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Dana Bolles works for the Science Engagement and Partnerships Division at NASA Headquarters. She was first hired as a Payload Safety Engineer with the Kennedy Space Center and since then, has worked at four NASA centers in mission support roles...

Steve Desroches (47) talks to Dr. Justin Chen (40) about psychiatry and mental health.

"In high school I tried to date girls, but in the back of my mind I knew I didn't want anything more than friendship from them."

This interview is part of the DCPS LGBTQ and Sexual Health Program's holiday storytelling project: A Very LGBTQ+ Holiday Audio Album.

In honor of Latino/a and Hispanic Heritage Month, San Francisco Village Wellness coordinator Jessica Da Silva (34) interviews SFV member George Woyames (77) about what he would want other generations to know about being Latino in his generation.

Emma Leither (25) and Antonia "Toni" Walsh (24) have a One Small Step Conversation in Jackson, Wyoming. They find common ground amongst their political differences.

Long time member of our church shares about her life with the RE kids.

One Small Step conversation partners Kevin Madden (73) and Matthew "Matt" Schuster (63) discuss having to keep their beliefs to themselves, gun ownership, and how people on the left contributed to Donald Trump getting elected.

Defining LGBTQ relationships

In today’s society people are celebrating LGBTQ people with parades and festivals, rather than spreading hatred towards them, but this wasn’t always the case. In November of 2018, 14 year old Sofia Brandon-Schwartz interviewed her father, Carlo Brandon to learn...

Amy Alcenius-Hoisington (29) and wife, Sarah Alcenius-Hoisington (28), describe meeting at summer camp, developing a romantic relationship, and getting married 10 years later.

I interview Ray Rudolph on LGBT history in San Francisco and talk about my own experiences with the LGBT community

A look into the life of artist Pamela Raintree, mentor and friend to Deborah Allen, interview partner.

Friends Quay Williams (23) and Sharonda Edwards (22) share a conversation about growing up and being Black and queer in the Mississippi Delta.

Activist Deborah Allen talks about organizing ACT UP Shreveport as a single, working mom who also was attending college. She made a living as a hairstylist and sewing gowns for drag queens. After her friend John David was diagnosed with...

Paulist Fr. Rich Colgan’s ministries have addressed some of the modern era’s most pressing needs. He's journeyed with and buried AIDS patients in the 1980s in New York. He's listened to Catholics reeling from clergy sex abuse in Boston. He...

[Recorded: Tuesday, March 19th, 2024] Al Pola, a 64-year-old from Charlottesville, VA, and Kamell Minor, a 20-year-old from St. Louis, MI, shared their personal experiences with in-group identity and acceptance, emphasizing the need for empathy and open-mindedness in creating inclusivity....

Connie Pagliuca: 2022-12-14 23:50:31

One Small Step Conversation partners JP Ducro (49) and Mason Hickman (23) talk about LGBT issues, their political values and the division in the country.

Steve Desroches (48) talks to Julie Wheeler (58) about her life as a musician, comedian and drag king as well as life in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Rev. Dr. Mike Castle shares his journey as an out gay minister living with HIV. Shunned by the Southern Baptists, living with HIV, surviving cancer and a divorce, he has emerged stronger, liberated and determined while leading a church that...

Coming out during the AIDS epidemic

Interview with Darlene Wagner.

One Small Step conversation partners Patrick Tyrrell (20) and Charlotte Hammond (18) find many commonalities and differences in their life experiences, general attitudes towards life and dreams of the future. They discuss religion, their parents, abortion and sex ed, and...

Bill & Larry tell the story of how they met, discuss the importance of finding a supportive community in Ferndale, Michigan, and reflect on how things have changed for the LGBTQ community over the last 50 years.