Only 25 days until the country elects Barak Obama as president! Okay, so I’m an optimist. On today’s show Jim Bennet, the funny man from GayCo, Second City’s gay offspring comes to dish it up about politics. They’re teaming up with Schadenfreude, another local sketch comedy group to put together a sizzling new show “This [...]

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Raise the roof y’all! Levi Kreis is in the house and there’s a whole lotta shaking going on. Forgive my corny pun, but the dazzling singer and piano rocker is in Chicago at the Goodman theater co-starring in the new musical “Million Dollar Quartet” about the legendary Sun records jam session that took place on December [...]

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Ding ding, Round Two! Barak Obama and John McCain face-off once again in the fight for America’s Presidency, stabilizing the economy and our hearts. What was up with that red carpet? It hurt my eyes! Wasn’t it great when Tom Brockaw told McCain to get out of the way so he could finish the show? Obama came [...]

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Ah candy corn. This delicious but deadly candy confection connotes images of the fall in the United States, of childhood and our beloved neo-pagan holiday, Halloween. Thanks to a growing acceptance of weird things in our culture, Halloween has grown in a big way to rival Christmas as American’s favorite holiday. For many queer folks, [...]

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You may not immediately recognize Lizz’s name, but you probably enjoy the fruits of her labor. Comedian and television producer Lizz Winstead created the news parody program “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central as a response to CNN’s paradigm shifting coverage of the first War in Iraq in the early 90s. Since it’s inception the show [...]

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Look out behind you! Do not go in there! Watch out! You always see it coming, but somehow, the victim in many horror films is always ridiculously unaware that they are about to be bludgeoned to death. Why is that? On today’s show we’ve got movie maven Peaches Christ talking with us about Horror Movies every [...]

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Bullies! Those awful people who abuse and manipulate you. What makes a person want to be like that? What gives them power? What happens when they grow up? Not only are a lot of young queer people on the receiving end of this type of abuse, but many of them are also the ones who [...]

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Gay people are the backbone of many of the world’s great religions, but sadly under difficult times these Churches scapegoat some of their most beloved members. High ranking Catholic Church officials blamed the scandalous cover up of child molestation on the church’s tolerance of gay men. On today’s Feast of Fools we’ve got two authors [...]

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For people who want to experience the thrill of a Broadway show, they no-longer have to travel to Manhattan, many of the big hits on Broadway are now making their first run in theaters all across the U.S. On today’s show our lovable on-air concierge Kevin Thomas comes back to report on what’s coming soon to [...]

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It’s been 10 years since college student Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered in the town of Laramie, Wyoming. How far have we come in creating laws to protect queer folks from violent crimes? On today’s show we’ve got Wayne Besen- best known for Anything but Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth, [...]

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Kids, say hello to your new mommy! Teri Yaki’s been working hard to transform herself into Amanda Steinstein, for our very special What Not to Wear/Feast of Fools viewing party at Hydrate in Chicago on Oct 10. We’ll have a blast watching on a jumbo screen as we raid Amanda’s closest, try on some of her [...]

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Clay Aiken gay? You bet! And that’s okay. The red-headed pop singer, best known as the second runner up in the second season of the TV singing competition American Idol came out of the closet as a gay man and is on the front cover of People magazine with his newborn son. Aiken says that he “cannot [...]

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Today’s show is hot hot hot! We’ve got two intense performers, internet sensation Chris Crocker and drag war drag queen Regina Upbright. Chris Crocker’s back with a hot new single- Mind in the Gutter- and it’s on top of the charts. Click here to get it now on iTunes for 99 cents. Join us as Chris talks [...]

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Many of the world’s religions often stand in the way in the advancement for gay rights. As churches struggle to reconcile with modern times, they often scapegoat their own queer members in order to retain influence and power. Because of this, a lot of people feel animosity to the religions they grew up with and [...]

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Get your fetish gear ready folks! Whip it up. Whooo. On today’s Feast of Fools we’ve got Demetri Moshoyannis, he’s the sexy executive director for the Folsom Street Fair, one of the largest spectator events in California. As one of the few occasions when sadomasochistic activities are encouraged and performed in public, it attracts a considerable [...]

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On today’s show we have Nirmalpal Sachdev, the general manager of Steamworks and Sean Kotwa, the gayest manager at the gay nightclub Hydrate who have the pulse on Chicago’s gay neighborhood - Boystown. They’re here to tell us all about the scene and fantastic events happening this month and next such as Lube Wrestling, Steamworks [...]

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On today’s show we’ve got the delightful Jacob Hatchkevitch, a Chicago comic actor and writer who’s busy planning several exciting events with his comedy troupe - Laughter Fluffers. Check out his upcoming shows- Bob Rauschenburg America, Into the Loop at Second City and A Night of Deadly Sins: Embracing the Inner Sinner that benefits Chicago Fusion [...]

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What is it about Milwaukee that turns the editors of Marie Claire magazine on so much? They have proclaimed Milwaukee to be the sexiest city in America because it is “the nation’s summer-festival epicenter.” It is a place where “NASCAR tailgaters, Lebanese dabka dance fans and Foo Fighters freaks (are) all welcome.” i [...]

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It’s rush season on the Feast of Fools people! We’ve got a whole fraternity of handsome fellas in the home studio and I’m feeling like throwing my own toga party. Whooo!!! Toga, toga toga! In the mid 80s several frat brothers organized Delta Lambda Phi, as a way to offer a social environment and structure [...]

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We’ve got a special delivery for you today! Tracy Tyler joins us to talk about the new Bette Davis Stamp released by the US. Postal Service. The legendary Hollywood actress will be honored on September 18, 2008 on the 100th anniversary of her birth as a postage stamp in the Legends of Hollywood Series stamps. Our [...]

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It’s hard to find the right words to talk about the painful and tragic events taking place on September 11, 2001. Do you say “Happy September Eleven?” or “May Your September Eleven be a Solemn And Peaceful Day.” We all wish each other “happy” Memorial Day, so why not on Sept. 11 and other death-related [...]

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Get ready to pinch your pennies. On today’s show we’ve got Jay Shaff- gay photographer and long term tightwad here to share with us his quick and easy tips on saving money and surviving the downturn in the economy. Listen how you can save money on food, transportation, socializing and utilities- how can you make the [...]

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CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SHOW | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES Some days you just feel like browsing back on those oldies but goodies. On today’s show our pal Michael Lehet joins us to reminisce on the golden moments of the internet, before viral videos, podcasts and blogs captured our heart and minds, the glory days of [...]

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CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SHOW | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES For 20 years, the AIDS Legal Council of Chicago (ALCC) has been fighting to protect the legal rights of not just people with HIV, but all of us with regards to this challenging sexually transmitted disease. On today’s show Justin Hayford, the case manager for the [...]

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CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SHOW | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES Put on your rhinestone covered headphones, we’ve got a dazzling show for you today! Is it possible to put a million rhinestones into this podcast? From Las Vegas, we salute one of the great ones, Liberace- the flamboyant musician who’s showbiz style and ornate [...]

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CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SHOW If you love drag queens and Project Runway, today is the show for you! We’ve got New York City’s very own Miss Understood of Screaming Queens talking about the Drag Queen Challenge on the hit reality TV show Project Runway. Miss Understood spills the beans on how reality TV shows are [...]

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CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SHOW Today we bid a tearful goodbye to Don La Fontaine, the King of Voice overs who lent his voice for over three decades to over five thousand movie trailers. The man popularized the catch phrase “In a world where…” and helped define the industry of professional movie trailer voice overs. In [...]

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We drove up to Saugatuck, Michigan for Labor Day Weekend with Tracy Tyler to chill and hang out at Marc’s cousin’s lovely place. We were excited to go see what all the fuss was all about. After all, Saugatuck sounds a lot like of other things. The place certainly earns its title as the [...]

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Ever notice how crazy people LOVE to talk about gold? Specifically the gold standard. If you’re ever at a party and someone starts ranting about how our economy is built on a house of cards because our currency isn’t based on gold anymore, put your cocktail down slowly walk away. Believing that we should revert [...]

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Bam! Obama for President. The Illinois Senator wowed everyone, even Republicans last night as he graciously accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for President of the U.S. to the A. Okay? Okay. He managed to work in quotes from Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I have a Dream” speech and even the play “A Raisin in [...]

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