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/

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