The AAPB Celebrates Pride Month

This month, the American Archive of Public Broadcasting celebrates Pride Month by honoring the rich history, culture, and perspectives of the LGBTQ+ community. Explore our extensive collection of programs featuring hundreds of stories that highlight the diverse experiences and contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals throughout history.

Collections

LGBT+ Collection

The LGBT+ Collection features over 700 public radio and television programs and original materials dating from the 1950s to 2018 and contributed by more than 35 stations and organizations across the United States. The collection documents the representation of the LGBT+ community in public media, including conversations, social and political reactions, and cultural movements associated with LGBT+ history. These topics are presented through interviews, newscasts, lectures, and more.

This Way Out Collection

The This Way Out collection contains more than 800 full-length episodes covering the years 1988 through 2005 from the only internationally distributed weekly LGBTQ radio program, currently broadcast over 200 local community radio stations worldwide. This award-winning, half-hour, magazine-style program delivers a comprehensive overview of major news events impacting the queer community (NewsWrap), along with in-depth coverage of significant events, interviews with prominent LGBTQ figures, and segments on music, literature, and entertainment.

Each episode provides an international LGBTQ news roundup alongside a variety of features covering queer culture and politics. The program is produced by Overnight Productions, Inc., a non-profit corporation primarily funded by listener donations.

Stonewall Uprising Interviews Collection

The Stonewall Uprising Interviews Collection is comprised of 48 raw interviews conducted in 2011 for the American Experience documentary of the same name. The documentary discusses the Stonewall riots, a six-day period beginning on June 28, 1969, during which the LGBTQ+ community protested against a police raid on a gay bar called the Stonewall Inn, in Greenwich Village, NYC.

Stonewall Uprising discusses societal attitudes towards the gay community and early activism for gay rights prior to the riots, as well as the riots’ legacy, which includes the creation of a movement for gay rights, greater cohesion among the LGBTQ+ community, and the establishment of the first gay pride parades.

In the Life Collection

The In the Life Collection contains 198 episodes from television’s longest-running LGBTQ+ news magazine. Created by Emmy Award-winning producer John Scagliotti and produced by In the Life Media, Inc., the monthly series of half-hour programs spanned 20 years between 1992 and 2012. In the Life features newsmagazine segments on LGBTQ+ life, politics, arts, history, activism, health, religion, race, rights, and sports.

The series featured hosts Kate Clinton and Katherine Linton, as well as notable guest hosts including Madonna, Nathan Lane, Martina Navratilova, Margaret Cho, Alan Cumming, Billie Jean King, RuPaul, and Angela Lansbury.

OutCasting Collection

The OutCasting Collection offers more than 200 episodes from three distinct series produced by Media for the Public Good, Inc./OutCasting Media: OutCasting, the main program, which debuted over the radio waves in 2011 as a platform to discuss concerns, issues, and experiences of LGBTQ folks; OutCasting OffAir (later called OutCasting Overtime), featuring commentaries and discussions by youth participants (called OutCasters) on a wide range of issues; and OutCasting Plus, which debuted in 2017 and includes an “OutCasting Ga[y]me Show,” a quiz-formatted and mostly lighthearted discussion of LGBTQ current events. OutCasting is created by and for LGBTQ youth and straight allies and is intended for a general listening audience that is open to learning about LGBTQ issues but may not know much about them.

Episodes from OutCasting Media deal with issues in depth as seen from the perspectives of LGBTQ youth and straight allies, including topics like marriage equality, gender identity, relationships with family and community members, media representation of LGBTQ people, challenges faced by trans people in sports, and the legacy of Stonewall.

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