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Back from an unplanned hiatus… this week it’s Bob The Drag King’s 2025 speculative fiction novel Harriet Tubman Live In Concert!
As always, I discuss the book’s atmosphere, writing style, plot, characters, and more. Plus, a popcorn fact and our new segment “Back To The Blurb” where I revisit and then opine about the book’s promo blurb. Enjoy!
Join us for a conversation with Bryan Esparza from Community Link about the upcoming Fresno Rainbow Pride Parade and Festival on Saturday, June 7th in the Tower District. We talk Grand Marshalls, sponsors, festival Q&A, where you can watch live, and where to get your tickets in advance. Also, learn about the programs Community Link operates and how you can participate and support. Then there’s Community Link’s biggest fundraiser this year, the Margaret Cho show at the Tower Theater on May 31st. Kaylia has some Margaret Cho trivia, and we start to dive into words the LGBTQ+ community is reclaiming, and the best and worst US states for LGBTQ+ rights.
We interview newly elected Board of Supervisors member Luis Chavez, talk good/bad news for our Transgender Community, make fun of RFK (and his worm), give props to George M johnson, and highlight some upcoming queer shows and movies.
Plus hockey vs rugby, foster care facts, and Kaylia learns about Pee Wee Herman.
Let’s kickoff PRIDE 2025! We interview Jazmin Guzman with the Madera Coalition for Community Justice to talk about their upcoming Pride event and the LGBTQ+ community in Madera.
Then Chris and Kaylia discuss the River Park food vendor controversy, women in space, the Sundance Film Festival, fun in the Castro, safe LGBTQ+ cities, the Supreme court, the FDA, CDC and RFK. PLUS strange taxes, life on other planets, and Jane Fonda!
Chris and Kaylia talk about the slow burn of progressive resistance that is finally starting to pick up steam, from Corey Booker’s record-breaking Senate speech to an interview with Feleipe Sousa-Lazaballet from Florida’s District 42, who is running to be the first Dreamer ever elected to the State House in that state. We also talk about some good news, the importance of protest, the inherent risks of free speech when you work for a corporation (or a university), and a few ways you can get involved in local lgbtq activism.
Kaylia reviews the 2024 80s-inspired thriller Young Rich Widows. Despite there being multiple issues for this grammar nerd, the book was overall fun, light, and very much 80s action adventure…. complete with a coke-fueled mob party and amateur sleuths in sexy lingerie. As always, we look at the novel’s atmosphere, writing style, plot, characters, and overall entertainment value to give you a SPOILER-FREE review. Plus a delightful popcorn fact at the end of the episode. Enjoy!
On this episode we talk to Amanda from the Women’s March and Daney from 5051 and the San Joaquin Valley Resistance about how we protest the current administration and how we move forward.
Kaylia reviews The Bones Beneath My Skin which, despite the title, is not a horror book but a delightful sci-fi beach read about found family, love conquering all, and the universal power of bacon. She looks at the novel’s atmosphere, writing style, plot, characters, and overall entertainment value and gives you a SPOILER FREE review. Plus a delightful popcorn fact at the end of the episode. Enjoy!
Join Chris and Kaylia as they talk to Jon and Terry from the Fresno Chaffee Zoo about community, animals, and conservation. Plus gay animal facts and we find a few things to laugh at during these chaotic stressful times.
In this episode, we interview Drew Harbaugh with PFLAG Fresno and Trans-E-Motion and then with Ray Quenga with Rainbow Of Light. We discuss the LGBTQ+ makeup of the United States, attacks on the transgender community, red cards, immigration, a brave NFL player protest, Cynthia Erivo, Target, and what’s on our current streaming list. Oh, and we can’t talk enough about…balls.
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