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The Gaily Show — 323 episodes
On Stage with Jim Pounds. Ilana Masad’s May Book Recommendations
Unpack This For Me: The 90s
The Gaily Show – May 20, 2026
Election Day in America. Pensacola State College Reverses Course.
Big Win For Trans Healthcare. MN county Sues Ice Agent. Conversion Therapy Ban
New books: Now I’m Photogenic and The CBGB Conspiracy.
The Gaily Show – May 14, 2026
Censorship at Pensacola State College? Trump’s New “Counter-terrorism” strategy
The Gaily Show – May 12, 2026
Texas Tech Bans LGBTQ research. Virginia Map. New Look At The Bachelor
Finding Community in Innovative Ways with Queer Spirit
The Gaily Show – May 8, 2026
Unpack This For Me: States’ Power to Fight the Trump Admin (Encore)
The Gaily Show – May 6, 2026
The Gaily Show – May 5, 2026
Western Health Alliance. Plus: James Grace from A Chorus Line.
Onstage with Jim Pounds and Leslie Buxbaum. Then: Daniel M. Lavery!
Unpack This For Me: Conversion Therapy Drop Out
May Day Actions and Minnesota’s Truth Council. THEN: Washington Blade’s Joe Reberkenny
SCOTUS Gave Us A Break?! Plus: Journalistic Reporting In The Age of MAGA
Assassination Attempt. More Map Drama. Plus: The Most Happy Fella
Martin Wong: Chinatown USA. THEN: Armenian Genocide Commemoration.
Arizona’s LGBTQ Newsroom: LOOKOUT
Virginia’s new maps. Orbán loses again. “Trans-quake” coming to Chicago.
Judge Scorches RFK Jr’s on Trans Healthcare. Plus: Virginia Votes To Redraw Maps
The Queerious Case of the Montana Supreme Court. Plus: Shine the Light Survey
Culture And Entertainment Friday – April 17, 2026
Unpack This For Me: The War in Iran
Hundreds Trained To Defend Elections. Trump Budget Goes After Queer Community
Let’s not talk impeachment. Plus, Tammye Nash talks DJT: Donald Jesus Trump
Hormuz Standoff. Orban Loses. New Book From Dr. Samuel Huneke.
Queer Spirit Radio – April 2026: Let’s Get Regulated with Queer Spirit
The Wizard of Oz and Afternoon Hours of a Hermit
Unpack This For Me – Metro Surge From a Faith Leaders’ Perspective
Strait of Hormuz Is Closed Again. Plus the latest LGBTQ news from Chicago
On The Precipice: Iran
Iran is a SNAFU. Shocking Numbers on ICE Economic Impacts. Plus: Students Speak Up.
Jonah Mixon-Webster’s Promise/Threat and Luna McNamara’s The Witch and the Huntress
Unpack This For Me: States’ Power to Fight the Trump Admin
Fallout from Supreme Court’s Conversion Therapy Decision
SCOTUS Rules In Favor of Child Abuse, Cites “Free Speech.”
No Kings Drew Millions. Trump Sues MN. Plus: Bogus Trans Survey.
Skylar Lyralen Kaye’s Bachelorx. Bobuq Sayed’s No God But Us
Building Trans Power in Massachusetts
Dems Flip Florida Seat. Chicago HIV Funding Mismatched
No Kings Protest Previews for MN and Chicago. Plus, Vincent Tirado’s New Novel. Description:
Anti-Transgender Healthcare “Declaration” Struckdown
Buffy Revamped’s Jacob Jackson. Plus, Ilana Masad’s Queer Book Recs
Unpack This For Me: LGBTQ+ Media Landscape
20 States Sue RFK Jr. Over Healthcare
Conversion Therapy Bans. Talarico on Trans Rights and TX runoff elections
Target boycott over? The Save Act. Plus: New Freddie Mercury Ballet
Queer Spirit Radio – March 2026
Dinosaur World Live and Hungry Like The Wolf
Unpack This For Me: Lockerroom Talk and How Political Are Sports?
Chicago’s New ICE Accountability Database. Plus: sexual experimentation with AI?
American Samoans Prosecuted for Voting. Iran War. New Dem Poll
Noem is Out. Gov Walz Testifies. Iran War. Plus, Abuelita at The Capri Theatre
Mrs. Parker & Mr. Porter, 4Play at Threshold, Brutally Honestl Oscars Review: Hamnet
North Dakota Healthcare Lawsuit and Peter Thiel’s in Epstein Files 2,200 Times
Bolts Magazine’s March Election Guide with Daniel Nichanian
Unidos MN Day of Action. Plus: Samuel Clowes Huneke’s I Will Not Abandon You
Unpack This For Me: The “Greater Than” Campaign
MN Bills to Curb ICE. PLUS: Jake Wittich from Windy City Times
Trump Trained ICE To Violate The Constitution. PLUS ELECTION 2026: Mayor Amada Marquez Simula
Operation Metro Surge Wind Down: Now What? Plus, Dakarai Larriett (US Senate Candidate)
Ahmad Saber’s Debut Novel: Ramin Abbas has MAJOR Questions
Operation Metro Surge Isn’t Over. Plus, Joe Rebekenny’s exclusive with Sen. Markey
ICE’s economic toll Minneapolis & Chicago. Plus, Cake at Theatre in the Round
Recovering From Operation Metro Surge. Plus Team LGBTQ at the Olympics
Queer Spirit Radio – February 2026
Lavender Scare at the Department of Defense
The Gaily Show – February 12, 2026
ICE Car Crash. Bad News for Trump in Polls. Plus, New LGBTQ Director in Chicago
Children’s Minnesota trans health “pause”. PLUS: Press Freedom In The Cross Hairs
Holding Target Accountable. Plus: Is ICE Trump’s Secret Police?
Olympics Preview with Jim Buzinski. Then: Minneapolis Theatre Round-up
Focus: Columbia Heights, Minnesota
Homan Claims 700 Agents Are Leaving MN. Plus Joe Reberkenny Reports From D.C.
ICE in Arizona. Caucus Day in Minnesota.
Operation Metro Surge Updates. Plus: Yes, They’re Coming For Marriage Equality
Culture and Entertainment Friday – January 30, 2026
Unpack This For Me – January 29, 2026
Air Force Veteran Christopher Armitage, Then Tammye Nash and Jake Wittich Discuss Being Jouranlists In 2026
Latest from Minneapolis, plus “Image Control” with Patrick Nathan
AM950 News Special – January 26 ,2026
Ice Out of MN, Dancing Little Women, and Queer Sci-Fi
David Reddish Returns
Joe Reberkenny is back, plus breaking news updates
MN Police Chiefs Speak Out on ICE. LBGTQ progress backslides under Trump
The Gaily Show – January 19, 2026
Community Resilience Against ICE and Allison Vincent on Directing Woosh
Unpack This For Me with Beans Velocci
Jake Wittich Is Back, Plus Another Update From DC
Brianne Brinker reports from DC, plus the latest on the assault against Minneapolis
The latest on ICE invasion of Minnesota
New Book: A Black Queer History of the United States
The Gaily Show – January 8, 2026
ICE Kills a Protester in Minneapolis; Joe Reberkenny of the Washington Blade
Children’s Hospital under investigation, 5th anniversary of January 6
Giovernor Walz Drops Out, Plus Trump Attacks Venezuela
John Parker of The Gaily Show – Matt McNeil Holiday Interviews 2025
2025 Is Over And So Are The ACA Subsidies
New Tool Tracks Media Coverage of the Transgender Community
All MAGA wants for Christmas is to hurt LGBTQ kids
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein’s Shocking Letter About Trump
MAGA has a marriage problem, plus trans healthcare update
Which books does Ilana Masad recommend you read this month?
Unpacking the 8 Broadway Shows Coming to the Twin Cities in 2026
Dems Force Healthcare Vote, plus Jake Wittich Reports
Mostowy Trains For Olympics, Plus Best Holiday Rom Coms
How To Repeal ‘Texas Women’s Privacy Act’, plus The Snow Queen
Go Dog Go! at CTC, plus meet Mr. Twin Cities Leather 2026
LGBTQ Journalism in the Age of MAGA
George Santos Sits Down with Joe Reberkenny
Hennepin County Settles, plus headlines from around the country
Healthcare Showdown, 2026 Election Interview, LGBTQ Headlines, Heated Rivalry
Queer Word with K Anderson
Trump Targets MN Somali Community, plus LGBTQ Chicago News
The K Economy? Plus, Joffrey Ballet Exhibition at Wrightwood 659
World Aids Day, Marriage Equality in Europe, and AI
Queer Rock Climbing! Plus, Let’s Chat Buffy & Sarah Michelle Gellar!
LGBTQ economies. Plus New Reporting on MTG and another Trump lawsuit
A Second Chance At Life. Plus, new reporting from the Dallas Voice
Christmas with the TCGMC Chorus! Plus, new reporting from Adam Rhodes
Ilana Masad’s Queer Book Recs! Plus: Queer TV Reviews
Taking Back Democracy With Beer, Podcasts, And A Super Pac
Epstein Files: Now What? Plus, Terror Plot Against Chicago Pride?
Taxes! Epstein Vote. Anti-trans Judge Nomination
MN State Rep Liz Reyer on Affordability, Housing, and the LGBTQ community.
New album: The Lines in My Hands. New book: George Falls Through Time
Rep. Leigh Finke on 2025 Election, Trump, and MN LGBTQ community
Schumer’s Got to Go. Washington Blade: Rep. Adelita Grijalva 1-on-1.
Trans Veterans Day. Senate Dems “Caved”? Florida has crushed freedom
We just keep winning elections! Kim Davis lost! Shutdown over?
Honoring and remembering our queer ancestors
2025 Queer and Funny Festival, plus Protest Lines
Encore Conversation: Kat Grant on Chrisitan Nationalism
Windy City Times’ Jake Wittich Returns and Election Coverage
Queer-owned FWIDO Studios animates new future
Mayor’s Race 2025: Ranking Endorsements
Laughing at the Sun and Hologram Boyfriends
Unpack this for me: queer identities and pop culture
Mayor’s Race 2025: MN State Sen. Omar Fateh
University of Texas disinvites LGBTQ groups & Bolts Magazine’s Election Guide
Fresh Coast Film Fest, New UK Green Party Leader, and the literal AI debate
It’s a Dr. Seuss double feature!
Rep. Christian Phelps Upends Political Trends
MN Supreme Court rules for trans athletes. Plus, Chicago ICE lawsuit.
Mayor’s Race 2025: Alejandro Richardson
Mayor’s Race 2025: Brenda Short, Plus WI Assembly candidate Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford
The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam by Lana Lin and Mary E. Roach’s We Are The Match
Unpack This For Me: Epstein, International Criminal Court warnings, and the Trump Revenge Tour
Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate: Rev. Dr. DeWayne Davis
Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate: Jazz Hampton. Plus, new reporting from GLMA conference
How and why are there so many LGBTQ people in Trump’s Cabinet? Plus, the largest LGBTQ health conference
Eclipse Season
Loving II: Vintage Photographs of Men in Love, plus Rex Ogle’s Peacemaker Presents: The Vigilante/Eagly Double Feature
Unpack This For Me: How do we get more LGBTQ candidates in office?
White House Correspondent Joe Reberkenny on Gov’t Shutdown, plus Jake Wittich reports the latest from ICE’s violence in Chicago
LGBTQ health crisis as doctors unite in Minneapolis, plus the Left lost the media war
Out LGBTQ U.S. Senate Candidate Dakarai Larriett, plus SCOTUS reform, and Dems call out MAGA’s pro-life bluff
Adib Khorram’s It Had To Be Him, plus Bill Hulseman’s six to carry the casket and one to say the mass
The history and lessons of the Pink Triangle
MAGA/Trump attacks on the arts with Austene C Van
Tammye Nash, plus the Trans Athlete lawsuit with Brianne Brinker,
Soybean diplomacy and do you remember the 2021 American Rescue Plan?
Ilana Masad’s new novel Beings and Nicole Disney’s Tapout
The 2024 Global Elections: Queer folks on the ballot
Jake Wittich’s new reporting on Chicago’s LGBTQ+ Affairs Director Search and Windy City Times’ 40th Anniversary
Travel to Marquette! Plus, the LGBTQ Media Mapping Project
Adam Moen swings in White Christmas, plus Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension
The Enormous Crocodile US Premiere, plus the 2025 Flip The Script Festival
Kat Grant on Christian Nationalism
Mason Deaver’s Build-A-Boyfriend Project, Plainclothes review, XP Lee wins special election, and MAGA calls for 500,000 arrests
Ken Shneck on upcoming SCOTUS conversion therapy case, Attorney Generals pledge to fight for trans kids, Tyler Robinson in court
MAGA’s Charlie Kirk war, Abdi Nazemian’s new book: Exquisite Things, and gays won the Emmys
Queer Spirit: Virgo Season
Rachel Meredith’s Girl Next Door and Mike Player’s Utopia
Recovery and the LGBTQ community
Plainclothes Director Carmen Emmi, plus Jake Wittich’s new reporting on MPOX and the Feigenholtz/Uniejewski State Senate Race
Google’s Problemmatic algorithm, Michigan judge condones January 6th, Dems winning despite “disarray”
MAGA threatens Chicago invasion, plus conversation with Dr. Samuel Clowes Huneke
“Only Ugly Guys” at Gremlin Theatre and Eli Clare’s Unfurl
Thinning Clearly, Thinking Queerly about trans athletes with Brianne Brinker
Lawsuit against Buffalo Wild Wings and Michigan AG puts the University of MI on notice
Annunciation Catholic School updates
Twinless Review and Anyone Can Whistle at Minneapolis Musical Theatre
Thinking Clearly, Thinking Queerly with Nia Bentall of Vote Forward
The Gaily Show – August 27, 2025
Harvard cancels LGBTQ student support, Legal victories in Kenya and Czech Republic
DeSantis erases LGBTQ memorial, Third Way’s Don’t Say Gay memo, SCOTUS axes health research
Crime Ink: Iconic, plus film reviews of Spark and Perfect Endings
The Gaily Show – Live from the Fair
Freda Ndidi Epum’s new memoir, plus French protestors banned Barbie
Tammye Nash returns with new reporting on Texas Democrat walkout, plus book ban law banned, but Project 2025 is almost complete
Iceland Pride, Haircut Ban, Georgia forcing trans people to detransition
Christmas at the Women’s Hotel and Italian gay double-feature
Thinking Clearly, Thinking Queerly about legal recognition for poly and non-nuclear families
Christopher Kane send-off, plus Jake Wittich reports on Chicago’s fight for LGBTQ healthcare
Legit porn ban, Nepal’s First Pride, USAF cuts retirement benefits
Dr. Samuel Huneke with guest host Ellie Krug
Thinking Clearly, Thinking Queerly with Jim Verraros
John and Jim live from Iceland with guest host Philip Anthony
Tammye Nash returns, plus Jessica L’Whor takes over Minneapolis this weekend
Brown University Caves, but Ulta steps up. Plus, Rick Dildine from Children’s Theatre Company,
A new novel from Jonathan Parks-Ramage’s, plus Lance Garland’s debut memoir
Thinking Clearly, Thinking Queerly: LGBTQ grantmaking declining in the US
Jake Wittich reports on legal claims of anti-LGBTQ discrimination at Northwestern University and Illinois Lt. Gov Juliana Stratton’s LGBTQ platform
Court blocks anti-LGBT funding cuts (for now), the Olympics kowtow to Trump, but Boston Children’s Hospital stays strong
Who’s really in the Epstein files, a tour of MAGA pedophiles and pornographers, and Kim Davis is back
Ozzy Osbourne’s death, Trump loses in court again, climate change lawsuit, and Christopher Kane
Jake Wittich Fills In!
Film Reviews: The Wedding Banquet and A Nice Indian Boy
Thinking Clearly, Thinking Queerly with Neil Aasve and the Visibility Impact Fund
Windy City Times’ Jake Wittich on Mike Simmons and U.S. Rep Robin Kelly
Looming cuts at the Institute on Community Integration, plus LGBTQ philanthropic slides
Samuel Huneke on MAGA, Mahmoud v Taylor, Big Ugly Bill, plus EEOC takes up anti-trans cases, Rosie O’Donnell Shuts Down Trump,
Men-Who-Read Book Club Plus Pride Booklists with Abigail Dillon
Thinking Clearly, Thinking Queerly with David Reddish
This News Is So Gay, PA blocks anti-trans bill, Ohio advocates seek to repeal state constitutional ban on gay marriage
Wisconsin bans conversion therapy, Medicaid cuts for LGBT community, and Governor Newsom’s no friend of the LGBTQ community
Crosswalk Culture War, the war on Libraries ramps up, is it time for a new Progressive Political Party?
Queer Spirit Radio – July 2025
Jake Wittich, Managing Editor of Windy City Times, UPenn’s shocking capitulation, and Big Ugly Bill updates
Big Ugly Bill for queer folks, Supreme Courts gearing up to attack LGBTQ kids again
All things Pride and we actually won one at the Supreme Court
The Gaily Show – 2 Hour Pride Special – June 28, 2025
Abigail James Dillon of MELSA; Ellen Miller and Scott Duff of WCPT
Thinking Clearly Thinking Queely with Cathy Renna
Christopher Kane of the Chicago Blade and upcoming Supreme Court decisions
Tammye Nash returns, plus Rep. Sarah McBride’s comments and religion in schools
LGBTQ media survey, plus facts won’t change minds about LGBTQ people, search warrants unsealed in case against Boelter, LGBTQ foreign policy, and Twin Cities Pride
Angels in America Director Charles Askenaizer, and reviews for you
How to be a good man in a toxic world
Chicago Park District Pride flag ceremony, Kevin Morrison rally, and GroceryLand comeback
Remembering Melissa Hortman
Tragedy in Minnesota
Theatre, Film, and TV reviews galore
Building community in Pride season with Queermunity
Christopher Kane Andry José Hernández Romero updates, and MSNBC’s uh-oh ratings
Tammye Nash from the Dallas Voice and Lex Exworthy from UP Peninsula Pride
Samuel Clowes Huneke, Harvey Milk’s Navy Ship, and another kicker from SCOTUS
The Gaily Show Live from Golden Valley Pride!
Queer Spirit Radio – June 2025
Ordinary Love and unpacking the 2025 Tony nominations
Getting our queer lives organized while reading LGBTQ books
New Interim CEO of Equality Illinois
Hungary’s ban on all Pride events, trans man arrested for using restroom, Senator Gallego turns on LGBTQ community
Another “Is It Left-Wing Extremism?” segment, plus Shout Sister Shout at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres
Queers in History Returns, plus reviews of Pee-Wee as Himself, Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story, Hacks, and Buffy updates
LGBTQ Elder Laws
MELSA and Christopher Kane, White Correspondent for the Washington Blade
Be part of LGBTQ research, Rainbow-washing is over, violent attacks against LGBTQ community
Midnight at the Cinema Palace, plus Mae West and the Trial of Sex
Reimagining queer versions of classic books
Chicago’s surprise LGBTQ Director Search, a new LGBTQ Candidate running for Congress in Illinois, and Hastings Pride is almost here!
Paris debuts new memorial to LGBTQ Holocaust victims and LGBTQ performers extend Eurovision winning streak
LGBTQ workplace protections banned, Texas votes to repeal sodomy law, Florida’s drag ban is banned, plus a review of Overcompensating
Disco Witches of Fire Island and A Sharp Endless Need
Care Activism
Christopher Kane, White House Correspondent for the Washington Blade
What to make of Pope Leo, LGBTQ candidate announces run for for Illinois’ 8th, a literal book burning in Ohio
Brazil’s gender-neutral IDs, July 7 deadline for trans service members, UK Supreme Court Chaos
Ode to Walt Whitman at Open Eye Theatre
Queer Spirit and Care Chats
LGBTQ protections in Chicago Teacher Union Contract
Advocates crush all anti-LGBTQ bills in Florida, but Texas claims harming LGBTQ kids shouldn’t be considered parental neglect
Angie Craig launches Senate Campaign, HHS slashes $477 million in LGBTQ research
The First Homosexuals, plus reviews of The Last of Us and My Partner
Immaculate Misconception with Dr. Gwen Bass
Christopher Kane, White House Correspondent for the Washington Blade
Fraudsters! George Santos going to jail and Caitlin Jenner is begging for money. Was it worth it?
Canada votes, MN sues Trump, and another “Is It Left-Wing Extremism?”
Joyful Noise and Significant Other
Gender Justice: Transgender Training 101
Windy City Times’ Jake Wittich
Supreme Court Could Make “Don’t Say Gay” the law of the land
This Is It closes its door, Trump’s anti-LGBTQ trade policy, and “Is It Extreme”
Tio and Tio: The Ring Bearers and Gay the Pray Away
A Queer Theory of the State
Chris Pappas’ Run for Senate, the White House’s Pronoun Obsession, and Maine v Trump
The Gaily Show – April 15, 2025
Guest Host Ellie Krug today!
Rebroadcast: Spellbound World Premiere and CTC’s Disney’s Frozen
Aliveness Project’s Ezra McNair on HIV Prevention
Joseph Jaafari, Arizona’s Lookout, plus Feels Out Loud
Jake Wittich, Windy City Times, plus Council on LGBTQIA2S+ Minnesotans (MNQT)
Reviews: Mid-Century Modern, Cassandra, Triassic Parq, and Witch
My experiences in GTMO as a gay-American
Traveling while Transgender, HIV Prevention funding cut
OutNebraska’s Classy-Tacky Ball, Sundance Film Festival quits Utah
Anne Laughlin on the writer’s life, Trans Day of Visibility, and a French political earthquake
Red and the Mother Wild opens March 28
Hello Stranger: Musings on Modern Intimacies
Washington Blade’s White House Correspondent Christopher Kane New Reporting
What Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election means to LGBTQ community
Dallas Voice’s Managing Editor Tammye Nash, plus real laws to protect children
Disney’s Frozen: The Musical debuts at Children’s Theatre Company, plus film reviews!
Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer
Democrats Generational Change, Hungary’s Anti-Pride Law, and Arkansas’ Haircut Ban
Windy City Times’ Jake Wittich, New Mexico advances pro-LGBTQ sex ed law and the tolerance “paradox,”
Gavin Newsom is but a symptom of a larger problem, plus re-thinking LGBTQ discrimination
Triassic Parq at Minneapolis Musical Theatre and Max Austin’s “That Is What We Are”
Writing craft talk: writing queerly
Did MSNBC just make gay history?
SCOTUS going after conversion therapy bans?
Ben Wikler talks WI Supreme Court Race
Amy Spalding’s “On Her Terms” and Craig Johnson directs “Proof”
LGBTQ Emancipation and rise of the Nazis in 1920/30s Germany
LGBTQ Emancipation and rise of the Nazis in 1920/30s Germany
Trump lies to Congress, plus MAGA goes after gay marriage and trans service members
The tariff war is back on, the first gay Imam was assassinated, and LGBTQ healthcare
Actual pro-LGBTQ laws are happening in this country and abroad
Spellbound World Premiere Plus Brutally Honest Oscar Reviews
Thinking Clearly, Thinking Queerly with Christopher Breault
Target Sued Again, Friday Economic Blackout, and Unleashing Our Political Imagination
2024 Election Policy Progress Reports, plus we’re tracking today’s special elections
Updates on investigation into Sam Nordquist’s death, plus breakdown of MAGA attack on federal government
Henry Corrigan’s Somewhere Quiet, Full of Light and Brutal Oscar Reviews
Queer culinary worlds with Chef June De
White House Correspondent Christopher Kane and Hennepin Arts’ Dale Stark
MN Senator Cwodzinski on Book Ban Law