Kenneth Turan overcame three almost insurmountable obstacles. The journalist and co-author of “Free for All: Joe Papp, the Public and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told” had already lost his literary collaborator, Papp, before the theatrical producer died in 1991. Prior to that, Papp had suppressed the material that Turan, longtime film critic for the Los Angeles Times, had collected about the New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theater and Papp’s other theatrical ventures. Yet, almost 20 years later, once Turan had convinced Papp’s survivors that the oral-history project would make historical sense, he still faced the daunting task of cutting ...

Recently, I was on a call with Queers for Economic Justice and was reminded of a website that I’m been wanting to share here on the website. The site is None on Record-Stories of queer Africa and it’s an oral history project of queer Africans organizing on the continent and through the Diaspora. It’s an exciting work to listen to and, as a audio podcaster, I love to hear the stories and can only imagine the empowerment that these stories give many other Africans who may not be able to speak out. Listen to the archive at http://noneonrecord.com/9/1/interviews.htm. ...