A Queer POV: Friends, Loves, & Life

Real conversations. Meaningful connections. Join me, David Begor, as I sit down with a friend to explore love, identity, and growth, from a queer point of view. www.aqueerpov.com

A Queer POV: Friends, Loves, & Life is a society podcast hosted by David Begor, with 29 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

David Begor hosts A Queer POV: Friends, Loves, & Life, a society show with 29 episodes published.

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  Episode #28

  Shadow Banned for Existing: How Meta Made It Okay to Call Us "Mentally Ill"

  May 1, 202623 minS1

  <p>In this solo episode of A Queer POV, David Begor takes apart what Meta has done to the queer community, with receipts.</p><p>It starts with a thought experiment. A friend who notices everything you do, knows everything you watch, and one day leans in and whispers that if you keep posting about being queer, they'll make you invisible. That friend is the Instagram algorithm.</p><p>David walks through what's actually happened: Instagram quietly blocking #gay, #lesbian, and #trans for teens for months in 2024. More than 50 LGBTQ+ organizations shadow banned or shut down across the globe in 2025...

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  Episode #27

  Still Here: Kenny Patrick on HIV, Sobriety, and Living Out Loud

  Apr 21, 20261h 16mS1

  <p>Kenny Patrick and David go way back to 1983. Life separated them, but reconnecting a few years ago gave David a front-row seat to someone living with extraordinary depth, honesty, and humor.</p><p>In this conversation, Kenny opens up about living with HIV since the age of 21, nearly 28 years of sobriety, a relapse in 2025, and getting sober again. They talk about identifying as non-binary after more than five decades, what community actually means and what it cost to lose it, and the surprising places where grace shows up, like a lesbian named Cosmic Carla who didn't let Kenny keep...

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  Episode #26

  After 60: Mark Tammaro on Divorce, HIV, and Building a Life That's Finally His

  Apr 6, 202655 minS1

  <p>Mark Tammaro didn't plan to start over at 62. After a 16-year marriage, a career he set aside to support his husband, and an HIV diagnosis that's followed him for 35 years, Mark found himself single, starting fresh, and, for the first time in a long time, building a life that's entirely his own.</p><p>In this episode, Mark talks about what it means to reinvent yourself after 60. He shares the story of losing his first partner to AIDS in 1992, surviving a diagnosis that was supposed to be a death sentence, and the slow realization that the comfortable life he'd...

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  Episode #25

  We've Always Marched

  Mar 24, 202620 minS1

  <p>We’ve Always Marched: Why We Protest, Why It Matters, and Why March 28th</p><p>In this solo episode of A Queer POV: Friends, Loves & Life, host David Begor traces the full arc of LGBTQ protest, from the first Annual Reminder Day pickets in 1965, through Stonewall, Harvey Milk, ACT UP, and the fight for marriage equality, to the No Kings movement happening right now.</p><p>David has attended Pride marches for forty years. In this episode, he makes the case that every single one of those was a protest, and connects that personal history to the largest no...

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  Episode #24

  They're Coming for the Ring: The Fight to Overturn Marriage Equality

  Mar 17, 202617 minS1

  <p>They're Coming for the Ring: The Fight to Overturn Marriage Equality</p><p>In this solo episode of A QueerPOV: Friends, Loves & Life, host David Begor takes on one of the most urgent threats facing LGBTQ Americans right now: the coordinated effort to overturn marriage equality.</p><p>From a Waco judge who handed same-sex couples handwritten refusals, to Jonathan Mitchell — the architect of Texas' abortion ban — now filing federal lawsuits against Obergefell, David traces the full strategy: who's behind it, what they're building, and what it could mean for your marriage.</p><p>This one is personal. David got...

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