Politics & Me

Zach Adamson from the Indianapolis City Council comes in to help Lola make sense of the process to be a better and more well informed Voter!

Indiana Pride of Color

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Open Relationships

The idea of open relationships brings with it many emotions and reactions, but what are they exactly? Thom Turner stopped by the studio to chat with us about what exactly are open relationships. Thom is a part of an open relationship and comes with some great first hand knowledge. To help guide us in our […]

Queer Icon Cece Peniston

Finally! At the 2017 InterPride World Conference in Indianapolis, I had the opportunity to sit and chat with one of my favorite people, Cece Peniston! We chatted about her beginnings in music and her introduction into the world of Pride and LGBTQ+ people. She is a woman on a mission and I could not be […]

Addiction and the Opioid Epidemic – Part I

Original air date: Wednesday, June 27, 2018 Lola took a look into the world of addiction and opioids in Indianapolis and the rest of the country. Huge thanks to Deandre Jackson for sharing his experiences with addiction. These are important conversations for our communities to have so that we can be aware of the issues […]

Indy Queer Entertainment

We have been a touch absent lately with Pride planning, holidays, and such; however, we got together to look at the Indy gay bar scene. Indy has changed a lot in the last 10 years and we wanted to take a look at where it is right now. We looked at where drag is, where […]

Social Media

Our first recording with a LIVE AUDIENCE! We had an awesome conversation with Bill Skaggs, Executive Director of INDYPROV, and Thomas Turner about social media and its effects with in the queer community. We talked about the ever evolving role of social media and how it has influences the culture of the LGBTQI+ communities. 

Drag Moms

We sat down with Indiana legend Cassidy Fellows-Sommers to talk about drag mothers. We looked at the qualifications to be a drag mother, the characteristics of a drag mother, and how the idea of drag mothers has changes through the years. We called Lola’s drag mother, Della Licious in Fort Wayne, IN, to get her […]

Low Pone

A year ago, an Indy music venue took a chance on two queens and a dream. Carrie Keel, along with Mary Fagdalane and Auntie Christ, started a show for queens that stood out for their weirdness. These queens didn’t like to play by the rules that others had set before them and marched to their […]

Labels

Just the home team! Becky, DJ Big Baby and I had a great conversation on labels. Both labels we use to identify ourselves and labels we put on others. Again, we were not trying to answer the great questions about whether they are good or bad, we were just continuing the conversation. Just looking at […]