Cheap Seats

6 Dec 2015

The homosexual in 1958 society

History, Spoken Word

Join Dene in the Cheap Seats we as go back in time to 1958 to listen to what is believed to be the first ever radio broadcast to openly discuss homosexuality in the United States.

The compare is Elsa Knight Thompson and the panellists are:

• Hal Call, the editor of the Mattachine Society’s newsletter, the Mattachine Review
• Blanche Baker, a psychologist noted for her then-rarely-shared belief that homosexuality was not an abnormality nor an illness, and
• Leah Gailey, the mother of a gay man.

This recording is from the Pacifica Radio Archives

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 44:56 — 61.7MB)

3 Apr 2016

Mighty real tribute to Sylvester

Arts, Spoken Word

[caption id="attachment_263" align="alignright" width="300"] Sylvester by Michael Zagarisvia Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 2.0[/caption] Join Dene and Sam in the Cheap Seats for ...

29 Mar 2016

Transgender in Cleveland

Spoken Word

[caption id="attachment_254" align="alignright" width="300"] 'Downtown Cleveland Ohio'Image by Chris Gent via Creative Commons[/caption] Join Dene in the Cheap Seats in Cleveland, ...

13 Mar 2016

Queer poetry

Arts, Performing Arts, Sexuality, Spoken Word

[caption id="attachment_246" align="alignright" width="300"] Image by Dennis Hill via Creative Commons[/caption] Dene is back in the Cheap Seats for a night ...