IMRU Radio: Recent Episodes
Pride Out Loud
IMRU SHOW 200914: Mark Bingham (his Mom Alice Hoglin) + I'm from Driftwood (Founder Nathan Manske) + Strike A Pose (Blonde Ambition Tour Dancers and Backup Singers).
IMRU 200622: IMRU Presents PRIDE OUT LOUD Episode 1: Hope After a Storm - Hosted by Michael Taylor Gray, Steve Pride, Abby Dees and Scooter J. Stevens. Harvey Milk Interview + White Night Riots (Field Reports) + Cleeve Jones (On Harvey Milk) + Birth of the Rainbow Flag (Lynn Segerblom AKA Faerie Argyle Rainbow)
IMRU SHOW 200127: Honest TEA (With Michael Taylor Gray & Chloe Corcoran) + Joe Putignano (Acrobaddict) + Will and Grace Debut 1998 + New Orleans Mardi Gras (Sons of Tennesse Williams) + Hear Me Out Senior Storytellers (2019 Competetion Winner)
IMRU Show 201020: The Honest TEA with Michael Taylor Gray & Zalore Stout + Our Gay History in Fifty States (by Zaylore S out) + Bayard Rustin Tribute + TTV: Walter Naegale (Rustin's surviving Partner).
IMRU RADIO 03/11/2019: Honest TEA + Lukas Dhont (Witer/Director, Girl) + Kimberly Reed (Director, Prodigal Sons) + Will Fellows (Author, Gay Bar: The Fabulous, True Story of a Daring Woman and Her Boys in the 1950s) + Lynn Segerblom (Co-Creator of the Rainbow Flag).
IMRU SHOW 200113: Steve Pride's 3 part interview with Cleeve Jones covering Harvey Milk, the Aids Epidemic and the LGBT community today + in "The Last Word" Armistead Maupin read's Michael "Mouse" Tolliver's letter home from "Tales of the City." Hosted by Michael Taylor Gray.
IMRU SHOW 200106: The Honest TEA (Michael Taylor Gray & Vash Boddie) + Ryan O'Connell (I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves) + Storytellers: Rashida, Gerri And Hendrix Mungin.
IMRU SHOW 191230: The Honest TEA (Michael Taylor Gray & Ralph Cole Jr.) + Where's Wayne? (Wayne Sampson at ReelAbilities film festival & Outfest Legacy Gala) + Storytellers: The Dickersons (Foster/Adopt)
IMRU SHOW 191223: Where's Wayne? (Trevor Live LA) + Red Ribbon Christmas (Rick Watts Audio Essay) + TTV: Santa Jack + Secret Santa (Radio Play)
IMRU SHOW 191223: Where's Wayne? (Tevor Live LA) + Red Ribbon Christmas (Rick Watts Audio Essay) + TTV: Santa Jack + Secret Santa (Radio Play)
IMRU SHOW 191216: Storytellers XXL: RICH VALENZA (founder and CEO of “Raise A Child”) + DON BACHARDY (portrait artist and Christopher Isherwood's surviving partner) + LAST WORD: Steve Pride (Chasing Peter)
IMRU Show 191209: The Honest TEA (with Michael Taylor Gray and Chloe Corcoran) + Stotytellers: Florian Klei aka Hans Berlin + Storytellers: Jasper Cole + Last Word: Abby Dees (Who's the Man?)
IMRU Show 191202: The Honest TEA (with Chloe Corcoran and Scott Turner Schofield) + T. Cooper (Man Made) + Storytellers: UCB Drag Race + Last Word: Audio Essay from Peter Dell
IMRU Radio 191125: The Honest TEA (with Michael Taylor Gray & Chloe Corcoran) + Facing Fear + Mary Doty poem(New Dog) + Storytellers: Massimo Dobrovic
IMRU 191118:The Honest TEA (with Michael Taylor Gray & Chloe Corcoran) + Storytellers: Team Shores at the Palm Springs Desert AIDS Walk + Storytellers: Del Shores + Last Word: Sam Harris at Liza's Wedding.
IMRU 191104:The Honest TEA (with Michael Taylor Gray & Del Shores) + The Homophile Report: John Morgan Wilson (Writer of the "Benjamin Justice" Mystery series + Storytellers: Addison Heimann (writer/creator of "Kappa Force" on the Revry TV Network) + Last Word: California Screaming.
IMRU 191104: The Honest TEA (with Michael Taylor Gray & Chloe Corcoran) + Gay Chorus Deep South + Eric Roos (Up With People) + Country Artist Jack Nathan Harding (Cowboys & Tattoos)
IMRU 191028: The Honest TEA (with Michael Taylor Gray & Chloe Corcoran) + The Amazing Randi + Tyler Cassity (Hollywood Forever Cemetery) + Clive Barker + The Last Word (Angelia Brown and the Devil).
IMRU 191121: with Chloe Corcoran & Jonah Blechman = The Third + The Lavender Scare + Never Again is Now.
The Honest TEA (with Mi8chael Taylor Gray & Chloe Corcoran) + Karla Jay (Lesbian and Women's' Rights trailblazer) + Alison Arngrim (Little House on the Prairie) + The Last Word (IMRU History).
The Honest TEA with Michael Taylor Gray & Chloe Corcoran + A Coming Out Story (Ben Penzner) + The Gaytino Report (Mariachi Arcoiris de Los Angeles) + The Last Word(Armistead Maupin)
IMRU Radio 05/08/2017: Aaron Fox (Director of Government Relations at Los Angeles LGBT Center) on TrumpCare + Gayback: The AIDS Ride 2001 + Actress, Author, Actress Patricia Velásquez (Guys Reading Poems).
IMRU Radio 05/01/2017: Lindsey Deaton (Director of the Transgender Chorus of Los Angeles) LIVE in studio + Interviews from the exhibition floor of RuPaul's Drag-Con 2017.
IMRU Radio 4/24/2017: Jessica Stern (Executive Director, OutRight Action International) + Actor Daniel Berilla (Guys Reading Poems) + RJ Aguiar (YouTube Personality, #ResistMarch).
IMRU Radio 04/17/2017: Michaela Mendelsohn (Trans Advocate + Entrepreneur) + Dr. James Mercer (Secrets & Shame: Dear Oprah Diaries) + The frockumentary "Dressed As A Girl" (John Sizzle, Amber Waze and Holestar).
IMRU Radio 04/10/2017: Oliver Luke Alpuche (Owner, REDLINE DTLA ) + TV writer Stan Zimmerman (on web series "Secs & Execs" and play "Yes, Virginia") + Hot Tomato Talk (Paul McCullough & Jeremy Stanford).
IMRU Radio 04/03/2017: Ames Simmons (Director of Transgender Policy, Equality NC) + Zackary Drucker (Artist & TV Producer) + Kristin Beck (Author, former Navy Seal) + "Rally for Trans Resistance" in Santa Monica + Music = Tell Me a Story (Skylar Kergil).
IMRU Radio 03/20/2017: TROY MASTERS (Publisher/Editor, Los Angeles Blade) + IVY BOTTINI (LGBT Activist) + Brian Pendleton (founder of #ResistMarch).
IMRU Radio 03/20/2017: Steve Pride visits with iconic author/activist KARLA JAY in NYC + Miss Barbie-Q in conversation with Drag Superstar PANDORA BOXX + Singer/Songwriter JOSEPH EID live in studio.
An IMRU flashback from our 07/12/1977 show: IMRU's Jim Kepner and Lucia Chapplle in conversation with John Rechy about his new (at the time) book... THE SEXUAL OUTLAW.
IMRU Radio 03/13/2017: OUR LADY J (Transparent Writer/Producer, Singer-Songwriter and Trans Activist) + Pioneering Filmmaker WAKEFIELD POOLE (Boys in the Sand) + THE CRUISE (Director Heath Cullens and Playwright Jonathan Ceniceroz).
IMRU Radio 03/06/2017: We get real about THE REAL O'NEALS with Mary Hollis Inboden (Jodi O'Neal), Jon Veles (Writer), Becky Mann (Writer), David Windsor (Co-creator) and Noah Galvin (Kenny O'Neal) + We explore being LGBT in the Church of Scientology with out actor Steven Mango + Dan Mathews (Senior VP of PETA) + Closing music: Joseph Eid and "Ready Now."
For "Die, Mommie, Die!" (the 2003 Chrarles Busch film) I sat down with stars Stark Sands, Jason Priestly and director Mark Rucker to talk about... Forbidden Romance!
IMRU Radio 02/13/2017: Abby Dees in conversation with Alexei Romanoff the last living witness to the FIRST mass protest against police raids on gay bars in the United States. This protest at the Black Cat Tavern in LA on February 11, 1967, was two years before the demonstration at the Stonewall Inn in NYC.
IMRU Radio 01/30/2017: Btoo Allami & Nayyef Hrebid (Out of Iraq) + our 2006 interview with Stuart Timmons (Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians) + LAX Immigration Protest + Sue Hamilton & Heidi Godt (Artists Rise Up Los Angeles).
IMRU Radio 01/23/2017: The Women's March + Author Jim Colucci (Golden Girls Forever) and his author/comedian husband Frank DeCaro.
IMRU Radio 01/16/2017: Catching up with Vlad Slavskiy (LGBT Russian immigrant) + Bayard Rustin's parter Walter Naegle + From Madonna's 1990 BLONDE AMBITION tour: dancers Kevin Stea, Carlton Wilborn and Luis Camacho, plus backup singers Niki Haris and Donna De Lory join us for a conversation about the new documentary STRIKE A POSE.
IMRU Radio 01/02/2017: The Well-Strung Quartet + Up With People + Tab Hunter + Estelle Brown (The Sweet Inspirations).
IMRU Radio 12/26/2016: Miss Barbie-Q (host of BackChat on KPFK) + Gay Liberation Follies of 1974 (Amy Fournier, Scott Klein, Lily Tomlin) + Fred Karger (President, Rights Equal Rights).
IMRU Radio 12/12/2016: ABBY DEES in a LIVE in-depth conversation with KATE KENDELL, Executive Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR).
IMRU Radio 12/05/2016: Richard Berkowitz (Co-writer the 1983 pamphlet "How to Have Sex in an Epidemic") + Alexandra-Therese Keining ("Girls Lost") + Holly Woodlawn - one year gone + director Casper Andreas and actor Jai Rodriguez ("Kiss Me, Kill Me").
IMRU Radio 11/21/2016: Moises Serrano ("Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America") + Dr. Greg Cason (Psychologist specializing in Cognitive Therapy, LA Shrinks).
IMRU Radio 11/21/2016: Madin Ray Lopez (Founder, Project Q) + Adam Garnet Jones (Writer/Director, Fire Song) + Abbe Land (Executive Director and CEO, The Trevor Project).
IMRU Radio 11/14/2016: Post Election we "Brace for Impact" with Michelangelo Signorile (Sirius Radio host and author of "It's Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality") + Terra Russell Slavin (Deputy Director of Policy and Community Building, LA LGBT Center) + Karen Ocamb (Award winning LGBT Journalist).
IMRU RADIO 11/07/2016 [ELECTION EVE EDITION]: Eric Paul Leue (The Free Speech Coalition) + Charles Moran (Log Cabin Republicans Los Angeles) + Stephen David Simon (Stonewall Democratic Club Los Angeles) + Polling Place Rules.
IMRU RADIO 10/31/2016: Miss Barbie-Q live from the West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval + Tyler Cassity (Owner of the Hollywood Forever Cementry) + The Amazing Randi (Professional Skeptic) + Mark Patton (Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge).
BACKCHAT with Miss Barbie Q for October 26, 2016: Miss B talk with pal Zackary Drucker (photographer, performance artist, writer, trans woman and associate producer on the TV series Transparent.)
IMRU RADIO 10/10/2016: On a special Fund Drive Edition... A 13 year old Viola prodigy comes out + the IMRU Radio Backstory + special celebrity guest Justin Sayre.
IMRU RADIO 10/03/2016: A classic game of "Catch" from Peter Dell + Documentarian Alden Peters is "Coming Out" + WeHo City Poet Steven Reigns + Drew Droege talks "Bold Patterns and Bright Colors."
BACKCHAT with Miss Barbie Q for September 28, 2016: Miss B discusses LGBT Downtown LA with guest Oliver Alpuche (Owner, Redline Bar in DTLA + President, Proud Festival LA).
IMRU RADIO (09/19/2016): Wenzel Jones goes STRAIGHT TO VEGAS + Emmett Lundberg, Will Krisanda and, Sheyam Ghieth on BROTHERS, a web series about the lives of trans masculine friends + Our 2009 interview with the late Mark Thompson and Don Kilhefner about the Radical Faeries + John Copeland on his play ANITA BRYANT’S PLAYBOY INTERVIEW.
IMRU RADIO (09/12/2016): Nathan Manske, founder of "I'm From Driftwood" (The LGBTQ Story Archive) + An Abby Dees Personal Reflection + A Death in Venice (closing night at the historic Roosterfish Bar) + Jim Anzide, owner of "Out & About Tours" (Hollywood's 1st & Only Gay Bus Tour).
IMRU RADIO (09/05/2016): Margarita With a Straw (writer/director Shonali Bose and star Kalki Koechlin ) + Canada's Queer Decade: 1995-2005 + Artist and Porn Superstar Colby Keller.
BackChat with Miss Barbie Q (Your friendly neighborhood Drag Queen) with inaugural guest Pandora Boxx!
IMRU RADIO 08/15/16: CeCe McDonald shares her truth (the attack, the death, racism, mass incarceration, trans liberation...) + Justin Sayre (Comedian, raconteur, novelist, Chairman of the International Order of Sodomites...) + We take you to the 1st Pride Celebration in Venice, Ca.
IMRU RADIO 08/08/16: DTLA Proud Festival RT with the Boulet Brothers, Miss Barbie Q, Matthew McLaughlin (of "The Gay Gay's") + Steven Reigns (WeHo Poet Laureate) + Terry Ray (actor, screenwriter, playwrite and producer).
IMRU RADIO 08/01/16: A lavender look at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions from our friends at THIS WAY OUT + Opening night vox pop at the Hollywood History Museum's Exhibit “Reel to Real: Portrayals and Perceptions of Gays in Hollywood.”
IMRU RADIO 07/04/16: Our 20th Annual Outfest Kick-off Special... Co-hosted by award winning film producer JD Disalvatore: Best of Fest Picks, plus live studio interviews with Zoey Luna & her Mom Ofelia Barba (Raising Zoey), Tomas Pais (Star/Co-writer: Hunky Dory) and Tim Kirkman (Director/Writer: Lazy Eye). [2 hours]
IMRU RADIO 07/04/16: Our 20th Annual Outfest Kick-off Special... Co-hosted by award winning film producer JD Disalvatore: Best of Fest Picks, plus live studio interviews with Zoey Luna & her Mom Ofelia Barba (Raising Zoey), Tomas Pais (Star/Co-writer: Hunky Dory) and Tim Kirkman (Director/Writer: Lazy Eye). [2 hours]
IMRU Radio Magazine 06/20/2016: In the aftermath of Orlando... continued coverage of the Pulse Nightclub shooting, with sound and interviews from the vigil at LA City Hall + analysis from award winning LGBT journalist Karen Ocamb.
IMRU RADIO 06/06/16: SHEILA JAMES KUEHL, former child actress, state legislator, state senator and currently on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. + JESSICA STERN, Executive Director of OutRight Action International (formerly known as International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission). + Gayback: June 28, 1970 @ 1st CSW Pride Parade.
IMRU RADIO 05/23/16: On the floor of RuPaul's Drag-Con with Coco Peru, David Yost, Craig Ramsey, Leisha Hailey, Drew Droege, Big Dipper, Mary Wilson and Andrew Christian. + In studio we chat about "Skirtchasers" with writer Stan Zimmerman, director Amanda Bearse and star Elizabeth Keener + a Harvey Milk Day Tribute.
IMRU RADIO 05/09/16: We explore the 1972 origin of CSW Pride with co-founder Rev Troy Perry and discuss the 2016 controversy with Troy Masters (Editor, The Pride LA newspaper) + Hear the IMRU origin story from our first producer Greg Gordon + Chat with GM Leslie Radford about the future of KPFK + the LGBT Newswrap.
IMRU RADIO 05/02/16: Peter Allen lives again in BOY FROM OZ at the Celebration Theater according to Director Michael A. Shepperd and actress Jessica Pennington. + Santee High School Gay-Straight Alliance members Kween, Monique, Juliet, Alonzo and faculty adviser Jose Lara, talk about their GSA, the designation of a gender neutral bathroom at the school and confronting the Westboro Baptist Church.
IMRU RADIO 04/25/16: Crystal Richardson (Equality NC) + David Mixner (Political Stratagist) + Paul McCullough & Jeremy Stanford (Roma-therapy: A love letter to all things tomato) + Jane Anderson and Michelle Boyaner (Packed in a Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson).
IMRU RADIO 04/18/16: TV producer JACK KENNY and actor NELSON ASCENCIO (SCI-FEST LA) + Rev. GWEN FRY (Transgender Episcopal Priest living in Arkansas) + trans activist and actor SCOTT TURNER SCHOFIELD (The Bold and the Beautiful).
IMRU RADIO 04/11/16: Chris Sanders (TN Equality Project) + Randy Barbato & Fenton Bailey (World of Wonder) + Daniel Franzese (Mean Girls, Looking, Recovery Road)
IMRU RADIO 04/04/16: Casa Valentina (Robert Mammana & Valerie Mahaffey) + Arkansas Anti-Discrimination Challenge (Reverend Gwen Fry) + Guys Reading Poems (Hunter Lee Hughes & Rex Lee)
IMRU RADIO 03/28/16: Robert Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato) + Prism Comics at Wonder-Con + LGBT Dominica (Sylvester Baptiste, Caribbean Health AIDS Partnership)
IMRU RADIO 03/21/16: Atlanta Hate Crime survivor MARQUEZ TOLBERT + remembering ALICE HERMAN + Singer/Songwriter TOM GOSS performing LIVE in studio.
IMRU RADIO 03/14/2016: THE PRIDE Newspaper (Troy Masters, Publisher & Editor) + TANGERINE (Sean Baker, Filmmaker) + YOU'RE KILLING ME (Jim Hansen, Co-Writer/Director and Matthew McKelligon (Star).
IMRU RADIO 12/07/2015: Film Director MIKA KAURISMÄKI (The Girl King) + HOLLY WOODLAWN + PATRICIA VELASQUEZ (Liz in September) + Pet Mark Doty reads SHELTER.
IMRU RADIO 11/23/2015: Jessica Stern, ED of OUTRIGHT (LGBT Syrian Refugees) + GREG COPE WHITE ("The Pink Mrine" and Thanksgiving Cooking tips) + PETER DELL (Encore of "Catch")
Since its release in 1985 "Nightmare on Elm Street 2" has become a Gay Classic. Was that intentional? What happened to its star? Steve Pride sat down with actor Mark Patton to talk about his career, the notorious film and being labeled cinema’s first male Scream Queen.
IMRU RADIO 10/11/2015: A special Fund Drive Show with Barney Frank + Michelangelo Signorile + Thomas Bezucha (writer/director of "Big Eden") + Patrick Wang (writer/director of "In the Family") + Nathan Frizzell (Celebration Theater).
IMRU RADIO 09/21/2015: With celebrity co-host MARLO BERNIER ("Myrna") + BAMBY SALCEDO (founder, TransLatin@ Coalition) + encore broadcasts of interviews with HOLLY WOODLAWN and JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND.
IMRU RADIO 09/07/2015: Our Labor Day Look at the oldest Proffesion = HAWK KINKAID (Chief Operating Officer of RENTBOY.COM) + THe Preacher and The Pro (The Ballad of Ted Haggard) + Voices from the WeHo Rentboy Rally (Anthony DeNicola, Danny cruz, Matthew Rose)
As promised on IMRU Radio on 8/31, here's a much longer version of ABBY DEES conversation with CLEARY WOLTERS, the real-life "Alex Vause" (Orange is the New Black), about her 6 years in prison and her relationship with Piper Kerman. [IMRU Radio: Monday 7-8pm on KPFK FM 90.7 LOS ANGELES | 98.7 SANTA BARBARA | 99.5 CHINA LAKE | 93.7 SAN DIEGO | or streaming at KPFK.org]
IMRU RADIO 08/31/2015: CLEARY WOLTERS, the real-life "Alex Vause" (Orange is the New Black) + GABRIEL MALDONADO (Executive Director, TruEvolution) from our OUTSIDE THE DREAM special on Homophobia in the Black Community + HAWK KINKAID (Chief Operating Officer of RENTBOY.COM)
OUTSIDE THE DREAM (KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles) on Aug 29, 2015: VASH BODDIE hosts a discussion on homophobia in the Black Community with OMAR HASAN (Project Coordinator for the NIA Project at In The Meantime Men's Group) + GABRIEL MALDONADO (Executive Director, TruEvolution; Council Member, President Barack Obama's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.) + DR. SYLVIA RHUE (writer, religious scholar, award-winning documentarian - “All God's Children”). [Produced by Steve Pride]
IMRU RADIO 08/24/2015: VLADISLAV SLAVSKY (gay teenage activist from Sochi, Russia) + PAT MILLS (writer/director/star of the film GUIDANCE) + SCOTT TURNER SCHOFIELD (trans activist, speaker and actor on THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL).
IMRU RADIO 07/13/2015: Dalton Maldonado (Gay HS basketball star from KY) + Kristin Beck (former United States Navy SEAL who came out as a trans woman in 2013) + Lily Tomlin (on her new film "Grandma") + Estelle Brown (Elvis Presley's "Sweet Inspirations")
KPFK FM Los Angeles prespents "Afrikan Mental Liberation Weekend" Aug 15-16. In this clip from an interview Dr. Person-Lynn conducted with Dr. Cress Welsing, learn how "the male homosexual" craves sperm, in the same way some folk crave sweet taters... Learn how the ancient Greeks were so in awe of African genitals they turned homosexual...hell, people can be conditioned to lus after their dog... no difference.
IMRU RADIO 07/6/2015: Annunal OUTFEST Kick-off Special = Producer JD Disalvatore shares her OUTFEST film picks + Patricia Velasquez (LIZ IN SEPTEMBER) + 50's heartthrob TAB HUNTER (Tab Hunter Confidential).
IMRU RADIO 06/29/2015: Jon Davidson (National Legal Director at Lambda Legal) on the SCOTUS Ruling + Jennifer Leitham (Trans activist + former bassist for Mel Torme' and the Doc Severinsen Band) performs LIVE) + Audio from Decision Day Rally's in San Francisco & West Hollywood.
IMRU RADIO 06/22/2015: NIGHT AT THE HOLLYWOOD MUSEUM (for the LGBT Exhibit) + RUMOR HAS IT: I'm Not THE Marrying Kind (Miss Barbie-Q's Solo Show) + OUT IN THE NIGHT (Documentary)
IMRU RADIO 06/15/2015: LIMITED PARTNERSHIP + EAT WITH ME + IGLHRC (International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission) + Armistead Maupin reads "Letter to Mama."
A conversation about the film EAT WITH ME with writer/director David Au, and actors Sharon Omi & Teddy Chen Culver.
IMRU RADIO 06/08/2015: Jessica Sern, Executive Direcor of IGLHRC (International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission) + Jim Fouratt talks about being part of the Stonewall Rebellion in 1969.
IMRU RADIO 06/01/2015: We talk with MICHELANGELO SIGNORILE(Author, Activist and Sirius XM Radio Host) about his new book "It's Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality."
IMRU RADIO 05/04/2015: TIM ANDERSON (Sweet Tooth: A Memoir) + writer/producer STAN ZIMMERMAN (The Golden Girls, Rosanne) + actor/writer/producer BRANDON ALEXANDER III (First Period).
IMRU RADIO 04/27/2015: COLLIN KELLEY (novelist & poet) + musician ISLEY REUST (from "Spectacular Spectacular") + More with BARNEY FRANK.
IMRU RADIO 04/20/2015: Planting Tomatoes (Jeremy Stanford & Paul McCullough) + The Lucy & Gail Party (Dinah Shore Weekend) + Meredith Baxter + Barney Frank
IMRU RADIO 04/13/2015: In this KPFK Fund Drive edition, we detail IMRU's 1st broadcast in 1974 and share our 1978 interview with HARVEY MILK in his Castro Street Camera Store.
IMRU RADIO 04/06/2015: KATE KENDALL (Director, NCLR) + MATT SHEPARD IS A FRIEND OF MINE (Dennis Shepard & Director Michele Josue) + Actress MARLO BERNIER (star of "Myra").
IMRU RADIO 03/30/2015: DANIEL FRANZESE (HBO's Looking + Mean Girls) + ROBBIE RODGERS (Los Angeles Galaxy Soccer team) + KATE KENDALL (Executive Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights) + ERIK DECKERS (Staight LGBT Ally in Indiana).
IMRU RADIO 03/23/2015: Red Carpet interviews from the HRC Gala in LA + Trangender Activist PATTI SPANGLER (aka Trucker Patti) + singer/songwriter ABBY POSNER performs live in studio.
IMRU RADIO 03/16/2015: Michael Urie (WTC VIEW) + The 1st same-sex couple to marry in Alabama + Sydney Gay MARDI GRAS 2015 + At the FAMILY EQUALITY COUNCIL Awards Dinner in LA.
12/14/2013: Once Upon a time, when Steve Pride and Vash Boddy were hanging out around the grand piano at KPFK Los Angeles... Fiely Matias and Dennis Giacino told them all about their fledgling musical DISENCHANTED... (opening in NYC at the Westside Theatre on March 19th.)
My 2001 interview with Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer, co-directors of THE FLUFFER.
IMRU RADIO 03/09/2015: a Trangender Oral History Project + Transgender abuse in ICE detention + James "the Amazing" Randi (An Honest Liar) + Steven Fales (Confessions of a Mormon Boy).
The Sons of Tennessee Williams is a documentary the gay men of New Orleans who created a vast and fantastic culture of wildly popular 'drag balls' . I spoke with Director Tim Wolff and Albert Carey, one of the film's subjects.
IMRU RADIO 02/02/2015: Rep. Patricia Todd (D) (Alabama’s only openly gay state legislator) + Joe Putihnano (author of "Acrobaddict") + Billy Gilman (newly out country star) + Rod McKuen (2003 interview)
My 2002 interview with BRAD GOOCH, author of "Finding the Boyfriend Within: A Practical Guide for Tapping into your own Source of Love, Happiness, and Respect"
IMRU RADIO 01/26/2015: Stu Rasmussen (Former Mayor of Silverton, OR) + Lesbians in Turkey + Mitch Hera (Mutant Olive) + Jacqueline Gares (Prod/Dir of "Free CeCe") + Chris Barnes & Jacqui Squatriglia (owners of FLAMING SADDLES SALOON in NYC & WeHo)
IMRU RADIO 01/19/2015: Ex-Ex-Gay Randy Thomas + Walter Naegle (Bayard Rustin’s surviving partner) + Desiree Akhavan (writer, director, star of "Appropriate Behavior") + Brian DeShazor (Pacifica Radio Archives).
IMRU RADIO MAGAZINE 01/12/2015: Steve Rothaus (the Miami Herald) + Heron Greenesmith (Movement Advancement Project) + Nathan Manske (I'm From Driftwood) + Andrea James (Filmmaker & Trans Activist).
IMRU RADIO MAGAZINE 01/05/2015: Singer/songwriter Mary Lambert + author James Alexander Langteaux (Gay Conversations with God) + getting real with the film "PRIDE."
IMRU RADIO 12/29/2014: Jaden Hathaway: 20th Century Trans (Part 2) + Reading: Sam Harris (Ham: Slices of a Life) Pride on Screen 2014 + Reading: Mark Doty (Shelter) + OUT MUSIC: “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?” (Rufus Wainwright) and “Auld Lang Syne” (Daniel Cartier).
PRIDE ON SCREEN 2014: the LGBT stories on screen (whether cell phone or IMAX 3D)that touched, excited, challenged and haunted me the most this year.
IMRU RADIO 12/22/2014: "The Circle (Der Kreis)" Writer/Dir Stefan Haupt with film subjects Röbi Rapp & Ernst Ostertag + Gay Santa Jack Sanderson + our "Secret Santa" Radio Play (Celebration Theater) + LGBT Holiday Music.
IMRU RADIO 12/01/2014 (WORLD AIDS DAY): DAVID MIXNER (LGBT Political Activist) + CLEVE JONES (Creator of the NAMES PROJECT AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT) + DR. MICHAEL GOTTLIEB (Who 1st identified AIDS in 1981).
My 2001 conversation with "REAL WORLD 3: SAN FRANCISCO" housemates Judd Winick and Pam Ling. We talk about their friendship with AIDS educator Pedro Zamora and Judd's graphic novel "Pedro and Me"
IMRU RADIO 11/10/2014: Pipe Organist CAMERON CARPENTER + Political Activist DAVID MIXNER + Film Director RANDAL KLEISER (Grease, Blue Lagoon, Flight of the Navigator)
IMRU RADIO 10/27/2014: Happy Halloween with Horror writer CLIVE BARKER + Hollywood Crypt Keeper TYLER CASSITY + BARRETT CRAKE (star of "Eternity: the Movie")
The NYC based all-male string quartet WELL-STRUNG features classical musicians who sing putting their own spin on the music of Mozart, Vivaldi, Rihanna, Adele Lady Gaga, and more. This un-narrated profile was first broadcast 01/05/14 on IMRU RADIO MAGAZINE (KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles).
IMRU RADIO 09/28/2014: Steven Petrow's "Gay & Lesbian Manners"(Part 2 of 2) + BORN TO FLY: Elizabeth Streb VS. Gravity + Eddie Shapiro (17TH GAY DAYS AT DISNEYLAND)
IMRU RADIO 09/22/2014: Steven Petrow's "Gay & Lesbian Manners" + Sapphic Nomads in India (Part 4) + Gay Liberation Follies of 1974 + Singer/Songwriter Sean Wiggins
An intervew with Abby Dees, the auheror of "Queer Questions, Straight Talk: 108 Frank, Provocative Questions It's OK to Ask Your Lesbian, Gay or Bi Loved One"
IMRU RADIO 09/15/2014: Jason Collins + Sapphic Nomads in India + Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton + Beverly McClellan + My Life is Poetry
IMRU RADIO 09/08/2014: From the film "Lyle," Stewart Thorndike (Dir) & Ingrid Jungermann (star) + Josh Flagg (Bravo's "Million Dollar Listing") + Dallas Voice Reporter David Taffet on Michael Sam + Sapphic Nomads in India + Miss Jackie Beat!
Christine Eastwood's coverage of a star studded "Golden Girls" table read at CBS to raise funds for the Celebration Theater Company.
IMRU RADIO 09/01/2014: Family drama goes VIRAL + SAPPHIC NOMADS in India + CHRIS KLUWE on NFL + PATREESE JOHNSON & RENATA HILL (Out in the Night) + LEON ACORD & BRUCE HART (Old Dogs & New Tricks)
IMRU RADIO 08/25/2014: Filmmaker IRA SACHS (LOVE IS STRANGE), singer/songwriter LINDSAY TOMASIC and the conclusion of our 1978 interview with HARVEY MILK.
IMRU RADIO 08/18/2014: Celebrating our 40 year anniversary this week with IMRU History Lessons, our 1978 Harvey Milk interview and special guest Dana Eagle (Last Comic Standing).
An interview with radio producer Jon Beaupre about the transition of IMRU into it's current "Radio Magazine" style format in the mid 1990's.
An interview with radio producer Greg Gordon about the launch of what is now IMRU Radio Magazine on August 20, 1974.
"THE DOG" takes an unflinching look at John Wojtowicz, the real man portrayed by Al Pacino in the film "Dog Day Afternoon." I spoke with filmmakers Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren about Wojtowicz, the 1972 robbery, the classic 1975 film and their extraordinary documentary that was 12 years in the making.
IMRU RADIO 08/11/2014: Workplace Barriers for LGBT Youth + THE DOG (the real "Dog Day Afternoon") + singer DAN HOLGUIN + MEET & GREET with writer STAN ZIMMERMAN & star CAROLYN HENNESY.
IMRU RADIO 07/28/14: Our Summer Fund Drive Show with Suzanne Westenhoefer on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.
IMRU RADIO 07/21/2014: BILLY BEAN (MLB's "Ambassador for Inclusion"), Singer/Songwriter TOM GOSS + Texan DANIEL WEBB who made international headlines with a joke and an Obama fist bump.
IMRU RADIO 07/14/2014: It's Movie Night! CRAZY BITCHES (Jane Clark, Cathy DeBuono) + TIGER ORANGE (Wade Gasque, Mark Strano, Frankie Valenti) + FRED (Fred Karger).