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Strange Fruit #151: Lea DeLaria on Queer Representation & her Proud Butch Identity
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29 minutes
Released:
Dec 20, 2015
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Lea DeLaria became the first openly gay comic ever to appear on American television, when she appeared on the Arsenio Hall Show in 1994. She chalks it up to hard work and the fact that "lesbian chic" was having its moment. But she didn't start out as a comedian - her father was a jazz musician, and her first gigs were as a singer. Now she's acting, of course, in the Netflix hit "Orange Is the New Black." DeLaria joined us this week to talk about her multi-faceted career (the latest of her six albums, a collection of David Bowie covers called "House of David," is currently blowing up the charts on Amazon). She'll be in town next February to appear with Voices of Kentuckiana in their annual Beaux Arts Ball fundraiser. And in our Juicy Fruit segment, we talk about an upcoming episode of MTV's True Life, "I'm a Gay for Pay Porn Star." (Photo credit: Sophy Holland)
Released:
Dec 20, 2015
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Podcast episode
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Strange Fruit #44: Some of My Best Friends...: Interracial Friendship in America: How multi-racial is your circle of friends? Are any of your close friends of a different race than yours? Not the lady who works down the hall from your office or the dad you chat with while waiting for your kid to get out of school. Someone who's been to your house or invited you over for dinner. A [recent poll by Reuters](http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/08/us-usa-poll-race-idUSBRE97704320130808) found that the many white people - 40% - have no friends outside their race. We on Strange Fruit figure this is probably no surprise to black folks. Among people of color, 25% of respondents said they didn't have friends outside their race. We wanted to talk more about the reasons why this might be the case, and what historical and demographic factors created the situation. So we spoke to Tanner Colby, author of [Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America](http://www.ta by Strange Fruit