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Happy, disco-inspired tea dance favorites. A special set dedicated to my dear friend Russell Roybal for his birthday. 

This was a live set at the Globe Theater in Los Angeles. The charity dance was honoring Russell and benefitted homeless LGBTQ youth.

Legendary - October 2021

Happy, disco-inspired tea dance favorites.

Tea Dance Favorites - October 2021

Queen House Music proudly presents the new single from GSP, Brett Oosterhaus and Audrey Callahan "My Heart is Refusing Me". A cover of the massive 2011hit originally performed by by Swedish pop singer and music producer Loreen who won the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, with her entry "Euphoria" representing Sweden. Release includes 2 versions Original Mix & Big Room Mix!

QHM753 - GSP & Brett Oosterhaus Feat. Audrey Callahan - My Heart Is Refusing Me (Original Mix)

Please, these gays, they're trying to murder me (jennifer coolidge x white lotus mashup)

The Abbasid and British Empires are the nexus through which our two guests, Dr Ahmed Ragab and Dr Katayoun Shafiee explore technology, knowledge production and power. This episode charts medieval paper production and Abbasid-era hospitals to the "discovery" of oil by foreign entrepreneurs in southern Iran, exploring the different ways technological knowledge production developed across empire.

Ahmed Ragab is Associate Professor of the History of Medicine and the Chair of the Medicine, Science and Humanities Programme at Johns Hopkins University. Ahmed works primarily on the history of medieval and early modern medicine in the islamic world and questions of medicine in colonial and post colonial contexts.

Katayoun Shafiee is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Warwick. Katayoun focuses on modern Middle Eastern history and politics, and she teaches on empire and energy.

Knowledge Production Across Empires

How can art complicate claims of progress, innovation and the use of rapidly developing emerging technologies in MENA? In this episode, Cima Chehab speaks to visual artist Nadim Choufi about how he incorporates technology into his artwork both as subject matter and as medium.

In the conversation, they discuss Nadim’s own artistic practice, his use of “lecture performances” and the question of whether life is truly enhanced by progress and technology, which is one of the main questions that underpins his work. Nadim also explores emerging art in the Middle East and how technology has transformed a new generation of artists – from digital illustrations to meme accounts.

Nadim is a visual artist living in Beirut. He primarily focuses on the material histories and futures of innovation and desire, their social and political driving forces, and the visual and literary practices that surround them. He is a 2024 resident at the Jan van Eyck Academy. Currently he is the curator of the film programme of the 2024 festival edition of transmediale and a researcher at Haven For Artists. Previously he was co-Programs Director at Beirut Art Center.

https://nadimchoufi.com/

Art Meaning and Art Making with Nadim Choufi

The epic struggle of parents versus kids. Yummy versus gross. Humans versus broccoli!

The Facts
Surprisingly Awesome’s theme music is “How We Do” by Nicholas Britell. Our ad music is by Build Buildings. This episode was edited by Alex Blumberg and produced by Travis Larchuk and Rachel Ward, with help from Emma Jacobs and Caitlin Kenney. Andrew Dunn mixed the episode.

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#6 Broccoli

This week: It's awesome in the sacred sense - but stressful in the practical sense.

The Facts

Surprisingly Awesome’s theme music is by Nicholas Britell. Our ad music is by Build Buildings.

Additional music came from Kyle Morton, Sex Life, and Xolo

We were edited this week by Annie-Rose Strasser, and produced by Rachel Ward, Christine Driscoll and Rikki Novetsky.  Our field producers were Sylvie Douglis and Nick Fountain.  

Production Assistance came from Jacob Cruz, Emily Kennedy, Melanie Kruvelis, Jessica Langley,  Sarah Melton, and Sarah Stodder.

Thank you to Meg Keene at A Practical Wedding, Erin Boll, proprietrix of the Instagram account Pisces Bride, Stevie Lane who designed our wedding invitation, and for helping us find Sue and Austin. 

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Surprisingly Awesome

#22 Wedding Planning

Something borrowed, something blue, something that explains why weddings look the way they do.

The Facts

Our theme music is by Nicholas Britell and our ad music is by Build Buildings. We were edited this week by Annie-Rose Strasser, and produced by Christine Driscoll, Elizabeth Kulas, and Rikki Novetsky.  Sylvie Douglis and Nick Fountain field produced at the wedding.

Thank you to Sue and Austin’s friends and family for letting us ask so many questions and bother you during the whole wedding.

Thanks to Jorge Just -- and sorry we forgot to thank you last time, and to our beloved mix engineer Andrew Dunn. ANDREW DUNN MIXED THIS EPISODE, he always mixes our episodes, and we have not been great about remembering to tell you that!

Additional production assistance came from Jacob Cruz, Emily Kennedy, Melanie Kruvelis, Sarah Melton and Sarah Stoddard.

Thank you to Karen Klaiber Hersch, Gayle Strege, Patrick O’Neil, Jennifer Gellmann and Sharon Boulani.

And finally, stay posted with us as we report the next season. You can follow us on Twitter, subscribe to the newsletter, or subscribe to us on your podcatcher for all our cool updates!

See you in 2017!

#23 The Wedding

We Party Pride Festival Madrid July 4th to July 8th

www.wepridefestival.com/tickets/

WE PRIDE FESTIVAL 2018

In this week's headlines:

• The nation observed the 20th anniversary of the murder of Matthew Shepard

• Anti-LGBTQ forces in Romania faced an epic fail in trying to outlaw marriage equality

• New Jersey moves to protect transgender students

• The Trump administration requires foreign diplomatic employees' partners to be married in order to be in the US or face deportment

• Taylor Swift goes political speaking out for LGBTQ rights and Democratic candidates

• Facebook added coming out as a new "Life Event" option as the US observed National Coming Out Day

• New polling shows 70% of Americans support protecting LGBTQ folks from discrimination

Plus my review of the fantastic Broadway revival of 'Once On This Island'

All that and more in this episode of The Randy Report

The Randy Report

LGBTQ News: Matthew Shepard, Taylor Swift, Broadway's Once On This Island

DJBEAR - Pride Madrid

I'm not a political guy.  My radio show isn't political, nor does it aspire to be that.  

I'm just the host of a syndicated Country music program who loves his country - both the amazing land in which we live, and the outstanding music from today's Country artists.  

The phrase, "I love my Country" is one that I state proudly  and without reservation.   I mean it to my core.

I was stunned when we were contacted by Mayor Pete's team requesting an interview.  Absolutely stunned.  

Since Country music tends to lean in a conservative direction, I was surprised.  But more than surprised, I was EXTREMELY flattered.  One of the few truly viable candidates in the race raised his hand and asked for a place at the table.  I was willing to give him that seat.  

I would have also given a seat to any other viable candidates, from both sides.  The only condition?  They must also value and appreciate our listeners, and never treat them like pawns in a game.   

Nobody else had reached out.  And I assume nobody else even thought to reach out.

The interview is twenty minutes in total length.  I was proud of it.  But in the end, I was told that couldn't air it.   

Again, I would have GLADLY welcomed any other viable candidates to be a guest, especially President Trump.  To my thinking, the best way to a reasoned, thoughtful position on any topic, is to hear from both sides.  Regardless, the interview was killed.

I did, however, ask for permission to post the interview on my own personal SoundCloud account.   I was given that blessing, and I am happy to share it with you here.  

Thank you for finding it, and I hope you enjoy it.

Blair Garner Mayor Pete Buttigieg

By now, we all know out Olympic bronze medalist Adam Rippon is witty, smart, inspirational, and utterly sassy. He is, after all, 'America's sweetheart.'

As the oldest rookie to qualify for the Olympics at 28-years-old, and the first openly gay American figure skater to compete at the Olympics, his path to success has been groundbreaking, although it hasn’t been without setbacks.

In his new memoir, 'Beautiful On The Outside,' Rippon hilariously reveals what it’s like to be an elite figure skater - from the glitz of sequined costumes to the unglamorous act of cleaning bugs off the ice at a competition, and all the hours of practice that led him to a spot on the Olympic team in Pyeongchang.

Your mom probably told you it's what on the inside that counts. Well, then she was never a competitive figure skater.

Rippon has been making it pretty for the judges even when, just below the surface, everything was an absolute mess. Traveling to practices on a Greyhound bus next to ex-convicts, being so poor he could only afford to eat the free apples at his gym, Rippon got through the toughest times with a smile on his face, a glint in his eye, and quip ready for anyone listening.

'Beautiful On The Outside' looks at his journey from a homeschooled kid in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to a self-professed American sweetheart on the world stage and all the disasters and self-delusions it took to get him there.

Sure, it may be what's on the inside that counts, but life is so much better when it's beautiful on the outside.

Click here to order 'Beautiful On The Outside' online - https://amzn.to/2MKamTa

Interview - Olympian Adam Rippon talks on his new memoir 'Beautiful On The Outside'

Since the release of his 2019 single, the oh-so-romantic "Dancing in the Living Room," out singer/songwriter Cameron Hawthorn has continued to release a string of top-shelf country anthems - from the most recent "To Break Hers" - a heartbreaking tribute to a previous relationship before he came out - to the sexually-charged uptempo "Oh Hot Damn!"

Now, the handsome country crooner has released his new EP 'Mustang.' 

With an obvious knowledge and appreciation for classic country, Cameron brings a fresh, current flavor to his music that ranges from authentic emotional ballads to swaggering up-tempos.

Listen in as I chat with the handsome singer/songwriter.

You can find 'Mustang' at these sites: http://hyperurl.co/zgow27

Official website: https://www.cameronhawthorn.com

Follow Cameron on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/cmrnhwthrn/

Follow Cameron on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/cmrnhwthrn

Interview: Out country music star Cameron Hawthorn

LGBTQ+ news from the writer/editor of TheRandyReport.com, a daily blog reporting on politics, pop culture, and entertainment news of interest to the LGBTQ+ community. GLAAD Media Award nominee for Outstanding Blog.

Interview - Olympian Adam Rippon talks on his new memoir 'Beautiful On The Outside'

The Randy Report - LGBTQ News

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