Podcast: Pete Buttigieg, Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, Digital Series ‘After Forever’ Gets Emmy Noms

In this week's podcast: • Openly gay presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg surges in a new Iowa poll • Alabama lawmakers are trying to eliminate marriage licenses entirely because they don’t want LGBT couples to have them • A Missouri couple were turned away by a homophobic dance instructor • Tennessee teens actually found acceptance and support as they prepared to attend prom together • Digital series 'After Forever' gets a LOT of Daytime Emmy nominations All that and more on this episode of The Randy Report.

In this week’s podcast:

• Openly gay presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg surges in a new Iowa poll

• Alabama lawmakers are trying to eliminate marriage licenses entirely because they don’t want LGBT couples to have them

• A Missouri couple were turned away by a homophobic dance instructor

• Tennessee teens actually found acceptance and support as they prepared to attend prom together

• Digital series ‘After Forever’ gets a LOT of Daytime Emmy nominations

All that and more on this episode of The Randy Report.

Podcast: The Equality Act, Utah’s hate crimes law, Pete Buttigieg, Out Recording Artist NIKO Releases New EP

In this week’s podcast:

• The Equality Act is reintroduced in Congress

• Donald Trump finally fills appointments to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS

• Utah moves towards a more effective hate crimes law

• Openly gay Mayor Pete Buttigieg qualifies for the first Democratic presidential debate

• Ireland’s gay prime minister meets with uber-anti-gay Vice President Mike Pence

• Out recording artist NIKO releases his new EP

All that and more in this episode of The Randy Report

Podcast: Hookup Goes Bad; Same-Sex Parents Win In Court; Out Musician Matracia Takes Things “Slow”

In this podcast:

• A gay dating app hookup goes bad, really bad

• A federal judge rules in favor of same-sex parents who sought American citizenship for their son

• The Trump administration wants to decriminalize being gay around the world – really?…

• Jussie Smollett of Empire arrested and charged for filing false police report

• You really should be watching Netflix’s reboot of One Day at a Time

• New music from out alternative artist Dylan Matracia takes things “Slow”

All that and more in this episode of The Randy Report

Podcast: Children Of Gay Parents, Trump On HIV, West Virginia & Wyoming

In this week's podcast: • Donald Trump says he wants to eliminate the HIV epidemic within 10 years • A state senator in Wyoming compared being gay to bestiality when she met with LGBTQ youth • A new study indicates children raised by same-sex parents do better in school • And, for the first time ever, a Disney character ever says the words “I’m gay” All that and more in this episode of The Randy Report

In this week’s podcast:

• Donald Trump says he wants to eliminate the HIV epidemic within 10 years

• A state senator in Wyoming compared being gay to bestiality when she met with LGBTQ youth

• A new study indicates children raised by same-sex parents do better in school

• And, for the first time ever, a Disney character ever says the words “I’m gay”

All that and more in this episode of The Randy Report

Podcast: Jussie Smollett Attacked, Rita Moreno Honored, An Armed Disruptor At Drag Queen Storytime

In this week’s podcast:

• Protester with a gun disrupts Drag Queen Storytime in Houston

• Anti-gay former county Clerk Kim Davis may have to pay big buck for denying same-sex couples marriage licenses

• New Jersey will soon have LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum in schools

Empire star Jussie Smollett attacked in homophobic, racist assault in Chicago – returns to the concert stage

• Arkansas Supreme Court reverses on Fayetteville city ordinance protecting LGBTQ people

• And my chat with the living legend and EGOT, Rita Moreno

All that and more in this episode of The Randy Report.

Podcast: Good News In Angola, 2019 GLAAD Media Award Nominations, Generals Speak Out Against Trans Ban

In this week’s podcast:

• Angola repeals anti-homosexuality laws and passes LGBTQ protections

• Observing the International Holocaust Remembrance Day

• The 30th annual GLAAD Media Award nominations were announced

• Four star generals are still opposing Donald Trump’s transgender military ban

• A new study looks into which states men most exaggerate most about ‘size’

All that and more in this episode of The Randy Report.

Podcast: Carol Channing, Chechnya, Karen Pence & Gay Club Picture Rules

In this week’s podcast:

• A lesbian couple, together for 40 years, were denied an apartment at a retirement home in Missouri because they are married

• Vice President Mike Pence is deeply offended folks are upset his wife has chosen to teach art at a school that bans LGBTQ kids and parents

• A gay Australian party got into hot water over rude instructions to photographers

• Broadway legend and LGBT ally (and my dear friend) Carol Channing passed away this week at the age of 97

All that and more in this episode of The Randy Report

Podcast: Chechnya Purges Gays Again; Toxic Masculinity; Adam Lambert in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

In this week’s headlines: • Chechnya is hunting down LGBTQ folks again • The American Psychological Association confirms that toxic masculinity is a real thing and its rooted in homophobia • Wedding fashion giant David’s Bridal features a same-sex couple in their new commercial • Mutual of Omaha agrees to stop denying coverage to gay men who use PrEP • Adam Lambert revealed he has a cameo in Bohemian Rhapsody

In this week’s podcast:

• Chechnya is hunting down LGBTQ folks again

• The American Psychological Association confirms that toxic masculinity is a real thing and its rooted in homophobia

• Wedding fashion giant David’s Bridal features a same-sex couple in their new commercial

• Mutual of Omaha agrees to stop denying coverage to gay men who use PrEP

• Adam Lambert revealed he has a cameo in Bohemian Rhapsody

• YouTuber Logan Paul confirms he’s an idiot

All that and more in this episode of The Randy Report

Podcast: Madonna, Record LGBTQ Congress Members, More Kevin Hart Debacle, Brazil

In this episode of The Randy Report podcast:

• The new Congress is sworn in with a record number of LGBTQ lawmakers

• Donald Trump scored a victory in court this week regarding his proposed ban on transgender military service members

• Comedian Kevin Hart’s homophobic tweets & jokes landed him on Ellen DeGeneres’ couch

• Brazil’s new president attacks LGBTQs on day one

• And Madonna surprised the crowd at the iconic Stonewall Inn on New Year’s Eve

All that and more in this episode of The Randy Report.

Podcast: The Best Of LGBTQ Music, Movies & Pop Culture

What? You thought I wasn’t going to count down and recap the year that was 2018?

Fat chance.

Here’s my take on the best that the year had to offer in terms of LGBTQ music, movies, television and pop culture moments, as well as the stories that resonated most with my readers.

Please kick back, pour a cocktail, and take a little journey on the way back machine as I review 2018 in terms of the LGBTQ community.

And, as always, I would muchly appreciate it if you would share The Randy Report podcast with your friends.

So, here we go. Let me know in the comments what you thought I might have missed.

See you all in 2019! Thanks to all of you for visiting The Randy Report. It totally wouldn’t be any fun without you here.