The Gaily Show

Christopher Kane returns to the Gaily Show to give us an inside look at what’s happening in DC. Christopher is the White House Correspondent for the Washington Blade.

Read Christopher’s reporting here: https://www.washingtonblade.com/author/christopher-kane/

Learn more about the Washington Blade and it’s membership plans here https://washingtonblade.ac-page.com/support-washington

We took a look at Pope Leo XIV. What do we make of him from LGBTQ perspective? An LGBTQ candidate has announced a run for Illinois’ 8th Congressional District. And there was a literal book burning in Ohio when a guy checked out 100 books and burned them. They were of course LGBTQ, Jewish, and African-American books.

Brazil’s superior court of justice paves the way for gender neutral IDs in a unanimous decision. Pete Hegseth has given trans service members a July 7 deadline to quit. The UK Supreme Court has unleashed chaos with its ruling on gender. Here’s the story of a trans man who asked 60 gyms if he could join after the ruling. The Colorado legislature has passed a trans-protection bill and it’s off to the Governor for his signature.

Ode to Walt Whitman, the acclaimed silent puppet poem about queer poets Walt Whitman and Federico Garcia Lorca opens at Open Eye Theatre this month. Its creator Bart Buch joins us! Plus, authors Joseph Lezza & Richard Mirabella share the books they are loving and that you should be reading this spring.

For tickets and more info to Ode to Walt Whitman: https://www.openeyetheatre.org/ode-to-walt-whitman

Connect with Joseph Lezza: https://www.josephlezza.com

Connect with Richard Mirabella: https://www.richardmirabellawriter.com

On this week’s Thinking Clearly, Thinking Queerly episode, Nick Venegoni started the Queer Spirit podcast in 2018. Fast forward seven years, and there is a whole community built around the show, a care-centered space for queer folks, brand new Care Chats mini podcast, and 10 new interns through UCLA’s Behavioral Health Support Specialist Certification program who will be offering programming this summer!

Listen to the podcast: https://queerhealingjourneys.com/podcast/

Explore the community: https://queerspirit.mn.co

Jake Wittich, Managing Editor for Windy City Times, is back with his reporting on the new Chicago Teachers Union Contract which includes a number of LGBTQ+ protections and the debut of The First Homosexuals at Wrightwood 659 in Lincoln Park (Chicago).

Windy City Times has been the voice of Chicago’s LGBTQ+ community since 1985. This year marks the news outlet’s 40th anniversary of uplifting queer stories, reporting with Pride and chronicling LGBTQ+ history. Visit WindyCityTimes.com/newsletters to sign up for the publication’s weekly LGBTQ+ news updates.

Tammye Nash, Managing Editor for the Dallas Voice, returns to the show to share the Dallas Voice’s coverage of a dangerous new bill in Texas that would give parents permission to taunt and abuse their kids just for being LGBTQ. In Florida, advocates crushed every piece of Anti-LGBTQ legislation this year.

Angie Craig, Minnesota’s first LGBTQ legislator, announces Senate run. Trump and MAGA have slashed $477 million in LGBTQ research. Maine wins its lawsuit against Trump freezing USDA funds over trans women in sports. John and Jim discuss how we need to give up the idea that Progressives and Democrats can go back to the way things were before Trump.

Jonathan D. Katz, one of the country’s pre-eminent queer art historians, joins us to discuss The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity which opens May 2 and runs to July 26 at Wrightwood 659 in Lincoln Park, Chicago. More than 300 paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, photographs, and films will be on view, presented for the first time within the context of global queer and colonial inquiry. For tickets and more information: https://wrightwood659.org/exhibitions/the-first-homosexuals-the-birth-of-a-new-identity-1869-1939/ Plus, John and Jim take a look at the newest season of The Last of Us and the film My Partner.

On this week’s Thinking Clearly, Thinking Queerly episode, we meet Dr. Gwen Bass whose book Immaculate Misconception charts how her Lesbian parents found a doctor willing to perform an artificial insemination procedure in secret, using sperm from an anonymous donor. Her book explores: what happens when we’re born into an identity we didn’t choose?

What does biology have to do with belonging? How do we all, in our own ways, suppress unique aspects of our identities in an effort to fit in and secure our safety? How do we unintentionally harm others by assuming they fit into our view of “normal”?

Connect with Dr. Bass here: https://www.drgwenbass.com/meet-gwen

Buy your copy of Immaculate Misconception here: https://bookshop.org/a/82376/9798889269526