Jonny and Heather, in the wake of Tax Day, discuss a variety of current events including the start of the Trump trial in New York, Arizona’s new/old abortion law from the 19th Century, and the latest excuses from JK Rowling. In the back half of the show they discuss the difference in how the major Presidential campaigns are appealing to LGBTQ+ voters. They also cover new drivers license policy in Illinois as well as end of the school year LGBTQ+ events in Southern Illinois.

Jonny and Heather return to some recent stories that have had some elaborations and developments that are, from a certain angle, good news. Stories revisited include: further evidence that the brain drain in red states is causing economic impacts and the Supreme Court refuses to take up the Washington state conversion therapy ban case. In the back half of the show, they discuss Grok, the X (formerly Twitter) trans-affirming AI that is causing Elon Musk such hearthache, and a survey of which states by proportion of the population are the queerest in the US,

Jonny curates a series of stories covering victories for LGBTQ candidates and policies in the 2023 midterm elections. This includes a stunning amount of defeats for those who ran homophobic and transphobic campaigns. Still, the haters in power are already devising ways to ignore the will of the people…if we let them! In the back half of the show, Jonny covers some significant movement in the Catholic Church rebuking homophobes/transphobes and slowly opening up to more inclusion of LGBTQ folks in the church. He also notes that the US is paying a price with the UN for its increasing amount of anti-LGBTQ legislation.