NYT best-selling author Eliot Schrefer returns to the show to discuss his new novel, Charming Young Man, a YA historical fiction set in Paris at the end of the 19th century.

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Show notes:
Eliot Schrefer
Charming Young Man
Endangered
The Darkness Outside Us
Queer Ducks
Seattle Art Museum
Leon Delafosse by John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent
Claude Debussy
Gabriel Faury
Marcel Proust
Proust Summarizing Contest
Robert de Montesquiou
Oscar Wilde
Portrait of Madame X
“Run, Forrest, Run!”
Bazar de la Charite
Fashioned by Sargent at MFA
“Homosexuality”
Bi Erasure
Eve Harrington
TJ Klune
Working Girl: Joan Cusack
Game Night at Blue Orchid
Sam Avery Media
TCNE First Event
ALEX, Inc.
Always Love Me.

Transwoman Shannon Kuffel shares her story with Clare.

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Show notes:
Blue Rose Tattoos
Baltimore Aquarium
Game Night #1
Always Love Me

Clare talks with the Rev. A. Reilly Paige from First Church in Guilford about faith, queer bodies, and the difference between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.

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Show Notes
Rev. A. Reilly Paige
First Church Guilford
James Blackstone Memorial Library
Kelly Latimore Icons
Emma Thompson
Stranger Than Fiction
Dutch Colonization of the Americas
Discovery Doctrine
Revere Silver
Life Goes On S3 E6
Ryan White
Queer Theology
Tournament of Champions
Spike (yes) vs Angel (no)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
The Problematic Joss Whedon
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Willow (yay) and Tara (YAY!)
Bury Your Gays Trope
Roxanne Gay weighs in on morgue controversy
“Put men in rice.” (b/c I didn’t get it at first)
MacGyver
Funko Pop
The Scoobies

Clare speaks with members of the Kraken Skulls roller derby team about the intersection of derby life and queer life.

Transqat is a safe space for respectful conversations about trans issues and queer people.

Show Notes:
Shoreline Roller Derby League
Kraken Skulls Skaters
Coming Hot Into the Box
Derby track diagram
Smithsonian: Derby history
Misgenderin’ Folks Ain’t Very Cowboy
Mary Baldwin University
Derby Skills 101: Transitions
The Skate Inn
UConn Avery Point
Constitution State Junior Roller Derby
Reddit thread
Sam Avery Media
Blue Orchid Restaurant
Odd Couple Password episode
Transqat the Blog: What I Learned from Derby

Professor Dennis Baron
A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers and the Digital Revolution
You Can’t Always Say What You Want: The Paradox of Free Speech
What’s Your Pronoun? Beyond He & She
Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
Prescriptive and descriptive grammar
Saskatchewan Bill 137
Grammatical (not IRW) gender
Gender hierarchy in language
Benjamin Spock
Thon (& other gender-neutral pronouns)
Ella Flagg Young
Yo
Omar Comin Yo

Clare speaks with three mothers of transgender kids about the liberation and loss involved in their kids' coming out.

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Show Notes:
Rowan Jette Knox
Love Lives Here
One Sunny Afternoon
Self harm
PFLAG

Host Clare McCarthy talks with members of Out Film CT about this year's Festival,

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Show Notes
Out Film CT
Cinestudio
Real Art Ways
Wadsworth Atheneum
Eventive
Egghead & Twinkie
The Sure Thing
Glitter & Doom
Tom Gustafson
Were The World Mine
Indigo Girls
Lea DeLaria
The Judgment
Mutt
Cole Doman
Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party
Film Freeway
BIPOC
Simply Nina
Rooted Out
Wolf Tone
Holding Space for Each Other
WGA & SAG-AFTRA strike
Film Industry Mixer
Labyrinth Brewing Co.
Queer Thursdays
Red, White & Royal Blue
Every Body
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Fireworks
Mondegreen
So Damn Easy Going
The Lost Boys
Skallaman
Richard Reihl murder
Stonewall Speakers

Host Clare McCarthy talks with Katy Tierney, Medical Director of the Middlesex Health Center for Gender Medicine and Wellness about the state of affirming care in Connecticut and nationwide.

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Shownotes:
Katy Tierney
Middlesex Health Center for Gender Medicine & Wellness
Erin Reed (Erin in the Morning)
Orchiectomy
Vaginoplasty
Matoidioplasty
Phalloplasty
WPATH Standards of Care Version 8
HUSKY Health CT
Transgender Health/Fenway
UCSF: Center for Excellence in Transgender Health
previous DSM language

Host Clare McCarthy talks with Rev. Aaron Miller of Metropolitan Community Church in Hartford CT.

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Show Notes:

• Rev. Aaron Miller
• Metropolitan Community Church Hartford
• Metropolitan Community Churches
• MCC Hartford’s 50th
• Rev. Troy Perry
• Yale Divinity School
• Dr. King: The Beloved Community
• Franklin Graham Hatrford Rally
• Bible references:
  • Matthew 21:12-13 (Jesus & the moneychangers)
  • Matthew 23:13-39 (hypocrisy)
  • John 10:34-38 (believe what I do)
  • Matthew 25:31-46 (the least of these)
  • 1 Samuel 18:1-5 (Jonathan & David)
  • Ruth 1-4 (Ruth & Naomi)
  • Ruth 1:16-17 (where you go)
  • Genesis 5:1-32 (the begats)
  • Deuteronomy 22:5 (crossdressing)
  • Mark 14:12-16 (man with water jar)
  • Matthew19:12 (three types of eunuch)
  • Isaiah 1:1-31 (hollow offerings)
  • Matthew 11:15; Mark 4:9; Mark 4:23 (let them hear)
  • Luke 23:39-43; Matthew 27:38-44 (crucified thieves)

Host Clare McCarthy speaks with attendees at Guilford Pride, Middletown Pride and West Hartford Pride about the intersection of pride and lived experience.

Transqat is a safe space for respectful conversations about trans issues and queer people.
Show Notes:
Guilford Pride
Middletown Pride
West Hartford Pride
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Disney Drag Villains
Keith Brown/Gay Spirit Radio
Alabama trans laws
Habitat For Humanity
The Jersey Shore
Day of Silence
Faith Middleton/Food Schmooze
Hannah Montana
CT Gay Men’s Chorus
Living on a Prayer
Stand in Pride
Prism Counseling