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When We All Get to Heaven: 2026 Signal Listener's Choice Award Finalist

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So Long Outward, Long Live the Gay Agenda!

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When We All Get to Heaven Just Won a Peabody Award!

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Beyond Gay Marriage

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A Postlude for 'When We All Get to Heaven'

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10: AIDS Isn’t Over | When We All Get to Heaven

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9: AIDS Energy | When We All Get to Heaven

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8: Conversion | When We All Get to Heaven

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7: Dress Rehearsals | When We All Get to Heaven

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Interlude: Tired of Dying | When We All Get to Heaven

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6: Attacked | When We All Get to Heaven

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5: Healing Without a Cure | When We All Get to Heaven

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4: Friends in the Fire | When We All Get to Heaven

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3: “A Church with AIDS” | When We All Get to Heaven

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2: A New Gospel for Gay Sinners | When We All Get to Heaven

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Making ‘When We All Get to Heaven’

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1: Setting The Table | When We All Get to Heaven

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Introducing: When We All Get to Heaven

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From What Next: Trans and Shut Out in Trump’s America

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From What Next: Trans and Shut Out in Trump’s America

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From Hit Parade: The Hidden History of Queer Pop Icons Pt. 2

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From Hit Parade: The Hidden History of Queer Pop Icons Pt. 2

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From Hit Parade: The Hidden History of Queer Pop Icons

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From Hit Parade: The Hidden History of Queer Pop Icons

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Archiving the Spirit of Ballroom with Michael Roberson

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Archiving the Spirit of Ballroom with Michael Roberson

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The Latest on Trans Rights in the Court and in Congress

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The Latest on Trans Rights in the Court and in Congress

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Small-Town Pride Blooms

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Small-Town Pride Blooms

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America’s Gay Restaurants with Erik Piepenburg

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America’s Gay Restaurants with Erik Piepenburg

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Queer Travel Writing with Alden Jones

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Iowa’s Civil Rights Crisis with Hope Giselle and Dr. David Johns

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Iowa’s Civil Rights Crisis with Hope Giselle and Dr. David Johns

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Christina sits down with author Zein Murib to talk about his recent article for Slate ‘Why Are Trans People Such an Easy Political Target?’

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How The Gay Rights Movement Became Trans- Exclusionary

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Planning San Francisco Pride in a Shifting Political Landscape with Suzanne Ford

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Planning San Francisco Pride in a Shifting Political Landscape with Suzanne Ford

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The New Lavender Scare with Christina Cauterucci

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The New Lavender Scare with Christina Cauterucci

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Renaissance Trans Theologies and History with Colby Gordon

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Should We Get Guns?

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Why Love Isn’t Apolitical: Liberation and Rethinking Relationships

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Slapping Leather: The Untamed History of the Gay Rodeo

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The “Protect the Children” Trap: How Trump Targets Trans Rights

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Chase Strangio on Trump’s Anti-Trans Policies

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A Trans Military Member Speaks Out

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Creating A Home for Trans Surgery Recovery

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Breaking Down Emilia Perez: Backlash, Awards Buzz, and Corporate Pride

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Meta’s New Rules: Embracing Homophobic and Transphobic Hate Speech

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Bisexual Dads, Awkward Art, and Transphobic Families: Queer Advice

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Conversion Therapy and Survival with Lucas Wilson

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Actor Jeff Hiller on Death Sex and Money

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‘Queer’ on Screen: Luca Guadagnino’s Take on Desire, Loneliness, and Sex

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How Lesbian Artists Turned Renaissance Ruins Into Queer Spaces with Kate Thomas

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Masculinity and Muscles with Michael Andor Brodeur

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Sarah McBride’s Win and the Rise of Anti-Trans Politics

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What Southern LGBTQ History Can Teach Us

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Now What Do We Do? Mark Joseph Stern Answers Our Post-Election Questions

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Gays in the Woods: History and Identity with Ben Miller

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Building Movements with Gender Liberation March Organizers Raquel Willis and Eliel Cruz

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The Amicus Brief for U.S. v. Skrmetti with co-author Jules Gill Peterson

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The WNBA’s Very Big Year: New Fandom, Renewed Homophobia? with Frankie de la Cretaz

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What Arabic LGBTQ+ Slang Tells Us with Marwan Kaabour

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Surviving Hate and Finding Joy as a Trans Teen with Nico Lang

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Fighting for Non-Binary Inclusivity in Athletics with Cal Calamia

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The LGBTQ Moments and Misses at the DNC with Madeline Ducharme

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Kamala Harris’ Record on Trans Rights with S.I. Rosenbaum and Josie Riesman

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Could the Kids Online Safety Act Harm Queer Youth?

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Dating Friends and Understanding Desire with Myisha Battle

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Collecting LGBT+ History with Corey Serrant

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Olympic Legend Greg Louganis on Outliving and Outperforming Expectations

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Is Telehealth the Answer for Gender Affirming Care? with Sohini Desai

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Project 2025 with Orion Rummler

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“Bathroom Bills” Return with Nico Lang

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Can you love the bigotry away? Queer Advice with Mathew Rodriguez

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What's A Gender Doula?

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Can Animals Be Queer?

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A History of Lesbian Fashion with Eleanor Medhurst

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Slow Burn: A Hotbed of Homosexuality

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Iconic Queer Women’s Spaces with June Thomas

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Disrupting Food & Restaurant Culture with Chala June

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The Trans History of the 1936 Olympics with Michael Waters

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Behind the Scenes of ‘Gays Against Briggs’ with Christina Cauterucci

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Evolving Our Social Scripts - Queer Advice with Mathew Rodriguez

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Queering the Map with Lucas LaRochelle

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Mary & George Brings the Historical Drama

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Queer Trademark Law with Michael Goodyear

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A History of the Gay Right with Neil J. Young

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Queer Crime Double Feature: Drive Away Dolls and Love Lies Bleeding

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Brontez Purnell on His New Memoir

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Trace Lysette on the Hollywood Rollercoaster

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Chase Strangio, Continued. Trans Visibility and Community

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Chase Strangio on the Anti-Trans Legislation Landscape

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Tennessee's LGBTQ Affirming Churches

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Polyamory and Other Non-monogamous Advice

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True Detective: Night Country’s Lesbian Subtext

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The Inherent Queerness of Poetry

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A Short History of Transmisogyny with Jules Gill-Peterson