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Out Loud: The Best of Rainbow Radio
"Out Loud: The Best of Rainbow Radio" written by Ed Madden and Candace Chellew-Hodge and published by Hub City Press in 2010. The book is a collection of LGBTQ stories gathered from the radio show Rainbow Radio. These stories come from southerners mostly from South Carolina speaking about their experiences being gay in the south or experiences of family members. The book is split into three categories. First category is listening, listening to the stories of people in the LGBTQ community. Secondly is learning, learning about sexual identity and how it was introduced to these individuals. Lastly is resisting, the steps people from the book took in the form of resisting for the LGBTQ+ politically (for instance not voting for Ronald Reagan in the election), going against religious text and going against societal norms. Some of the topics in the book had nothing to do with sexuality but included taboo experiences that included mental health, women's rights, and intersectionality.

Aftermath of Out Loud: The Best of Rainbow Radio
After the publication of the book “Out Loud: The Best of Rainbow Radio” in 2013, two South Carolina universities, the University of South Carolina Upstate and College of Charleston assigned the book, a collection of personal tales of being gay in the South which cost USC Upstate $17,000. The College of Charleston provided the book “Fun Home”, a graphic novel form of a memoir, this cost the college $52,000. South Carolina legislators opposed the inclusion of LGBT themes at a public university. Sen. Tom Corbin of Greenville, a Republican, was the first to speak up, proposing an amendment that would take $100,000 from both schools' budgets and give it to children with special needs. Sen. Brad Hutto of Orangeburg, a Democrat, was at the forefront of the resistance, holding a four-hour protest against punishing the schools. The closest these universities got to receiving a budget cut was $70,000. Both parties decided that it would be best to tell them how to spend the money instead of cutting it.