David Hunt
@tellmedavid.bsky.social
Radio reporter and podcaster covering LGBTQ news, culture, and history. tellmedavid.com
At the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, there were more questions than answers. To mark World AIDS Day, I revisit a story I first covered over 40 years ago for Pacifica Radio. Hear rare audio of early AIDS activists and the first AIDS protests. #AIDS #WorldAIDSDay
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AIDS in the 1980s: Facing a Killer
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November 23, 2025 at 11:36 PM
At the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, there were more questions than answers. To mark World AIDS Day, I revisit a story I first covered over 40 years ago for Pacifica Radio. Hear rare audio of early AIDS activists and the first AIDS protests. #AIDS #WorldAIDSDay
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Learn about the chaotic first two years of the AIDS epidemic, when bigotry, fear, disinformation and government indifference gave the virus a deadly head start. #lgbtq #history #aids
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A Deadly Head Start: The Early Years of AIDS - Tell Me, David
In the early 1980s, the LGBTQ movement experienced the first tremors of a shockwave that would shake its very foundations. A disease outbreak diagnosed in just five gay men in Los Angeles in 1981 woul...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Learn about the chaotic first two years of the AIDS epidemic, when bigotry, fear, disinformation and government indifference gave the virus a deadly head start. #lgbtq #history #aids
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How do we make peace with the loss of a loved one? Jennie Arnau tackles this and other questions as she returns to music after a 15-year break. Her new album features a collection of songs exploring life, love, loss, and the healing power of music. #LGBTQ podcast.tellmedavid.com/2430564/epis...
Jennie Arnau: Carolina Calling - Tell Me, David
Jennie Arnau lives and works in New York City. But her childhood home is in the American South, in Greenville, South Carolina. It’s the place she discovered her passion for music. And the place that c...
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October 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
How do we make peace with the loss of a loved one? Jennie Arnau tackles this and other questions as she returns to music after a 15-year break. Her new album features a collection of songs exploring life, love, loss, and the healing power of music. #LGBTQ podcast.tellmedavid.com/2430564/epis...
As the Trump administration pulls up the welcome mat, #LGBTQ refugees around the world struggle to survive. In the U.S., #transgender people are looking to Canada as a possible safe haven.
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Kimahli Powell on the LGBTQ Refugee Crisis - Tell Me, David
The world faces a refugee crisis. More people are displaced today — by war, famine and climate — than at any time in human history. Among the most vulnerable are people persecuted for their sexual ori...
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September 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
As the Trump administration pulls up the welcome mat, #LGBTQ refugees around the world struggle to survive. In the U.S., #transgender people are looking to Canada as a possible safe haven.
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When ISIS murdered gay men in Iraq and Syria in 2015, Jessica Stern helped organize the first Security Council meeting focused on LGBTQ human rights. Stern discusses her work as a scholar, activist and diplomat. #LGBTQ #HumanRights www.buzzsprout.com/2430564/epis...
Jessica Stern on Global LGBTQ Human Rights - Tell Me, David
In a wide-ranging interview with David Hunt, Jessica Stern recounts pivotal moments in her career, from her work as a scholar and global human rights activist to her tenure as the top queer diplomat i...
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September 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
When ISIS murdered gay men in Iraq and Syria in 2015, Jessica Stern helped organize the first Security Council meeting focused on LGBTQ human rights. Stern discusses her work as a scholar, activist and diplomat. #LGBTQ #HumanRights www.buzzsprout.com/2430564/epis...
#Lesbian rocker Jennifer Knapp revisits her debut album Kansas and talks about her life and music. www.buzzsprout.com/2430564/epis...
Beyond Belief: Jennifer Knapp's Musical Journey - Tell Me, David
Jennifer Knapp burst onto the Christian music scene in the late 1990s with an energy and honesty that resonated with thousands of young people searching for meaning and connection. Knapp’s first three...
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August 28, 2025 at 11:23 PM
#Lesbian rocker Jennifer Knapp revisits her debut album Kansas and talks about her life and music. www.buzzsprout.com/2430564/epis...
Meet a queer journalist covering #LGBTQ news and fighting disinformation.
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The News Is Out: Queer Journalist Enrique Anarte - Tell Me, David
Over 5 billion people around the world use social media — and each of them spends, on average, about two-and-a-half hours a day texting, watching videos, gossiping, posting cat pictures and getting th...
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August 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Meet a queer journalist covering #LGBTQ news and fighting disinformation.
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A coalition of #LGBTQ community groups just won a stunning court victory in the Caribbean, overturning laws that imposed long prison sentences for same-sex intimacy. #queermedia
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LGBTQ Coalition Sweeps to Victory in Caribbean Court - Tell Me, David
The drive for legal equality for LGBTQ people has faced strong headwinds in the Caribbean in recent years. In February 2024, a court in St. Vincent and the Grenadines dismissed a challenge to the nati...
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August 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
A coalition of #LGBTQ community groups just won a stunning court victory in the Caribbean, overturning laws that imposed long prison sentences for same-sex intimacy. #queermedia
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Explore the history of transgender medicine, especially timely in the face of growing intolerance. #transgender #gayhistory www.buzzsprout.com/2430564/epis...
A History of Transgender Medicine - Tell Me, David
In more than three decades as a proud transgender man, Jamison Green has worked to advance the social, legal and civil rights of the trans community. Now he’s moved from making history to writing hist...
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July 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Explore the history of transgender medicine, especially timely in the face of growing intolerance. #transgender #gayhistory www.buzzsprout.com/2430564/epis...
#renewIESOGI Will the UN Human Rights Council reaffirm its commitment to LGBTQ rights? Learn about the upcoming vote.
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Watching a Close Vote for LGBTQ Rights at the U.N. - Tell Me, David
The global struggle to secure the human rights of LGBTQ people has a powerful advocate at the United Nations: the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual o...
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July 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
#renewIESOGI Will the UN Human Rights Council reaffirm its commitment to LGBTQ rights? Learn about the upcoming vote.
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The Supreme Court's conservative majority upheld a law banning gender affirming health care for #transgender youth in Tennessee. Listen to my conversation with legal scholar Brad Sears of the Williams Institute as we untangle the court's twisted logic. #LGBTQ
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Unpacking the Supreme Court's Betrayal of Trans Youth - Tell Me, David
Efforts to restrict the rights of transgender Americans got a boost from the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court June 18, 2025, when justices ruled 6–3 that a law banning gender affirming ...
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June 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The Supreme Court's conservative majority upheld a law banning gender affirming health care for #transgender youth in Tennessee. Listen to my conversation with legal scholar Brad Sears of the Williams Institute as we untangle the court's twisted logic. #LGBTQ
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Trump and Musk do agree on one thing: Cutting off lifesaving aid to LGBTQ people around the world. #LGBTQ #USAID
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Trump Axes Global LGBTQ Aid - Tell Me, David
When Elon Musk and his cadre of juvenile tech bros took a chainsaw to the U.S. federal government this year, they said they were out to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse. It just so happens that most o...
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June 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Trump and Musk do agree on one thing: Cutting off lifesaving aid to LGBTQ people around the world. #LGBTQ #USAID
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Has #pride month got you hungry to learn more about queer history and culture? Learn about the impact of gay restaurants on the #LGBTQ movement.
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A Side of Pride: Exploring America's Great Gay Restaurants - Tell Me, David
You are what you eat, says the old adage. For a diverse group like the LGBTQ community, what and where we eat has defined us in myriad ways for generations. Coming out and dining out have long been co...
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June 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Has #pride month got you hungry to learn more about queer history and culture? Learn about the impact of gay restaurants on the #LGBTQ movement.
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When is it better to speak out?
#LGBTQIA+ #Heroes #History #Journalism #Podcast
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David Hunt: Inconvenient Life and Legacy + Hilary Gavin: Self-Worth
Has anyone with power over you tried to silence you?
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April 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
When is it better to speak out?
#LGBTQIA+ #Heroes #History #Journalism #Podcast
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#LGBTQIA+ #Heroes #History #Journalism #Podcast
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www.buzzsprout.com/2430564/epis... Jason Jones is leading the legal fight to overturn antigay statutes in Trinidad and Tobago. #LGBTQ #queer
Jason Jones: Trinidad's Queer Freedom Fighter - Tell Me, David
The legacy of colonialism weighs heavily on member states of the Commonwealth of Nations, former territories of the British Empire. In the Caribbean Republic of Trinidad and Tobago that legacy is shac...
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April 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
www.buzzsprout.com/2430564/epis... Jason Jones is leading the legal fight to overturn antigay statutes in Trinidad and Tobago. #LGBTQ #queer
The National Park Service is trying to erase the history and memory of trans, queer and gender non conforming people, including human rights activist Pauli Murray.
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The Inconvenient True Life and Legacy of Pauli Murray - Tell Me, David
The Trump administration continues to rewrite history, scrubbing official websites of any mention of transgender, queer and gender conforming people and causes. Critics have called its efforts a digit...
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March 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The National Park Service is trying to erase the history and memory of trans, queer and gender non conforming people, including human rights activist Pauli Murray.
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Col. Bree Fram, the highest-ranking active-duty transgender officer in the United States military, talks about her life, her service and a family legacy of courage under fire. #LGBTQ #transgender #military www.buzzsprout.com/2430564/epis...
Pride and Patriotism: A Transgender Officer Stands Fast - Tell Me, David
If President Donald Trump has his way, the United States Defense Department will soon discharge as many as 15,000 transgender service members from the nation’s armed forces. Among the brave men and wo...
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March 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Col. Bree Fram, the highest-ranking active-duty transgender officer in the United States military, talks about her life, her service and a family legacy of courage under fire. #LGBTQ #transgender #military www.buzzsprout.com/2430564/epis...
Finding joy in trans masculine community building. #transgender #queer
The Joy of Trans Masculine Community
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February 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Finding joy in trans masculine community building. #transgender #queer
The upcoming season at the Kennedy Center will focus on yacht rock!
February 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The upcoming season at the Kennedy Center will focus on yacht rock!
Can someone create an app that can scan a research paper and report its NSF flagged word score? I used 20 different banned words in my master’s thesis but it took me a lot of work to figure that out. I think other researchers would like to brag about their scores.
February 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Can someone create an app that can scan a research paper and report its NSF flagged word score? I used 20 different banned words in my master’s thesis but it took me a lot of work to figure that out. I think other researchers would like to brag about their scores.
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Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs
National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.
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February 5, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Elon Musk has forced his way into the system that pays your Social Security checks and tax refunds.
He likely now has access to your Social Security number.
He likely now has access to your Social Security number.
Musk’s Lackeys Seize Control of Social Security Check System
The world’s richest man now has access to the sensitive personal information of millions of Americans.
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February 3, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Elon Musk has forced his way into the system that pays your Social Security checks and tax refunds.
He likely now has access to your Social Security number.
He likely now has access to your Social Security number.
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If a 19-year-old Canadian who calls himself Big Balls marches into your federal agency and demands access to your system, telling him to fuck right off should be the mildest reaction you have.
February 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
If a 19-year-old Canadian who calls himself Big Balls marches into your federal agency and demands access to your system, telling him to fuck right off should be the mildest reaction you have.
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Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
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February 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...