In this episode, Elizabeth Michelle Salinas, a former bartender of P B D's Lounge, the longest standing gay bar in Mcallen, TX (1984-Present). She shared what it was like to be a part of H.U.G.S (Helping Unite Gays and Straights), a now-defunct organization at Nikki Rowe High School, about the gay club scene along the border, and being a parent.
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Recorded and released 2019

Yvonne S. Marquez is a queer Tejana writer and editor from Mission, Texas, who recounts her upbringing along the border. In particular, Yvonne describes the challenges and internalized homophobia she faced during her high school years, finding community in Austin and Dallas, and the importance of telling stories with  nuance and care.
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Yvonne S. Marquez is a journalist and audio producer living in Brooklyn, New York. Yvonne’s reporting on LGBTQ issues, Latinx culture, reproductive health, and the climate crisis has appeared in The Guardian, BBC, Refinery 29, Autostraddle, Texas Monthly, and The Texas Observer. As a podcast producer, she's worked on episodes for Brutally Informed, a news and culture podcast on Audible, and Becoming an Icon, an iHeart Radio and Sonoro podcast about Latinx music stars. She’s a former senior editor at Autostraddle, a forward-thinking, feminist online magazine for queer and trans women and non-binary people. Yvonne graduated from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where she specialized in health/science reporting and audio journalism. She was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley .                                                                             --
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Recorded and released in 2019