2011 TC/RHDF Competition Winners
By 2011 Winners
The Too Hard Basket
By John Blades
Only in the last 60 years or so have people begun to talk openly about sex, but one group is often left out of the discussion. (more)
Dia's Diary: My Mother
By outLoud Radio
Dia Fallana is a young transgender woman living in a depressed area of Oakland, California. In this radio essay, she explains how her mother's anti-gay attitude kept her in the closet -- until she was forced to tell the truth. (more)
Weighing the Balance
By Kellie Hudson, Dick Miller & Mike Bryan
Weighing the Balance evolved from a simple question: What happened to six men who were named and shamed in a very public news conference staged by the Toronto Police? (more)
An Interior Life
By Laurence Grissell
A meditation on love, loss and loneliness in south London, An Interior Life tells the story of Bernard, an 86-year-old gay man who has been alone since the death of his long term partner. (more)
Between Friends
By Jody Porter & Neil Sandell
Between Friends is the story of one woman’s coming to terms with being sexually victimized by her father. (more)
The Small Person Acquisition Project
By Kristin Nelson
This is a story about two men and a little baby... well, a big baby actually. (more)
Lady Bait
By Laura Vitale, Eric Barkin & Tye Pemberton
Lizzie and her sister think they are coming to Ray's just to see his monkey, but little do they know that Ray and Oscar have been sweating to the Harvey Carne Workout Method and Guide to Romance. (more)
Best of the Best: The 2011 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, Hour 2
By Katie Mingle
Re:sound's Gwen Macsai hosts this year's national broadcast, showcasing the best radio stories of the year - winners of the 2011 TC/RHDF Competition. (more)
Forbidden Love: Genetic Sexual Attraction
By Aziza Sindhu & Aaron Brindle
Ontario is the most recent province in Canada to open up adoption files in order to help birth families and adoptees find one another. But there is a disconcerting, though rare, consequence of adoptive reunions. (more)
Ruth Ellis
By Neenah Ellis
Ruth Ellis lived to be over 100 years old. She realized in her teens that she was gay but she didn't talk much about it then. (more)
Holy Soul
By Matthew Power, Dean Olsher & Emily Botein
Matthew Power first met poet Allen Ginsberg at his cousin's Bar Mitzvah, when he was a 15-year-old aspiring writer. (more)
Re:sound #11: The Chat Room Opera Show
By Various producers
This hour: sex on the Internet, music and memory, and more. (more)
2010 TC/RHDF Competition Winners
By 2010 Winners
Announcing the winners of this year's Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition! (more)
School Mothers
By Nicole Schultheis Walton
While their daughters play on the school playground, two women become acquainted and share tales of sex and marriage gone awry. (more)
When Do You Feel Feminine?
By outLoud Radio
After a teenager was killed near San Francisco for having a different biological gender from the one she expressed, some local middle-schoolers wanted to know why. What is gender, anyway? (more)
Summer Snow in Moscow
By Anastasia Gorokhova, Daniela Hannemann & Sasha Fomichev
Every summer it snows in Moscow -- because of sexually frustrated trees? What do you know about the sexuality of the poplar tree? (more)
Life Plays On
By Byron Flitsch
An insecure boy discovers, through a saying on a mug, that there is more going on in the lives of others than meets the eye. (more)
Tom Girls
By Mary Beth Kirchner & Rebecca Weiker
Tom Girls is the story of two eight year-old girls who meet at a conference for families with transgender children. (more)
Re:sound #1: The Very First Show Show
By Assorted producers
This week: an aural trip to one of the oldest cities in the world, an unconventional love affair, and a man who eats up all the books he reads (literally). (more)