Black Lives Matter co-founder and community organizer, Alicia Garza talks about her book, The Purpose of Power (now out in paperback). LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters and produced by The Advocate magazine, in partnership with GLAAD. Come find us on Twitter to recommend a guest @lgbtqpod @jeffmasters1

Alicia Garza: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart

*Nominated for Outstanding Podcast at the GLAAD Awards* Weekly interviews with the most interesting LGBTQ+ people in the world. Recent guests include Laverne Cox, Janelle Monáe, Pete Buttigieg, Brandi Carlile, Alok Vaid-Menon, and Angela Davis. LGBTQ&amp;A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters.

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(This interview contains explicit sexual content.) Gigi Raven Wilbur talks about learning that they were intersex in college, the transformational power of BDSM in their life, and how they're feeling living in Texas right now among the current onslaught of anti-trans legislation. 
LGBTQ&A; is an independent, listener-supported podcast. Please consider joining our Substack to help support our work.
This is a part of our special series, The LGBTQ+ Elders Project. Click here to listen to our interview with Martha Shelly, co-founder of the Gay Liberation Front. 
LGBTQ&A; is hosted and produced by Jeffrey Masters. @jeffmasters1

Gigi Raven Wilbur: Talking BDSM With the Bisexual Intersex Elder

Martha Shelley talks to poet Audre Lorde in an episode of her radio show, Lesbian Nation. This was originally recorded in 1972 and is a part of Martha's archive at the Lesbian Herstory Archive.
Martha is a pre-Stonewall activist who got her start in the 1960s with the Daughters of Bilitis. Click here to listen to our new sit-down interview with Martha that aired last week.
This is a part of our special series, The LGBTQ+ Elders Project. LGBTQ&A; is an independent, listener-supported podcast. Please consider joining our Substack to help support our work.
LGBTQ&A; is hosted and produced by Jeffrey Masters. @jeffmasters1

Lesbian Nation: Martha Shelley and Audre Lorde (Bonus Episode!)

Martha Shelley began her life as a gay activist before the Stonewall uprising. She talks about joining the Daughters of Bilitis, co-founding the Gay Liberation Front, the first pride march, and her memoir, "We Set The Night On Fire".
LGBTQ&A; is an independent, listener-supported podcast. Please consider joining our Substack as a paid Subscriber to help support our work.
This is a part of our special series, The LGBTQ+ Elders Project. Click here to listen to our interview with the 91-year-old drag queen, Bob 'Rose' Levine. Bob has been doing drag in Cherry Grove since 1955.
LGBTQ&A; is hosted and produced by Jeffrey Masters. @jeffmasters1

Martha Shelley: Gay Activism Before Stonewall

Mia Yamamoto talks about her work as a criminal defense attorney, the racism she faced growing up as a Japanese-American after World War II, and coming out as trans later in life.
LGBTQ&A; is an independent, listener-supported podcast. Please consider subscribing to our Substack in order to help support our work. 
This is a part of our special series, The LGBTQ+ Elders Project. Click here to listen to our interview with Duane Michals, the 92-year-old pioneering photographer. 
LGBTQ&A; is hosted and produced by Jeffrey Masters. @jeffmasters1

Mia Yamamoto: The Trans Lawyer 'Liberating' The Judicial System

Bob "Rose" Levine talks about his first trip to Cherry Grove in 1955, being a part of the original drag "Invasion of the Pines" in 1976, and how the AIDS crisis changed Fire Island in the 1980s.
LGBTQ&A; is an independent, listener-supported podcast. Please consider joining our Substack to help support our work.
This is a part of our special series, The LGBTQ+ Elders Project. Click here to listen to our interview with Joan Jett Blakk (a.k.a. Terence Alan Smith), the legendary drag queen who ran for president in 1992.   
LGBTQ&A; is hosted and produced by Jeffrey Masters. @jeffmasters1

Alicia Garza: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart

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