Apr 19, 20221 min read

Gay Mountaineer Outed on TV in Islamic Kyrgyzstan (Part 2)

PODCAST—EPISODE 26: Dastan Kasmamytov, a 30 y.o. Krygyzstani, is an LGBTQ activist and founder of Pink Summits, a mostly queer...

Mar 8, 20221 min read

Gay Mountaineer Outed on TV in Islamic Kyrgyzstan (Part 1)

PODCAST—EPISODE 25: Growing up in the central Asian nation of Kyrgystan, Dastan Kasmamytov had no idea he'd ever become an LGBTQ activist....

Jan 11, 20221 min read

Andy Tobias: Noted LGBTQ author and former Democratic Party Treasurer

PODCAST-- EPISODE 24: Andy Tobias' journey from being the "Best Little Boy in the World" (the title of the best-selling coming out memoir...

Sep 6, 20211 min read

Kevin Jennings: LGBTQ Activist, Author, and Historian

PODCAST— EPISODE 23: Kevin Jennings grew up in a southern trailer park, son of a homophobic itinerant Baptist preacher, was the first in...

Aug 7, 20211 min read

Jim Fouratt: From Civil Rights to Gay Rights

PODCAST— EPISODE 22: Jim F ouratt has been in the right place at the right time: he co-founded the leading anti-Vietnam war group in the...

Jul 14, 20211 min read

Khalleed Ahmed: The Journey of a Gay Somalian Refugee, Part 2

PODCAST—EPISODE 21: Khalleed Ahmed and his family fled civil war in Somalia, spent eight years in Kenyan refugee camps, and finally were...

Jun 23, 20211 min read

David Mixner: Longtime Civil Rights, Anti-war, and LGBTQ Rights Activist

PODCAST—EPISODE 20: David Mixner has been an author, political strategist, and civil rights activist for more than a half-century. He was...

Jun 16, 20211 min read

Khalleed Ahmed: The Journey of a Gay Somalian Refugee, Part 1

PODCAST—EPISODE 19: Khalleed Ahmed and his family fled civil war in Somalia, spent eight years in Kenyan refugee camps, and finally were...

Jun 1, 20211 min read

Paula Harrowing: British queer activist

PODCAST—EPISODE 18: Paula Harrowing, a 49 y.o. British queer activist describes what it was like coming out into London's vibrant and...

May 9, 20211 min read

Michela Griffo: A Pioneer in Women's and LGBTQ Rights Movement, Pt. 2

PODCAST—EPISODE 17: Michela Griffo talks about the battle for LGBTQ civil rights from the first NYC Pride March in 1970 onward, the...

Apr 25, 20211 min read

Michela Griffo: A Pioneer in Women's and LGBTQ Rights Movement, Pt. 1

PODCAST—EPISODE 17: Mike talks with Michela Griffo about her life as an early and active member of the National Organization for Women in...

Apr 11, 20211 min read

Dave Kopay: First NFL Player to Come Out of the Closet

PODCAST—EPISODE 16: Mike talks with old friend, Dave Kopay, who in 1975, was the first prominent athlete to come out and the first male...

Apr 1, 20211 min read

BAMMER and Me: Joel Tucker, The Backstreet Cafe Shooting

PODCAST—EPISODE 15: Mike interviews Joel Tucker twenty years later: one of six survivors of the horrendous Backstreet Cafe shooting in...

Mar 26, 20211 min read

BAMMER and Me: Cliff Morrison: The World's First AIDS Ward (Pt. 2)

PODCAST—EPISODE 14: Cliff Morrison talks about forming the first AIDS ward in San Francisco General Hospital in 1983, as well as, his...

Feb 8, 20201 min read

BAMMER and Me: Jacob Tobia, A Coming-of-Age Gender Story

PODCAST—EPISODE 13: Jacob Tobia is a gender-nonconforming Los Angeleno who’s on a roll. Four years ago, they landed a job as an executive...

Jan 13, 20201 min read

BAMMER and Me: Confessions of a Male Escort turned Addiction Counselor (Part 2)

PODCAST—EPISODE 12: What do you do after you’ve been a Colt porn model, male escort, and drug addict? After kicking his drug addiction,...

Dec 21, 20191 min read

BAMMER and Me: The Phluid Project and Gender-free Fashion

PODCAST—EPISODE 11: Rob Smith, the founder of The Phluid Project, talks about his journey from being a successful fashion executive to...

Dec 4, 20191 min read

BAMMER and Me: Cliff Morrison, The First AIDS Ward (Part 1)

PODCAST—EPISODE 10: Cliff Morrison arrived in San Francisco as a nurse in the late 1970s, as AIDS was about to erupt. In 1983, while...

Nov 13, 20191 min read

BAMMER and Me: Confessions of a Male Escort turned Addiction Counselor (Part 1)

PODCAST—EPISODE 9: Stu Fenton has had quite the life! In his early twenties, Stu was a Colt model and a male escort. That high life led...

Oct 30, 20191 min read

BAMMER and Me: Life in NYC Avant Garde Theatre Scene and Stonewall

PODCAST—EPISODE 8: Mike talks with Frank Carucci, a life-long New Yorker, about working in the NYC avant-garde theatre scene, the...