This June Disney hosted a collection of LGBTQIA2S-targeted ‘pride nites’ at Disneyland. This is only the second year in Disneyland’s nearly 70 year history where the company has actually created their own pride experience…so…how was it?

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.

The “I” in LGBTQIA2S stands for intersex, which represents a seemingly endless list of possible combinations of our human X and Y chromosomes. 

Some intersex individuals are misdiagnosed with various other ailments in their youth — like Klinefelter's Syndrome — and ultimately have to make difficult, life and identity-altering decisions in adulthood. Like actress and intersex advocate Juleigh Mayfield, who was forced to transition to female in her forties.

HOST: Christopher J. Beale

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.

Open To It is available on Out TV, Amazon, and opentoitseries.com.

HOST/PRODUCER: Christopher J. Beale

We kick off Pride month (and season 3!) in Brecksville & Broadview Heights, Ohio. The pair of conservative small towns hosted their first LGBTQIA pride in 2023 to much success, then local residents tried to shut it down. The fight for 2024 on Stereotypes.

HOST: Christopher J. Beale

LINKS: Brecksville & Broadview Heights PrideStereotypesPodcast.org

My holiday gift to you, four stories about drag holiday traditions:

“Thanksgiving with Carmella” by Christopher Beale

“Creating Our Christmas” by Jinkx Monsoon & BenDeLaCreme

“No Christingmas in Russia” by Katya Smirnoff-Skyy

“Christmas Eve Eve” by J. Conrad Frank

Happy holidays, see you in 2024!

Christopher J. Beale presents Stereotypes: Straight Talk from Queer Voices

Tre'vell Anderson is an author, journalist and observer of pop culture. Over the years, as they moved through their own coming out journey, Tre'vell noticed a problem with the way Trans people are portrayed in media.

Are negative representations on screen causing violence off screen?

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Support Christopher's work on Patreon to hear the full 70 minute conversation behind this episode, details at christopherjbeale.com