441 – Voting For Your Life – Ashley Morgan & John Flanagan – Faultlines

Ashley Morgan and John Flanagan, of the folk-pop duo Faultlines, are causing a political storm with the re-release of their anti-Trump song, “Rain,” the first single from their next full album, Bittersweet Revival.  Many of the songs on the album speak out against the current political climate with messages of love, inclusion, and community. “Rain” focuses its…

351: Uncloseted Riff and Rant – Transgender Discrimination For No Cause

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Let’s be clear. Transgender discrimination is discrimination, plain and simple. Lacking kindness, empathy, compassion is what Transgender discrimination represents. Those three human characteristics are all that is needed to treat people with dignity, respect, and understanding. Yet, with the newly supported Transgender Military Ban upheld by the supreme court, we’ve entered an era of lost…

282: Uncloseted Riff and Rant – Take Pride and Don’t Back Down

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It’s Pride Month. Or at least that’s what those of us in the LGBTQI community call it. Not sure what Drumph and his cronies in Washington are going to say this year, since they didn’t’ really say anything last year. But screw them! We are here, were queer, and we have advocates all over the…