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30May/25

Jonathan Lerner

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May 30, 2025

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 10, Episode 19: Jonathan Lerner!

Jonathan Lerner shares his memoir: Performance Anxiety. We discuss the civil rights era, why being LGBTQ+ was even more lonely, and what it was like to find community while realizing you were different!

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Jonathan Lerner is the author of the novels Caught in a Still Place, Alex Underground, and Lily Narcissus, and the memoir Swords in the Hands of Children. He is a journalist focusing on urban design and environmental issues and a longtime contributing editor at Landscape Architecture Magazine. He lives with his husband, the nonprofit leader and community advocate Peter Frank, in New York’s Hudson Valley.

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17Dec/21

Robert C. Steele

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December 17, 2021

It gives us great pleasure to welcome Robert C. Steele as the guest on Season 6, Episode 50 – They Didn’t Deserve To Be In Jail!

Robert C. Steele has written a biography of Jim Foshee titled Banned From California. Robert shares with us that the book covers Jim’s (and his) life during the pre-Stonewall gay civil rights movement.

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Robert C. Steele served as a reporter and producer at various radio and television stations in Colorado and Arizona. He was a broadcaster at the Italian National Broadcasting Company (RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana) in Naples, Italy; was a reporter for Armed Forces Radio and Television along the coast of Vietnam, the Asian Western Pacific and Vicenza, Italy; and was a volunteer activist in the early gay liberation movement with two weekly gay radio shows in Colorado. Later, as a federal government public affairs officer, he served as a government spokesperson and managed media relations with reporters who worked for media outlets from across the USA and around the world.

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