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A recording of music by K von A. (1) I’ve Got To Talk About It (2) Bachelor Pad (3) Did She Want To Be Loved (4) Now There’s A Fire (5) Gone From My Sight
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A recording of the album Human Being by Dan Martin and Michael Biello. (1) You Do Not Know Me (2) A Year and a Day Apart (3) I Stand Before You/Wash Me (4) Just Ask My Heart (5) Drag Dance
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A recording of the album Human Being by Dan Martin and Michael Biello. (6) The Dance (7) Strange Now (8) Every Time I Look at You (9) So Many/Lay Your Burden Down (10) Let Me Love You Now
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An excerpt of an advertisement plays. Mutual News national and international news updates play. Tommi Avicolli Mecca presents Gay Talk. Avicolli Mecca hosts a round table discussion featuring Gary L. Day (Philadelphia Gay News), Dan Estes, and Bert Wylen, including listener commentary. Mutual News national and international news updates play. Advertisements interspersed.
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An excerpt of an advertisement plays. Mutual News national and international news updates play. Maxine Schnall presents Open-Line, featuring listener commentary. Advertisements interspersed.
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Bert Wylen presents Gaydreams, broadcast on February 13, 1994. “Cabaret” performed live at Carnegie Hall by Liza Manelli plays. Wylen interviews the columnist and cabaret agent, David P. Smith. Smith and Wylen discuss American popular standards and the historical roots of cabaret. “Listen To My Heart” and “Disneyland” as performed by Bill McKinley plays. Smith reflects on his entry into the cabaret world and continued involvement with the communities in New York and Philadelphia. Smith introduces the work of Laurie Beechman. “Time Between the Time” and “Home” as performed by Laurie Beechman plays. Smith introduces the work of Billy Stritch. Wylen and Smith discuss the Philadelphia cabaret circuit. Excerpt of “Teach Me Tonight” as performed by Billy Stritch plays.
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Bert Wylen presents Gaydreams, broadcast on February 13, 1994. Final excerpt of “Teach Me Tonight” and “Come Rain or Come Shine” as performed by Billy Stritch plays. David. P Smith introduces the work of Nancy LaMott. “Accentuate the Positive” and “My Foolish Heart” as performed by Nancy LaMott and “New York, New York” as performed at Carnegie Hall by Liza Manelli plays. Bert Wylen signs off to “The Difference” by Todd Rundgren.
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Bert Wylen presents Gaydreams, broadcast on November 19, 1995. Jim Ludwin shares updates on the successful results of an experimental trial for the HIV prevention drug PMPA. Wylen presents national news updates, including the conclusion of a lengthy custody battle between two lesbian mothers, another lesbian couple’s effort to adopt each other’s biological children, conceived with the same sperm donor, concerns voiced by gay settlers in Israel following the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Colorado’s anti-gay Amendment 2, a Colorado appeals court’s decision to affirm the lower court’s ruling in the wrongful discrimination case Borquez v. Ozer & Mullen, and AT&T’s decision to maintain plans to offer a workplace homophobia workshop at a Massachusetts warehouse following consumer backlash. “Waitin’ For the Man” by Lou Reed plays. Wylen interviews Victor Bockris about his biographies Lou Reed: The Biography and Transformer: The Lou Reed Story. Wylen and Bockris examine Reed’s carefully constructed persona, including his self-mythologizing, volatile behavior, and individualistic approach to collaboration. They also cover Reed’s longBockris reflects on the political sensibilities of both Andy Warhol and Lou Reed, particularly their self-interested engagement with marginalized communities, and discusses Reed’s traumatic experience as a teenager undergoing electroconvulsive therapy in an attempt to alter his sexual orientation, his lifelong bisexuality, and his seven-year marriage to Rachel, a transgender woman. Wylen and Bockris discuss Reed’s decades-long struggle with substance use and his eventual sobriety during the height of the AIDS crisis, as well as the fraught 1993 Velvet Underground reunion, marked by Reed’s persistent egocentrism. “Hello It’s Me” by Lou Reed and John Cale plays. Wylen then shares local updates, including J.A.L. v. E.P.H., a custody dispute between a former lesbian couple in Germantown who conceived a child together, public hearings on a proposed city council bill requiring Philadelphia healthcare facilities to provide HIV testing to pregnant women, and event, support group, and workshop announcements. “Sweet Jane” by Lou Reed plays. Brian Cahill reviews Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia by Tony Kushner, staged at the Miller Theatre (FKA, Merriam Theatre) and Annenberg Center in Philadelphia. “Andy Warhol” by David Bowie and “What’s Good” by Lou Reed plays. Wylen signs off to “The Difference” by Todd Rundgren.
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Excerpt of Bob Harris presenting Gaydreams, broadcast dated September 28, 1980. Harris introduces a feature interview. Ted Faegel interviews Walter Wachter about his work with the Over 35 Group at the Gay Community Center. “When I’m Sixty Four” by The Beatles plays. Harris announces upcoming programming. “Feminine Foreplay,” a skit by Imus in the Morning of WNBC New York and “My Sex” by Ultravox play. Excerpt of Harris presenting local, national, and international news updates.
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Excerpt of Bob Harris presenting Gaydreams, broadcast dated September 9, 1980. Excerpt of Harris presenting local, national, and international news updates. James Roberts of Philadelphia Black Gays presents a reading from “Just Above My Head” by James Baldwin.
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Bert Wylen interviews Bishop John Spong on March 28, 1990 about his book Living in Sin? A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality. Material used in broadcasts of WXPN’s Gaydreams.
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A field recording at an assembly hosted by the George School on October 9, 1992. An unknown speaker reads a quote from Between Myth and Mourning by Elizabeth Janeway and offers a brief introduction to Bert Wylen. Bert Wylen presents a speech about his work to the high school assembly.
