Our friends, Leo Schumann and Kyle Whiteley, join us to talk about current events.  Leo talks about his recent trip abound Europe as a young transman.  Kyle shared with us her experiences with gender stereotypes and how people in her classes are understanding gender stereotypes today and how they intersect other issues.

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The Feb 10th show was snowed out, sorry folks.

Samantha Gomes, prof of Gender and Communications at UConn, returns to our show to talk to us about our upcoming visit to her humanities class.  We talk about gender stereotypes in online venues and, as usual, end up talking about world of warcraft.  For the Horde!

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Our weekly discussion show. We talk about the federal cour finding that reassignment surgery is a medical expense for the purpose of tax deductions. We cover the proposed year long survey of the US armed forces before allowing integration for openly gay people. We talked about hosting LeslieAnne Rios, Ereka Watson, and Penny Larson, trans mucisians, who played for a future taped show. We chat about ghosts, and witches of course too!

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Barbara Althen, director of PFLAG of southeast CT, and Kathleen Duggans, mother of an out gay son, join us to talk about the experiences that parents, family, and friends have and the importance of playing a supportive role for an out child.

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Fleurette King, director of UConn’s Rainbow Center, joins us with MJ, a freshman trans-student, to talk about UConn’s Rainbow Center and the student community, the upcomming True Colors conference, and what is happening at Universities today to support gender and sexual minority youth.

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Robin McHalen, executive directory of True Colors, joins us to talk about the True Colors organization, helping gender and sexual minority youth and the annual True Colors Conference held at UCONN in conjuction with the UCONN Rainbow Center on March 12th and 13th.

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