John Griffiths: GALECA
March 2024
#ILoveGay Today meets up with John Griffiths, Executive Director & Founder of the 500-members-strong GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics & Dorian Awards. Join us as we chat about the history of GALECA, including the membership, comprised of LGBTQ+ journalists who write on television, film and theater for reputable media outlets in the US, Canada, Australia, the UK and beyond. We als...
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Danny Andrews
February 2024
#ILoveGay Today meets up with Danny Andrews, originally a lawyer from LA working for Priceline, and now an entrepreneur living the dream as a digital nomad in Mexico. Join us as we chat about how Danny is blending is legal background with his various loves and passions, including life as a business advisor, life strategist, career coach and mental health warrior, with a focus on consulting BIPOC a...
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Rainbow Hill Recovery
February 2024
#ILoveGay Today meets up with Joey and Andrew of Rainbow Hill Recovery, a center based in Los Angeles that helps the LGBTQ+ community recover from substance use disorders. Join us as we chat about how they got started with Rainbow Hill Sober Living in 2021, opening Rainbow Hill Recovery in the summer of 2023 to focus on treatment for Substance Use Disorders and Mental Health for the LGBTQ+ communi...
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Kirstie Pike and Christine Diaz: She Comes With Baggage
January 2024
#ILoveGay Today meets up with Kirstie Pike and Christine Diaz from On Airplane Mode, where we chat about their new podcast, She Comes With Baggage, debuting January 22, 2024. Join us as we chat about some of their original work in creating one of the leading LGBTQ+ travel platforms in the US with their community of over 650k+ followers.
In their new podcast, they will be exploring the nuances o...
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Ben Kawaller
January 2024
#ILoveGay Today meets up with Ben Kawaller, writer, playwright, screenwriter and video reporter. We chat about his first work in NYC, interning at New York Magazine. Since then, having moved to Los Angeles, Ben has been writing for Wehoville, The Free Press and LA Magazine. He's also written TV pilots and more, including The Next Best Thing and This Isn't Me, which was accepted into SXSW 2020 and ...
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Joseph Fenity
December 2023
#ILoveGay Today meets up with Joseph Fenity, an independent journalist and new media producer, based in Los Angeles. Join us as we chat about his start in journalism over 20 years ago with his NYC 9/11 interviews, now digitized and available online as part of a larger digital archive. We chat about Joseph's journalism career, as well as his pioneering role in podcasting pioneer. We also chat about...
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Anthony Bawn: Bonded
October 2023
#ILoveGay Today meets up with Anthony Bawn and the cast of his new film, Bonded, set for a limited release starting October 27 2023. Bonded, the first black queer thriller, is set to become the LGBTQ+ horror film of the decade! The premise is that Doctor Reeve and his group of friends, while on their annual friend's trip discover they're being stalked by a psychologically disturbed patient from Re...
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David Cruz: FruitLoots.com
September 2023
#ILoveGay Today meets up with David Cruz, co-founder of FruitLoots.com based out of West Hollywood, CA. Join us as we learn about how FruitLoots was born out of the pandemic, and just a few virtual happy hours, to become an amazing small business sourcing its products primarily from LGBTQ+ vendors. They've created a variety of curated gift boxes, including gift boxes with homemade candles, that ar...
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Peter DeWitt: GayWellness.com
September 2023
#ILoveGay Today meets up with Peter DeWitt, founder of GayWellness.com based out of Los Angeles. We chat about the growth of his website, along with its comprehensive database of listings. It's also nice to see Peter both partnering with other LGBTQ+ organizations that have a health & wellness angle to them, as well as attending some of the various LGBTQ+ health & wellness events happening across ...
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Mitch Hara
July 2023
#ILoveGay Today connects with Mitch Hara, originally from Chicago, then NYC with an Off-Broadway stint (including Studio 54), and finally Los Angeles, where he lives now. Mitch has been in a variety of films, but his real love is the stage. Listen in as he talks about his work with Jason Stuart in the show "Smothered", now in its second season and available on all of the major streaming services ...
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Jason Stuart
July 2023
#ILoveGay Today meets up with Jason Stuart, openly gay comedian and actor from Los Angeles. We chat about how he got started with his acting career first, as an extra on "One Day at a Time "in 1977. He began his comedy career in 1983, and as a featured comedian, came out publicly in 1993 on Geraldo Rivera show. Jason has an amazing history as an openly gay actor and comedian, having performed at t...
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NiK Kacy: Queer Prom
May 2023
#ILoveGay Today meets up with NiK Kacy, founder and producer of Queer Prom - Behind the Velvet Rope, a Studio54-themed fundraiser party for Equality Fashion Week at Sunset at Edition in West Hollywood, as part of the #WehoPride programming for June 2023.
NiK Kacy, a self-described queer activist, designer, entrepreneur, and event producer, has been actively involved with events and fundraising...
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Kevin Yee
May 2023
#ILoveGay Today meets up with Kevin Yee, where we chat about his recent TV pilot release, "A Guide to Not Dying Completely Alone". Recently premiering at SXSW, Kevin brings to the screen life from a queer, Asian perspective. Join us as we chat about his show, as well as his life and career, spanning from growing up in Vancouver, Canada to moving to New York to pursue a life on Broadway, and then ...
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DJ Paul V: Dragstrip 66
April 2023
#ILoveGay Today meets up with a Los Angeles icon, DJ Paul V., one of the founders of the original Dragstrip 66, which ran from 1993 to 2013 in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles. Dragstrip 66 was the place LA's queer/mixed underground eagerly descended upon for an evening of messy drag and trashy rock ’n roll. Listen in as Paul tells us a bit about his history and the history of Dragstrip 66, as w...
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