Jennie Arnau: A Rising Tide

Jennie Arnau: A Rising Tide

Author: Overnight Productions, Inc. October 21, 2025 Duration: 28:58
Jennie Arnau discovered her passion for music in her childhood home of Greenville, South Carolina, a place that called her back at a time of loss and grief. She’s now living and working in New York City, ending a self-imposed break from songwriting and performing with her new album, A Rising Tide (interviewed by David Hunt). Plus: The “Rainbow Rewind” pays tribute to the Matthew Shepard Foundation and celebrates historic queer October moments for the U.K., South Africa and black lesbians in the U.S. And in NewsWrap: autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ratchets up Turkey’s persecution of LGBTQ people with a series of proposed “judicial reforms,” Church of Norway Presiding Bishop Olav Fykse Tveit formally apologizes to LGBTQ people for years of bias and demonstrable harm, fired Wyoming book ban-battling local librarian Terri Lesley is vindicated in a 700,000-dollar settlement against the state, Australia’s High Court unanimously upholds Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke’s 2024 visa rejection for far-right U.S. podcast personality Candace Owens, former U.S. President Barack Obama talks about taking a gentler approach with opponents of gender-affirming healthcare for young people, 84-year-old British actress Miriam “Professor Pomona Sprout” Margolyse is an unapologetically woke left-wing dyke, and more international LGBTQ+ news reported this week by Sarah Montague and Joe Boehnlein (produced by Brian DeShazor). All this on the October 20, 2025 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

For more than three decades, This Way Out: The International LGBTQ Radio Magazine has been a vital, award-winning voice broadcast from community stations across the globe. Produced by Overnight Productions, Inc., this weekly program functions as a true radio magazine, weaving together urgent dispatches from the front lines of queer life with deep explorations of our culture and creativity. Every episode opens with a concise international news roundup, providing context on the political and social developments affecting LGBTQ communities everywhere. The conversation then expands into thoughtful features and interviews that delve into the arts, performing, and the intersections of identity and society. On a monthly basis, the Audiofile segment turns up the volume, offering a curated listen to the vibrant and evolving lesbigay and trans music scene. Tuning into this podcast means connecting with a long-standing, trusted source that documents both the struggles and the celebrations, always with an ear for the stories that might not make the mainstream headlines. It’s a consistently engaging mix of journalism and cultural reflection, all delivered with the warmth and clarity of a public radio staple.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

This Way Out: The International LGBTQ Radio Magazine
Podcast Episodes
Vaid Squared - Alok to the Power of Urvashi [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:58
Activist-author Urvashi Vaid’s gender politics may have been ahead of her time, but her nibling, poet-comedian Alok Vaid-Menon, finds contemporary resonance in recordings of her from This Way Out’s archives (part 2 of 2,…
Alok Beyond the Binary [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:58
Internationally acclaimed poet, comedian, actor and author of “Beyond the Gender Binary” Alok Vaid-Menon critiques the LGBTQ+ movement’s myopia around intersectional politics, and, thanks to This Way Out’s archives, disc…
Gov. Tim Walz at HRC National Dinner [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:58
At the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner, a keynote address by Democratic vice presidential nominee, coach and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz recounts his own track record as an LGBTQ ally, which is as long and cutting-…
Ms. Tucker Will See You Now [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:59
The bold, brash and bawdy life and artistry of Sophie Tucker is captured in a risqué and raucous one-woman cabaret show written and performed by Laural Meade (interviewed by Brian DeShazor). And in NewsWrap: the largest…
“Beautiful” Drag Great Julian Eltinge [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:58
Drag may be under fire today by the enforcers of “family values,” but not so back in the early 1900s according to scholar and historian Andrew L. Erdman, author of “Beautiful: The story of Julian Eltinge, America’s Great…
Mel White at the Gate [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:58
A gay Christian activist-author who started out as the closeted ghostwriter for some of the most powerful televangelists in the U.S. came out in 1994 with the book “Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in Americ…
Diversity-Driven Democrats Dance to Equality [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:58
The Democratic National Convention confirmed the nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz to top the Party’s ticket in the presidential election campaign at an enthusiastic gathering basking in th…
Legacies: Billy Bean & Alice B. Toklas [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:58
The late ballplayer Billy Bean talked about his intentions when he was first named Major League Baseball’s gay Ambassador for Inclusion in 2014 (interviewed by Chrisanne Eastwood and Wenzel Jones), and his success is pro…
Ally Gov. Walz As U.S. V.P. Nominee [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:59
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris chooses Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, whose pro-LGBTQ+ track record includes early support for marriage equality and the repeal of “Don’t Ask. Don’t Tell,” and making his state a sanctuar…

«1...678910