The Gaily Show

Lex Exworthy from UP Peninsula Pride joins us to discuss Marquette Pride. Learn more and connect here: www.uprainbowpride.org. Plus, starting today, and then bi-weekly, Tammye Nash, the Managing Editor for the Dallas Voice, will join us to share the Dallas Voice’s award winning LGBTQ journalism. Dallas Voice just started its 42nd year as the Voice of the LGBTQ Community in North Texas and beyond. Visit our website at DallasVoice.com and our social media pages on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and BlueSky.

Starting today, Dr. Samuel Clowes Huneke will join us monthly to discuss LGBTQ politics and queer history! Connect with Samuel here: samuelcloweshuneke.com. Plus, revisiting the story of Pete Hegseth stripping Harvey Milk’s name off a Navy Ship. And the Supreme Court unanimously just made reverse discrimination lawsuits super easy.

Jim Pounds hosts this special edition of the Gaily Show live from Golden Valley Pride!

Listen to Queer Spirit Radio the first Saturday of every month at 2:30 as part of the Gaily Show!

Best selling author Marie Rutkoski’s new novel Ordinary Love comes out June 10. It’s a sweeping romance of two people trying to forge a path toward hope, bound by a love they discovered when they were too young to understand its power. Plus, Dale Stark from Hennepin Arts joins us to talk about the 2025 Tony nominations! Get your copy of Ordinary Love: https://bookshop.org/a/82376/9780593803264 Connect with Marie: marierutkoski.com Check out the Broadway tours coming to Hennepin Arts: hennepinarts.org/events

Looking at your apartment, house, and condo have you thought to yourself: I’ve got to find a way to organize all of this. Did you know how you organize can be a reflection of how we’re feeling about the world. We’re talking about organizing with Jake Stepansky, who is also the co-founder and Board President of the Queer and Trans Library. Start reading here: https://www.qtlibrary.org

Jake Wittich, Managing Editor for Windy City Times, is back with his reporting on Channyn Lynne Parker, CEO of one of Brave Space Alliance, being tapped as interim CEO of Equality Illinois. A queer Wisconsin teenager is seeking hate crime charges after being attacked at an Illinois McDonald’s. Plus, there are so many Pride events in Chicago and the suburbs. Jake gives us the tour!

70+ European lawmakers headed to Pride to march in a Pride event after Hungary bans all Pride events. A trans man was arrested for using the bathroom conservatives told him to use. Months after LGBTQ community helped elect Arizona Senator Gallego, he just called us ‘dangerous’. Iowa Senator Joni Ernst says “we’re all going to die, for goodness sakes” defending cuts to Medicaid. If that’s true  

Another segment of “Is It Left-Wing Extremism?” looking at amnesty for undocumented immigrants. Speaking of, MN is trying to take away health insurance for tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants just months after enrolling them. Plus, Lori Dokken’s upcoming Fireside Theatre concert event at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: SHOUT SISTER SHOUT is June 8! Lori joins us to discuss! Get your tickets here: https://chanhassendt.com/shows/shout-sister-shout/

History is being made again, as Keith Stern’s newest book “Queers in History Returns” is the follow-up to his original groundbreaking and perennial bestseller Queers in History, originally published in 1993 on CD-ROM. The current update covers more than 5000 years of history and it just dropped May 27. reviews for you: Pee-Wee as Himself on HBO Max. Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story on PBS and Prime Video. Hacks Season Three on HBO Max. And, we have Buffy The Vampire Slayer updates.