Clik here to view.
Supreme Court overturns Alabama ruling against lesbian mother’s adoption
Supporters of gay marriage wave the rainbow flag outside the Supreme Court in July 2015. Photo by Joshua Roberts/ReutersWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Alabama’s top court went too far...
View ArticleBusinesses Push Back Against Georgia's Anti-Gay Religious Liberty Bill
Major companies are publicly opposing a bill on the desk of Georgia Governor Nathan Deal. Walt Disney and Marvel have promised to take their business elsewhere if the "First Amendment Defense Act" is...
View ArticleJane Sanders on the Campaign Trail; Life in the Bubble; Why Coke Cares About...
Coming up on today's show:Jane Sanders, social worker, academic, and wife of Senator Bernie Sanders, speaks on behalf of her husband's campaign.Why - and when - do corporations care about gay rights?...
View ArticleStonewall Inn Could be the Next National Park
Advocates hope to convince the federal government to make Stonewall Inn, Christopher Park, and the surrounding streets a National Park site.The recognition would allow the National Park Service to tell...
View ArticleFrom Conversion Therapy to a Rainbow Yarmulke
When Chaim Levin first met Benjy Unger almost 10 years ago, Chaim immediately wanted to be friends. "He was like one of those bros from high school that was just so regular and nobody would guess that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
[Unedited] David Isay with Krista Tippett
David Isay is the founder of StoryCorps and winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant and 2015 TED Prize. His new StoryCorps book is "Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work". This interview is edited and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
David Isay — Listening as an Act of Love
“The soul is contained in the human voice,” says David Isay, founder of StoryCorps. He sees the StoryCorps booth — a setting where two people ask the questions they’ve always wanted to ask each other —...
View ArticleYour Conversation: Recovering From a Tragedy Like the Orlando Massacre
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment.Whether you're down south in Florida, out west in San Francisco, or up north in New York, Takeaway listeners like you have been reflecting on the...
View ArticleOrlando and the State of the Gay Bar
The shooting at a gay Orlando nightclub early on Sunday morning, committed by a now-dead American citizen who pledged his allegiance to ISIS, was the deadliest mass shooting in American history.Michael...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Stonewall Inn officially becomes first national monument for gay rights
President Barack Obama created the first national monument to gay rights on Friday, designating the iconic Stonewall Inn in Manhattan where the modern gay rights movement took root nearly five decades...
View ArticleLGBT Beyond Marriage Rights
Carlos Ball, law professor at Rutgers University, Newark, and the editor of After Marriage Equality: The Future of LGBT Rights (NYU Press, 2016), surveys scholars and activists on where the LGBT...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gay men in Ivory Coast say they were attacked after showing support for...
Jose Louis Morales cries on his knees as he is hugged by a woman at his brother Edward Sotomayor Jr.’s cross, that is part of a makeshift memorial for the victims of the Pulse night club shootings, in...
View ArticleStonewall Remembered
New York, NY — This week, President Obama designated a new national monument around the Stonewall Inn in New York City's Greenwich Village. It was at that gay bar that a police raid in 1969 provoked...
View ArticleRussia’s new scapegoats
A Russian journalist is murdered in St. Petersburg – not for what he’s reported, but for being gay. Reveal exposes what it’s really like to be gay in Russia and neighboring countries today, where...
View ArticleWhite Collar Criminals, Sam Pollard's 'Two Trains Runnin,' All About Butter
Eugene Soltes looks at what drives wealthy people to engage in corporate schemes and fraud, from Kenneth Lay at Enron to Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff. Actors Michael Urie and Robin de Jesús, who are...
View ArticleA Couple Faces a Vicious Crime in 'Homos, or Everyone in America'
Actors Michael Urie and Robin de Jesús, who are starring in “Homos, Or Everyone in America,” discuss the new play, along with playwright, Jordan Seavey. Set it New York, “Homos,” tells the story of an...
View ArticleThe year in Reveal
This year on Reveal, we’ve dug into issues that affect people’s lives across the country. We told stories about worker abuse, toxic schools, women’s sports and private prisons. So we decided to round...
View ArticleObama is No Grand Hero For Some in LGBTQ Community
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment.In 2012 Newsweek declared Barack Obama, "The First Gay President."During Obama's tenure, a great deal of progress was made in the march toward...
View ArticleThe Boys Behind Madonna
Twenty-five years ago, Madonna's Blonde Ambition tour and documentary "Truth or Dare" signaled a new era of sexual expression. Now, in the new documentary "Strike a Pose," directed by Ester Gould and...
View ArticleSplit down the middle
At a time when Donald Trump is assuming leadership of a divided nation, Reveal heads to Jacksonville, Florida, one of the most divided cities in America.We look at policing, immigration, education and...
View ArticleThe Antigay Movement in Eastern Europe, Mezzo-Soprano Jamie Barton,...
Journalist Masha Gessen joins us to discuss her recent piece for Harper's called, “Family Values: Mapping the Spread of Antigay Ideology,” which looks at the spread of the antigay movement in Russia...
View ArticleThe Antigay Movement Growing Abroad
Journalist Masha Gessen joins us to discuss her recent piece for Harper's called, “Family Values: Mapping the Spread of Antigay Ideology,” which looks at the spread of the antigay movement in Russia...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gay veterans permitted to march in Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade
The color guard for LGBT veterans group OutVets marches down Broadway during the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in South Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. on March 15, 2015. The group was initially banned from...
View ArticleGay Men Are Disappearing In Chechnya
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. At the end of March, reports began surfacing from human rights workers and a Russian opposition newspaper that gay men were being arrested,...
View ArticleRussia’s new scapegoats
In light of recent reports about Chechnya’s anti-gay kidnappings, torture and killings, Reveal revisits stories that expose what it’s like to be gay in Russia. Right now, hateful rhetoric against the...
View ArticleThe Fight to Document Human Rights Abuses in Russia
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. This week, The Takeaway is exploring dissent in different corners of the world. Today, we go to Russia and Chechnya.Reports of brutal torture...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Supreme Court turns away challenge to California ban on ‘gay conversion’...
Gay marriage supporters hold a gay rights flag in front of the Supreme Court before a hearing about gay marriage in Washington, D.C. in 2015. Photo by Joshua Roberts/ReutersThe Supreme Court has...
View ArticleFinding Sex in Unexpected Places
Ross Benes, a reporter at Digiday who previously worked for Esquire and Deadspin and the author of The Sex Effect: Baring Our Complicated Relationship with Sex (Sourcebooks, 2017), talks about some of...
View ArticleClinton: Windsor Changed Hearts and Minds, 'Including Mine'
Hillary Clinton remembered gay rights pioneer Edith Windsor as a symbol of love who changed hearts and minds across America — including her own — during a Friday funeral for the woman whose court...
View ArticleClik here to view.
There have been a surge in arrests of LGBTQ people in Egypt. Here’s why
A fan of Lebanese alternative rock band Mashrou’ Leila holds a rainbow flag during an Aug. 12 concert at the Ehdeniyat International Festival in Ehden town, Lebanon. Photo by Jamal Saidi/ReutersSince...
View ArticleClik here to view.
5 overlooked stories that are worth your time
Rohingya Muslims flee from ongoing military operations in Myanmars Rakhine state, making their way through muddy water after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border to reach in Teknaff, Bangladesh....
View ArticleThe Battle Over Marriage Equality, Alvin Ailey's New Season, How To Save The...
Donna Zaccaro and Robbie Kaplan discuss United States v. Windsor, the famous Supreme Court case on marriage equality. Robert Battle, Courtney Celeste Spears and Clifton Brown celebrate the Alvin Ailey...
View Article'Log Cabin' Examines Inequality within the LGBTQ Community
Playwright Jordan Harrison and actors Ian Harvie and Dolly Wells discuss their new play Log Cabin at Playwrights Horizons. The play focuses on a tight-knit circle of married gays and lesbians who, when...
View ArticleIndia's Historic Gay-Rights Ruling
Ruth Vanita, professor of Global Humanities & Religions and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies and director of Global Humanities & Religions and South & South-East Asian Studies at the...
View ArticleFor The Stonewall Park Ranger, The Job Is Personal
The Stonewall National Monument commemorates the gay bar's protest against a police raid nearly 50 years ago, an uprising widely credited with sparking the modern gay-rights movement. To the park...
View ArticleFrom Stonewall to the Present, Fifty Years of L.G.B.T.Q. Rights
Masha Gessen co-hosts this episode of the New Yorker Radio Hour, guiding David Remnick through the fifty years of civil-rights gains for L.G.B.T.Q. people. From drag queens reading to children at the...
View ArticleBeing Non-Binary
Kristin is a twenty-one-year-old, self-described “queer black kid” who identifies as gender-fluid and pansexual. Youth culture and social media have helped shape her gender and sexual definitions in...
View ArticleLea DeLaria on Fifty Years of L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ History—in Five Minutes
Fifty years of gay and lesbian history in five minutes? If anyone can do it, it’s Lea DeLaria, the first openly lesbian comedian to perform on American television, and now a cast member on “Orange Is...
View ArticleMasha Gessen on Fifty Years of Gay Rights Since Stonewall
Fifty years ago, gay sex was illegal, homosexuality was listed in the D.S.M. as a mental illness, and government agencies kept lists of people known to be queer. Masha Gessen talks with the scholar and...
View ArticleA Gay Russian, Exiled in Ireland
Evgeny Shtorn and Alexander Kondakov were living together in St. Petersburg when Vladimir Putin began his crackdown on the L.G.B.T.Q. movement in Russia, passing laws that prevented gay “propaganda.”...
View ArticleA Gay Russian, Exiled in Ireland
Evgeny Shtorn and Alexander Kondakov were living together in St. Petersburg when Vladimir Putin began his crackdown on the L.G.B.T.Q. movement in Russia, passing laws that prevented gay “propaganda.”...
View ArticleSpeak to the Speaker: Police Reform and the Budget; Primary Preview: NY 16;...
Coming up on today's show:Corey Johnson, New York City Council Speaker, talks about the next City budget and with COVID-19-related revenue shortfalls, what gets cut. Plus other issues facing New...
View ArticleLGBTQ Advocates Celebrate After New York Voters Elect First Openly Gay, Black...
LGBTQ advocates are celebrating the fact that two of New York's newest members of Congress will be the first openly gay Black men to sit in the federal legislature.Ritchie Torres, who identifies as...
View ArticleDuring the 1970s, Social Workers Began Placing LGBTQ Youth with Queer Foster...
The 1970s were a turbulent time in the United States. The anti-war movement was in full swing, second-wave feminism had taken hold, and the Black Power movement had gained recognition. It was also...
View Article169-Gert McMullin—Sewing on the Frontline—From the AIDS Quilt to COVID-19 PPE
In 1985, Gert McMullin was one of the first San Franciscans to put a stitch on the AIDS Quilt, the quilt that began with one memorial square in honor of a man who had died of AIDS, and that now holds...
View ArticleYour First Pride
Callers discuss their experience attending Pride this weekend and share what surprised, delighted, and maybe also disappointed them if it was their first time joining in the festivities.
View ArticleA Pride Month Check-In Amid New Anti-LGBTQIA+ Policies
Kate Sosin (they/them), LGBTQ+ reporter at the 19th*, focusing on transgender rights, incarceration, politics and public policy, discusses policies targeting LGBTQIA+ people around the country, and...
View ArticleSummer Friday: Homophobia to Transphobia; Friendship & Race Relations; Book...
On this Summer Friday, we've put together some of our favorite recent interviews, including:William Eskridge, Yale Law School professor and author of many books, including (with Christopher Riano)...
View Article
