OutCasting Episode 8 — growing up gay in a small southern town

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On this edition of OutCasting, OutCaster Mady talks with Joseph Birdsong, a YouTube vlogger and musician.  Mady and Joseph talk about growing up gay in a small southern town and the transition to college.  Joseph is known on YouTube as disneykid1 and was previously a part of the YouTube channel 5Awesomegays.

 

 

 

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76-99 Using religion to justify discrimination - Jennifer C. Pizer
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68-71 Conversion therapy - Dr. Jack Drescher, Sam Brinton
January-April 2020 — January-February:  OutCaster Andrew talks with psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Jack Drescher about conversion therapy, the discredited and often harmful practice of trying to change people's gay sexuality to straight.  March-April: Andrew talks with Sam Brinton, who was subjected to conversion therapy and survived. 

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64 NYS new gender equality act - Juli Grey-Owens
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61-63 Stonewall 50 – the uprising’s place in history - Andy Humm
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60 Trans student school lawsuit - Drew Adams, Tara Borelli
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58/59 Title IX and trans discrimination in education - Paul Castillo
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56/57 Hopes and expectations, altered - Mimi and Jerry Goodman
OutCaster Alex speaks with Mimi and Jerry Goodman, both of whose children are LGBTQ.

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55 A trans teenager transitions
OutCaster Alex speaks with Amalee, a fellow OutCaster, about her experiences with her medical transition.

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53/54 Trans youth transitioning - John Steever, Matthew Oransky
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51/52 LGBTQ women in AIDS activism - Ann Northrop
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50 Intersex trans youth
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48/49 Intersex - Georgiann Davis, Cary Gabriel Costello
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47 Safe spaces - Gabby Rivera, Vinnie Pompei
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46 Gay Parenting 2 - James Howe
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45 Gay Parenting 1 - Gabriel Blau
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43/44 Agender
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42 Nonbinary Gender
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41 Media Portrayals - Larry Gross
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40 Minority Stress - Ilan Meyer
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38/39 Stonewall - Karla Jay
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36/37 Gay Activism, history of rainbow flag - Gilbert Baker
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35 LGBTQ history - Christopher Z. Hobson
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32-34 Anti-LGBTQ Backlash - Michelangelo Signorile
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31 Bi and Trans
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29/30 Asexuality
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25-28 Trans Issues in Sports - Chris Mosier
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24 Queering History - Maggie Keenan Bolger
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23 Queering History
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22 Binational Couples - Lavi Soloway, Mimi Goodman
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21 Olympics in Russia - Greg Louganis, Brian Healey
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19/20 Marriage Equality - Evan Wolfson
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18 GENDA Richard Gottfried
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17 Boy Scout Ban
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14 LGBTQ in Religion - Bishop Gene Robinson
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13 Youth Visibility
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12 LGBTQ in Religion - Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum
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11 Legal Services - Richard Saenz
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10 LGBTQ issues in Education
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9 Healthy Relationships
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8 Growing Up Gay
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7 Transgender
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6 Prideworks; Ex-Gay
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4 Youth Literature - Alex Sanchez
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3 PFLAG David Diamond
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2 Bullying and Suicide - Dan Savage
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1 Gay-Straight Alliances - Mary Jane Karger
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