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Miraaj's Secret

San Francisco based Queer South Asian recording artist Miraaj recounts his journey from growing up in Dubai with a crush on Ricky Martin, to coming out and moving to America to make music.

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Gay Secret Service Agent Recalls Obama Years

Cory Allen spent a number of years on Michelle Obama’s personal Secret Service detail, standing next to the most powerful couple in the world as an out and proud gay man.

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STRONG MAN

Toni shares his journey of coming out as trans, discovering acrobatics, and eventually joining San Francisco’s Circus Bella. Plus, how his act playfully critiques toxic masculinity.

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The FMs: The Female Males

Trans synth rock duo The FMs was conceptualized and created by longtime friends Matte Namer (she/they) and Frankie Rex (he/they). After releasing one album and recording parts for another, Rex suddenly died.

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Tap Dancing With Pronouns

From donning her mother's Radio City Rockette tap shoes to performing on the Perry Como Show at just ten years old, Jassem's path was anything but conventional.

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The Unexplained Absence

Stereotypes has been away for a bit, host Christopher Beale shares an important update.

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Trans Vietnamese Comic Nina Nguyen

Standup comedy from LA-based comic Nina Nguyen, plus her take on representing transness in her comedy, and performing as a Trans woman in the male-dominated business of standup.

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Cruising Ringold Alley with Race Bannon

Gay author, activist, writer and leather educator Race Bannon takes us cruising and shares stories of the Ringold Alley that was, and what it’s inspired in today’s LGBTQIA2S+ community.

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AIDS & Cannabis with “How To Do The Pot”

Ellen Scanlon, host of the The How To Do The Pot podcast shares the story of how cannabis served as a major source of comfort for AIDS patients in the eighties and early nineties.

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San Diego’s Big Pride Has Deep Roots

The queer community turned out and turned up this weekend for the 2024 San Diego Pride Parade & Festival. Learn the history of pride events in San Diego on this week’s Stereotypes.

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Queer People Of Color Make Comedy Mighty Real

This time on Stereotypes, a group of queer creators of color who noticed something missing in entertainment, “what was missing was us,” and they set out to do something about it.

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How did Guerneville get so gay?

Learn how the queer community saved this little town from ruin after a devastating flood, and how Guerneville became a thriving queer destination.

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San Francisco’s Drag HERstory

Today — in a story Christopher produced for the KQED podcast Bay Curious — we’re taking a crash course through decades of drag herstory to better understand it’s larger impact on San Francisco, and the country.

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Inside Disneyland’s Pride Nite ‘After Dark’

Christopher Beale reports from inside Disneyland After Dark: Pride Nite 2024, and Bethanee Bemis from the Smithsonian gives us the timeline of queer celebrations inside the happiest place on earth.

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Queer Comedy Reps Open Relationships

Gay and bisexual men are more likely to be in open relationships, but Frank Arthur Smith says that is seldom represented in pop culture. With his queer comedy series Open To It, he aims to change that.

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