About this episode
A Classic RISK! episode from our early years that first ran in July of 2013, when Cameron Esposito, Kris Grey and Kevin Allison shared radically different stories of LGBT life in the early 2010’s.
🎤Live Story: All the Rage by Kevin Allison
A man living in Kevin's neighborhood started screaming, "Faggot!" at Kevin whenever he was in eyeshot. Then one day the man switched from screaming to punching.
keywords: gay, homosexual, lgbtqia, queer, faggot, violence, homophobia
🎤Radio Story: The Other by Kris Grey
Kris talks about how peculiar it was to be a trans man attending the various sex parties among the gay men on Fire Island, most of whom had never seen a vagina before.
keywords: Hate crime, Street harassment, Growing up gay, internalized shame, transgender, Trans man, Queer nightlife, internalized stigma, cruising, genderqueer identity
🎤Live Story: Come Together by Cameron Esposito
The week that gay marriage was made legal throughout the land, Cameron told the moving story of her family's coming to grips with her being gay.
keywords: civil rights, lesbian identity, Catholic upbringing and queerness, same-sex marriage, LGBTQ community spaces, coming out to Catholic parents, gender nonconformity, gay rights history
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