Out Loud: The Best of Rainbow Radio

From a small radio studio in the heart of the Deep South, the voices of gay and lesbian Southerners suddenly filled the AM airwaves. "For far too long, " the announcer said, "talk radio airwaves have been dominated by the people who talk about us. Starting this fail, we speak for ourselves! " What began as an experiment-Rainbow Radio, South Carolina's first gay and lesbian radio show-has grown into a grassroots-driven community radio show that, since 2005, has offered diverse, accurate, and often unparalleled stories of gay and lesbian Southerners, their families, and their friends. Their stories, collected for the first time in Out Loud, will inspire you, enrage you, and transform the way you think about what it means to be gay and lesbian in the South.