KinPride is an award winning 30-minute television talk-show about the GLBTA Community. View our awards on our Awards page.

The host of KinPride is Michael John Smith, who identifies as a gay man. Guests represent various GLBTA organizations, or are people in the GLBTA community who want to share their stories. Together these resources may help others deal with certain issues, or learn more about themselves, family members, and friends.

Two important elements of KinPride are the visual perspectives given to the GLBTA community; and dialogue created through telling the real stories of their lives. These elements may help dispel the myths that have been, and continue to be, perpetuated about them. After seeing their faces and hearing their voices through stories, society at large will come to realize that they are no different.

Michael has been a resident of St. Cloud, MN for over a decade and is a 1997 graduate of St. Cloud Statue University with majors in Geography and Speech Communication. He has put these degrees to good use by traveling extensively both nationally and internationally with his long time partner, and as a talk-show host on television and radio.

In 1999, Michael launched his television talk-show about the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Allied, or GLBTA Community called KinPride. The show is produced in St. Cloud and broadcast on Cable Access throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin, and on Minnesota Public Television.

Michael has given presentations on self-acceptance and being confidently OUT to various local organizations and schools on these topics. Consider Michael for your next function, or event, that will leave attendees with a positive self-image.

He also hosts and edgy radio talk-show called The Morning Eye Opener, on AM 1450 KNSI, St. Cloud. The informational show creates dialogue about various communities, cultures, or issues.