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06/25/2026

Join us tonight LIVE for our 24 HOURS OF PRIDE show! We're joined by special guest Maxwell Freudenthal and so much more at 7 PM on KFAI - Fresh Air Community Radio for 90.3 FM in and around the world at KFAI.org, Noncommercial Community-Powered Radio!

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06/23/2026

Happy Pride! Please join us on KFAI for our 24 hour Pride Celebration starting at 6AM Thursday June 25 to 6AM Friday June 26, 2026. There will be a variety of hosts from the community with a q***r-o-licious assortment of topics, music and fun.
Along with community folks Fresh Fruit hosts will join the fun.
Shimmer at 6am Thursday - Daybreak with Shimmer
Alfred Walking Bull, Comrade Tom, Malcolm Lee at 7pm Thursday-Fresh Fruit show
Dixie Treichel - 12am Friday - Q***r Trailblazers in Electronic and Experimental Music.

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06/19/2026

Quiet Riot: Saturday Jun 20, 10:00 AM – Jun 20, 8:00 PM
at Q***rmunity MN — 3036 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis
https://www.q***rmunitymn.com/events

Quiet Riot is a sensory-friendly Pride celebration centering joy, community, and visibility in a calm, welcoming environment. Designed for neurodivergent, disabled, and sensory-sensitive q***r folks as well as anyone seeking a gentler celebration.

Quiet Riot honors the loudness of q***r identity through quiet, intentional spaces.This is not a toned-down Pride- it’s a reframed one. Our goal is to elevate q***r voices and identities in ways that respect varied sensory needs, emotional capacities, and energy levels.

The day’s schedule includes wellness sessions, educational workshops, accessible performances, crafts, and a resource fair. All activities and the general space design are geared toward sensory needs, neurodivergence, and accessibility.

06/18/2026

Tonight June 18, Tune into Fresh Fruit, 7-8 pm CDT with Dixie and guests LM Brimmer, Zelia Gonzales, A.P. Looze and
Marcela Michelle from Out Loud Out Here, an interdisciplinary showcase with some of the most electrifying q***r performance artists working in the Twin Cities presented by Q***r Voices MN.
Out Loud Out Here is Friday 6/26 & Saturday 6/27 @ 7 PM at Red Eye Theater in Minneapolis.

LM Brimmer is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. In 2019, they co-edited the anthology Q***r Voices: Poetry, Prose and Pride with John Medeiros and Andrea Jenkins. Their essays and poetry can be found in Tiny Spoon, Heavy Feather Review, Adoption & Culture, Pleiades, Voicemail Poems, Quarterly West and elsewhere.

Zelia Gonzales is a clown and improviser creating physical, unsettling work driven by what goes unsaid. They are the host of Clown Picnic and a regular performer at Bryant Lake Bowl.

A.P. Looze is an Interdisciplinary artist. They make ritual-as-performance, work that is mystical, embodied, and rooted in transformation and collective aliveness.

Marcela Michelle is a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and transdisciplinary performer. Her work has appeared at Walker Art Center, Guthrie Theater, Red Eye Theater, Q***rtopia, Patrick’s Cabaret and beyond.

Q***r Voices Reading Series was founded in 1993 by Carolyn Holbrook with original curators Andrea Jenkins & John Medeiros. It is currently co-curated by LM Brimmer and Sherrie Fernandez-Williams and often in collaboration with other community-based and literary organizations as partners.

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06/03/2026

KKFAI - Fresh Air Community Radios 24 of PRIDE Programming will be Thursday, June26th and we have open submissions for interested folx from them LGBTQIAS2+ community here in the Twin Cities who are interested in hosting their own Radio Program!

Fresh Air Community Radio KFAI Celebrates Pride Month, Thursday, June 25, 2026 Bring your voice to the celebration; submit a program proposal for Pride on KFAI—featuring an immersive 24 hours of continuous programming produced and delivered by Minnesota's LGBTQIA2S+ community. 2026 Pride Programmi...

05/21/2026

Tonight May 21, Tune into Fresh Fruit, 7-8 pm CDT with Dixie and guests Benjamin Wilson, Deon Kirby, John Heimbuch,
Elora Riley and Lily Rains.

It’s Minnesota American Indian month and Benjamin Wilson (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), Artistic Producer of New Native Theatre and Deon Kirby, Community Engagement Coordinator of the Indigenous Peoples Task Force will be talking about their organizations and the Two Spirit Powwow on June 23, 2026 at the Minneapolis American Indian Center.
New Native Theatre is proud to present the 5th Annual Reclaiming Our Identities Two Spirit Powwow returning to the Twin Cities in 2026. The Two Spirit Powwow is Minnesota’s only powwow honoring our Native Two Spirit and LGBTQ+ relatives.
This free, family-friendly event brings together over 500 people for a full day of dancing, drumming, regalia, craft vendors, and a community feast. It’s more than a celebration — it’s a sacred space for visibility, culture, and love.

Then I’ll be joined by John Heimbuch, Artistic Director of Walking Shadow Theatre Company and director of Topher Payne's
gay comedy Perfect Arrangement, along with performers Elora Riley who plays Mrs. Martindale and Lily Rains as Barbara Grant.

Q***r government workers try to keep up appearances during Senator McCarthy’s Lavender Scare.
It’s 1950, and the government is purging the “enemies within”. Two U.S. State Department employees, Bob and Norma, have a great track record of rooting out Communists. Now, they’ve been tasked with identifying sexual deviants among their ranks. There’s just one problem: Both Bob and Norma are gay, and have married each other’s partners as a carefully constructed cover.
Inspired by the true story of the earliest stirrings of the American gay rights movement, this production from Walking Shadow Theatre Company blends madcap classic sitcom-style laughs with provocative drama as two “All-American” couples are forced to stare down the closet door. Perfect Arrangement runs May 30 – June 21, 2026 at the Crane Theater in Minneapolis.

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05/11/2026

Happy Birthday Fresh Fruit! Celebrating 48 years on KFAI since May 11, 1978!

Special thanks to all the hosts and engineers throughout the years! This is a list of the known ones:

Ted Faigle-Kell, Richard MacDougall aka Shannon, Mark Matthiessen aka Maya, Kirk Hoffmeier (founders), Claude Peck, Marj Schneider, Gary Peterson, Steve LaVigne, Kate Redmond,
John Sutton, Eleanor Savage, Kim Hines, John Killacky, Debbie Davis, Rob Yeager, Leigh Combs, Dixie Treichel, Aundaray Guess, John Townsend, Nick Metcalf, Roxanne Anderson, Rochelle James, Abigail Garner, Ann McNally, Women of Color Building Project, Felicia Washington Sy, Bob Tracy, Ka, Max Gries, Gender Hotdish, Norman Strizek, Pat (Patricia) Nelson, Adam Fairbanks, Katrina Plotz, Peter Gokey, Kendrick Winthrop-Davies, Andy Birkey, Keith Pederson, Jeremy Brezovan, Torsten Magnus Peterson, Shimmerlie Villagomez aka Quinn Villagomez aka Shimmer, Trevor Charon, Alfred Walking Bull, Cole Graske aka BE, Comrade Tom Vance, Malcolm Lee.

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04/16/2026

Tonight April 16, Tune into Fresh Fruit, 7-8 pm CDT with Dixie and filmmakers Keri Pickett and Dawn Mikkelson talking about their careers and recent documentary film UNCLE ROY directed by Keri about her gay uncle Roy Blakey who was a professional theatrical ice skater, trail-blazing photographer and creator of his IceStage archives with over 44, 000 items.

Keri Pickett, Pickett Pictures LLC, is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer, author and artist. Her films include Uncle Roy, Finding Her Beat, First Daughter and the Black Snake and The Fabulous Ice Age. As a photographer Keri started working for the Village Voice in the 1980s and then branched out into a multifaceted career that took her photographs into International and national museums, newspapers, books and magazines. Her book FAERIES won a Lambda Literary Award for Best Fine Art Book. Keri’s artistic interest is in family and community in her documentation of life’s commonalities in disparate communities. Her upcoming film is Ribbon Skirt Warriors (in post production).

Dawn Mikkelson, founder and executive producer of Emergence Pictures, is a multi-Emmy award winning director, producer, editor and award winning filmmaker whose work has broadcast and screened internationally. Her films include Uncle Roy, Minnesota Mean, Finding Her Beat, and Risking Light. A former television news reporter at an ABC affiliate, Dawn has taught documentary film, served as Broadcast Content Manager at PBS North in Duluth, MN and received national acclaim by NAJA (Native American Journalist Association). Dawn’s filmmaking focuses on collaborating with historically underrepresented communities. Her upcoming film is Ribbon Skirt Warriors (in post production).

plus music and announcements

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04/09/2026

UNCLE ROY (2026), a documentary film directed by Roy Blakey’s niece Keri Pickett makes its North American Premiere at the MSP Film Society Minneapolis-St Paul International Film Fest
(MSPIFF) April 10 @7:00 pm and April 11 @1:40 pm

Roy Blakey, (1930-2024), was a gay professional theatrical ice skater, trail-blazing photographer and creator of his IceStage archives with over 44, 000 items. He travelled the world with Holiday on Ice, took headshots for Broadway's stars and LGBTQ icons, such as Divine and Candy Darling, and was known as the “forefather of gay photography” with his male nudes that were highly revered in the art world. His filmmaker/photographer niece Keri Pickett traveled the world with him, lived with him in NYC and Minneapolis and became his caretaker when he developed dementia. His complete works have been donated to the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, an archive for LGBTQ history and culture.

https://mspfilm.org/show/uncle-roy/
https://uncleroyfilm.com/

Keri Pickett, Producer, Director, Cinematographer / Dawn Mikkelsen, Producer, Editor / Me-Lee Hay, Composer

Keri Pickett and Dawn Mikkelsen will be my guests on Fresh Fruit April 16 at 7pm

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