Ilona Verley talks about being Two-Spirit, competing on Canada's Drag Race, the "crazy fluidity" she's experiencing right now around her gender, and how she achieves her "head-to-toe monochromatic, pastel perfection."
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Ilona Verley: Drag Race's Two-Spirit Queen

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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.
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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

Ilona Verley: Drag Race's Two-Spirit Queen

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