The Gaily Show

Hilary Otey, co-founder of Queermunity in Minneapolis, discusses how Queermunity programmed  feels like an answer to the question of how to create Pride programming for marginalized folks within mainstream Pride celebrations. View all of their events for Pride season here: https://www.queermunitymn.com/events

Plus, updates on Andry José Hernández Romero, an openly gay 32-year-old Venezuelan makeup artist wrongly deported to a concentration camp in El Salvador. And MSNBC’s ratings are…not great.

Lex Exworthy from UP Peninsula Pride joins us to discuss Marquette Pride. Learn more and connect here: www.uprainbowpride.org. Plus, starting today, and then bi-weekly, Tammye Nash, the Managing Editor for the Dallas Voice, will join us to share the Dallas Voice’s award winning LGBTQ journalism. Dallas Voice just started its 42nd year as the Voice…

Starting today, Dr. Samuel Clowes Huneke will join us monthly to discuss LGBTQ politics and queer history! Connect with Samuel here: samuelcloweshuneke.com. Plus, revisiting the story of Pete Hegseth stripping Harvey Milk’s name off a Navy Ship. And the Supreme Court unanimously just made reverse discrimination lawsuits super easy.

Jim Pounds hosts this special edition of the Gaily Show live from Golden Valley Pride!

Listen to Queer Spirit Radio the first Saturday of every month at 2:30 as part of the Gaily Show!

Best selling author Marie Rutkoski’s new novel Ordinary Love comes out June 10. It’s a sweeping romance of two people trying to forge a path toward hope, bound by a love they discovered when they were too young to understand its power. Plus, Dale Stark from Hennepin Arts joins us to talk about the 2025…

Looking at your apartment, house, and condo have you thought to yourself: I’ve got to find a way to organize all of this. Did you know how you organize can be a reflection of how we’re feeling about the world. We’re talking about organizing with Jake Stepansky, who is also the co-founder and Board President…

Jake Wittich, Managing Editor for Windy City Times, is back with his reporting on Channyn Lynne Parker, CEO of one of Brave Space Alliance, being tapped as interim CEO of Equality Illinois. A queer Wisconsin teenager is seeking hate crime charges after being attacked at an Illinois McDonald’s. Plus, there are so many Pride events…

70+ European lawmakers headed to Pride to march in a Pride event after Hungary bans all Pride events. A trans man was arrested for using the bathroom conservatives told him to use. Months after LGBTQ community helped elect Arizona Senator Gallego, he just called us ‘dangerous’. Iowa Senator Joni Ernst says “we’re all going to…

Another segment of “Is It Left-Wing Extremism?” looking at amnesty for undocumented immigrants. Speaking of, MN is trying to take away health insurance for tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants just months after enrolling them. Plus, Lori Dokken’s upcoming Fireside Theatre concert event at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: SHOUT SISTER SHOUT is June 8! Lori joins…

History is being made again, as Keith Stern’s newest book “Queers in History Returns” is the follow-up to his original groundbreaking and perennial bestseller Queers in History, originally published in 1993 on CD-ROM. The current update covers more than 5000 years of history and it just dropped May 27. reviews for you: Pee-Wee as Himself…

In this week’s Thinking Clearly, Thinking Queerly, we dive into LGBTQ Elder Law. As MAGA is cutting Medicaid, and threatening to roll back gay marriage and cut Medicare and Social Security, what laws and documents (medical power of attorney, wills, etc.) do we need as queer folks to protect us? We’ll be joined by David…

The Washington Blade’s White House Correspondent Christopher Kane returns to the Gaily Show to give us an inside look at what’s happening in DC. Plus, Abigail Dillon from the Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA) will be here to talk about their upcoming booth at Pride, as well as their Pride month booklist: melsa.org Read Christopher…

As the federal government has slashed $800 million in federal research into the LGBTQ community, be part of state-based and nonprofit LGBTQ research. In Minnesota, you can participate in the first-ever statewide LGBTQ Community Needs Assessment. Nationwide, you can participate in the Trevor Project’s National Survey of LGBTQ youth and young adults.  If you’re 13-24,…

Christopher Tradowsky’s debut novel Midnight at the Cinema Place drops June 10. His novel is a luminant exploration of 90s queer culture and the complexities of friends discovering love and themselves in San Francisco. Walking Shadow’s production of Mae West and the Trial of Sex opens May 31 at Walking Shadow Theater in Minneapolis. Its…

It’s our weekly episode of Thinking Clearly, Thinking Queerly. We meet author Rey Terciero whose new book Dan of Green Gables drops June 3. It is a queer reimagining of Anne of Green Gables. We talk about queering the classics as Rey has also done with Little Women and Northanger Abbey. Pre-order Dan of Green…

Jake Wittich, Managing Editor for Windy City Times, is back with his reporting on Chicago’s surprise search for an LGBTQ Director, Cook County’s LGBTQ Commissioner Kevin Morrison is running for Congress, and a look back, and forward, of Chicago’s En La Vida magazine. Plus, Hastings PRIDE is coming up, we chat with organizers about why…

Heading across the pond today as Paris opens a new memorial dedicated to LGBTQ Holocaust victims. Plus, for the third year in a row, an LGBTQ performer has won Eurovision. Oh, and the Pope is still a Catholic when it comes to gay marriage.

Shocker: Texas House votes to repeal sodomy law. Appeals court bans Florida’s drag ban. Far-right MAGA judge strikes down workplace protections for transgender workers. Plus, Overcompensating debuts on Prime Video.

It’s new novel Friday! Blair Fell’s newest novel Disco Witches of Fire Island just came out on May 6. If you like spicy queer romances with a dash of fantasy, this is for you! And Mac Crane’s A Sharp Endless Need came out two days ago! It’s serving sapphic high-school women’s basketball romance. Connect with…

It’s our weekly Thinking Clearly, Thinking Queerly episode. My guest is TanyaMarck Oviedo who is the co-host of the Queer Spirit podcast. We’re going to talk about care (self-care, community care, and more) as activism. Listen to the podcast: https://queerhealingjourneys.com/podcast/ Explore the community: https://queerspirit.mn.co

Christopher Kane returns to the Gaily Show to give us an inside look at what’s happening in DC. Christopher is the White House Correspondent for the Washington Blade. Read Christopher’s reporting here: https://www.washingtonblade.com/author/christopher-kane/ Learn more about the Washington Blade and it’s membership plans here https://washingtonblade.ac-page.com/support-washington

We took a look at Pope Leo XIV. What do we make of him from LGBTQ perspective? An LGBTQ candidate has announced a run for Illinois’ 8th Congressional District. And there was a literal book burning in Ohio when a guy checked out 100 books and burned them. They were of course LGBTQ, Jewish, and…

Brazil’s superior court of justice paves the way for gender neutral IDs in a unanimous decision. Pete Hegseth has given trans service members a July 7 deadline to quit. The UK Supreme Court has unleashed chaos with its ruling on gender. Here’s the story of a trans man who asked 60 gyms if he could…