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Host:  Michael Billy.  Featured guests: Ann Bannon, Linda S. Chapman, Kate Moira Ryan, Leigh Silverman, Harriet Leve, Autumn Dornfeld, Marin Ireland, Margarita Sanchez, Lisa Moore, Elizabeth Streb.

Summary:  This episode is a reversion featuring segments from previous episodes as well as new segments. The episode honors women in the LGBT community. Excerpts from episodes 501, 704, 705, 1001, 1302 and 1512 spotlight activist Margarita Sanchez, Olivia Records, the Catch One Club, Lisa Moore, lesbian activism in the Philippines, and Elizabeth Streb. An update to the profile of author Ann Bannon from episode 1207 focuses on the adaptation of her lesbian pulp novels into a stage play.

Featured guests: Judy Shepard, Michael Billy, Scott Long, Francesca Zambello.

Summary:  In this episode's A Conversation with… segment, Michael Billy interviews Judy Shepard. In the next segment, Scott Long of Human Rights Watch presents stories of LGBT people working for change and visibility in Nepal. The next segment is about Saving Marriage, a documentary looking back at the battle for same-sex marriage in Massachusetts. Next is a profile of openly lesbian opera director, Francesca Zambello, followed by a behind-the-scenes look at the Broadway musical adaptation of the film, Xanadu.

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Interview with the cast of Xanadu [unedited]

 

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