BloomingOUT

bloomingOUT is an LGBTQI radio show broadcast on WFHB in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. It is dedicated to the LGBTQI life, its history, current issues, news, culture, and a variety of queer topics. It began broadcasting in October 7, 2003. The show airs every Thursday at 6:00 p.m, Eastern Time. It has a podcast and raw audio links going back through part of its history.

The show generally includes 1-2 interviews, 1-2 segments, news, featured artist of the week and area calendar of events which are written by volunteers in the community. The station is located in downtown Bloomington, IN.

BloomingOUT has co-sponsored and provided entertainment for the 2005 and 2006 Bloomington Pride picnics which took place on the 4th of July in their respective years, and have partnerships with The Word, Pride of Indy Band and Color Guard as well as OutMedia and Bloomington Hospital's Positive Link.

The hosts are Helen Harrell, who said of her community, "You go north half an hour or south, you're in Klan country. But Bloomington seems to have this way of maintaining a message of safety." and Sean Lemieux.cite news
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quote = ] In fact, Bloomington has received attention for its tolerance of LGBTQ people and culture. In the 1990s, Bloomington added sexual orientation to its human rights ordinance. The city launched the LGBT film fest (PRIDE) in 2004, which continues to this day.The town has one gay bar.

Active Segments

* "Queer His/Herstory" by Helen Harrell
* "Coming Out of the Deviant's Closet" by Victor Kinzer
* "Critical Inqueery" with Mark Brostoff & Helen Harrell
* "Transformation Station" with Ethan B.
* "Our View" by Jim Doud
* "A Road for the Roadless" by Abigail A. Sewell
* "Verbal Terrorism: Poetry by Jada B.
* "LGBT Book Zone" by Tiffany Dow
* "The Heart of Polyamory" with Millie Jackson
* "Youth In Peril" with Greg Chafin (on-going series)
* "Student Talk"
* 'The Soul of Us" On-going series of interviews with members of the faith community - 1st Thursday of every month

Inactive Segments

(Not a complete list.)

* "Reclaiming Our Faith" by Mark Lee
* "In Transit" by Deane Lahre
* "Gay Destinations" by Mark Brostoff
* "Navajo Rainbow" by Wesley Thomas
* "Queering Culture" by Victor Kinzer
* "Student Talk" by Kim Ruggles
* "Gendered Variations" by Corinne Datchi-Phillips
* "Facing AIDS" by Mark Lee
* "It's Only Sex" by Emily Nagoski
* "What's Going On" by Nita McB
* "Legislative Update" by Carolyn Wiethoff
* "Straight Talk" by Aimee Stanton
* "The Bi Connection" by Eric D. & Emily Cohen
* "Chronicles of Rachael, Adventures of a Transwoman in the Heartland" by Rachael

References

External links

* [http://www.wfhb.org/bloomingout BloomingOUT site]
* [http://news.wfhb.org/news/newstopics.php?tid=1 BloomingOUT live-streaming/download]
* [http://news.wfhb.org/rss/bloomingout.xml BloomingOUT podcast feed]
* [http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=74403708 BloomingOUT Itunes autosubscribe link]