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This summer marks the debut of exciting new recording artist Estelle Fox. Her first song "Crazy" launched in July, and her second song "I Always Do This" has just premiered. We will be playing it for you on today's show, and talking to Estelle about her music, her life and her connection to the LGBTQ community. Estelle is already attracting critical attention with her moving lyrics & haunting melodies. Her debut EP Prettiest Parts of Me will feature 6 powerful tracks produced by Platinum record producer Barb Morrison and mastered by Grammy winner Randy Merrill.  Estelle Fox describes herself as a young female trailblazer who offers her songs with selfless humility, with the intention to sing to the sentiment of the next generation… a collective voice just trying to be heard. Her musical influences depict the times including indie act Clairo and alt-pop band Beach Bunny.   Estelle is an animal rights activist and is politically engaged, actively seeking ways to create a cleaner, inclusive and fairer world for all.    With Brody Levesque

8 Sep 20221h

In house with us today is Long Beach California Mayor Robert Garcia!  He has been Long Beach's first gay mayor, and now is seeking national office as a candidate for the US House of Representatives. Robert is a Peruvian-American educator and politician who is the 28th and current mayor of Long Beach, California. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected in the 2014 election and won reelection in 2018. He is both the city's youngest and first elected openly LGBT mayor, as well as the first Latino American to hold the office. He is the second person of color to be elected mayor of Long Beach, after Republican Eunice Sato, a Japanese-American who served as mayor from 1980 to 1982. A former member of the Long Beach City Council, he was vice mayor from 2012 to 2014. In December 2021, he announced that he would be a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2022.   We will be talking about his priorities from housing as a human right, to ending Citizens United, to ending gun violence and protecting civil rights and more.   With co-host Brody Levesque

1 Sep 202259min

Today we talk to author Anthony Ocampo about his book BROWN AND GAY IN LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons. The book focuses on the sons of “new” immigrants who arrived in the United States after the passage of the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, BROWN AND GAY IN LA offers intimate and sometimes heartbreaking portraits of young men—Franklin, Armando, Rolando, Alvin, James, Dario, Edwin, Julio, and others—who struggle with the tensions between making their parents proud and their own sense of pride, with being viewed as normal by their family and becoming their own person.  We will be discussing the intersections of race, immigration and being gay, as well as an analysis of masculinity itself.  Anthony Ocampo is Professor of Sociology at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and his work has been featured on NPR, NBC News, BuzzFeed, GQ, and in the Los Angeles Times With co-host Brody Levesque

25 Aug 202259min

Gio Bravo, the first trans recording artise in regional Mexican music, is in the house with us today!  We will be playing his newest release, ESTA NOCHE! At the age of 22 Gio decided to accept his true authentic self and accept the gender identity that he had always felt most natural to him, accepting his life as a Trans man.  In early 2020, Gio collaborated with renowned Mexican singer-songwriter Erika Vidrio on the Mariachi track ME LASTIMAS a single that defined his artistic prowess and his vocal maturity within the Regional Mexican genre. It was in this same year, that summer, that Gio chose to take another transformation risk, but this time, it had to do with a new music genre he wanted to explore. By the Summer of 2020, Gio dropped the DIABLA single in collaboration with the talented and renowned Mexican recording artist Helen Ochoa, making the decisive jump into the Reggaeton music space.  Today we talk to him about his music, his journey and all he has learned along the way!

18 Aug 20221h

Our special guests are documentary writers, directors and brothers Jaron and Matthew Halmy. Their latest production, the documentary The Youth Governor launches on August 26th in theaters and on Amazon. If kids ran the government and ran for public office, what would that look like? The Youth Governor shows us. The Youth Governor is a program by the YMCA, run nationwide, in which kids emulate government bodies with literally parallel elected bodies and roles filled by kids. The film The Youth Governor documents the California youth government and its election of the 72nd Youth Governor. The Youth Governor is the story of the candidacy, campaign, and election of the 72nd California Youth Governor. The program itself takes place in California's Capitol, 4,000 teenagers run a fully functioning government complete with legislators, lobbyists, political party bosses, and elections. Over the course of four months, three candidates emerge from a field of 40. On the campaign trail, in their homes, and with their peers watching their every word, these young candidates put together the unique mix of ambition, confidence, shamelessness, and pure motivation it takes to win. These young candidates see themselves as the heroic leaders that are nowhere around them. They feel burdened to solve the problems that their adult leaders have trouble addressing. Their story is a window into the world of young people who revere American democracy. The film follows these candidates as they throw themselves into the gauntlet of the electoral process. Today, the  Halmy brothers take us into their world to tell us about the kids, the program and the film, and  how it is our future. With co-host Brody Levesque

11 Aug 20221h

A world renown soccer player, Thomas Beattie sustained a career ending skull fracture and a brain hemorrhage in 2015 during a game, Thomas was forced to leave the game that had shaped his identity into the person he is today. In June 2020, Thomas came out publicly to set himself free and in hopes of being able to influence, inspire and support other athletes struggling in fear. Also in 2020 he was named in the OUT100 as one of the leading influential trailblazers in the community. Today we talk to him about his many endeavors includint the Thomas Beattie Foundation that creates a safe space for LGBTQ athletes to open up about their identity confidentially and seek support and guidance with accepting themselves to fully embrace who they are to lead to authenticity and overall happiness.   With Brody Levesque

4 Aug 20221h 1min

Schuyler Bailar is the first NCAA Division 1 transgender men's athlete. By 17, he set a national age-group record. In college, he swam for Harvard University, on Harvard’s winningest team in 50 years. Schuyler’s difficult choice – to transition while potentially giving up the prospect of being an NCAA Champion – was historic.  Schuyler has always been a tireless advocate for the Queer and Trans community, and after speaking at 400+ events now he’s looking to make real change on a larger scale. With Trans rights under attack in so many states, Schuyler is looking to create change through human connection and education.  Today, he is with us to announce the launch of LaneChanger , a diversity, equality and inclusion, gender literacy training program designed to empower allies and create safer spaces for the Queer and Trans community amongst schools and businesses. Schuyler believes education is the antidote to ignorance and hate. As Schuyler has traveled the country speaking and educating, he has learned that most people want to be allies to the Trans community, but they don’t know how. Even those who were resistant to Trans people learned and opened up, allowing themselves to see Schuyler in their own humanity.

28 Juli 20221h

Leo Baker is the renown skateboarding champion and icon. As he was heading to the 2020 Olympics where competitive skateboarding was finally getting its spotlight, he found himself grappling with a life changing decision. Could he be himself and drop out, or be his dead identity and participate being non-authentic? His personal journey and revelations are now the subject of the new Netflix documentary Stay on Board: The Leo Baker Story. Today, in our exclusive interview, we talk to film director Nicola Marsh and executive producer Alex Schmider on the making of the film and Leo's story. Nicola is best known for her work on the Oscar-winning documentary Twenty Feet from Stardom, and boasts a vast carreer as a cinematographer/director specializing in intimate portraits. Alex produced the Hulu Original Documentary CHANGING THE GAME (2021), Netflix Original Documentary DISCLOSURE (2020) . He is an Emmy and Critics Choice Award nominated producer and the Director of Transgender Representation at GLAAD. With co-host Brody Levesque

22 Juli 20221h