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Episode 25: Interview With Susie Wilburn, President of PFLAG Woodstock Virginia
This is an interview with Susie Wilburn, President of the Woodstock, Virginia chapter of PFLAG. It was recorded on July 29, 2025. LindaHello and welcome to episode 25 of The Spectrum. Today we have somebody who actually helped inspire me doing this, which is Susie Wilburn. She’s the president of the PFLAG Woodstock chapter. And…
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Episode 24: This Is Not Free Speech
Hello, and welcome to episode 24 of The Spectrum. This was recorded on July 18, 2025. Today we’re going to examine what some people are saying about LGBTQ+ people and how, in my opinion, this is not free speech. But, first, what is free speech? Most Americans grow up thinking that free speech is the…
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Episode 23: Coming Out for the Straight Person
Hello, and welcome to episode 23 of The Spectrum. Todays’ episode is kind of a coming out guide for the straight person. No, it’s not a guide to help straight people come out. It’s all but axiomatic that straight people are out. What this is is a discussion to help the straight, cisgender person understand…
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Episode 22: Political Parties Are Evil
Hello and welcome to episode 22 of The Spectrum. This was recorded on June 30, 2025. This episode is broken into two parts. The first is a bit of a “state of LGBT+ people” mid-way through the year. I’m going to start at the local level and work up to international. But, what is happening…
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Episode 21: The Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee’s Ban on Gender Affirming Care for Minors
Hello and welcome to episode 21 of The Spectrum. This was recorded on June 18, 2025. In this episode we have bad news from the Supreme Court. In a 6-3 decision, the court upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. This is terrible news, not just for transgender children in Tennessee, but for children…
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Episode 20: Housekeeping
Welcome to episode 20 of The Spectrum. This was recorded on June 16, 2025. The subject for today is about the podcast itself. The podcast has been available in video form on YouTube and in audio form as a podcast. So far, it’s the video form of the podcast that has been the format that…
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Episode 19: A Brief History of Pride
Welcome to episode 19 of The Spectrum. This was recorded on June 6, 2025. In this episode we’re going to do a brief history on the origins of Pride and talk about why it’s so important to the LGBT+ community. Let’s start by talking about what we mean by Pride. Or at least what it…
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Episode 18: Ten Years of Same-Sex Marriage
Hello and welcome to episode 18 of The Spectrum. This was recorded on May 24, 2025. It’s been about ten years since same sex marriage was legal throughout the United States. In today’s episode, we’re going to look at the impact of that decision on my own life. In October 2014, Lauri and I had…
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Episode 17: May 2025 Shenandoah County School Update
Hello, and welcome to episode 17 of The Spectrum. This was recorded on May 13, 2025. The topic for today’s episode is the Shenandoah County School Board meeting of May 8th and specifically the January changes the board made to policy INB on teaching about controversial subjects and the proposed changes they were considering in…
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Episode 16: Bathroom Bills
Hello and welcome to episode 16 of The Spectrum. This was recorded on April 6th, 2025. Today we are going to be talking about the regressive obsession with bathroom bills and their consequences. Bathroom bills are one of the fads in regressive circles these days. They seek to keep transgender people from bathrooms appropriate for…
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Episode 15: March 2025 Shenandoah County School Update
On Thursday, March 13th, 2025, the Shenandoah County Scool Board had their monthly meeting. Based on the agenda there were no planned votes on anything related to the LGBT community. However, the proposed revision to policy INB on teaching about controversial issues was on the “informational agenda”. This seems to consist of the Superintendent reading…
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Episode 14: Asexuality
In this episode, we talk with Annalise, who explains asexuality and the broad spectrum of ways this can apply to people.
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