Miss Constitution State 2026 talks with Clare about mental health and recovery, pageant life, and all things queer.

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Chuckles XI
Christa Steiner
Miss Connecticut
Miss America
NAMI
Bipolar Type 1
Manhattan School of Music
Community Music School
Kristen Chenoweth
Goodspeed Musicals
Two River Theater
The Gilded Age
Love Is Blind
Bob Mackie Barbies
White Christmas
Love to Love You, Donna Summer
Year of the Cat, Al Stewart
I’ll Be There For You, Bon Jovi
No One Like You, Scorpions
The Visitors, Abba
Ride Like the Wind, Christopher Cross
Men at Work
Toto
Authentic Selves

The third and final installment of excerpts from Pride event attendees from 2025.

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Transqat Episode 106
Transqat Episode 108
Little v. Hecox
West Virginia v. BPJ
US v. Skrmetti
Mexico City Policy
Dr. Dolittle: Pushme-PullYu
Ashley Shade
Saw the Musical
Every Body
Leslie Feinberg
Dayenu
UniTy of Pioneer Valley
HRC Workplace Guide
HRC & Trans Community
Bernie Sanders
Becca Balint
chaser
Pronouncing New Orleans
Anemoni LGBTQ+ Peer Respite
1312
Oi! Punk
Scouting USA
Christa Steiner

 Ali Wicks-Lim and AT from ROAR talk with Clare about making LGBTQ+ events more joy-focused.

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ROAR
Laurel Hubbard
IOC Standards
NCAA Standards (2010)
NCAA standards (2022)
Trump’s Weight
Imane Khelif vs. Angela Carini
Hampshire Pride
Rural Justice Network
Parasol Patrol
Queer Joy Collaborative

Clare refutes the claim that she's illiterate by discussing queer-themed books. This episode: Casa Susanna: The Story of the First Trans Network in the United States, 1959-1968

Clare addresses some changes at Transqat

More excerpts from Middletown, Madison, North Haven, Worcester, North Adams, Holyoke and Hampshire Pride.

Transqat is a safe space for respectful conversations about transgender issues and queer people. Learn more at transqat.com.

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ACA Subsidies
HR 1399
Kennedy-Oz Press Conference
FDA & Binders
Seneca the Elder
Treme-John Goodman
Iris Rocks Madison Pride
The Deluxe Iris
Shaneeda Razor
Prism OUT Loud: Big Gay Cabaret
Rainbow t-shirt
It Gets Better
SJ Bryant School
Maddie’s TEDx Talk
This Is My Body, Madeline Aliah
Cypress School, Santa Cruz
Blue-Eyed Samurai
UniTy of Springfield
Steven Universe
Smith College
River Valley DSA
Lauren Bacall for Gourmet Fancy Feast
OutFilm CT
Worcester Tornadoes
Destroy Boys
Hayley Williams

The artist and author of Butch Heroes and More Butch Heroes joins Clare to discuss their 15-year project of depicting gender variance in history.

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Ria Brodell
Butch Heroes
More Butch Heroes
Antonio de Erauso
Catholic Prayer Cards
Gouache painting
St. Bartholemew
όλισβος
Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns
Magnus Hirschfeld
Inversion
Denver Center for Visual Art: Dance of Resistance
Wellesley Davis Museum
Transqat 46
Transqat 80
Transqat 98
Butch is Not a Dirty Word

 In a spin-off series of mini-episodes, host Clare McCarthy spotlights queer-themed books. Today's episode focuses on Mike Curato's 2025 graphic novel Gaysians. 

Excerpts from conversations at Middletown, North Haven, Madison, Hampshire, Worcester, North Adams and Holyoke Pride events.

Transqat is a safe space for respectful conversations about transgender issues and queer people. Learn more at transqat.com.

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Quantum Leap (1989)
Quantum Leap (2022)
Mason Alexander Park
Gaylordsville CT
Conversion Therapy
Intersex Society of North America
Transqat Episode 47: Dr. Carl Streed
PCOS
The Race to be Myself, Castor Semenya
T4T
Home Improvement
Mass MoCA
Berkshire Pride
Durham CT
Silence = Death design
ACT UP
Gran Fury Collective
1988 Albany ACT UP Protest
ACT UP ashes Action
NY Church Protest
NYSE Protest
NIH Protest
High Costs of AZT
William F. Buckley Tattoo Comment
Gay Officer Action League
Intersectionality
Women Don’t Get AIDS, They Just Die From It
Middletown Pride

Marybel Delgado, founder and Executive Director of Transcending Beyond, a Holyoke-based nonprofit working to support and educate parents, caregivers and allies of trans folx.

Transqat is a safe space where transgender and queer people can stand together.  We stand for respectful conversations, for open minds and open hearts, for a better understanding. We stand against bigotry, willful ignorance, and fear-mongering. 

Transqat: We Stand.

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Transcending Beyond (email)
HRC Survey
“Transgender Terrorists”
Dr. Eunice Avilés Fariá
TRANScend Massachusetts
Springfield Library
River Valley DSA
Alexis de Tacqueville
The Hunger Games
Massachusetts Transgender Political Alliance
BAGLY
Touch the Sky