people that contradicts the U.K.'s controversial Cass Report, U.S.-based corporations Molson/Coors Brewing Company and toolmaking Stanley Black and Decker bow to right-wing pressure to abandon their workplace DEI programs, and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by Michael Taylor Gray and Melanie Keller (produced by Brian DeShazor).  All this on the September 16, 2024 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/ NOTE TO RADIO STATIONS: Beginning October 1, 2024, the weekly program uploaded to Soundcloud will include a pitch for This Way Out/Overnight Productions (Inc.). Stations can download a pitch-free version from radio4all.net or Pacifica's AudioPort.Org. For more information, contact Brian@ThisWayOut.org.

San Francisco Drag Laureate D'Arcy Drollinger sashays through those Golden Gates with a message of fabulousness in times of “drag panic” and performance bans (Part 1 of a two-part interview with Eric Jansen of “Out In The Bay”). Families of trans kids are fleeing the U.S. south, but founder and president of GRACE: Gender Research Advisory Council and Education Alaina Kupec is using their stories to inspire change (reported by David Hunt). And in NewsWrap: Budapest's successful LGBTQ Pride Parade highlights the conflict between gay U.S. Ambassador David Pressman and far right Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, ten queer Hong Kong couples celebrate a legal mass wedding through a registered officiant in Utah, U.S. President Joe Biden pardons thousands of queer veterans discharged under previous discriminatory regulations, Texas' ban on pediatric gender-affirming healthcare is upheld by the state Supreme Court, Arkansas' Supreme Court decides to deprive driver's license applicants the right to choose X as their gender marker instead of male or female, Utah's new law Equal Opportunities Initiatives forces the closure of LGBTQ Centers and all DEI programs at state colleges, and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by Michael Taylor-Gray and Kalyn Hardman (produced by Brian DeShazor).  All this on the July 1, 2024 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

Broadway's 2023-24 season is full of LGBTQ-related plays and musicals. Gay USA's Andy Humm and guest co-host Merryn Johns offer their thoughts on the hits, the misses and the queer Tony nominees; we add some examples from the shows “Suffs,” “Prayer for the French Republic,” “Merrily We Roll Along,” “Water for Elephants” and “Lempicka” to their astute reviews. Plus: comedian Dana Goldberg's wise words about pronouns. And in NewsWrap: the Czech Constitutional Court overturns sex reassignment surgery and sterilization prerequisites for legal gender changes, thousands protest across France and Belgium an attempt in the French Senate to restrict pediatric gender-affirming healthcare, Tel Aviv's renowned LGBTQ Pride Parade is canceled in favor of a hope and freedom rally due to the ongoing Gaza war, the Boy Scouts of America re-brands itself with the more inclusive name “Scouting America,” South Carolina's Republican Governor Henry McMaster is expected to sign a bill denying puberty blockers and hormone therapies to trans people under 18, Mississippi's Republican legislative majority defines gender as the sex assigned at birth for bathroom admittance, Rhode Island is poised to protect medical professionals who provide gender-affirming healthcare and abortion services, and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by Michael Taylor-Gray and Melanie Keller (produced by Brian DeShazor).  All this on the May 13, 2024 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

Somewhere between Radio Hall of Famer Barry “Dr. Demento” Hansen and Billie “Glinda” Burke, queer activist and audio producer David Fradkin found “Nurse Pimento” and her pop culture novelty treasures in the late 1970s. Featuring: Carroll O'Connor, Jack Lemon and Joe E. Brown, Groucho Marx, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Noel Coward, Sandy Dennis and George Segal, Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks; music by Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Judy Garland, Perry Como, Edie Gorme, Tommy Smothers and Martin Mull. “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” Emma's Revolution reminds us what life “From a (Social) Distance” was like. And in NewsWrap: Uganda's Constitutional Court declines to nullify the “Kill the Gays” Anti-Homosexuality Act in its entirety, the owner of Orenburg, Russia's queer-friendly Pose nightclub is now in jail with two staffers being held on charges of “extremism,” the United Nations Human Rights Council specifically addresses the rights of intersex people for the first time, Wisconsin's Democratic Governor Tony Evers refuses to deny trans student the right to compete in high school sports based on their gender identity, Florida Republican state Representative Fabiбn Basabe sues Miami Pride for disinviting him due to his hypocritical record and need for massive police protection, and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by Ava Davis and Michael Taylor Gray (produced by Brian DeShazor).  All this on the April 8, 2024 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

In the Texas state legislature, Christian Democratic Representative James Talarico gave a biblically-based rebuke against a Republican Christian nationalist bill to post the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms — and it went viral. The repeal of the U.K.'s notorious “no promo homo” Section 28 and the opening of Lord of the Rings: Return of the King made mid-December 2003 a joyous season for world-renowned actor Sir Ian McKellen. He greeted the news at an LGBTQ gathering at Premiere House in Wellington, New Zealand (recorded by Hugh Young of Access Radio's GayBC). And in NewsWrap: Uganda's infamous Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 faces a quadruple challenge in the nation's Constitutional Court, Scotland's Gender Recognition Reform Bill loses the first round of its fight for approval from the British government, Jordanian queer activists forced to flee from government persecution, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers vetoes a Republican bill to ban pediatric gender-affirming healthcare, Florida defends school board book bans as the government's right to control libraries, Bucks County, Pennsylvania voters celebrate rescuing their school board from right-wing extremists, and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by Michael Taylor-Gray and Kalyn Hardman (produced by Brian DeShazor).  All this on the December 11, 2023 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

A collaborative of Indigenous and settler researchers is studying the intersections of Indigeneity, gender, sexual orientation and geography in a “dry lab” — a laboratory that does its work on computers rather than with beakers or Bunsen burners. Co-founder Harlan Pruden says the goal is to combine good relations and indigenous ways of knowing (produced by Lauren Schmitt). And in NewsWrap: India's Supreme Court defers to Parliament to enact marriage equality legislation, Nepalese lower courts refuse to register the marriage of a queer couple despite the Supreme Court's provisional marriage order, a Japanese family court slams the surgery pre-requisite for transgender ID change, Poland's far right “LGBTQ-Free” party fails to win enough seats in Parliament to form a new government, Saskatchewan's decision to prohibit students from changing their names or pronouns at school parental consent drives a human rights commissioner to quit, U.S. federal judges take action on injunctions against Idaho's anti-trans bathroom law and Montana's drag show ban, and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by Sarah Montague and Michael Taylor-Gray (produced by Brian DeShazor).  All this on the October 23, 2023 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

Twenty years ago this month, Canada's top court had just ordered marriage equality, civil unions hit the agenda in New Zealand, the U.S. Congress took up a bill to secure rights for lesbians and gays in bi-national relationships, and the long fight for transgender rights was just getting underway. Reports from August 2003 feature U.S. Representatives Jerrold Nadler and Mary Gay Scanlon, New Zealand M.P. Tim Barnett, U.S. President George W. Bush, California State Assemblymember Mark Leno and Shannon Minter of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. (Correspondents: Hugh Young, Jim Waters, Cathy Sanchez and Bryan Goebel) And in NewsWrap: eight followers of an Islamic splinter group are arrested outside a Kuala Lumpur shopping center for an LGBTQ-supportive protest, a U.S. House subcommittee's hearing on pediatric gender-affirming care turns into a platform for the Republican majority's bigotry, U.S. federal appeals courts weigh in on trans rights and drag bans, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt executive orders transgender women out of existence, armed neo-Nazis join Gays Against Groomers to disrupt a Wisconsin town's Pride in the Park, and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by Michael Taylor-Gray and Sarah Montague (produced by Brian DeShazor).  All this on the July 31, 2023 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

World Pride participants from Japan, Thailand and the Philippines bring their own flavor to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade (correspondent Barry McKay reports). Florida's ban on gender-affirming healthcare for trans children goes into effect and Georgia's legislature tries to follow that example, but President Joe Biden, his Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, Georgia state Representative Karla Drenner and entertainer Lily Tomlin decry the trend. And in NewsWrap: Milan's same-gender couples lose parental rights on orders from Italy's far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, one of two imprisoned Iranian LGBTQ activists freed on bail, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz orders discrimination protections for trans people, Wellesley College students vote for consideration of trans male and non-binary applicants, trailblazing New Zealand trans politician Georgina Beyer dies, and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by Michael Taylor-Gray and Melanie Keller (produced by Brian DeShazor).  All this on the March 20, 2023 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

Australian religious abuse campaigner Anthony Venn-Brown talks about the psychological trauma suffered by LGBT people subjected to supposedly “Christian” conversion therapy (interviewed by Barry McKay). And in NewsWrap: Finnish lawmakers approve reforms to the process for transgender people changing their government identification documents, Canadian study finds no competitive advantage for transgender female athletes, Utah bans gender-affirming care for transgender young people, Lithuania fined for censoring queer-related children's book, Slovenia's same-gender marriage law takes effect, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tells a fanciful tale about COVID relief funds for Drag Queen Story Hour, Rhode Island Rep. David Cicilline challenges Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz on patriotism in the U.S. House, and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by M.R. Raquel and Michael Taylor-Gray (produced by Brian DeShazor). All this on the February 5, 2023 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

IMRU RADIO 230102: A Personal Reflection Show = Straight To Vegas (Wenzel Jones) + The Magic of The Moon (David Parke Epstein) + Who's The Man? (Abby Dees) + Subway Dreamboat (Arnold Pomerance) + A Life (Arnold Pomerance) + Chasing Peter (Steve Pride) + Still Gay (Peter Dell) + Bucky The Lesbian Rabbit (Rita Gonzales) + A Sensitive Boy (Chris Coleman) + Over the Rainbow (Live: Dave Koz) [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by: Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU RADIO 221114 (from 220725): A Personal Reflection Show = Straight To Vegas (Wenzel Jones) + The Magic of The Moon (David Parke Epstein) + Who's The Man? (Abby Dees) + Subway Dreamboat (Arnold Pomerance) + A Life (Arnold Pomerance) + Chasing Peter (Steve Pride) + Still Gay (Peter Dell) + Bucky The Lesbian Rabbit (Rita Gonzales) + A Sensitive Boy (Chris Coleman) + Over the Rainbow (Live: Dave Koz) [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by: Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

Comedic actor Leslie Jordan is gone too soon, leaving behind a legacy of humor and humanity from Will & Grace to Call Me Kat. Relive some favorite laughs, and hear his tales of the Sordid Lives he lived on screen — and some “sordid lives” in gay Hollywood then and now (interviewed by Chris Wilson, Abby Dees and Rosie Wilby). And in NewsWrap: the passage of marriage equality legislation in Guerrero and Tamaulipas completes the long process of making it law in all 31 Mexican states, an LGBTQ ally becomes Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India, Slovakia's Parliament rejects a bill to create registered partnerships for lesbian and gay couples, U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's new Tory Cabinet is just as anti-queer as his short-lived predecessor's, lawmakers in Russia's State Duma vote to expand the ban on “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations” among minors to include adults, persecuted Chechen brothers and WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner each lose appeals of harsh Russian prison sentences, upcoming U.S. midterm elections feature queer candidates in all 50 states, and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by Marcos Najera and Michael Taylor-Gray (produced by Brian DeShazor). All this on the October 31, 2022 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

IMRU SHOW 221017: In Honor of Gay History Month IMRU Presents PRIDE OUT LOUD [Episode 1: And So It Begins] =- Hosted by Michael Taylor Gray, Steve Pride, Abby Dees, Vash Boddie, Angelica Beetal and Scooter J. Stevens. Harry Hay (The Mattachine Society) + Alexei Romanoff (The Black Cat Lounge) + Lee Glaze (The Patch Bar) + Jm Forrat (The Stonewall Inn) + Eric Marcus (Making Gay History) Greg Gordon (IMRU) + Lucia Chapelle (IMRU). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 201024: In Honor of Gay History Month IMRU Presents PRIDE OUT LOUD Episode 2: Hope After a Storm] = Hosted by Michael Taylor Gray, Steve Pride, Abby Dees and Scooter J. Stevens. Harvey Milk + White Night Riots (Field Reports) + Cleeve Jones (On Harvey Milk) + The Rainbow Flag (Lynn Segerblom AKA Faerie Argyle Rainbow). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

The 2021 Best Indie Book Award for an LGBTQ coming of age novel prize went to Dwayne Ratleff's “Dancing To The Lyrics.” Is the story of a queer African American boy growing up on the tough streets of Baltimore, Maryland fiction, memoir or both? (Eric Jansen of “Out in the Bay,” interviewer) And in NewsWrap: Chiléan voters reject an inclusive new Constitution despite the widespread desire for progressive reform, Liz Truss fills her Cabinet with homophobic Tories when she takes over as the U.K.'s new Prime Minister, Iran for the first time condemns two women to death for their queer activism, a Texas federal district judge allows religious objections to block coverage for free PrEP under the Affordable Care Act, Washington state's conversion therapy ban withstands a federal appeal, activists dispatch angels to defend a Pride drag show at Brigham Young University, an Idaho librarian checks out after enduring unhinged harangues about books that were never on her shelves, and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by Michael Taylor Gray and Sarah Montague (produced by Brian DeShazor). All this on the September 12, 2022 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

IMRU RADIO 220801: Chris & Don: A Love Story (Don Bachardy)+ Adam & Steve (Dir/Star: Craig Chester)+ Love Story Trilogy + Out of Iraq (Nayyef Hrebid, Btoo Allami) [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by: Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU RADIO 220725: A Personal Reflection Show = Straight To Vegas (Wenzel Jones) + The Magic of The Moon (David Parke Epstein) + Who's The Man? (Abby Dees) + Subway Dreamboat (Arnold Pomerance) + A Life (Arnold Pomerance) + Chasing Peter (Steve Pride) + Still Gay (Peter Dell) + Bucky The Lesbian Rabbit (Rita Gonzales) + A Sensitive Boy (Chris Coleman) + Over the Rainbow (Live: Dave Koz) [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by: Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU RADIO 220606: Pride Special #01(And So It Begins) = Harry Hay (The Mattachine Society) + Alexei Romanoff (The Black Cat Lounge) + Lee Glaze (The Patch Bar) + Jim Forratt (Stonewall) + Eric Marcus (Making Gay History) Greg Gordon (IMRU 1974) + Lucia Chapelle (IMRU 1975). [Hosted by Michael Taylor Gray, Steve Pride, Abby Dees, Vash Boddie, Angelica Beetal, David Hunt and Scooter J. Stevens.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

Gay researcher, author and historian Gert Hekma passed into history himself on April 19th. His groundbreaking 2004 book, “Homosexuality in The Netherlands from 1730 to Modern Times,” is still only available in Dutch, but soon after its publication correspondent Barry McKay sat down with Hekma for an extended English discussion of his work. And in NewsWrap: Australian P.M. Scott Morrison's anti-queer coalition government is defeated by Labor's Anthony Albanese, the Church of Scotland will allow same-gender marriage ceremonies, Austria lifts its sexual orientation and gender identity-based blood donor ban, Indiana's legislature overrides the veto of an anti-trans school “bathroom bill,” Oklahoma doubles down against trans youth and choice, Montana's Health Department invents “emergency” rules to block birth certificate gender changes, a Dallas judge keeps a pediatric trans clinic open to new patients pending trial, Ellen DeGeneres bids farewell to her talk show, and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by Michael Taylor-Gray and Marcos Najera (produced by Brian DeShazor). All this on the May 30, 2022 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

IMRU RADIO 220516 [From 210517]: Tab Hunter (Tab Hunter Confidential) + Scotty Bowers (Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars). [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

Excerpts from a May, 1997 interview with Tasmanian activist Rodney Croome celebrate the 25th anniversary of the repeal of Australia's last state sodomy law (Sydney correspondent Greg Reading). Maiden, North Carolina Baptist preacher Charles L. Worley vitriolic rant about “how to get rid of lesbians and queers” went viral in May, 2012. 640305 And in NewsWrap: Canadian blood donors draw equal treatment, Baja California governor blocks conversion therapy ban, Russia fines social media for “gay propaganda,” Missouri school district bans “safe” classrooms, Victoria town rejects IDAHOBIT rainbows, Disney refuses to “Doctor” Saudi's “Multiverse,” and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by Marcos Najera and Michael Taylor-Gray (produced by Brian DeShazor). All this on the May 2, 2022 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

IMRU SHOW 220425: (from 210104): The Devil (Angela Brown) + A Life (Arnold Pomerance) + The Gay Gulag (Charlie Bauer) + Coming Out (Michael Dixon) + Big Sur (Abby Dees) + Hear Me Out - Family (TC) + Hear Me Out - Family (Jack) + Paying For It (Peter Dell) + Straight to Vegas (Wenzel Jones) [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 220411: (from 10405}: Jasper Cole + Roslyn Kind + Kevin Spirtas (After Forever) Last Word (Peter Dell). [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

We're making sure that the post-Oscar hullabaloo doesn't drown out the rainbow highlights at the 94th Academy Awards. Best Supporting Actress Ariana DeBose's historic win and other notable themes are reviewed by Ann Northrop and Andy Humm of GayUSA TV, and independent filmmaker David Michael Barrett talks about some queer parallels in Best Picture CODA. A pair of “Rainbow Minutes” look at war and poetry in “Walt Whitman Comforts Comrades” and “Walt Whitman Remembers Abe” (read by Allen Browne, produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns). And in NewsWrap: U.N. panel declares lesbian sex a human right, Thai politicians play hot potato with marriage equality, attorneys line up to fight Florida's “Don't Say Gay” law, U.S. passports now offer “X” gender marker option, crazed Q-Anon Congresswoman snipes at the Buttigiegs, and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by Melanie Keller and Michael Taylor-Gray (produced by Brian DeShazor). All this on the April 4, 2022 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

IMRU SHOW 220404: (from 210322) Abby's Mammogram + Girls Lost (Film) + >>Cesar Chavez Day; GAYTINO - Dolores Huerta + GAYTINO - Juanita Chávez + Closing Song: Change is Gonna Come (Amber Flame)+ [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 220228: Amber Flame + Sons of Tennessee Wiliams + Brother to Brother + World of Wonder + Last Word (Julia Sugarbaker) + Closing Song: Young Brotha (Romeiro Hamilton-Davis). [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 220221: ENCORE SHOW - Handsome Devil + Michael Urie (WTC View) + Gatino Report (Deloris Huerta) + Alison Arngrim (Little House on the Prairie) [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by: Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

Israel's Health Ministry bars medical professionals from practicing counseling and/or prayer aimed at changing a person's sexual orientation or gender identity, and New Zealand's Parliament prohibits such discredited “conversion therapy” after an emotional debate that included a speech by Green rainbow spokesperson MP Dr. Elizabeth Kerekere. The victories of Team LGBTQ at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing bring to mind our first encounter with Outsports.com co-founder Cyd Zeigler (a “This Way Out Rewind” from February 2002 with Rita Gonzalez). ONE Magazine's original stocking-stuffer that jingled 1950s bells is a “Rainbow Minute” gift (read by Robey Martin, produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns). And in NewsWrap: the EuroCourt okays blocking funds to rights-violating Hungary and Poland, a Russian court rebuffs liquidation of a major queer rights group, Kuwait's high court overturns an anti-trans “imitating the opposite sex” law, Thailand's parliament passes the marriage equality buck to the Cabinet, the U.S. LGBTQ-identified population surges in the latest Gallup Poll, and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by Michael Taylor-Gray and MR Raquel (produced by Brian DeShazor). All this on the February 21, 2022 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

IMRU SHOW 220214: Chris & Don: A Love Story (Don Bachardy)+ Adam & Steve (Dir/Star: Craig Chester)+ Love Story Trilogy + Out of Iraq (Nayyef Hrebid, Btoo Allami) [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by: Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 220124: PRIDE OUT LOUD Part 1: (And So It Begins) = Harry Hay (The Mattachine Society) + Alexei Romanoff (The Black Cat Lounge) + Lee Glaze (The Patch Bar) + Jim Forrat (The Stonewall Inn) + Eric Marcus (Making Gay History) Greg Gordon (IMRU) + Lucia Chapelle (IMRU) + Carrie Gibson & Tony Curry (HAD2BE Productions). [Hosted by Michael Taylor Gray, Steve Pride, Abby Dees, Vash Boddie, Angelica Beetal and Scooter J. Stevens.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 220103: Personal Reflection Show = Straight To Vegas (Wenzel Jones) + The Magic of The Moon (David Parke Epstein) + Who's The Man? (Abby Dees) + Subway Dreamboat (Arnold Pomerance) + A Life (Arnold Pomerance) + Chasing Peter (Steve Pride) + Still Gay (Peter Dell) + Bucky The Lesbian Rabbit (Rita Gonzales) + A Sensitive Boy (Chris Coleman) + Over the Rainbow (Live: Dave Koz) [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by: Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

The conclusion of our audio interpretation of “A Quilt for David,” a book of poetry by Steven Reigns (published by City Light Books) that centers on dentist David Acer, a victim of dueling epidemics — AIDS and media hysteria (part 3 of 3, produced by Brian DeShazor). OutCasting Overtime's queer youth commentators consider the challenges — and potential opportunities — of spending time with family during the holidays (OutCaster Sarah presents a piece by the team, produced by Marc Sophos). And in NewsWrap: French parliament passes conversion therapy ban on for Macron's signature, the E.U. Justice Court orders ID papers for queer couples' kids, Senegalese lawmakers draft an odious anti-queer bill, Barbados starts its new republic with rights guarantees, a pro-equality candidate wins Chile's run-off presidential election, and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by MR Raquel and Michael Taylor-Gray (produced by Brian DeShazor). All this on the December 20, 2021 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

Gemma X, The Villaineers, Mariah Christie, Bestfriend, The Barbarellatones, Karma, Logan Lynn, Mariah Counts, Xantheartist, Violet Grae and Big Thief gave us new releases in the second half of this year, and Steve Sims gives them the Queer Music Focus treatment! And in NewsWrap: binational gay dads win their toddler's Namibian citizenship, Uganda recognizes its first official gender change, booted South Korean trans woman soldier reinstated posthumously, Japanese trans man sues for recognition without sterilization, Texas House bans trans student athletes, COVID confines Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras again, next generation Superman gets super boyfriend, and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by Michael Taylor-Gray and Melanie Keller (produced by Brian DeShazor). All this and more on the October 18, 2021 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

IMRU SHOW 210726: Rosey Wilbey (The Breakup Monologues: The Unexpected Joy of Heartbreak) + Broadway Damage (Victor Mignatti) + Girls Will Be Girls (Varla Jean Merman Coco Peru + Evie Harris) + Liza's Wedding (Sam Harris) + Tab Hunter [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by: Steve Pride. Partially Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 210628: PRIDE OUT LOUD Episode 4 (Marriage and Beyond) = Prop 8 Repeal Rally + Roberta Kaplan (Edie Winsor's attorney) + SCOTUS News + Barney Frank (former Congressman) + IMRU News Report + Michelangelo Signorile (ACT-UP) + Cleeve Jones. [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by: Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 210607: PRIDE OUT LOUD (Part 1) - And so it Begins = Harry Hay (Mattachine), Alexei Romanoff (Black Cat,1967) + Lee Glaze (The Patch, 1968) + Jim Fouratt (Stonewall Inn, 1969) + Gerri Faire (Lesbian Senior) + Eric Marcus (Making Gay History). [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by: Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 210531: Varla Jean Merman + Estelle Brown (Sweet Inspirations) + Jeff Marx (Ave Q) + Up With People + Desmond Child . [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by: Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 210524: Girls Will Be Girls + Leonard Matlovich + Rich Valenza (Raise A Child) + Charlie Bauer (Pink Freud). [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by: Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 210517: Tab Hunter (Tab Hunter Confidential) + Scotty Bowers (Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars). [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 210503: Christina Crawford (Mommy Dearest) + Patsy Clarke and Eloise Vaugn (Keep Singing) + Zack Wahls has 2 Moms + Judy Shepard (Out in the Cold) + Last Word (T.C.'s Mom) + clposing Song (Mother's Day Song by Kevin Yee). [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 210503: Christina Crawford (Mommy Dearest) + Patsy Clarke and Eloise Vaughn (Keep Singing) + Zack Wahls has 2 Moms + Judy Shepard (Out in the Cold) + Last Word (T.C.'s Mom) + Closing Song (Mother's Day Song by Kevin Yee). [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 210426: In a very special show host Michael Taylor Gray talks with his friend Daniel Langford about surviving of a Hate Crime and the frustrating legal aftermath. [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 210419: Book Club Edition = Armistead Maupin Reading from Tales of the City + Armistead Maupin [Michael Tolliver Lives (2007)] + Armistead Maupin [Maryann in Autumn (2010)] + Armistead Maupin [The Days of Anna Madrigal (2014)]. [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 210412: BOOK CLUB EDITION = John Rechy (The Coming of the Night) + Augusten Burroughs (Running With Scissors & Dry) + Armistead Maupin (The Night Listener) + Last Word (Armistead Maupin) + Closing Music: Soft Cell (Numbers) [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 210405: Jasper Cole + Roslyn Kind + Kevin Spirtas (After Forever). [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 210329: Kate Clinton + Margaret Cho (Notorious Cho) + Girl King + Vicki Marlane + Jewel Thais-Williams. + [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 210322: Abby's Mammogram + Girls Lost (Film) + >>Cesar Chavez Day; GAYTINO - Dolores Huerta + GAYTINO - Juanita Chávez + Closing Song: hCange is Gonna Come (Amber Flame)+ [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 210308: Ann Bannon + Gayback: 2007 LA Women's March + Film: Frida + Tina Alexis Allen (Hiding Out) + Closing Song: I'd Go Gay (for Tina Fey)[Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU 210301: Women's History Month + Jeanne Cordova + Ivy Bottini + Last Word: Who' the Man? (Abby Dees) + Closing Song (I am Woman, Helen Reddy at LA Women's March). [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

After decades of queer activists toiling in the civil rights kitchen, the table was ready to be set for marriage equality in the US ten years ago this week, when the Obama Administration decided to change course in its handling of marriage equality litigation. Our flashback from February 2011 includes Jon Daviddson of Lambda Legal explaining the implications of the revised Justice Department standard, Mary Bonauto of Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders recounting the stories of some of the plaintiffs involved, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney answering questions about the big announcement, Obama Campaign LGBT policy advisor Professor Tobias Wolff providing analysis of the move, and plaintiff Edie Windsor reacting to the decision. Just 15 months later, then-Vice President Joe Biden gave President Obama a shove into endorsing marriage equality. And in NewsWrap: The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights finds Jamaica’s anti-gay male sex laws in violation of LGBTQ constitutional rights, two Russian lesbian mothers denied asylum in Finland are vindicated by the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child, ILGA-Europe’s 10th Annual Review gives dire warnings, the Equality Act gets a new vote in the House but faces difficulty in the Senate, and 2020 reports tally shocking Brazilian transgender murders and skimpy reporting in the U.S. on anti-trans violence, and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by Melanie Keller and Michael Taylor Gray (produced by Brian DeShazor).

IMRU 210221: Amber Flame + Sons of Tennessee Wiliams + Brother to Brother + World of Wonder + Last Word (Julia Sugarbaker) + Closing Song: Young Brotha (Romeiro Hamilton-Davis). [Hosted by: Michael Taylor Gray. Produced by Steve Pride. Recorded at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU 200622: IMRU Presents PRIDE OUT LOUD Episode 1: Hope After a Storm - Hosted by Michael Taylor Gray, Steve Pride, Abby Dees and Scooter J. Stevens. Harvey Milk + WhHite Night Riots (Field Reports) + Cleeve Jones (On Harvey Milk) + The Rainbow Flag (Lynn Segerblom AKA Faerie Argyle Rainbow) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU 200615: IMRU Presents PRIDE OUT LOUD Episode 1: And So It Begins - Hosted by Michael Taylor Gray, Steve Pride, Abby Dees, Vash Boddie, Angelica Beetal and Scooter J. Stevens. Harry Hay (The Mattachine Society) + Alexei Romanoff (The Black Cat Lounge) + Lee Glaze (The Patch Bar) + Jim Forrat (The Stonewall Inn) + Eric Marcus (Making Gay History) Greg Gordon (IMRU) + Lucia Chapelle (IMRU) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU 200608: Honest TEA with Michael Taylor Gray + Tiger Orange (Film) + Dan Savage (Sex and Relationship advice columnist) + Court Vox (Sex and Relationship Coach) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 200601:The Honest TEA with Michael Taylor Gray + Larry Karmer + God's Own Country (Francis Lee, Alec Secareanu) + Gay Bar:The Fabulous, True Story of a Daring Woman and Her Boys in the 1950s (Will Fellows) + Gaytino Report (Sandra Valls) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 200525 - The Honest TEA with Michael Taylor Gray + Vicki Marlane (Drag Queen) + Mo B Dick (Drag King) + Drag Queen Story Hour (Barbie Q) + Drag-Con's Past --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 200518: Hosted this week by Michael Taylor Gray and Chrisanne Eastwood - Open Secret: Gay Hollywood:1928-1998 (David Ehrenstein) + Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon) + Pride On Screen (1934 to 1982) + TAB HUNTER + Last Word: Armistead Maupin on ROCK HUDSON --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 200427: Honest TEA (Michael Taylor Gray) + Gayback Machine: Rod McKuen's 2001 Birthday Party (Harry Hamlin, Sally Kirkland, Jane Withers, Buddy Hackett, Red Buttons, Dom DeLuise, Phyllis Diller and Rod McKuen) + Well Strung String Quartet + Strike A Pose ("Blonde Ambition" Tour back-Up Singers and Dancers) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 200420: The Honest TEA (with Michael Taylor Gray) + Dan Matthews (PETA) + Patricia Resnick (Witer: 9-5, Mad Men, Tales of the City) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 200316: The Honest TEA (with Michael Taylor Gray & Chloe Corcoran) + Peter McQuaid Audio Essay (The White Party) + PrideOn Screen: Brokeback Mountain + LAST WORD: SAM HARRIS (READING from "Ham: Slices of a Life: Essays and Stories") --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 200309: The Honest TEA (with Michael Taylor Gray & Chloe Corcoran) + Joey Arrigo (Cirque du Soleil's VOLTA), Where's Wayne (AAFF Honors) + Last Word (Charlie Bauer, Gay Gulag) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 200302: The Honest TEA (with Michael Taylor Gray & Chloe Corcoran) + Wakefield Poole + Kevin Spirtas (After Forever) + Last Word (Pink Freud) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU 200224: The Honest TEA (with Michael Taylor Gray & Amanda Gari) + Storytellers: Joey Arrigo (Cirque du Soleil's VOLTA) + Robert Leleux (The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy) + Peter Dell (Catch) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 200217: Honest TEA (With Michael Taylor Gray & Chloe Corcoran) + Where's Wayne? Previewing the Academy of Motion Pictures Museum + Tomato Thomato + GALECA present the 11th Annual Dorian Awards + Hear Me Out Senior Storytellers (2019 Competetion Finalist) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 200210: Abby Dees in conversation with Alexei Romanoff about his experiences of the demonstration at the Black Cat Tavern on on Feb. 11, 1967 (This episode hosted by Michael Taylor Gray & Chloe Corchran) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 200203: Honest TEA (With Michael Taylor Gray & Miles Wood) + Alison Arngim (Little House on the Prairie) + Jonah Blechman's Queeriosity: And the category is... Mexico City. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU Show 200120: The Honest TEA with Michael Taylor Gray & Zalor Stout + Our Gay History in Fifty States (by Gaylor Stout) + Bayard Rustin Tribute + TTV: Walter Naegale (Rustin's surviving Partner). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

IMRU SHOW 200113: Steve Pride's 3 part interview with Cleeve Jones covering Harvey Milk, the Aids Epidemic and the LGBT community today + in "The Last Word" Armistead Maupin read's Michael "Mouse" Tolliver's letter home from "Tales of the City." Hosted by Michael Taylor Gray. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

In this episode, hosts Michael Taylor Gray and Vash Boddie discuss current events from the LGBTQI perspective. Also, we… ...Learn “I’m Special” from Ryan O’Connell with Steve Pride ...Celebrate allies Rashida, Gerri and Hendrix Mungin with Michael Taylor Gray on Storytellers --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

In this episode, hosts Michael Taylor Gray and Ralph Cole, Jr. discuss current events from the LGBTQI perspective. Also… ...Where’s Wayne? ...The Dickersons on Storytellers with Michael Taylor Gray --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

In this episode, host Michael Taylor Gray kids with Rich Valenze, founder and CEO of “Raise A Child” in Storytellers XXL Also… ...Don Bachardy, portrait artist and Christopher Isherwood's surviving partner ...Last Word, Chasing Peter with Steve Pride --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

In this episode, hosts Michael Taylor Gray and Chloe Corcoran discuss current events in The Honest TEA. Also… Florian Klein aka Hans Berlin on Storytellers with Michael Taylor Gray ...Jasper Cole on Storytellers with Michael Taylor Gray ...Last Word with Abby Dees: Who's the Man? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

In this episode, hosts Chloe Corcoran and Scott Turner Schofield discuss current events in The Honest TEA. Also we… ...Get untucked in the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Drag Race on Storytellers with Michael Taylor Gray ...Build a relationship with T. Cooper director of the new documentary, “Man Made” --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

In this episode, hosts Michael Taylor Gray & Chloe Corcoran discuss current events in The Honest TEA. Also... ...Team Shores at the Palm Springs Desert AIDS Walk on Storytellers with Michael Taylor Gray ...Del Shores on Storytellers with Michael Taylor Gray ...Sam Harris at Liza's Wedding in the Last Word --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

In this episode, Hosts Michael Taylor Gray & Del Shores discuss current events in The Honest TEA. Also... The Homophile Report: John Morgan Wilson, Writer of the "Benjamin Justice" Mystery series Storytellers: Addison Heimann (writer/creator of "Kappa Force" on the Revry TV Network) Last Word: California Screaming To hear this episode, Click here: https://m.soundcloud.com/prideonscreen/imru-show-191111 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

In this episode, hosts Michael Taylor Gray and Chloe Corcoran discuss current events in the Honest Tea. Other stories include... - Gay Chorus Deep South - Eric Roos (Up With People) - Country Artist Jack Nathan Harding (Cowboys & Tattoos) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

In this episode, hosts Chloe Corcoran and Michael Taylor Gray discuss the U.S. world ranking in LGBTQI acceptance; Parents battling over custody of their child, Luna, who wishes to transition; How the current Supreme Court cases will affect LGBTQI employment in the future, Protestors force Chick-fil-A to close its UK store all in the Honest Tea. Also, we... ...Converse with the world’s greatest skeptic, The Amazing Randi and his partner Jose Alverez ...Visit with the Gay owner of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Tyler Cassity, who looks after the graves of Hollywood royalty like Cecil B. Demille and Rudolph and Rudolph Valentine ...Get the anatomy of Horror from the one and only Clive Barker --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

In this episode, hosts Johan Blechman and Chloe Corcoran take us on a ride with incredibly jermaine stories this week! We… ...Meet the Director and Cast of the new Dekkoo series, “The Third,” a series about a triad relationship set in Palm Springs, California on Storytellers with Michael Taylor Gray. ...Have an intimate conversation with Josh Howard, director of the educational and important documentary, “The Lavender Scare” on TTV - Talk to Vash with Vash Boddie ...Examine past and present Anti-Semitism with the filmmakers and subjects of “Never Again is Now” on Queerious with Jonah Blechman Follow IMRU Radio on Facebook --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

In this episode, hosts Chloe Corcoran and Michael Taylor Gray discuss the ongoing Supreme Court case regarding allowing employers to personnel for being LGBTQ, Democratic presidential candidate platforms, Bill Graham blames the LGBTQI community for the rise in heterosexual STI rates and more, all in the Honest Tea. Also, we... ...Have a chat with the pioneering professor, Karla Jay ...Straight woman who is a legendary gay ally Allison Arngrum ...Learn the history of IMRU Radio with Greg Gordon --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

In this episode, hosts Chloe Corcoran and Michael Taylor Gray discuss the Supreme Court deciding if employers can discriminate against Gays and Transgender people; Channing Smith, a Bisexual teen outed by classmates; and man sues Apple claiming an ad made him Gay all in the Honest Tea. Also, we ...Celebrate National Coming Out Day with a story about Ben and Jessica Pensner ...Jam with LA’s Gay Marriachi Band in the Gaytino Report ...Have a Last Word with Armistead Maupin --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

In this episode, hosts Chloe Corcoran and Michael Taylor Gray discuss the charges against Ed Buck as victims and allegations increase; Merriam-Webster adds nonbinary 'they' pronoun to dictionary and musician Sam Smith comes forward that they prefer its use; London Trans Pride all in the Honest Tea. Also... ...Anne Bray, director of Freewaves explores her journey to Love &/or Fear with Vash Boddie …Mayor John Doran talks about the changing face of West Hollywood with Dan Guerrero on the Gaytino Report Rainbow Minute features Mark Segal, Walter Kronkite and the famous “TV Zaps!” --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

In this episode, Chloe Corcoran, Michael Taylor Gray and Vash Boddie host the show with Michael Taylor Gray and Vash Boddie discussing Conversion Therapy, a Washington State florist who wants to discriminate based on religious beliefs, Abel Cedeno sentenced to jail time after attacking his attacker, and a London fashion show featuring all transgender models, all in the Honest Tea. Also, we have lead council Peter Perkowski in studio to discuss the civil cases filed against the U.S. Government over the military ban on transgender people, cases filed against the U.S. military over their treatment of HIV+ individuals and APLA Health. We even have time for a last word! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

#204 - Michael Taylor GrayActor Michael Taylor Gray talks politics, the industry, upcoming projects, and big, black things with host Jasper Cole and show producer Dominic Friesen. Recorded: 5/17/18

Welcome to this week’s wonderful show, kids.   We’re celebrating our 1st Anniversary here on OHMTG!  That’s right.  It’s been a whole year since our very first show on Aug. 7th, 2013 with the s’marvelous actress and author, Dorie Barton as our very first featured guest.This week’s multi-faceted, multi-talented, charming, vivacious featured guest is a real funny girl, COURTNEY RACKLEY - creator and star of the wickedly comedic new web series,FIRSTSsubtitled: (because no one ever asks about the second time). Check it out at firststheseries.com.Miss Courtney Rackley began producing back at the Harvard ART and then upon moving West, became one of the staples at The Yale Cabaret Blue, where they produced a new show once a month. She has worked for Circle X and for the past two years served as a weekly producer for The Blank Theatre’s Young Playwrights Festival. Most recently she has turned to the web and has been writing & producing FIRSTS,  which she stars in as well.And remember to LIKE us on Facebook at facebook.com/ohmtg, follow me on Twitter @MikelTaylorGray and share, share, share with everyone you know! THANKS FOR LISTENING TO OH MTG!  Tune in, turn on and live an authentic life.

Welcome to this week’s wonderful show, kids.   We’re celebrating our 1st Anniversary here on OHMTG!  That’s right.  It’s been a whole year since our very first show on Aug. 7th, 2013 with the s’marvelous actress and author, Dorie Barton as our very first featured guest.This week’s multi-faceted, multi-talented, charming, vivacious featured guest is a real funny girl, COURTNEY RACKLEY - creator and star of the wickedly comedic new web series,FIRSTSsubtitled: (because no one ever asks about the second time). Check it out at firststheseries.com.Miss Courtney Rackley began producing back at the Harvard ART and then upon moving West, became one of the staples at The Yale Cabaret Blue, where they produced a new show once a month. She has worked for Circle X and for the past two years served as a weekly producer for The Blank Theatre’s Young Playwrights Festival. Most recently she has turned to the web and has been writing & producing FIRSTS,  which she stars in as well.And remember to LIKE us on Facebook at facebook.com/ohmtg, follow me on Twitter @MikelTaylorGray and share, share, share with everyone you know! THANKS FOR LISTENING TO OH MTG!  Tune in, turn on and live an authentic life.

Interviews on both the red carpet and at the winner's circle at the 3rd annual Indie Soap Awards in New York City, including in this order:  Michael Caruso, Alexis Zimbolis and Katie Caprio, DEVANITY. Ilene Kristen, FAR FROM THE BAY. Stacy McQueen, Dee Freeman and Michael Taylor Gray, PRETTY. Jillian Clare and Patrika Darbo, MISS BEHAVE. Kevin Spirtas, DAYS OF OUR LIVES. Gregori Martin and Kristos Andrews, THE BAY. Colleen Zenk, AS THE WORLD TURNS. Tyler Ford and Signy Coleman, RIVER RIDGE. Catherine Frels, ANACOSTIA. Michael O'Leary, STEAMBOAT. Julie Smith, FUMBLING THROUGH THE PIECES. Todd Fisher, THE SFN. Rick Dalton, RAGGED ISLE.