#ILoveGay Today

#ILoveGay Today meets up with Derek Hartley of the Derek & Romaine Show (Romaine Patterson) and DNR Studios, based in in New York. Join us as we chat about Derek's history in the LGBTQ+ media world starting almost 30 years ago with PlanetOut and AOL. Since that time, Derek has helped pioneer LGBTQ+ radio while at SiriusXM, as part of OutQ. He and a number of LGBTQ+ podcasters are now part...

#ILoveGay Today meets up with Dr. Steven Davidson, Sexual Integrity Coach based out of Fort Lauderdale, FL. Join us as we chat about his practice, both virtual and in-person, as he tells us about some of the services he offers, including individuals and couples counseling, relationship counseling, sex education classes and so much more. He's also written a book - Sexual Integrity: Finding the...

#ILoveGay Today reconnects with Giuseppe Giulio from Milan, Italy. Join us as we chat about some of his most recent work in the LGBTQ+ tourism industry, where he both represents Gay. IT, as well as tourism organizations including IGLTA, GNetwork360, the NY Travel & Adventure Show, FITUR and more.

#ILoveGay Today meets up with Kirstie Pike and Christine Diaz from On Airplane Mode, where we chat about their new podcast, She Comes With Baggage, debuting January 22, 2024. Join us as we chat about some of their original work in creating one of the leading LGBTQ+ travel platforms in the US with their community of over 650k+ followers. In their new podcast, they will be exploring the nuances of L...

#ILoveGay Today meets up with Rob Madge, where we chat about their original London production of My Son's A Queer (But What Can You Do?) coming to Broadway Feb 27 at the Lyceum Theatre. Join us as we chat about the autobiographical origins of My Son's A Queer as a triumphant and hilarious celebration of identity, creativity, and the profound bond between a parent and their child. We also c...

#ILoveGay Today meets up with Jessica L'Whor, a self-described trans nonbinary gender fluid queer human. Join us as we chat about Jessica's journey, starting out performing drag in Fort Collins, and taking that success down to Denver, where she hosts and performs in a wide variety of venues and functions, including bingo, brunch and trivia shows. We also chat about her multimedia outreach,...

#ILoveGay Today meets up with Stephen Bourne from London, a writer, film and social historian specializing in black heritage and gay culture. Join us as we chat about some of his work including "Black Poppies", "Fighting Proud - The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars" and "Playing Gay in the Golden Age of British TV". We also explore "Deep A...

#ILoveGay Today meets up with Ben Kawaller, writer, playwright, screenwriter and video reporter. We chat about his first work in NYC, interning at New York Magazine. Since then, having moved to Los Angeles, Ben has been writing for Wehoville, The Free Press and LA Magazine. He's also written TV pilots and more, including The Next Best Thing and This Isn't Me, which was accepted into SXSW 2...

#ILoveGay Today meets up with Charlie Sprinkman (he/they) from Portland, Oregon and founder of Everywhere Is Queer, a worldwide map of 8,400+ queer owned businesses, and soon becoming an app as well. Join us as we chat about how Charlie got started with this project, including how a 50-state road trip influenced what Everywhere Is Queer has become today.

#ILoveGay Today meets up with Joshua Pasquale, a Canadian Stylist, Marketing, and Public Relations Specialist featured in Vogue, Elle, Glamour, Fashion Week Online. Join us as we chat about how Joshua explains how for him, fashion and marketing are two sides of the same coin. Mastery in both hinges on understanding your brand and tailoring your image for any occasion or audience. Witnessing miracl...

#ILoveGay Today meets up with Sara Grossman from Denver, Colorado... author of the new children's book "Schnauzer in a Sweater Vest", a story about Baxter the dog and his pack of different puppy pals going to the Pride parade. Join us as we chat about her promotional plans for 2024, taking Baxter on the road to various events and festivals around the US, including the LA Times Book F...

#ILoveGay Today meets up with Anan Bouapha, founder of Proud to be us Laos - ພູມໃຈທີ່ເປັນເຮົາ. Join us we chat about the important work he's spearheaded since launching in 2012. Anan has been instrumental at bringing leadership to elevating and amplifying LGBTQ+ voices in Laos, and has some strong plans and ideas in place to take it all even further in 2024.

#ILoveGay Today meets up with Ken Schneck, Founding Editor of The Buckeye Flame based out of Cleveland, Ohio. Join us as we chat about how Ken started The Buckeye Flame as a non-profit, fulfilling a need left vacant in 2020 as Ohio's LGBTQ+ newsroom. We also chat about how Ken and his team of editors publish and widely share quality news and content specific to Ohio, with the underlying goal o...

#ILoveGay Today meets up with Joseph Fenity, an independent journalist and new media producer, based in Los Angeles. Join us as we chat about his start in journalism over 20 years ago with his NYC 9/11 interviews, now digitized and available online as part of a larger digital archive. We chat about Joseph's journalism career, as well as his pioneering role in podcasting pioneer. We also chat a...

#ILoveGay Today meets up with Calan Breckon, an SEO specialist & consultant based out of Toronto, Canada. Join us as we chat about his work helping companies large and small navigate and maintain a successful online business using search engine optimization tactics. We also chat about how important relationships are in business, and how he develops those relationships through organizations suc...

#ILoveGay Today meets up with Justin Ayars, CEO & Co-Founder of equalityMD. Join us as we chat about Justin's start as a lawyer in the world of health, and how he went from the legal world to the LGBTQ+ media and business world, and how that background and experience led him to develop and launch equalityMD. equalityMD started as a telehealth platform that helped LGBTQ patients connect wit...

#ILoveGay Today meets up with Scott Clover from New York, where we chat about his work in the world of Intuitive Guidance, and his practice "Coming Out Intuitive: A Journey of Self Acceptance". Join us as we chat about his work with clients to help them along their journey of acceptance with their own powers of intuition. We also chat about his thoughts and work with the LGBTQ+ community...

#ILoveGay Today meets up with E. Robert Dunn, author, playwright, screenwriter & actor. Join us as we chat about his start in film as a spec writer for the original 1970's Battlestar Galactica series. From those beginnings, he has since relaunched a 14-book science fiction series, Echelon's End, originally published in 1997. We chat about his inspiration, as well as a friend who also b...

#ILoveGay Today meets up with Tammi Wallace, Co-Founder and President & CEO of the Greater Houston LGBT Chamber of Commerce. Join us as we chat about her start with the chamber, culminating in their recent NGLCC Rising Star Affiliate Chamber Award win. We also chat about Tammi's business life with EnFocus Strategies and EnFocus Group, both focusing on the power of LGBTQ+ diversity and incl...

#ILoveGay Today meets up with Chris Stanley, famous for his gay street interviews at various LGBTQ+ events around the country. Join us as we chat about his interviews, his gay collabs in NYC, PTown and LA, and his travel vlogs. Chris is famous for such "on the street" interview questions such as "bears or twinks", "cuddling or hookups" and more. We also explore his go...

#ILoveGay Today meets up with Damon Jacobs, a New York-based licensed marriage and family therapist and HIV prevention specialist who focuses his work on health, love, social justice and pleasure. He has also created this amazing online video series, "Tub Talks with Damon", where he interviews a wide variety of gay men from his bathtub! Join us as we chat about his video series, as well...

As part of International Transgender Awareness Week, #ILoveGay Today meets up with Saskhia Menendez from London. Saskhia is an Award Winning Equality & Diversity Ambassador, Researcher, Public Speaker, Artist, Mentor, & Social Change Activist. We chat about Saskhia's work in bringing more public awareness to transgender issues in the UK, leveraging her 10+ years of work in the music in...

#ILoveGay Today meets up with Zeke Stokes of ZS Strategies based out of Nashville, TN. Join us as we chat about Zeke's work for SLDN, Media Matters for America, and more recently, as Chief Programs Officer for GLAAD in New York. In 2019, Zeke left GLAAD to start his own agency, bringing GLAAD along as his first client. He has since expanded into becoming a part of The Change Agencies and conti...

#ILoveGay Today meets up with Juan F. Vargas, DEI Account Director for Miles Partnership, based out of Dallas, TX. We chat first about what Miles Partnership is all about, and how their work in DEI fits in with their business model. Along with Carla Vaca Pinacho and Melissa Cherry, Juan has been quite active attending a variety of DEI-focused events over the past month (where we've crossed pat...

#ILoveGay Today meets up with Dana Rudolph, founder of Mombian, a lifestyle site for lesbian moms and other LGBTQ parents. Founded 2005, Dana, a two-time GLAAD Media Award Winner for "Outstanding Blog" (2012 and 2023), tells us about how she got started with her blog, and how it's developed and grown over the years, with social media playing an ever more important role along the way....