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Pride may be over this year, but that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate and support the LGBTQ community all year long.

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On this episode, we look at the impact of a few of the policy goals and changes initiated by the Trump administration on New York City.  

From the podcast This Way Out, we have a report on the response of the LGBTQ movement to Trump’s anti-trans policies; students from WNSR New School Radio reported earlier this year on Trump’s tariff policies and their possible impact on younger Americans; and Local Switchboard’s Jordan Gass-Poore’ reports on resistance from New York State Governor Kathy Hochul and what looks like accommodation on the part of New York City Mayor Eric Adams. 

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On our latest episode, we revisit the poet Dorothy Parker’s famous quip, that New York “will be a nice town if they ever get it finished” from two perspectives.

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On June 28th, 1969 patrons at The Stonewall Inn, a well-known nightspot and refuge for the queer community in New York’s Greenwich Village, had had enough. Raided and ridiculed by local police most nights, on this night they erupted into the street, tossing their wigs, swinging their handbags, and chanting. By morning, a counter-revolution had been born. New York is one of many cities worldwide that celebrates Pride week, but this year, there is something new to celebrate: the opening of the Stonewall National Park Visitor Center.

• Outside of the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center. (Sarah Montague)
• Inside of the

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Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, published in 1962, helped to inspire environmental awareness and climate activism in the United States.

This spring of 2024, we wish to be anything but silent.  On this program, we share two ways in which to increase our awareness of the marvels of nature, and to understand how they are imperiled.

First, Sarah Montague interviews Miranda Massie, founder and head of The Climate Museum.

And Jordan Gass-Poore’ attends an eclipse-viewing event at the historic Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

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Actor Ellen Lauren was once a competitive show jumper, but theatre goers of the last 30-odd years will know her as a founder and principal actor with the SITI Company, where she played roles as varies as Virginia Woolf and Bacchus. SITI ceased operation in 2022, leaving behind it a professional lifetime of memories.  Lauren shares some of them with us here.

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For Women’s History Month, we’re celebrating women’s contribution to the theatre, where they have had a dramatic presence since classical times and a professional presence as actors since the 17th century.

Today, women are award-winning playwrights, theatre directors, and visionary founders of companies.  They have also contributed to the craft of theatre as creators of new practices.

On this program, we share three different perspectives: devoted librarian and archivist stewards the collection of a great male thespian; a fruitful educator who is also a playwright and director; and the founder of a young, enterprising and provocative theatre company.

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On this episode, Local Switchboard’s Sarah Montague talks with Lauren Keating, adapter and director of “A Christmas Carol” at the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey.

And Jordan Gass-Poore’, host of Local Switchboard NYC, sits down with Regine L. Sawyer, a New York City-based comics writer, editor, and the founder of Women in Comics Collective International. 

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This month on the show, we feature two different ways of celebrating New York and honoring New Yorkers.  It’s the 50th anniversary of the iconic Village Halloween Parade, and Sarah Montague talked with director Jeanne Fleming about the beautiful, elegiac tone of this year’s event.  And the documentary production house Radio Diaries brings us stories from Hart Island, a little-known burial ground in the Bronx.  Managing Producer Nellie Gilles talks about the evolution of the series.

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For Pride Month, Local Switchboard reports on the history of the rainbow flag created by artist Gilbert Baker.

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