Tell Me, David

About Tell Me, David

Listen to queer stories — past and present. Produced by journalist David Hunt, a regular contributor to This Way Out: The International LGBTQ Radio Magazine.

Publisher

David Hunt

Category

history · news · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Dec 2024

Latest episode

31 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

29 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   31 Mar 2026

   Light Bird Sings Out for Transgender Visibility

   Veteran folk-rock musician Danni Hoshino surprised everyone — not least herself — when she came out as a transgender woman in 2022, just weeks before her planned wedding. But her gender identity wasn’t the only thing that changed. She moved from her native Boston to New York, changed her stage name to Light Bird, and began working on a new album of songs that bare her soul with gritty honesty and raw emotion. In this audio feature, Light Bird shares some of her new songs with journalist David...

2. 

   4 Mar 2026

   The Many Queer Worlds of Kestral Gaian

   Kestral Gaian brings a queer sensibility to their new book, The Boy From Elsewhere, putting a queer spin on that universal trope: the hero’s quest to conquer evil and save the world. It’s a genre-bending story featuring a young-adult cast of characters on a trek through the multiverse. The landscape is familiar at first, but beware. Nothing is quite what it seems. Gaian’s creative energy is nearly as boundless as their stories. They’re a poet, playwright, essayist, composer and author whose p...

3. 

   12 Nov 2025

   A Deadly Head Start: The Early Years of AIDS

   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 would eventually claim the lives of more than 700,000 Americans. Nearly 60% of the dead would be gay or bisexual men. It was the beginning of a global pandemic: AIDS — the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. To mark World AIDS Day — December First — journalist David Hunt revisits a story he first co...

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5,132

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 58 / 100

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Quality

89

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

0

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