HOMOGROUND

And the winner is… 🥁🥁🥁 @oliveskatealliance 🎉 Thanks to everyone who participated in our water bottle giveaway! Stay tuned for our next merch giveaway 👀 If you missed the giveaway but want your own water bottle, check out the link in bio for our new merch drop 🔥 https://instagr.am/p/CeeWCIhJMn9/

🗣 MERCH GIVEAWAY 🗣 Homoground has new merch! To celebrate, we’re doing a weekly giveaway of some new stuff! This week’s giveaway is of our brand spankin new HOMOGROUND water bottles (modeled by Homoground founder @lynncasper )! Perfect for keeping your beverage cool at the beach, at the march, on the camping trip, or while writing down your gay agenda ✍🏾 Tag a friend in the comments here and make sure you’re both following @homoground to enter! If you share this post in your story, you get an extra entry 👀 we’ll be pulling a randomly chosen winner at the end of this week! https://instagr.am/p/CeOif7yrPZo/

✨COMMUNITY SUPPORTER SPOTLIGHT✨ Do you sometimes find it challenging to remember pleasure? There are times and circumstances when many of us lose access to pleasure. However, sex and sexuality do not have to be physically or emotionally painful. Getting support to recover or develop your erotic well-being is possible. Faye Hermine, Somatic Sex Educator and Sexological Bodyworker can help support you with mind-body oriented tools, either in person in Boston or via Zoom from anywhere! Faye’s work is trauma-informed, but best for folks who have emotional support systems in place and are not at the beginning of their trauma healing journey. Faye is not a therapist. Faye identifies as a queer non-binary transmasculine genderqueer, neurodiverse, white person who uses they/them pronouns. Faye offers sliding scale session prices as well as some pro-bono sessions. Clients of all sexual orientations, races, ethnicities, genders, occupations, abilities, relationship(s) styles, relationship(s) status, body sizes, and body shapes are welcome. See https://ift.tt/F73KDOa for more details. To be featured as a Community Supporter, please check out our Community Supporter tier on Patreon. Link in bio! https://instagr.am/p/CeCH7EVJEgI/

🌈✨ Do you have a song about queer joy? We want to hear it! The Homoground Podcast will release 4 episodes on the topic of queer joy later this summer. The episodes will feature inspirational music by queer musicians who share personal narratives of what queer joy means to them and the music they’ve made to embody and celebrate it. Submit your original songs to be considered for Homoground’s Queer Joy series by filling out the application form https://ift.tt/ihwUeRZ (link in bio!) #queerjoy #queermusic #queermusicians #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbtqia #pride #lgbtpride #queerpodcast https://instagr.am/p/CdrCxi5pntL/

11 years of Homoground. 🎉 Homoground launched it's first episode in January 2011 on Out Impact Radio. Thanks to everyone who has listened to an episode, been featured on the show and has played a part in Homoground's evolution! Here's to many more years of featuring music made by our LGBTQIA+ community! https://instagr.am/p/CZGLTVrNgOI/

New @queercoworking schedule alert! ✨ M: 11AM-1PM + 6-8PM EST T: 1PM-3PM EST W: 11AM-1PM EST TH: 1PM-3PM + 6-8PM EST F: 3PM-5PM EST SA: 11AM-1PM EST https://instagr.am/p/CYuK6zNFw_G/

TOMORROW! Link in @queercoworking bio✨MANIFEST MAGIC✨is a goal setting and accountability group that meets through quarterly goal setting meetings, weekly progress updates via Slack and daily focus sessions. You’ll have a chance to workshop your intentions into specific, achievable goals with not one but TWO innovative and supportive Queer coaches and a group of LGBTQIA+ folks. During the workshop, you’ll learn about the MAGIC method, created by Focus/Time coaches Honey and Casper, and is inspired by a combination of methods they both learned on their journeys. Don’t worry if you’re uncertain of your goals, both Casper and Honey will be workshoping your intentions so you can set achievable and growth-oriented goals! https://instagr.am/p/CYmYw76LR74/

Last month, Homoground surpassed 500,000 downloads of our music podcast(!!) according to our stats on Acast. So I'm not sure if that number is just reflective of the number of downloads we've received since we migrated to Acast in 2015, or if this number represents all-time number of downloads we've ever had in the 11 years of doing Homoground. Either way, it's a milestone to celebrate! woo hoo! 🥳 Okay, party hats aside, what does this number actually mean? Check out our post on Patreon for some data on our episode downloads and where that ranks us in the universe of podcasts. Plus, we lay out our intentions for 2022. Here's a hint: We believe that there is strength in collaboration and we want 2022 to be a year of fostering collaborative and creative growth. To read more visit our Patreon (link in bio) https://ift.tt/3r0i67u https://instagr.am/p/CYb6gZBFlVA/

🤠 NEW EPISODE ALERT 🤠 This is the first in a series of four episodes featuring a conversation with @wynnegreenwood Wynne Greenwood (Tracy + The Plastics), @ginagenius Gina Young and Homoground Producer @kidintheattic Maia Macdonald. Link in bio homos! https://instagr.am/p/CXwe7YZlg21/

Homoground sticker spotted next to @notart in the Boston area by @all.killer_no.filler !! Our green Homoground stickers are for our Patreon supporters only! Join us on Patreon at https://ift.tt/32ftELI (link in bio!) https://instagr.am/p/CXrCfYzrUkC/

Are you an upcoming artist that's also apart of the LGBTQ+ community? Do you find yourself wondering how you can get your music out there and if people will accept you? THIS SATURDAY, we are joined by 4 amazing queer professionals in the music industry: Neen Bowen, Bryce Xavier, Boyfriend and @homoground creator Lynn Casper. We will be discussing the experiences of each panelist as a way of inspiring you to fulfill your wildest dreams and show you exactly what is possible once you apply yourself. If you're hoping to learn about the best ways to put yourself out there as a artist that just so happens to be queer, and how to leverage your differences for more opportunities then this is the event for you! Our panelists 🤩 @brycexavier @neenbowen @lynncasper (@homoground, @queercoworking) @rapcabaret - - - - Hosted by @tammy.wayne You can get your free ticket in the link in our bio! We hope to see you there!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 ______ We will conclude the event with a Q&A and then a listening party. To be considered for music play and a chance to get feedback from music industry professionals in the listening session, submit one song LINK to [email protected] by Friday 8/20 at 5pm ET with subject line “SATURDAY SUBMISSION.” Late submissions will not be accepted. *Must be a Finessed Media VIP Career Development member OR purchase a SUBMISSION REVIEW ticket for consideration* https://instagr.am/p/CTX21Psl25a/

Follow @queercoworking to stay updated and join the FOCUS/TIME community! https://instagr.am/p/CQMLZRVtb7_/

Queer virtual co-working with FOCUS/TIME is 6 days a week! Sign up for a session at bit.ly/focustimeschedule or visit the link in our bio! https://instagr.am/p/CP8XQwUNfua/

PODCASTER RESOURCE 🎤 • We are proud patron supporters of the Podcasting, Seriously fund! Launched by @lanwilco - the Fund supports independent BIPOC, Queer and Trans audio producers in submitting high-quality work to media/journalism awards. With @airmedia and @pacificcontentco as Fund Partners, the Fund helps independent U.S. and Canada-based audio professionals submit work to key competitions by covering submission fees for producers, editors, and other creators. The Fund accepts reimbursement applications on a rolling basis year-round, and an individual can submit up to $200 in awards reimbursements! #independentpodcasts #queerresources #podcastingseriously https://instagr.am/p/CPqbq1itltd/

Homoground is 100% community funded. We are an independent podcast, our small but mighty team does everything from submission review, outreach, episode production, editing, creating - the list goes on. We are hoping to get to 100 Patreon supporters by the end of the year and need your help! Please consider joining our community, you can sign up for our $5 tier for access to our discord, Slack, newsletter and stickers OR pledge a custom amount at the bottom of the sign-up page. If all of our followers pledged just a dollar, we could achieve our goals of offering artist grants and produce so many more episodes with so many more artists!⁠ ⁠ Thank you for all of your support and being on this ground with us! https://instagr.am/p/CPgk95JNRMQ/

[Tomorrow] • FOCUS/TIME with other queer creatives in our June Goals Group. Plug into your intentions and set goals for yourself, your business, creative ventures, etc etc. in a supportive and encouraging space with other queer doers of things! This is a great way to build a network, get advice & accountability buddies, and brainstorm with other folks from near and far so we can all grow together. ⁠ ⁠ Registration link in our bio. FREE. Saturday, May 29th at 1 pm EST. https://instagr.am/p/CPbqTYlNjJi/

[ EVENT POSTPONED ] - Our Homotime event this month with @ratskinrecords has been postponed! Because we’re humans and are super busy! We’re still super excited to put on this event and are working on some fun stuff with the Ratskin Records crew, stay tuned for the new date and maybe even a new episode in the not-so-distant future. 😬 https://instagr.am/p/CPVzdtmNCcX/