Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - Beyond Gay Marriage
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🗓️ 23 January 2026
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Summary
Our friends at Selects bring you this documentary from 2010 looking at the debate among LGBTQ folks in San Francisco around the fight for gay marriage and the cost of that fight borne by other parts of the broader community.
The Selects Podcast is a free, twice-monthly show that is bringing you unearthed audio works that we’ve found buried in web archives, radio streams, and early podcasts. It’s hosted by Mitra Kaboli, whose work you may have heard on Welcome to Provincetown and The Heart.
In addition to the free podcast, there’s a whole collection with exclusive shows and robust show notes looking at the history of these works and how they fit into the bigger audio landscape.
The Selects Podcast aims to preserve work that is being lost to digital time - these are award-winning documentaries made by some of the best in the medium, but they are getting lost in web archives and defunct podcast feeds. Listening helps give these works a new life, something that can help make the audio industry more sustainable.
Learn more about Selects at https://selects.supportingcast.fm/
Beyond Gay Marriage was hosted and produced by Lisa Dettmer and co-produced bt Elena Botkin-Levy. Financial support was provided by Astraea Foundation and Making Contact at the National Radio Project. Lisa Dettmer is a radio producer with the feminist radio show "Women’s Magazine" at KPFA Radio in Berkeley, California, which can be heard at kpfa.org/program/womens-magazine.
Learn more about Selects at https://selects.supportingcast.fm/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outward. I'm Christina Cotarucci. Today, we're sharing an episode from our friends at the Selects podcast. It's called Beyond Gay Marriage, a documentary from 2010 about how and why gay marriage became the focal point for the modern gay rights movement. |
| 0:21.7 | Hosted and produced by Lisa Detmer and co-produced by Elena Botkin Levy, |
| 0:26.2 | this hour-long piece gets into the spicy details about how the fight for gay marriage |
| 0:31.0 | nearly fractured the LGBTQ community in San Francisco and how that impacted the broader community. |
| 0:37.4 | If you lived through the fight for gay marriage and the time before gay marriage was the law of the land across the U.S., |
| 0:45.3 | you remember how fraught and all-consuming those conversations could be. |
| 0:50.3 | This podcast gets right to the heart of what made it such a difficult issue for people talking about it at that time. |
| 0:59.4 | The Selects podcast is a free, twice-monthly show that unearths audio works found buried in web archives, radio streams, and early podcasts. |
| 1:09.3 | These pieces are vetted by some of the most talented audio creators working today. |
| 1:13.9 | In addition to the free podcast, there's a whole collection of selects with exclusive shows |
| 1:18.3 | and robust show notes looking at the history of these works and how they fit into the bigger |
| 1:23.0 | audio landscape. |
| 1:24.6 | Check that out at Selects on Apple Podcasts. |
| 1:30.6 | For now, please enjoy Beyond Gay Marriage. |
| 1:44.7 | I'm Mitra Koboley. I'm Mitra Koboli. From PRX's Radiotopia, hello and welcome to Selects. |
| 1:47.3 | I'm Mitra Koboli. |
| 1:56.2 | Selects is a show that is bringing you unearthed audio works that we found buried in web archives, radio streams, and old podcasts. |
| 2:02.7 | They've come to us through recommendations and inspirations of some of the most talented audio creators working today. Every month, we release a must-listen-to documentary right here. And for |
| 2:09.9 | this Pride Month, we have the extremely thought-provoking documentary Beyond Gay Marriage. This work |
| 2:17.1 | is more Pride as a riot than a parade. |
| 2:20.7 | This documentary examines how and why gay marriage became the focal point for the modern |
| 2:26.5 | gay rights movement. While anyone should have the right to marriage if they so choose, |
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