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Join Dene and Sam in the Cheap Seats for one last time as we travel to San Francisco for a spoken-word tribute to Sylvester, the Queen of Disco. Sylvester was an early founder of the […] http://joy.org.au/cheapseats/wp-content/uploads/sites/295/2016/04/2016-03-31-CheapSeats-MightyReal_mixdown.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 47:57 — 22.0MB) The post Mighty real tribute to Sylvester appeared first on Cheap Seats.

Join Dene in the Cheap Seats in Cleveland, Ohio for a panel discussion on transgender identity and rights. Hosted by The City Club of Cleveland, the panel is moderated by Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Connie Shultz. The […] http://joy.org.au/cheapseats/wp-content/uploads/sites/295/2016/03/2016-03-25-CheapSeats-TransinCleveland.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 39:23 — 18.0MB) The post Transgender in Cleveland appeared first on Cheap Seats.

Dene is back in the Cheap Seats for a night of queer poetry.  Brought to us by Button Poetry, the performers explore autobiographical themes of love and attraction and stories of gender and misgendering.  There is […] http://joy.org.au/cheapseats/wp-content/uploads/sites/295/2016/03/2016-03-10-CheapSeats-QueerPoetry_mixdown.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:32 — 14.5MB) The post Queer poetry appeared first on Cheap Seats.

Join Dene in the Cheap Seats at the San Francisco Public Library for a conversation with Armistead Maupin. KM Soehnlein interviews Armistead Maupin about “Tales of the City” which, for almost four decades, has blazed its […] http://joy.org.au/cheapseats/wp-content/uploads/sites/295/2016/03/2016-03-05-CheapSeats-ArmisteadMaupin.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:58 — 19.7MB) The post In conversation with Armistead Maupin appeared first on Cheap Seats.

Join Dene in the Cheap Seats for a human rights panel discussion that explores the ideological struggle between autocracy and democracy in Asia and the Middle East. The discussion is hosted by Human Rights First and examines the experience […] http://joy.org.au/cheapseats/wp-content/uploads/sites/295/2016/02/2016-02-27-CheapSeats-Autocracy-and-Democracy.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 45:19 — 20.8MB) The post Human rights in Asia and the Middle East appeared first on Cheap Seats.

Dene is back in the Cheap Seats for the National Poetry Slam 2015 in Oakland California. Presented by Button Poetry, the event features: Melissa Lozada-Olivia – Like Totally Whatever Olivia Fantini – On Standardized Testing Pages Matam […] http://joy.org.au/cheapseats/wp-content/uploads/sites/295/2016/02/2016-02-20-CheapSeats-NationalPoetrySlam_Part2.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 24:16 — 11.1MB) The post Poetry slam, thank you ma’am! appeared first on Cheap Seats.

Join Dene in the Cheap Seats in Oakland California at the 26th Annual National Poetry Slam, a competition event where poets performance original work to a live audience. Presented by Button Poetry, the event features: Akeemjamal Rollins […] http://joy.org.au/cheapseats/wp-content/uploads/sites/295/2016/02/2016-02-20-CheapSeats-NationalPoetrySlam-Part1.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 23:41 — 10.9MB) The post Poetry Slam sampler appeared first on Cheap Seats.

Dene is back in the Cheap Seats for a performance by Canadian trans artists Ivan Coyote and Rae Spoon, performing their show “Gender Failure”.  The performance explores and exposes the pair’s failed attempts at fitting into […] http://joy.org.au/cheapseats/wp-content/uploads/sites/295/2016/02/2016-02-12-CheapSeats-GenderFailure_mixdown.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 46:48 — 21.4MB) The post Gender Failure appeared first on Cheap Seats.

Join Dene in the Cheap Seats as we listen to ‘No Curry, No Rice’, a panel discussion that looks at sexual appetites, ethnic stereotypes, and racism in our LGBTIQ communities. It explores the question of the […] http://joy.org.au/cheapseats/wp-content/uploads/sites/295/2016/02/2016-02-06-CheapSeats-NoCurryNoRice_mixdown.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 46:47 — 21.4MB) The post No curry, no rice appeared first on Cheap Seats.

Join Dene in the Cheap Seats for American poet and writer Eileen Myles reading her poetry to a live audience at the Chicago Humanities Festival. Eileen has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, plays […] http://joy.org.au/cheapseats/wp-content/uploads/sites/295/2016/01/2016-01-30-CheapSeats-EileenMyles_mixdown.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 44:47 — 20.5MB) The post Poet novelist Eileen Myles appeared first on Cheap Seats.

Join Dene in the Cheap Seats for a panel discussion about sexual orientation on YouTube.  We are in Anaheim California for VidCon 2015, an annual conference for people who love online video. The panel explores themes such […] http://joy.org.au/cheapseats/wp-content/uploads/sites/295/2016/01/2016-01-24-CheapSeats-SexualOrientationonYouTube_mixdown.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 43:47 — 20.1MB) The post Sexual Orientation on YouTube appeared first on Cheap Seats.

Dene is back in the Cheap Seats for a night of poetry.  We feature the poetry of LGBT performance poets Sam Sax and Joy Young from Button Poetry in the United States. http://joy.org.au/cheapseats/wp-content/uploads/sites/295/2016/01/2016-01-14-CheapSeats-SamSaxandJoyYoung_mixdown.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:54 — 12.8MB) The post Poetry by Sam Sax & Joy Young appeared first on Cheap Seats.

Join Dene in the Cheap Seats as we travel to the United States for a panel discussion on the state and representation of LGBT people and issues in Sports and Popular Media. The panel was […] http://joy.org.au/cheapseats/wp-content/uploads/sites/295/2016/01/2016-01-09-CheapSeats-LGBTRepresentationinSportsMedia_mixdown.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 47:44 — 21.9MB) The post LGBT Representation in Sports Media appeared first on Cheap Seats.

Join Dene as we travel to Mumbai for front row seats at a panel discussion on building LGBT alliances in India.  We are at the Second Indian LGBT Youth Leadership Summit presented in 2015 by MINGLE, […] http://joy.org.au/cheapseats/wp-content/uploads/sites/295/2016/01/2016-01-07-CheapSeats-BuildingLGBTAlliancesinIndia_mixdown.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 43:25 — 19.9MB) The post Building LGBT Alliances in India appeared first on Cheap Seats.

Dene is back in the Cheap Seats, this time at a spoken-word performance by Queenie Bon Bon as part of the 2015 Melbourne Fringe Festival. In “Power Up”, Queenie talks from her true-lived experience as […] http://joy.org.au/cheapseats/wp-content/uploads/sites/295/2015/12/20151217_Power-up_mixdown.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:16:08 — 104.6MB) The post Queenie Bon Bon presents ‘Power Up’ appeared first on Cheap Seats.

Join Dene in the Cheap Seats as we listen to human rights lawyer and activist Eric Gitari speak about LGBT rights in Kenya. Eric is co-founder of the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. […] http://joy.org.au/cheapseats/wp-content/uploads/sites/295/2015/12/20151210_LBGT-Rights-in-Kenya_mixdown.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 39:31 — 54.3MB) The post LGBT Rights in Kenya appeared first on Cheap Seats.

Dene is back in the Cheap Seats and back in time at Pat Bond’s one-woman show ‘Murder in the WAC‘. Recorded in 1982, it is a funny, tragic tale of lesbians purged from the US […] http://joy.org.au/cheapseats/wp-content/uploads/sites/295/2015/12/20150702_Murder-in-the-WAC_mixdown.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:40 — 40.8MB) The post Murder in the WAC appeared first on Cheap Seats.

Join Dene in the Cheap Seats for the NSW 2014 state finals in the lead up to the Australian Poetry Slam – the largest spoken-word program in the Southern hemisphere. The poets perform with passion about topics […] http://joy.org.au/cheapseats/wp-content/uploads/sites/295/2015/12/20150917_Slam-NSW-finals_mixdown.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 36:03 — 49.5MB) The post Poetry Slam: NSW Finals appeared first on Cheap Seats.

Join Dene in the Cheap Seats for the 2015 Women of the World Poetry Slam Finals. Held in early 2015 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, we hear women performing poetry with passion and covering themes including […] http://joy.org.au/cheapseats/wp-content/uploads/sites/295/2015/12/20151203_Women-of-the-World-Slam_mixdown.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 45:05 — 61.9MB) The post Poetry Slam: Women of the World Finals 2015 appeared first on Cheap Seats.

Join Dene in the Cheap Seats we as go back in time to 1958 to listen to what is believed to be the first ever radio broadcast to openly discuss homosexuality in the United States. […] http://joy.org.au/cheapseats/wp-content/uploads/sites/295/2015/12/20150625_Homosexual-in-society_mixdown.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 44:56 — 61.7MB) The post The homosexual in 1958 society appeared first on Cheap Seats.