Dr. Sean McCloy of Maine Integrative Wellness, a practice providing wholistic health services combining traditional and natural medicine join us for an informative discussion about your health.

Singer/songwriter Martin Swinger returns to Queertalk to entertain us with a 1/2 hour of music and talk.

Erica Rand, Professor of Art and Visual Culture at Bates College visits Queertalk to discuss her newly released book, The Ellis Island Snow Globe. Join us for an unconventional tour of Ellis Island.

Stories of gay activism in Portland in the '70s and beyond.

Klaus Mueller

Interview with Klaus Mueller, recorded in Amsterdam last May. We discuss his work and his documentary, Paragraph 175 which is about lesbians and gay men during the Holocaust, including interviews with a handful of survivors. [Note: the film is available locally at Videoport]

With time getting very short until the election, it's time to make that final push toward making discrimination against the LGBT community in Maine illegal once and for all. Andy Bossie of Maine Won't Discriminate talks to Queertalk listeners about what all of us can do to make sure that folks get to the polls on November 8.

You hear it said all the time * there's no discrimination in Maine. Most of us know that this is untrue, but what is the extent of discrimination here? The Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence did a project on GLBT discrimination in Maine and Steve Wessler and I discuss some of the results.

Members of the theatre for social change troupe ROIL! talk about taking theatre to the community. They also perform scenes from their latest show, Close to Home, dealing with issues of discrimination and is being performed in Maine in support of the No on 1 campaign.

October 11 is National Coming Out Day. On this show students from the Center for Sexualities and Gender Diversity at USM discuss coming out on campus and other safety issues for GLBT students.

A fun show where I get to be self-indulgent and share some of my favorite lesbian music from thei 1970s.

A panel of LGBT folks who also identify as pagan discussing how the two identities intersect.

Conversation with Damian McNicholl, author of A Son Called Gabriel, a novel about a young Catholic boy growing up in Northern Ireland during the Troubles who thinks he may be gay. The book is wonderfully written and compelling.

Elaine Pitkin talks about her experiences coming out in the 1950s in Boston. What was it like to come out in at a time when members of the lesbian and gay community were considered pariahs? Where secrets were necessary for survival? An important piece of LGBT history.

Jesse Connolly, campaign manager for Maine Won't Discriminate visits Queertalk discuss the upcoming vote on the most recent anti-LGBT referendum and what the community can do to help in this effort.

Now that George Bush gets to choose a Supreme Court nominee will things be as bad as we fear? Just what is at stake? Sarah Standiford of the Maine Women's Lobby talks about the nomination of John Roberts and what it could mean for the future.

Abigail Garner is the author of Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is. Abigail is a daughter of gay fathers so she speaks from experience.

With Outright/Portland in hiatus, rumors have been flying that Outright is dead. Penny Sargent talks about programs and funding for Outright L/A and what the future holds.

Suppose you have lived the first part of your life as a male and then, after a medical crisis, you find out that you are really female. How would this affect your life and your relationships? Rikki tells us how she has dealt with this situation.

Bisexual activist and author Robyn Ochs returns to the show to discuss her recently published book, Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World.

Memorials, remembrances, Andrea's own words and readings in honor of feminist writer Andrea Dworkin who died in April.

Randy Scott and Roland Labbe

Long before Portland was known as a LGBT-friendly city, there was Roland's Tavern. This week's guests are Roland Labbe, owner of Roland's and Randy Scott, the bar's bouncer and bartender. We'll discuss what it was like in the days when people were afraid to be seen entering a gay bar and how our community grew because of the courage of one man who gave importance to creating a space where LGBT folks could meet.

Southern Maine Pride Committee member Pam McCann talks about this year's week of LGBT pride events.

Discussion with Susan Hopkins, activist and attorney who plans to run for the Portland School Committee in the fall. Join as we discuss the LGBT political scene, green politics and much more.

Discussion of Professor Cameron's book in progress, Tales of Peyton Place: The Biography of a Big Book. This and a discussion of Peyton Place - the book, the movie, the TV series. Why was this book so controversial when it was published?

Discussion of the end of cheap oil and what our lives might be like without it. Peak Oil is the term for a collection of theories about the availability of oil on the planet. An in depth and interesting discussion about an important topic.

Dr. Kane is a gender specialist and sexologist who works with mental health professionals and the public to inform and educate about gender issues and is also the founder of Fantasia Fair, an event for transsexuals and their friends held every year in Provincetown. Join us as we discuss gender issues and issues of aging in the LGBT community.

David Hilton is the Portland parent and LGBT ally who protested Portland schools sending home flyers with his kids from the boy scouts, an organization that discriminates against LGBT people. What's going on with the protest now? Has any headway been made to stop distribution of the flyers?

In the 1970s, Maine Lesbian Feminist was a state-wide social and political organization that was very important to women in Maine. Join us for some great stories and another rich piece of our history.

Sive Nielen was born in Dublin, Ireland and came to the US at age 22. She lived in San Francisco and Boston before settling in Maine in 1978. She has been a hippy, a computer programmer, auto mechanic, bookstore owner, gay rights activist and democratic party activist. She's been kind enough to agree to speak with me today about LGBT history, both personal and community-wide, in Maine and maybe some notions about the future.

Tune in to hear about all the wonderful films scheduled for this year's festival series, including a special night of LGBT-themed films.

David Garrity has been active in the Democratic party for a number of years. We will discuss disappointments of the past and hopes and dreams for the future.

Dan Williams, Executive Director of the Charles O. Howard Foundation in Bangor, introduced us to the foundation and its work on a previous show. We will be discussing what they are doing now and their plans for the future.

As things get worse economically and doubts about our future increase, people are finding it more important than ever to become as self-sufficient as possible. For lesbians interested in agriculture, there is an internship program in Maine to learn farming skills. My guests are the women of Wrinkle in Thyme Farm who have established this program.

Michele Granda is a staff attorney for GLAD, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders. We'll discuss the backlash against domestic partner benefits since same gender marriage became legal in Massachusetts. In all the excitement, did anyone ever think that large companys would decide to end domestic partner benefits? We'll be dicussiing some of the reasons marriage isn't for everyone and why domestic partner benefits are still needed.

Lu is, among other things, a financial planner and we'll talk about financial planning in a time of economic disaster and what we can do to plan for an uncertain future.

Lesbian playwright Carolyn Gage reads from her one woman show, The Second Coming of Joan of Arc. This lesbian underground classic was first performed in church basements and in living rooms and has gone on to be produced internationally.
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