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    October 31, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

    Long before Stonewall, there was a little town on the sand where people could step off the ferry and be themselves. Tonight we travel to Cherry Grove on Fire Island, often called America's first gay and lesbian town. From the black cherry…

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    For decades, Halloween was the one night a year queer people could walk out the door as themselves. Tonight we travel through many Halloweens, from Alfred Finnie's 25-cent drag ball in a Chicago tavern basement in 1935, to Finnie's Ball at…

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    October 27, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

    In 1859, a young woman who had never been to school began writing love letters. Her sweetheart kept every one. Tonight we travel to Hartford, Connecticut, in the years around the Civil War, to meet Addie Brown, a self-taught domestic…

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    October 24, 2026 · 57 min

    In 1987, a few hundred people in an old New York schoolhouse decided they would not be silent. Tonight we travel to New York City in the spring of 1987 to meet ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power: the Monday night meetings on West…

  • The Soldier With No Name: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore

    October 22, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

    Two artists in love fought an army with tissue paper, and signed each note "the soldier with no name." Tonight we travel to the island of Jersey to meet Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore: partners for forty-five years, makers of some of the…

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  • That Is My Road: Osh-Tisch, Two-Spirit Warrior of the Crow | LGBTQ+ History

    October 20, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min

    They cut her hair and dressed her as a man. Her chief told the agent to leave. Her answer never changed. Tonight we travel to the northern plains to meet Osh-Tisch of the Crow Nation: a badé, neither man nor woman in Crow tradition, the…

  • Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and the First Coming Out, 1867 | LGBTQ+ History

    October 17, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

    In 1867 one man stood before 500 German jurists and said it out loud. He was shouted down. He was also heard. Tonight we travel to Germany and Italy to meet Karl Heinrich Ulrichs: a judge who lost his career for loving men, a thinker who…

  • The Rough Voice of Tenderness: Chavela Vargas, Who Came Out at 81

    October 15, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min

    A red wool poncho. A single guitar. A blue house. A mountain that answers back. Tonight we travel to Mexico to meet Chavela Vargas: born in the coffee hills of Costa Rica in 1919, a street singer in Mexico City, a guest in Frida Kahlo's…

  • Joined in Life, Joined in Death: Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum | LGBTQ+ History

    October 13, 2026 · 56 min

    A lamp in a dark doorway. Four thousand years of color. Two men, nose to nose. Tonight we travel to Saqqara, around 2400 BCE, to meet Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep: royal manicurists to King Niuserre, royal confidants, and the two men who…

  • Two Loves: Josephine Baker, Spy, Star, and Bisexual Icon | LGBTQ+ History

    October 10, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

    Lamplight on wet cobblestones. A cheetah on a diamond collar. A cup of coffee that changed a speech. Tonight we travel to Paris in 1925 to meet Josephine Baker: born poor in St. Louis in 1906, famous overnight at the Théâtre des…

  • The Wardrobe Door: Simon Nkoli and Africa's First Pride (1990)

    October 8, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

    Paper bags in the rain. A wardrobe door. Two parts of one person, refusing to be divided. Tonight: Simon Nkoli, the gay anti-apartheid activist who led Africa's first Pride march. Born in Soweto in 1957, he hid his parents from the police…

  • Love Won in the Rain: Taiwan, First in Asia (2019)

    October 6, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

    Rainbow umbrellas in the rain. Sixty-six votes. A question 33 years old, finally answered. Tonight: how Taiwan became the first place in Asia where same-sex couples could marry. It begins in 1986, when Chi Chia-wei came out on national…

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LGBTQ+ History bedtime and relaxation stories, aiming to offer comfort, representation, and a touch of magic to listeners drifting off to sleep. https://restful-rainbow.captivate.fm/support