The Gaily Show

Welcome to the 1st annual Gaily Show Awards! We look back at the year that was in LGBTQ entertainment. Today, guest judge Patrick Nathan bestows honors for LGBTQ literature.

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JS Gray joins us to talk about his new queer Christmas romcom: You Make It Feel Like Christmas. Learn more about him and his books at: https://jsgrayauHYPERLINK “https://jsgrayauthor.wixsite.com/js-gray”thor.wixsite.com/js-gray.

Follow us on Bluesky to connect with more queer authors: @thisqueerbook.org.

Family Dinner – Minnesota’s longest-running holiday improv show has a new home for 2024- The Brave New Workshop’s Dudley Riggs Theatre! Tickets and more information at: hennepinarts.org/events/family-dinner

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Welcome to the 1st annual Gaily Show Awards! We look back at the year that was in LGBTQ entertainment. Today, guest judge Jerome Evans bestows honors on LGBTQ television.

Zoe Henrot from Ballet Co Laboratory talks about their upcoming holiday show Nutcracker in Wonderland. Michelle Aldritch-Goldstein shares her new single Square Peg. Nutcracker in Wonderland tickets and info: https://www.balletcolaboratory.org/season Listen to Michelle’s music at https://michellealdrichgoldstein.com

The Gaily Awards (or The Gailies) kick off on November 30 and run every Saturday in December. A special guest judge will help me award the year’s best in film, TV, books, and poetry in a completely subjective tongue-in-cheek judging process that will uplift the queer community through one of our time honored traditions: the Awards Show.

Joel Sass from Open Eye Theatre is here to share about Scrooge in Rouge which opens on November 29. Get your tickets at openeyetheatre.org Plus, Anthony Nerada discusses his novel Skater Boy. Connect with Anthony at anthonynerada.com

The Creating Change conference will be in Las Vegas January 22–26, 2025. It is the largest LGBTQ conference in the United States and organized by the National LGBTQ Taskforce. Find more info and register here: thetaskforce.org.

Cathy Renna from the National LGBTQ Taskforce is here to talk about the election and the upcoming Creating Change conference. Find more info and register here: thetaskforce.org. Plus Nicole Zelniker joins me to discuss her new novel: From Where We Are.

If you are a queer person or have a queer loved one, there are a lot of emotions happening right now after the catastrophic election: anxiety, fear, depression, anger and more.

We provide you with some resources here that can help. This is not an exhaustive list but a few organizations that can help not only process the election but to help support you for the next four years.