Rainbow Radio: The Real Gay Agenda
Celebrating Two Years On-the-Air!
The first weekly GLBT radio program in South Carolina, Rainbow Radio premiered October 9, 2005, and airs Sundays at 10 a.m. in Columbia on Air America, WOIC-AM 1230.
By Gay and Straight People; For Gay and Straight People.
Hosts and segment producers are the Rev. Candace Chellew-Hodge (revtheodyke@gmail.com) and Bruce Converse (bconverse@pbtcomm.net), who is also the show's writer. Ed Madden (edward.madden@gmail.com) is the executive producer; Bert Easter is a segment producer and designs our CD labels; Harriet Hancock (PrideMomSC@aol.com) is program advisor and a segment producer; and the WOIC production director is Larry Farina (www.larryfarina.com).
Please Thank and Support Note the list of Rainbow Radio sponsors in the program list and let them know you appreciate their support of our community. You, too, may become a sponsor for only $200 per program. If you'd like to advertise on Rainbow Radio, please let us know! We'll be happy to match your sponsorship with a suitable program topic. If you don't own a business or can't afford a sponsorship, but would like to make a donation to help keep Rainbow Radio on the air, no donation is too small! Please mail your contribution today. |
Contact Us / Donate to Rainbow Radio Rainbow Radio (803) 771-7713 E-mail: scpridecenter@aol.com. Remember to write "Rainbow Radio" on the memo line of your check. And thanks for helping to keep us on the air! |
Have a suggestion for a program topic? We'd love to hear from you. Contact the producer.
You may listen to the 30-minute programs online. New programs will be available no later than the afternoon of the original air date.
As time permits, we'll edit the programs into segments. Just click on the name of the guest/commentator to play the segments.
Programs
Rainbow Radio Weekly Podcast Subscription Instructions- Instructions for Downloading and Playing the MP3 Files
- 2005 Rainbow Radio Programs
- 2006 Rainbow Radio Programs
- 2008 Rainbow Radio Programs
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AIR DATE |
PROGRAM SPONSORS |
GUESTS |
COMMENTARY Sponsored by Q-Notes. |
PHOTO ALBUMS (For shows with albums, click thumbnail.) |
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| Show 116 12/30/07 | Fund for Southern Communities | Home Movies and a Lesson in Patience, by Bruce Converse
On Not Going Home, by Ed Madden Forgiving My Father, by Candace Chellew-Hodge For John at Christmas, by Becci Robbins Proud: An Activist Memoir, by Ryan Wilson |
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| Show 115 12/23/07 | Harriet Hancock Community Center | Jody Huckaby, Executive Director, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays | Dear Santa, Bring Boxing Gloves, by Sheila Morris
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| Show 114 12/16/07 | Listeners Like YOU! | Pat Jobe, Writer, Singer-Songwriter | I Married My Dog, by Pat Jobe
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| Show 113 12/9/07 | Fund for Southern Communities | Brad Luna, Director of Media Relations for the Human Rights Campaign | |||
| Show 112 12/2/07 | Harriet Hancock Community Center | Bo Young, Publisher and Editorial Director of White Crane, a magazine of gay wisdom and culture
Dan Vera, Managing Editor of White Crane |
The Grounds on Which We Meet: Friendship and the Possible by Ed Madden
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| Show 111 11/25/07 | Midlands Pastoral Care and Counseling | John Quillin, Managing Artistic Director for the Gay Men's Chorus of Charlotte, Timothea Sharpe, MSW, M.Div., LISW-CP |
Forgiving My Father by Candace Chellew-Hodge
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| Show 110 11/11/07 | Listeners Like YOU! | Joanna Crowder, SCGLPM Board Member | |||
| Show 109 11/4/07 | Fund for Southern Communities | Susan Russell, president of Integrity | God's
Irrevocable Call by Candace Chellew-Hodge
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| Show 108 10/28/07 | Harriet Hancock Community Center | John Waters, writer, diretor, actor and visual artist | |||
| Show 107 10/21/07 | Listeners Like YOU! | Susan Ashley Stanton, Former City Manager of Largo, Florida | |||
| Show 106 10/14/07 | Harriett Hancock Community Center | Kyle Hawkins, Former men's lacrosse coach at University of Missouri | |||
| Show 105 10/7/07 | Listeners Like YOU! | Kyle Hawkins, Former men's lacrosse coach at University of Missouri | Opening
Up by Bruce Converse (first aired June 18, 2006)
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| Show 104 9/30/07 | Fund for Southern Communities | Carmen Julious, Executive Director of PALSS | Get
Involved by Patrice Davis
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| Show 103 9/23/07 | South Carolina Pride 2007 | Alvin McEwen, Author | On Closeted Anti-Gay Politicians by Charlie
Smith
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| Show 102 9/16/07 | South Carolina Pride 2007 | Blanchard "Radar" Williams and
Michael VanDiver, Pride 2007 Co-chairs
Nemesis, Pride 2007 performers |
Proud:
An Activist Memoir by Ryan Wilson
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| Show 101 9/9/07 | Harriett Hancock Community Center | Edmund White, Author | Sheila Gets a Shave by Sheila Morris
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| Show 100 9/2/07 | Listeners Like YOU! | Jeffrey Makala, Special
Collections, Thomas Cooper Library, USC Nicholas Meriwether, South Caroliniana Library, USC |
More Than Just Sex Issues: From the Folder to the Archive by Santi Thompson
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| Show 99 8/26/07 | Fund for Southern Communities | Brett Bursey, Director of the South Carolina Progressive Network | On
Weddings by Becci Robbins
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| Show 98 8/19/07 | Harriett Hancock Community Center | Rev. Irene Monroe, African-American feminist theologian and writer | |||
| Show 97 8/12/07 | Listeners Like YOU! | Harry Knox, Director of Religion and Faith Program for The Human Rights Campaign | Climbing
the Mountain by Candace Chellew-Hodge
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| Show 96 8/5/07 | Fund for Southern Communities | Ann Craig, Director of Religion, Faith and Values Program for GLAAD | A
More Spiritual Community by Rev. Andy Sidden, Garden
of Grace United Church of Christ
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| Show 95 7/29/07 | Harriet Hancock Community Center | William Lucas Walker, Emmy-winning writer and producer and native of Clinton, S.C. |  |
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| Show 94 7/22/07 | Law offices of Robertson and Collier | William Lucas Walker, Emmy-winning writer and producer and native of Clinton, S.C. | Gays and the Theatre by Larry Hembree
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| Show 93 7/15/07 | Listeners Like YOU! | Beth Teper, Executive Director of COLAGE, Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere | My
Dad is Robin Williams by Anonymous
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| Show 92 7/8/07 | Fund for Southern Communities | Meeting
My Family Again for the First Time by Ed Madden
Beginning the Conversation by Candace Chellew-Hodge I Have Survived by Bruce Converse Shipwrecking My Faith by Candace Chellew-Hodge Words for Things by Ed Madden |
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| Show 91 7/1/07 | Harriet Hancock Community Center | Eric Alva, retired Staff Sgt and first American to be wounded in the Iraq war. | Labels
and the Gay Soldier by Johnathan Jackson
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| Show 90 6/24/07 | Listeners Like YOU! | Carmen Julious, Executive
Director of Palmetto AIDS Life Support Services (PALSS) Laney Brackman, Director of Program Services at Palmetto AIDS Life Support Services (PALSS) Tony Price, Health Education Consultant for DHEC |
Take
the Test, Take Control by Dr. Lisa Lindley
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| Show 89 6/17/07 | Fund for Southern Communities | Akil Wingate, Columbia
Black Pride performer
Larry Hembree, executive director of Nickelodeon Theatre |
Summer Camp, Only Different by Candace Chellew-Hodge
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| Show 88 6/10/07 | Harriet Hancock Community Center | Christine Bakke, co-founder
of beyondexgay.com
and co-organizer of Ex-Gay Survivors' Conference
Elke Kennedy, mother of Sean Kennedy, killed in a reported hate crime in Greenville Rev. Donna Stroud, pastor of MCC of the Upstate |
Playground
Lessons by Ed Madden
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| Show 87 6/3/07 | Listeners Like YOU! | Margaret Cho |
00-Diva Log: The Mission Begins by Ryan Wilson
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| Show 86 5/27/07 | Fund for Southern Communities | From
Phobe to Friend by Nick Slaughter
The Value of Love by Ciara Stuart The Weaker Sex by Jordan Jennings Soapboxes Make Small Worlds by Cynthia Parker |
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| Show 85 5/20/07 | Harriet Hancock Community Center | Prom 2002 by Ashley Witt
Shorts Under a Princess Dress by Christina Davis
Accepting Uncle Greg by Anonymous (read by Candace Chellew-Hodge)
My
Dad is Robin Williams by Anonymous
Torn by Melissa Gainey
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| Show 84 5/13/07 | Listeners Like YOU! | Ed Madden, Rainbow Radio Executive Producer |
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Little Lesbian by Lauren Wiggins
The
Well of Loneliness and Witchcraft 8 by Alex Baker (Read by Melissa Gainey)
Writing My Own Story by Anonymous
Don't They Know That's Dangerous? by Moira Gillis (read by Candace Chellew-Hodge)
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| Show 83 5/6/07 | Fund for Southern Communities | Patrick Sammon, new President of Log Cabin Republicans Michael Drennan, Executive Director, South Carolina Equality Coalition and Matt Kisner, SCEC Legislative Committee Co-Chair. |
Being
Polite by Matt Kisner |
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| Show 82 4/29/07 | Harriet Hancock Community Center | Matthew DeGuirre, co-owner, Travel Unlimited. | About Time: Meeting My Family Again in Room 207 by Ed Madden, Rainbow Radio executive producer and award-winning author. |
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| Show 81 4/22/07 | Listeners Like YOU! | Guests: Dan Cook, editor of the Free Times. www.free-times.com Keith Boykin, TV host, author, and political activist. www.keithboykin.com Also, Jim Blanton, former Rainbow Radio producer, fills in for Candace Chellew-Hodge as co-host. |
Repeat from Show 36: Rainbows by Stacy W. Smallwood (Exodus), poet and HIV/AIDS counselor |
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| Show 80 4/15/07 | Fund for Southern Communities | Co-host Candace Chellew-Hodge went on location to Bob Jones University on April 4, 2007, for the Soulforce Equality Ride, interviewing participants on both sides of the issues of faith and sexuality. For more information, visit the Soulforce Equality Ride Web site, and listen to Candace's Godcast #11 (and get blog updates by Equality Rider Mandy Mathias) at Whosoever.org. Also on this week's show: Ryan Wilson on the University of South Carolina's Homophobia Awareness Week (April 23-27, 2007) More info: safezone@gwm.sc.edu or 803-777-8248. |
Beginning the Conversation by Rev. Candace Chellew-Hodge, Rainbow Radio co-host and assistant pastor, Garden of Grace United Church of Christ.
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| Show 79 4/8/07 | Q-Notes | Four of our best commentaries from our past 20 shows. | Do You Like Chris Williamson? by Candace Chellew-Hodge Gay Shame by Ed Madden Not Forgotten; Keep Living by Stacy W. Smallwood (aka Exodus) Bullies by Trixie Trash |
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Show 78 4/1/07 |
Harriet Hancock Community Center |
Alex is the Medicaid Project Coordinator for Winthrop University's Department of Social Work. If you're between the ages of 45-65, self-identify as GLBTQ, and wish to participate in Winthrop's retirement study, please call Alex at 803-323-3394 or e-mail wagamanm@winthrop.edu. |
I Have Survived by Bruce Converse, Rainbow Radio co-host. |
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| Show 77 3/25/07 | Fund for Southern Communities |
The Rev. Dr. Gayle Baldwin is associate professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Dakota and is currently on sabbatical in Columbia writing Black Butterfly: Lessons from the Murder of Sakia Gunn on Whiteness, Religion and Homophobia. |
An Open Letter to Ann Coulter by Bruce Converse, Rainbow Radio co-host. |
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| Show 76 3/18/07 | Listeners Like YOU! | Interviews with POSE Conference Attendees: Darie Kidwell, Atlanta Pride; Don Mills, Central Alabama Pride; Ann Willbrand, CSRA Rainbow Alliance; Carole Stoneking, OLOC (Old Lesbians Organizing for Change); and Gary Wilkerson, Midsouth Pride. |
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| Show 75 3/11/07 | Listeners Like YOU! | Robert Barnes and Jerry Kelly, long-time residents of Columbia who are celebrating their 40th anniversary together. Web-Only Extended Interview |
Gays and Lesbians in the South Carolina Encyclopedia by Bob Ellis, business manager, Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina. |
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| Show 74 3/4/07 | Fund for Southern Communities | Jason Cianciotto, research director, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute. | A Home, Not a Handout by David Parker, director of Case Management Studies, University of South Carolina School of Medicine. |
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| Show 73 2/25/07 | Harriet Hancock Community Center | POSE Conference attendees: Chris Stevens, Jim Yarbrough, and Raine Cole. Suzanne Campos, Richland County Sheriff's Department Special Victims Unit; liaison to OutSmart |
Bullies by Trixie Trash (Trixie is a video artist and drag performance entertainer.) |
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| Show 72 2/18/07 | HRC Carolinas Dinner | Evan Wolfson (founder and executive director, Freedom To Marry) 2007 HRC Carolinas Dinner Co-Chairs (Dan Mauney, LaWana Slack Mayfield, and Rodney Tucker) Jennifer Holliday (the ORIGINAL DreamGirl, who won a Tony Award in 1982 for her performance on Broadway in DREAMGIRLS. |
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Show 71 2/11/07 |
HRC Carolinas Dinner | Leslie Jordan (Emmy Award winner for Will and Grace) Susan Johnson (host, Sex After Midnight, WOIC 1230 AM, Saturdays at midnight) |
Words for Things: My Sex Education by Ed Madden, executive producer, Rainbow Radio A Valentine for Walter by Jim Blanton, producer, Rainbow Radio. In memory of Walter P. O'Rourke (1930 - 2007) |
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| Show 70 2/4/07 | HRC Carolinas Dinner | Dr. Alan Sanders (director, gay brothers study: Molecular Genetic Study of Sexual Orientation) Trisha Clymore and Blanchard "Radar" Williams (Trisha is female Vice-President of Operations - non geographic, for InterPride; Radar is regional director for the InterPride Prides of the Southeast (POSE) conference and treasurer, SCGLPM) |
Gay Shame by Ed Madden (Rainbow Radio executive producer) |  |
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| Show 69 1/28/07 | HRC Carolinas Dinner | Becky Rafter (development director, Fund for Southern Communities) Joe Solmonese (president, Human Rights Campaign)
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My First HRC Carolina's Dinner and Wearing a Tuxedo by Bruce Converse (Rainbow Radio co-host) |  |
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| Show 68 1/21/07 | Harriet Hancock Community Center | Marc Adams (founder, Heartstrong) |
Shipwrecking My Faith by Candace Chellew (Rainbow Radio co-host and assistant pastor, Garden of Grace United Church of Christ) |  |
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| Show 67 1/14/07 | Listeners Like YOU! | Amanda Jones (president, SCGLBG) |
Tinabeth by Sheila Morris (financial advisor, activist, and author of Fried Pies and Pony Tails) |  |
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| Show 66 1/7/07 | Panache Creative Styles | Michael Drennan (SCEC executive Director) Jamie Anderson (Singer - Songwriter - Parking Lot Attendant) |
Do You Like Chris Williamson? by Candace Chellew (Rainbow Radio co-host) |  |
Instructions
Downloading MP3 Files
The MP3 program files have now been reduced to under 7 MB. To play them, click on the linked Program Topic name. On a fast connection, there will be just a slight delay when you click on the file links before they play.
ALTERNATE OPTIONS:
- If you're on a PC , right-click the links and choose "Save Link As..." or "Save Target As...," depending on your browser. The free Firefox browser is much faster for the "Save Link As..." process than Internet Explorer. We recommend using the Firefox browser for this purpose.
- If you're on a Mac , Control-click the link and choose "Save Link As...." Then pick an easy-to-find place (such as the Desktop) on your computer to download the file. Once the file has downloaded to your computer successfully, click your personal version of the file to quickly play the program.
Podcasts
Podcasting makes it possible to subscribe to the weekly Rainbow Radio programs and download them to a portable listening device, such as an iPod, specially equipped cell phone, or other portable media device, enabling you to take us with you wherever you go.
- Download Free Software
First you need to download free podcast subscription software such as Apple's iTunes (which has a built-in media player). You don't have to use iTunes; there are other free programs out there.
- Subscribe to the Weekly Rainbow Radio Podcast
- To subscribe to a Rainbow Radio podcast listed above, right-click (or Control-click in MacOS) on the Podcast icon and select "Copy Link Location" or "Copy Shortcut” (depending upon your browser). You may then paste the link into your podcasting software.
- In Apple's iTunes, click on Podcasts in the left-hand Source column. Then, in the drop-down menu at the top left of the screen, click on Advanced | Subscribe to Podcast..., then paste the link into the pop-up window and click OK. When the file has downloaded, click on the Play button (or simply click on the file and hit the space bar).
- If you're using podcast software other than iTunes, consult the help section in the podcast program of your choice.
- To subscribe to a Rainbow Radio podcast listed above, right-click (or Control-click in MacOS) on the Podcast icon