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Bloomington resident and Coordinator of local gay men’s support group IlluMENate Patrick Battani talks about HIV/AIDS and people of color and speci...
- Added: May 24, 2013
- Length: 59:57
Culture gives us permission - or denies us permission - to express what we find is true and real in ourselves. There is nothing natural, or inevita...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 20:44
The term "Hinduism" refers to a multitude of traditions, so it's no surprise that Hindu attitudes towards sexuality and homosexuality are complex. ...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 12:27
For Buddhists, whether homosexuality is "right" or "wrong" isn't the question - it's more important to ask whether a behavior is "skillfull" or "un...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 12:27
Like many other conservative-leaning Christian denominations, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially condemns homosexual acts. ...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 11:54
Anita Sherrill knew she was a lesbian since she was a little girl. But reconciling her sexuality with her Christianity, and with her father, hasn't...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 07:40
African-American Christian denominations run the gamut, from Baptist and Evangelical to Roman Catholic. One thing they've have tended to share, tho...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 15:46
Rev. Richard Cizik says he's undergone an "evolution" about the place of gays and lesbians in Evangelical Christianty - and says that American Evan...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 10:48
Compared with mainliners, Evangelical Christians emphasize a more personal relationship with Jesus, and believe they have a sacred duty to share th...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 10:23
Eve Tushnet is gay, Catholic, and proudly celibate. A recent convert, she decided she couldn't be a good Catholic and a practicing lesbian at the s...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 17:00
When Celestine married Hilary 34 years ago, they were a typical heterosexual couple, bound by love and their vows of Catholic marriage. So 17 years...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 05:52
In recent years, the Episicopal church has changed its rules on homosexuality, creating same-sex blessings and ordaining gay clergy. That hasn’t go...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 16:45
Bishop Marianne Budde, the spiritual leader of some 40,000 Episcopalians in the DC-Metro area, shares the church’s official stance on homosexuality...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 15:18
The director of one of the largest mosques in America presents Islam’s traditional approach to homosexuality: being gay is acceptable, but acting o...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 04:38
A gay, devout Muslim man recounts growing up in Pakistan, where being homosexual wasn’t just abnormal, it “wasn’t part of the vocabulary.” After mo...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 10:26
It all started with those two lines in Leviticus - a core text of Judaism. Two rabbis from opposite ends of the theological spectrum explain homose...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 18:53
In Orthodox Judaism, to be both actively gay and "frum," or observant, is a theological taboo. Producer Jon Kalish spoke to four Orthodox men and w...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 10:38
It all started on a Sunday afternoon in October, 1968. Twelve people gathered for worship in a living room in Huntington Park, California. It was t...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 12:05
The Metropolitan Community Church wasn’t the only gay-friendly church in the early 70s. Around the same time, a small crop of churches and synagogu...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 21:38
For thousands of years, scholars have interpreted a handful of passages in the Bible, Torah and Koran as clear condemnations of homosexuality. From...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 12:06
Open any Torah, Bible or Koran, and the passages about homosexuality seem clear: being gay is an abomination, a sin, something that incurs the wrat...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 34:26
Reporter Sasha Aslanian on balanced reporting during Minnesota's gay marriage debate.
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 24:42
Fifteen-year-old Josh's mom was having trouble having a baby, so she headed down to Mexico for an "operation" from a renowned psychic surgeon.
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 06:23
A half-hour music-rich documentary on Liberace and the former Liberace Museum. His story is told using historical clips from Liberace himself in pe...
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 29:42
Coming of age in the comforting glow of late-night TV.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KWMR-FM, KKRN, KMUN, Nevada Public Radio and more
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 01:57:58
- Purchases: 7
