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Restful Rainbow

Ducky Media

LGBTQ+ History bedtime and relaxation stories, aiming to offer comfort, representation, and a touch of magic to listeners drifting off to sleep.https://restful-rainbow.captivate.fm/support

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155 episodes

  1. Glad as Heck That You Exist: Lorraine Hansberry 🌱 LGBTQ+ History Sleep Story 1:02:58
  2. A Genius for Flowers: Gluck and Constance Spry | LGBTQ History 1:03:36
  3. Woven from Sand: Hastiin Klah, Navajo Weaver and Healer | LGBTQ History 1:07:05
  4. Cherry Grove: America's First Gay and Lesbian Town | LGBTQ History 1:01:50
  5. Pride Before Pride: A Queer History of Halloween 1:00:52
  6. No Kisses Is Like Yours: The Love Letters of Addie Brown and Rebecca Primus 1:06:42
  7. Silence = Death: ACT UP and the Monday Night Room (1987) 56:32
  8. The Soldier With No Name: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore 1:01:50
  9. That Is My Road: Osh-Tisch, Two-Spirit Warrior of the Crow | LGBTQ+ History 1:18:03
  10. Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and the First Coming Out, 1867 | LGBTQ+ History 1:13:43
  11. The Rough Voice of Tenderness: Chavela Vargas, Who Came Out at 81 1:12:54
  12. Joined in Life, Joined in Death: Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum | LGBTQ+ History 56:18
  13. Two Loves: Josephine Baker, Spy, Star, and Bisexual Icon | LGBTQ+ History 1:03:55
  14. The Wardrobe Door: Simon Nkoli and Africa's First Pride (1990) 1:08:31
  15. Love Won in the Rain: Taiwan, First in Asia (2019) 1:10:58
  16. The Night Ellen Came Out (1997) 1:09:05
  17. The Town With Three Genders: The Muxes of Juchitán 52:11
  18. The Surgeon's Secret: Dr. James Barry 1:12:34
  19. The Sword and the Silk: The Chevalier d'Éon 1:06:23
  20. The Middle Place: We'wha of Zuni 44:11
  21. My Beloved and I: The Ladies of Llangollen 1:06:34
  22. A Thing That Wants Virginia: Woolf, Vita, and Twenty Years of Letters 55:23
  23. It Belonged to All of Us: Gilbert Baker and the First Rainbow Flag 59:20
  24. The Stones That Remembered: Hawaii's Māhū Healers of Kapaemahu 52:25
  25. The Sun of Tabriz: Rumi & Shams and the Love That Created 40,000 Poems 56:50
  26. The Emperor Who Cut His Sleeve for Love: Ancient China's 2,000-Year-Old Love Story (Emperor Ai & Dong Xian) 45:12
  27. Apology Accepted: The Lavender Scare and the First White House Picket (1950–2009) 49:16
  28. Looking at the Stars: The Rise, Fall & Vindication of Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) | LGBTQ+ History Sleep Story 1:03:12
  29. Equal Dignity: The Love Story Behind Obergefell v. Hodges | LGBTQ+ History Sleep Story 48:39
  30. One Sentence That Changed Everything: ONE Magazine & the First Gay Supreme Court Victory (Jan 13, 1958) | LGBTQ+ History Sleep Story 45:10
  31. The Society of Fools: Harry Hay & the Mattachine Society, America's First Gay Rights Group (1950) | LGBTQ+ History Sleep Story 41:19
  32. That's God's Job: Dolly Parton, LGBTQ+ Ally (1946–2026) | A Sleep Story Tribute 54:50
  33. I Stop Somewhere Waiting for You: Walt Whitman, America's Queer Poet (1819–1892) | LGBTQ+ History Sleep Story 57:45
  34. The Most Talked-About Woman in the World: Christine Jorgensen (1926–1989) | LGBTQ+ History Sleep Story 40:02
  35. She Who Makes Her Meaning Known: Audre Lorde (1934–1992) | LGBTQ+ History Sleep Story 46:23
  36. Someone Will Remember Us: Sappho of Lesbos (c. 630–570 BCE) | LGBTQ+ History Sleep Story 49:09
  37. The Face in Every City: Hadrian and Antinous (130 CE) | LGBTQ+ History Sleep Story 43:36
  38. I Know My Own Heart: Anne Lister of Shibden Hall (1791–1840) | LGBTQ+ History Sleep Story 55:48
  39. The Corner of Turk and Taylor: The Compton's Cafeteria Riot (August 1966) | LGBTQ+ History Sleep Story 51:04
  40. A Quiet Revolution: India's Supreme Court Strikes Down Section 377 (Sept 6, 2018) 1:09:12
  41. Catullus and the Poets of Rome: Ancient Bisexual Poetry That Survived 2000 Years 45:57
  42. The Colonel Who Rode with Zapata: Amelio Robles, Trans Mexican Revolutionary 46:35
  43. The Voices We Carry: African Gender-Diverse Spiritual Leaders | LGBTQ+ Bedtime Story 45:08
  44. Charlotte Cushman's "Jolly Bachelor Women": The Lesbian Artists' Colony in Rome | LGBTQ+ Bedtime Story 46:03
  45. Tom Daley's Olympic Gold: "I Am a Gay Man and Also an Olympic Champion" | LGBTQ+ Bedtime Story 43:22
  46. Colette and Missy: Unconventional Love in Belle Époque Paris | LGBTQ+ Bedtime Story 43:27
  47. The Two Katharines: "America the Beautiful" Written by a Woman Who Loved a Woman | LGBTQ+ Bedtime Story 45:38
  48. Billy Strayhorn: The Openly Gay Genius Behind "Take the A Train" | LGBTQ+ Bedtime Story 40:03
  49. Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Who Refused Marriage and Chose Herself | LGBTQ+ Bedtime Story 39:25
  50. Radclyffe Hall: The Banned Lesbian Novel That Changed History | LGBTQ+ Bedtime Story 40:10