Isn't It Queer
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Isn't It Queer
A weekly LGBT talk show on community radio station WDBX 91.1 covering news and topics of interest to Southern Illinois LGBTQ communities.
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2026-07-15 - Traumas and Allegations
Jonny is back from a meditation retreat this week while Heather is off at a writer's conference in Chicago. Still, they put together a show. Jonny rec...
2026-07-08 - Bullheaded and Blind
Jonny interviews Carbondale native, Ben. Ben was born in Carbondale and spent a significant chunk of his early life here before traveling to Peru and...
2026-07-01 - SCOTUS Fireworks
Jonny and Heather review some of the recent Supreme Court decisions, celebating the surprisiningly good ones while also giving space to concerns and f...
2026-06-24 - Stagnation & Flow
Jonny and Heather respond to data that suggests worldwide LGBTQ+ rights advanced in the 2010s but are stagnating in the 2020s. To put a little more ho...
2026-06-17 - You're an Insult! You're a Distraction!
Jonny and Heather offer a brief recap of their Pride on the Strip, Carbondale PrideFest experiences before moving on to other festive events that happ...
2026-06-10 - Church Pride
As part of Pride Month, Jonny and Heather conduct interviews with local LGBTQ+ advocates. In the front half of the shaow, Jonny interviews Father Jerr...
2026-06-03 - Kicking Off Pride Month with Leah Fantasy
Jonny interviews local drag superstar Leah Fantasy about their life, their experiences growing up nonbinary and Southern Illinois, and their amazing p...
2026-05-27 - A Little Goes a Long Way
Heather and Jonny track a theme across recent stories impacting LGBTQ+ communities that the smallness of a minority group severely limits its power....
2026-05-20 - The Value of Shade
Jonny and Heather welcome summer on the other side of Memorial Day, remembering what this coming weekend is meant to recognize. The provide some updat...
2026-05-13 - Troll Refuting
Jonny and Heather face the summer with news of Southern Illinois Pride plans. This information has recently been circulated on local social media. In...
2026-05-06 - No Problem? No Solution!
Jonny and Heather dive into a series of headaches for the LGBTQ+ community, starting with the DOJ's investigation of 36 school districts in Illinois f...
2026-04-29 - Trans Presentation(s)
Jonny and Heather conduct separate interviews in this episode, featuring talks with transgender writers doing presentations in Carbondale this coming...
2026-04-22 - Kicking OUT!
Jonny and Heather review a serise of recent current events where "kicking out" rather than "coming out" rings the queer content. They look at hypocrit...
2026-04-15 - Dr. Donnie in the Shade
Heather and Jonny extend April Fools to make sense of the foolishness of the Trump Administration in the last week. Behind the clearly mockable "accom...
2026-04-08 - Hypokristi
Jonny and Heather are a bit disturbed about recording Wednesday's show before the destructive deadline Trump has set for Iran. They discuss the postur...
2026-04-01 - Stepping Away from Conversion
Jonny and Heather are joined by T--Dr. T!--who recently defended his dissertation about leaving a local cult. They discuss the No Kings protest, the S...
2026-03-25 - The Destructive Reductive
Jonny welcomes Heather back from complications with a routine operation removing a kidney stone. They dive right into the hot mess that is the war/not...
2026-03-18 - Bullysh*t
Jonny is joined by Craig to discuss queer neurodivergence and bullying. In the front half of the show they focus on a TikTok video by Christopher Mack...
2026-03-11 - Trans Liberty
Jonny and Heater interview Samantha Boucher, Founder and Executive Director of Trans Liberty, the first US political action organization dedicated sol...
2026-03-04 - Verses v. Versus
Heather and Jonny commiserate over the eruption og globala military actions and the controversyies around the Trump Administrations actions and (lack...
2026-02-25 - This Authority Ain't Absolute
After taking a break for a few weeks from the Epstein Files, Jonny and Heather return to discuss them and other stories that show the limits of trying...
2026-02-18 - Dis Confirmation
Heather and Jonny confront two stories of mass shootings this week, one in Canada with a confirmed transgender assailant and one in Rhode Island with...
2026-02-11 - Sports Cookies
Jonny and Heather celebrate an unnexpacted and probably lasting warmer rest of February. They turn their attention to the World Human Rights report th...
2026-02-04 - Piecing it Together
Jonny welcomes Heather back to the show, although there is still snow on the roads and the cold is only now slowly loosening its grip. They vortex out...
2026-01-28 - Speculative Friction
Jonny and Heather are both snowed in this week, but Jonny has a good mic and computer and power at home, so he offers this episode born from staying h...
2026-01-21 - (Dumpster) Fire and ICE
Jonny is fresh back from the annual winter retreat of Gay Spirit Visions' winter gathering where the theme was protecting our joy while we live throug...
2026-01-14 - People Suffer When Their Government Can Never Be Wrong
Jonny and Heather dive deep into the implications of an ICE agent's killing of Rene Good in Minneapolis this past week. The murder of a queer mother o...
2026-01-07 - Blade Running into the Future (Some Predictions)
Jonny and Heather offer an overview of trends from 2025, linking the hard lessons learned about AI to the hard lessons learned from the first year of...
2025-12-31 - A Queer Year in Review
Jonny assembes a mix tape of 2025's contributors to IIQ as well as a sampling of some of the strange stories he and Heather have discussed in the past...
2025-12-24 - Xmas Grifts...uh, I mean Gifts
Jonny and Heather lean into the holiday season to see the various factors affecting LGBTQ+ communities as gifts--some are gifts we never wanted, some...
2025-12-17 - Community Heels
Jonny and Heather take a deep dive into what "community" means when we reference the LGBTQ+ community and the idea that leanng into community is how w...
2025-12-10 - Culture Wars and Piece Awards
Jonny and Heather prepare for a pending brutal cold streak by diving into the heat of ongoing culture wars. It's not just political power that forms a...
2025-12-03 - The Winds are Shifting
Jonny and Heather discuss a host of current event stories that indicate the political winds are shifting. Ultimately, this is good news for the LGBTQ+...
2025-11-26 - Alternate Histories and Gratitude
Jonny and Heather welcome Thanksgiving with gratitude built on how things are and how they are not. In looking at a few recent stories in the news, th...
2025-11-19 - The Good, The Bad, and The Weird
On the other side of auroras in Southern Illinois, Jonny and Heather dive into some weird stories--like the aurora, things they thought they would nev...
2025-11-12 - At a Crossroads
In the front half of the show, Jonny interviews Junara, Grace, M, and Shelby--the director and some of the devising cast from "At a Crossroads," a per...
2025-11-05 - Forest v. Trees
Jonny and Heather hike into the landscape of major media stories dropped in just the last week. We know President Trump saturates the airwaves in orde...
2025-10-29 - Don't Dream It, Be It!
Jonny interviews Rosie in the first half of the show, a co-director of a local presentation of The Rocky Horror Picture Show with a shadow cast leadin...
2025-10-22 - The Emperor Has No Clothes! Ew!
Jonny and Heather start out the show reveling in some new media that shows representations of queer and trans identities are still prevalent in popula...
2025-10-15 - Hope in the Cracks
Jonny and Heather examine what appear to be cracks forming in and between the GOP and the Trump Administration. Although the authoritarian state still...