Alternative Perspectives: Recent Episodes
Alternative Perspectives
Join Gregg as he welcomes Divine Ikpe, an Art Therapy grad student who recently wrote about ENM for The GA Voice in her article “Dating While Queer in The Modern Age: On Ethical Nonmonogamy (ENM) and Polyamory”. ENM has been gaining a lot of popularity among the Generation Z crowd – and Gregg and Divine discuss this very interesting topic in detail.
Join Gregg as he talks with Christin Baker – an American producer, director, and screenwriter from Nashville, Tennessee. With her passion for film-based storytelling, she founded Tello Films in 2007, a streaming network, production, and distribution company of films and web series with a lesbian focus. Christin discusses stepping back a bit from Tello and what her future in moviemaking looks like.
Join Gregg as he discusses an interview he found on an outstanding episode of pioneering 1980s TV series “Gay Life”, in which Gifford Skinner describes what it was like to be a gay man in the 1930s. Illuminating and nostalgic, Gifford recalls picking up guardsmen in Hyde Park as well as some of the homosexual ‘characters’ he encountered in London’s West End. The gay activist, historian and sociologist Jeffrey Weeks is interviewed about gay law reform.
Join Gregg as he welcomes Robert P. Graves, author of “I, Rob Graves: My Struggle with Childhood Trauma, Homosexuality, and Bipolar Disorder: A Memoir” to discuss his riveting autobiography. Having spent his life dealing with chronic clinical depression and bipolar disorder, Robert offers a candid and poignant story about his life as a gay man suffering from these mental health issues and a genetic disposition for substance abuse-which morphed into an anonymous sex addiction during the height of the AIDS Epidemic. He shares the journey he took to come to terms with his homosexuality and overcome tremendous health odds-through years of therapy, medication management, and learning the arts of forgiveness and acceptance-to find success and peace with himself and thrive in the present. He aims to provide an inspirational example of breaking the cycle of mental health stigmas and addiction, both in the gay community and the community at large.
Join Gregg as he welcomes Monica Helms – American transgender activist, author (“”More Than Just a Flag”), veteran of the United States Navy and the creator of the Transgender Pride Flag. Monica also serves on the boards of both the Georgia ACLU and the Gilbert Baker Foundation. Listen to Monica discuss her experiences with being a trans woman and how the Trans Pride flag came about.
Join Gregg as he welcomes Dr. Allison Eliscu of Stony Brook Medicine in Long Island, NY to discuss a 2021 health needs study of the LGBTQ+ community which produced alarming results revealing that the LGBTQ+...
Join Gregg as he welcomes Dr. Allison Eliscu of Stony Brook Medicine in Long Island, NY to discuss a 2021 health needs study of the LGBTQ+ community which produced alarming results revealing that the LGBTQ+...
Join Gregg as he talks with Sa’ed Atshan, the Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Emory University in Atlanta and the author of the upcoming book “Paradoxes of...
Join Gregg as he welcomes David Ambroz, an award-winning child welfare advocate to discuss David’s new book “A Place Called Home”. David writes about growing up homeless in New York for 11 years and his...
Join Gregg as he speaks with Troy Stevenson, Senior Campaign Manager at The Trevor Project – the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) young...
Join Gregg as he welcomes award-winning author Bill Konigsberg who discusses his new novel “Destination Unknown” featuring two gay teens navigating gay life during the height of the AIDS epidemic in New York City.
Join Gregg as he discusses this year’s Out on Film Festival with Jim Farmer (Festival Director) and Craig Hardesty (Board of Directors Chair). This is the 35th year for the Festival. Out on Film’s mission...
Join Gregg this week as he talks with Kollyn Conrad, the executive director of an eastern Tennessee nonprofit called Publicly Private, about how he turned the pain of growing up gay and dyslexic in the...
After almost 50 years, the Supreme Court has overturned Roe vs. Wade and made abortion access in this country almost nil. Gregg discusses this historic ruling and its implications and chances of affecting other rulings...
Join Gregg as he welcomes Timothy McLemore – founder of Essential Haus, a nonprofit organization in Miami that provides a safe place for individuals in the LGBTQ+ community who have been affected by domestic violence...
Join Gregg as he welcomes James Kirchick, an American reporter, foreign correspondent, author, and columnist. James has a fascinating new book: “Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington” and discusses it among other topics...
Join Gregg and Joshua Estrin, PhD as they discuss the craziness that are LGBTQ rights in Florida right now. A Florida resident himself, Dr. Josh shares his “Shut Up and Listen to Yourself” philosophy. Driven...
Join Gregg as he talks with Carlos Allende, a media psychology scholar and writer of fiction, who has penned the new novel “Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love” – a campy dark comedy for the angry and...
Gregg welcomes Samuel Clowes Huneke who wrote “States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany (German and European Studies)” which traces the paths of gay men in East and West...
Join Gregg; LiAnna Davis (Chief Programs Officer and Deputy Director at Wiki Education); and Alma Gomez (a UCLA instructor) as they discuss the lack of LGBTQ and minority content on Wikipedia. Wiki Education (WikiEdu) works...
Join Gregg as he discovers SVTV Network (Strong Voices Television) – a place you can go to get content and see streaming videos/shows that are specifically for the LGBTQ+ community. Meet Sheri Johnson, the CEO...
Like everywhere in the world, there are many members of the LGBTQ community in Ukraine and Russia and life there is and has always been oppressive for them. Join Gregg as he discusses what it’s...
Join Gregg and Cameron Harrelson of Athens Pride as they discuss the Athens, GA elementary school principal who is under fire for asking student to remove ‘Gay is OK’ art from class wall. He asked...
Georgia’s state government is in session! Join Gregg as he welcomes Jeff Graham, the executive director of GA Equality, to the show. They discuss Georgia’s 2022 legislative session and how some proposed laws will affect...
Listen as Gregg discusses the Katie Couric interview of Jeopardy champion Amy Schneider who is also a trans woman about the effects of being a trans woman on mainstream television and thus bringing this issue...
It’s a challenging time for married couples. Gregg has been seeing a lot of relationship problems as of late – with both gay and straight couples – and it’s probably due to Covid. People aren’t...
Once again, it’s a new year! Join Gregg as he reviews the top 10 queerest moments in politics for 2021. These are the issues and concerns that he believes politics played in 2021 for the...
Join Gregg as he welcomes Michael Wilson, the principal from Magic City Acceptance Academy, an LGBTQ charter high school near Birmingham, Alabama. This is an inclusive school specifically designed for those students who feel unsafe...
Join Gregg as he welcomes Jeff Graham, executive director of Georgia Equality, as they discuss all things political for Georgia’s LGBTQ community. Georgia Equality’s mission is to advance fairness, safety and opportunity for lesbian, gay,...
Join Gregg as he welcomes Marty Padgett to the show – the author of the acclaimed “A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta’s Gay Revolution” – a riveting look the...
Join Gregg Bossen as he welcomes Charles Stephens – the Founder and Executive Director of Counter Narrative Project (CNP), an Atlanta nonprofit organization helping gay black men by shifting historical and current narratives about gay...
Join Gregg as he welcomes Elon Green – the author of “Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York” – about a string of murders of gay men in...
Society has its own set of ideas about what it truly means to be a man – and “gay” usually isn’t included – resulting in toxic masculinity that has harmful long lasting effects on not...
Happy Pride!! Join Gregg Bossen as he interviews the founder of the Trans Housing Coalition here in Atlanta. A true success story, this organization came about after a chance encounter on the street and then...
“Two-spirit” is a modern, pan-Indian, umbrella term used by some Indigenous North Americans to describe Native people in their communities who fulfill a traditional third-gender (or other gender-variant) ceremonial and social role in their cultures....
Host Gregg Bossen has always wanted to interview a thrupple – a three-person relationship. Join Gregg as he speaks with a thrupple that has been together over 10 years and still going strong. Successful relationships...
Take a trip around the world with Gregg as he covers ten countries and what’s going on news-wise for the global gay community. Happy Pride!
Happy Pride Month! Join Gregg Bossen as he takes a different approach this month and interviews a member of the LGBTQ community (and not someone in the news). In fact, this is Gregg’s first interview...
Join Gregg and Queen Hatcher-Johnson, the Gender Inclusive Program Manager at the Positive Impact Health Centers here in Atlanta, as they discuss the current important issues facing Atlanta’s transgender community and nationwide. Also, Gregg talks with Charlie Payne about concerns surrounding gay bar The Eagle’s historic building situation and a redevelopment plan which will help save the building but not the interior.
Our nation is politically divided and there seems to be no end in sight. How do we bridge this divide? Join Gregg and Ulester Douglas, an Atlanta psychotherapist specializing in Imago theory (often used in couples counseling: listen, mirror, understand, and empathize with others) as they discuss how to talk to the other side in a productive manner and close this gap.
The Gwinnett County, GA school board unanimously elected Everton Blair as its chair, making history by choosing its first Black and openly gay member to lead it during 2021. The largest school system in Georgia’s second-most populous county, Everton has been on the Gwinnett County board since 2018. Join Gregg and Everton as they discuss this historic and pivotal moment not only in Everton’s life but in Atlanta’s gay community as well.
The state of Georgia’s legislature has begun its 2021 session and already there are over 500 introduced bills – one of which is to ban transgender girls from participating in sports. Join Gregg and Jeff Graham, the executive director of Georgia Equality, as they discuss some of these bills and how they could possibly affect the gay community and the entire community as a whole.
After losing her job at Ohio’s Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office in 2017 where she was an exemplary employee for more than 30 years, Charmaine McGuffey decided to run against her former boss. So, she did – and she won and got to replace the very many who fired her because she spoke out against against excessive force and also because she is an openly gay woman. Join Gregg and Charmaine as they discuss this exciting turn of events in her life.
The much-revered Atlanta gay bar – The Eagle – in business for over 30 years, is located in a 130 year old building on Ponce de Leon Avenue and is in the process of receiving a historic landmark designation from the city of Atlanta to protect the location. Join Gregg and Eagle owner Richard Ramey as they discuss this topic that is so important for the history – and future – of Atlanta’s LGBTQ community.