This week on Under the Radar with Callie Crossley – Will Chick-fil-A finally land in Boston? More than a third of transgender high school students attempt suicide and how do the Democratic primary candidates look from an LGBTQ standpoint? It’s those stories and more on our LGBTQ News Round Table.

Guests:

Grace Sterling Stowell - Executive director of the Boston Alliance of Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Youth, or BAGLY.

E.J. Graff – journalist, author and managing editor of the ‘The Monkey Cage’ at the Washington Post.

Janson Wu - Executive director of Boston GLAD, G-L-B-T-Q Legal Advocates & Defenders.

Later in the show…

Kim McLarin’s been thinking a lot about love and life lately. Now she’s sharing her stories and lessons learned in a volume of thirteen essays. McLarin puts her life on the page opening up about ill-fated online dating adventures, chronicling a journey to understand her depression and deconstructing the complications of interracial female friendships. Her book, Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Love and Life is our February selection for “Bookmarked: The Under the Radar Book Club.”

Guest:

Kim McLarin - Emerson College professor and author of Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Love and Life