"When you are not living an honest, open, true life, you are taking advantage of a privilege granted to you by older, gay, lesbian, queer people who have sacrificed tremendously so that you could come into this place."
Charles M. Blow joins us to talk about the decision to come out as bisexual in 2014, why we owe a debt to the queer people who came before us, and his new nightly news show, "Prime with Charles Blow" on the Black News Channel.
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Charles M. Blow: The Debt We Owe As Queer People

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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".
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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

Bob 'Rose' Levine: Has Been Doing Drag in Fire Island Since 1955

Ma-Nee Chacaby talks about learning that she was Two-Spirit as a kid, her rural upbringing, and the challenges of being an out indigenous lesbian in Thunder Bay, Canada in the 1980s. Ma-Nee is the author of A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder. (Note: This episode discusses domestic violence.)
"Put love in front of you when you get up in the morning and it'll guide you to a beautiful place. It'll guide you."
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 92-year-old pioneer photographer Duane Michals. 
LGBTQ&A; is hosted and produced by Jeffrey Masters. @jeffmasters1

Charles M. Blow: The Debt We Owe As Queer People

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