The Gaily Show

The Gaily Show

The Gaily Show is the only daily LGBTQ news and talk show in the US. GLAAD Media Award nominees John Parker and Jim Pounds host an unapologetic hour with legislators, authors, journalists, organizers, researchers, and more. Tune in daily or watch our YouTube channel. Plus, stream us everywhere you get your podcasts! On Wednesdays, tune in for the Washington Blade’s White House Correspondent Christopher Kane or Windy City Times’ Managing Editor Jake Wittich. Tune in the 2nd Monday of the month for Dr. Samuel Clowes Huneke, Associate Professor of History at George Mason University. Windy City Times is Chicago’s award-winning LGBTQ media outlet and you can read Jake’s reporting here. Since 1969, the Washington Blade has provided award-winning national and international news coverage of the LGBTQ community and you can read Christopher’s reporting here.

Episodes

June 24, 2025 44 mins
Tammye Nash from the Dallas Voice returns in the second half of the show today, while John and Jim also discuss reliigon in schools and touch on Rep. McBride’s comment that maybe LGBY supporters overplayed their hand.
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Our first annual LGBTQ media survey is open. It aims to discover where folks get LGBTQ news, perceptions of how media covers LGBTQ community, utilization of LGBTQ media, preferred content, & the role of radio/podcasts. Take the survey here: https://tinyurl.com/LGBTQMEDIASURVEY. It’s time to acknowledge that facts don’t and won’t change people’s minds when it comes…
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Director Charles Askenaizer discusses the production of Angels in America at the Invictus Theatre in Chicago playing through September 7. Plus, John and Jim have reviews for you.
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June 19, 2025 44 mins
An ordained priest, playwright, and theologian, Shannon TL Kearns joins us to discuss his newest book: No One Taught Me How To Be A Man. In it, he recounts how after he transitioned he made a radical discovery. His experiences of masculinity are similar to cisgender men: they both have universal worries about not being…
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Jake Wittich, Managing Editor for Windy City Times, is back with his reporting on the milestone Pride Flag ceremony at the Chicago Park District, Cook County Commissioner Kevin Morrison rallies LGBTQ+ leaders, and GroceryLand stages a comeback.
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June 17, 2025 44 mins
Rep. Sandra Feist (DFL-39B) shares her reflections on the legacy of Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, who is being remembered as the most consequential Speaker of the House in Minnesota history.
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June 16, 2025 44 mins
John will talk with Kat Rohn, Executive Director of OutFront Minnesota, about the life and legacy of Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman who was assassinated in her home along with her husband. Additionally, we’ve got updates about the status of MN State Senator Hoffman and his wife’s condition, and the new federal charges against…
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June 13, 2025 44 mins
John and Gaily Show Executive Producer Jim Pounds have reviews galore for your weekend! Theatrical productions: Mae West and The Trial of Sex at Crane Theatre and Significant Other at Lyric Arts. Films: The Lost Boys and The Summer of Carmen. Television: Everything I Like and with HBO’s Gilded Age returning this month, we look…
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Hilary Otey, co-founder of Queermunity in Minneapolis, discusses how Queermunity programmed  feels like an answer to the question of how to create Pride programming for marginalized folks within mainstream Pride celebrations. View all of their events for Pride season here: https://www.queermunitymn.com/events
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Plus, updates on Andry José Hernández Romero, an openly gay 32-year-old Venezuelan makeup artist wrongly deported to a concentration camp in El Salvador. And MSNBC’s ratings are…not great.
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Lex Exworthy from UP Peninsula Pride joins us to discuss Marquette Pride. Learn more and connect here: www.uprainbowpride.org. Plus, starting today, and then bi-weekly, Tammye Nash, the Managing Editor for the Dallas Voice, will join us to share the Dallas Voice’s award winning LGBTQ journalism. Dallas Voice just started its 42nd year as the Voice…
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Starting today, Dr. Samuel Clowes Huneke will join us monthly to discuss LGBTQ politics and queer history! Connect with Samuel here: samuelcloweshuneke.com. Plus, revisiting the story of Pete Hegseth stripping Harvey Milk’s name off a Navy Ship. And the Supreme Court unanimously just made reverse discrimination lawsuits super easy.
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Jim Pounds hosts this special edition of the Gaily Show live from Golden Valley Pride!
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Best selling author Marie Rutkoski’s new novel Ordinary Love comes out June 10. It’s a sweeping romance of two people trying to forge a path toward hope, bound by a love they discovered when they were too young to understand its power. Plus, Dale Stark from Hennepin Arts joins us to talk about the 2025…
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Looking at your apartment, house, and condo have you thought to yourself: I’ve got to find a way to organize all of this. Did you know how you organize can be a reflection of how we’re feeling about the world. We’re talking about organizing with Jake Stepansky, who is also the co-founder and Board President…
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June 4, 2025 44 mins
Jake Wittich, Managing Editor for Windy City Times, is back with his reporting on Channyn Lynne Parker, CEO of one of Brave Space Alliance, being tapped as interim CEO of Equality Illinois. A queer Wisconsin teenager is seeking hate crime charges after being attacked at an Illinois McDonald’s. Plus, there are so many Pride events…
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70+ European lawmakers headed to Pride to march in a Pride event after Hungary bans all Pride events. A trans man was arrested for using the bathroom conservatives told him to use. Months after LGBTQ community helped elect Arizona Senator Gallego, he just called us ‘dangerous’. Iowa Senator Joni Ernst says “we’re all going to…
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Another segment of “Is It Left-Wing Extremism?” looking at amnesty for undocumented immigrants. Speaking of, MN is trying to take away health insurance for tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants just months after enrolling them. Plus, Lori Dokken’s upcoming Fireside Theatre concert event at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: SHOUT SISTER SHOUT is June 8! Lori joins…
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History is being made again, as Keith Stern’s newest book “Queers in History Returns” is the follow-up to his original groundbreaking and perennial bestseller Queers in History, originally published in 1993 on CD-ROM. The current update covers more than 5000 years of history and it just dropped May 27. reviews for you: Pee-Wee as Himself…
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May 29, 2025 44 mins
In this week’s Thinking Clearly, Thinking Queerly, we dive into LGBTQ Elder Law. As MAGA is cutting Medicaid, and threatening to roll back gay marriage and cut Medicare and Social Security, what laws and documents (medical power of attorney, wills, etc.) do we need as queer folks to protect us? We’ll be joined by David…
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