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Lilly Roddy 2023 Astrology Predictions

We speak with Astrologist Lilly Roddy about 2023 predictions.  Lilly Roddy has been an Astrologer for the last 25 years. She counsels individuals in personal, business and financial matters as well as teaches classes in Astrology. Her original interest in astrology, like most, was to come to a better understanding of who she was and how to make the most of her life. She originally took astrology classes and began reading charts about 6 months after her first class. She continues to study all areas of astrology and metaphysics to expand her base of knowledge. Her long term goals are to bring astrology into more main stream businesses and to help people to find their sense of purpose and fulfillment.

Guest: Lilly Roddy
https://lillyroddyshow.com

Queer Voices airs in Houston Texas on 90.1FM KPFT and is heard as a podcast here.  Queer Voices hopes to entertain as well as illuminate LGBTQ issues in Houston and beyond.  Check out our socials at:

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Field Director Equality Texas Brad Pritchett -- Singer Songwriter Aaron Coleman -- LGBTQ Victory Fund

We speak field director of Equality Texas, Brad Prichett about the upcoming session of the Texas legislature. We speak about the upcoming bills concerning the LGBT community and what is being done to defeat the anti-LGBT legislation. Equality Texas works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration. The Equality Texas Foundation works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Texans through education, community organizing, and collaboration.

Guest: Brad Pritchett
http://www.equalitytexas.org

Finally, we speak with poet/musician Aaron Coleman for part two of his interview concerning his experience in the church.  We also speak about his work and his famous relatives. We hear some of his poetry and about growing up in Houston. He is also a musician describing himself as, "R&B, soul/pop, pop, progressive jazz, funk, ballad, eclectic music, aaron coleman, texas, poet, songwriter, musician."

Guest:  Aaron Coleman

Finally we speak with folks from the LGBTQ Victory Fund about the upcoming Champaign Brunch happening on March 5th at the Post Oak Hotel.  LGBTQ Victory Fund works to achieve and sustain equality by increasing the number of openly LGBTQ elected officials at all levels of government while ensuring they reflect the diversity of those they serve.

Guest: Poonam Kapoor and Eric Blackwell
https://victoryfund.org

Queer Voices airs in Houston Texas on 90.1FM KPFT and is heard as a podcast here.  Queer Voices hopes to entertain as well as illuminate LGBTQ issues in Houston and beyond.  Check out our socials at:

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Writer/director Crystal /bolden -- Pride Chorus Houston -- Poet Aaron Coleman

We speak with writer/director of the film, "Reina of the West", Krystal Bolden. Director Krystal Bolden creates a beautiful masterpiece with students from Sam Houston State University. Reina of the West is the tale of outcast women trying to survive in the old west. When the ranch is threatened by a group of men jealous of her success, Reina and her girls must prove they have what it takes to survive. The film premieres Friday at MATCH

GUEST: Krystal Bolden  
https://matchouston.org/events/2022/reina-west

Then we speak with Dr. David York, music director of Pride Chorus Houston about their upcoming concert "Don We Now" happening on December 10th at Resurrection MCC. They are celebrating the holiday season the way only Pride Chorus Houston can! Join the chorus family during the most wonderful time of year. We will be making spirits bright with beautiful music from traditional Christmas carols to Hanukkah hymns, Solstice songs to sing-a-longs! So don all your gay apparel and join them for a holiday tradition.

GUESTS: Dr. David York
https://www.pridechorus.org/events/don-we-now

Finally, we speak with poet/musician Aaron Coleman about his work and his famous relatives. We hear some of his poetry and about growing up in Houston. He is also a musician describing himself as, "R&B, soul/pop, pop, progressive jazz, funk, ballad, eclectic music, aaron coleman, texas, poet, songwriter, musician."

Guest: Aaron Coleman
https://www.soundclick.com/artist/default.cfm?bandid=50202

Queer Voices airs in Houston Texas on 90.1FM KPFT and is heard as a podcast here.  Queer Voices hopes to entertain as well as illuminate LGBTQ issues in Houston and beyond.  Check out our socials at:

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Club Q Shooting -- Arden Eversmeyer Passing -- Texas Pride Impact Funds 5 year anniversary -- Juan Palomo Part 2

We discuss the life and times of Arden Eversmeyer, Houston activist. Jean Arden Eversmeyer, known as Arden (1931-2022) founded both Lesbians Over Age Fifty (LOAF) and the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project (OLOHP) and was a mayoral appointee to the Houston, Texas Agency on Aging.  After retirement, she dedicated her efforts to ensure that older lesbians have access to community resources and that their unique life stories are recorded and celebrated. Arden Eversmeyer died in Houston TX on 14 November 2022.

Then we speak with Ron Guillard, executive director of Texas Pride Impact Funds.  Texas Pride Impact Funds exists to propel the LGBTQ+ movement in Texas by supporting nonprofits that help thousands of our citizens across the state every day. Our work strengthens community organizations and their leaders, mobilizes donors and funders, inspires giving, and actively secures our LGBTQ+ community's future for generations to come.

Guest: Ron Guillard
https://txpif.org

Finally, we have the second part of an interview of activist Juan Palomo.  Juan R. Palomo was born in Grafton, North Dakota to Mexican immigrant parents and grew up in Crystal City, TX, spending much of his first 20 years with his family on the migrant farm worker trail to midwestern states.

He moved to Houston In 1990 as a columnist for The Houston Post, to write three columns per week, with free reign to develop content. Palomo had been with the Post nine months when Paul Broussard was murdered during a gay bashing incident (July 4, 1991). Palomo was horrified, even more so, when Broussard's mother said she was unable to understand why someone would murder her son. Palomo concluded it was because people like him remained silent. He wrote, "I feel a special responsibility to speak out because I have this forum and, more important, because like Paul Broussard, I am gay." The column ended: "I didn't know Paul Broussard, but silence does equal death and I have a responsibility to ensure that Houston does not forget him, or how he died, or why."

Guest: Juan Palomo
https://www.houstonlgbthistory.org/banner1990b.html

Queer Voices airs in Houston Texas on 90.1FM KPFT and is heard as a podcast here.  Queer Voices hopes to entertain as well as illuminate LGBTQ issues in Houston and beyond.  Check out our socials at:

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LGBT Playwright Bryan Keyth Wilson -- Car Takes with Deborah and Joel

We speak with Bryan Keyth Wilson, playwright of the play "Strapped".  Dubbed the Literary Prince, Wilson is an Award-Winning playwright and noted multi-hyphenate in the theatre and publishing industry. As a theatre artist/ producer, diversity, equity and inclusion are at the forefront of every project he takes on. BKW started producing theatre Off-Off-Broadway at The Variety Cafe at Rockefeller Center with shows such as Pamlet and The Subway Series. BKW studied Musical Theatre with a Dance emphasis at Sam Houston State University. He is the founding artistic director of The Creative Co-Lab TX|NYC. BKW is a published author of three novels, ten plays, a choreopoem, and 32 monologues. 

 Wilson received a playwright residency with the Paterson Performing Arts Development Council in Paterson, NJ. He is the inaugural winner of the Stories of Diversity Playwright Festival at The Fulton Theatre. Wilson won three literary awards for his choreopoem FOR COLORED BOYZ on the verge of a nervous breakdown/ when freedom ain't enuff, and produced a sold-out showcase Off-Broadway at Theatre Row a sold-out World Premiere of FOR COLORED BOYZ at The Fulton Theatre. Wilson is developing his first comic book series, The Talented Tenth, for Wilson Comics/B’s Ink Publishing. He is a five-year faculty member of The Black Writers Reunion & Conference and creator of the LIFT EV’RY VOICE International Playwright & Spoken World Virtual Festival. Wilson is a proud member of The Dramatist Guild.

Guest: Bryan Keyth Wilson
https://creativecollabhtx.wixsite.com/strapped/


Then, we speak Joel Sandel and Deborah Hope about their YouTube channel "Car Takes with Deborah and Joel".  Professional actors Deborah Hope and Joel Sandel are also avid film and theatergoers who enjoy sharing their thoughts on the things they see in and around Houston, Texas.

Guest: Joel Sandel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCltMWMkG3sTr3SQT4Mfnkw/featured

Queer Voices airs in Houston Texas on 90.1FM KPFT and is heard as a podcast here.  Queer Voices hopes to entertain as well as illuminate LGBTQ issues in Houston and beyond.  Check out our socials at:

https://www.facebook.com/QueerVoicesKPFT/ and
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World AIDS Day -- Activist Juan Palomo -- Hunny Phillips

We speak with CEO of AIDS Foundation Houston about his work at the organization and the upcoming World AIDS Day. World AIDS Day is a day to raise awareness about HIV and remember the community members and loved ones we have lost to AIDS/HIV. Houston ranks 11th in the nation for new HIV transmissions. Over 26% of those new transmissions will be diagnosed with AIDS, and there are 29,643 people living with HIV in the Greater Houston Area.

Guest John Huckaby
https://www.worldaidsdayhouston.org

Then we speak with activist Juan Palomo. Juan R. Palomo was born in Grafton, North Dakota to Mexican immigrant parents and grew up in Crystal City, TX, spending much of his first 20 years with his family on the migrant farm worker trail to midwestern states.

He moved to Houston In 1990 as a columnist for The Houston Post, to write three columns per week, with free reign to develop content. Palomo had been with the Post nine months when Paul Broussard was murdered during a gay bashing incident (July 4, 1991). Palomo was horrified, even more so, when Broussard's mother said she was unable to understand why someone would murder her son. Palomo concluded it was because people like him remained silent. He wrote, "I feel a special responsibility to speak out because I have this forum and, more important, because like Paul Broussard, I am gay." The column ended: "I didn't know Paul Broussard, but silence does equal death and I have a responsibility to ensure that Houston does not forget him, or how he died, or why." 

Guest: Juan Palomo
https://www.houstonlgbthistory.org/banner1990b.html

Finally we speak Hunny Phillips about her work in the community and the LGBT Marriage club. The LGBT marriage club ensures that the world knows Love is Love. The organization helps build strong relationship foundations by acting as a resource hub dedicated to providing counseling, events, and fellowship dedicated to the LGBT+ community.

Guest: Hunny Marie Phillips
https://www.facebook.com/TheLGBTMarriageClub/

Queer Voices airs in Houston Texas on 90.1FM KPFT and is heard as a podcast here.  Queer Voices hopes to entertain as well as illuminate LGBTQ issues in Houston and beyond.  Check out our socials at:

https://www.facebook.com/QueerVoicesKPFT/ and
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Montrose Grace Place -- Tokyo Night Festival Sumo Matches -- Fitness guru/novelist Shana Ross

We speak with Courtney Sellers, executive director of Montrose Grace Place. A native Houstonian, Courtney started as a Direct Mentor and Treasurer with Montrose Grace Place in 2015. In 2017 she took over as MGP Executive Director, helping to add a second night of services, increase resources, and make Montrose Grace Place more accessible for more LGBTQ+ youth. Courtney is passionate about amplifying the voices of youth experiencing homelessness and the specific intersectional needs of MGP youth who are victims of both racism, sexism, and homophobia & transphobia. Courtney loves to spend time with her daughter and their dog, exploring Houston’s many thrift shops, and making a lot of noise about public transportation in Houston.

Guest: Courtney Sellers
https://www.montrosegraceplace.org

We speak with organizers of the Sumo match at the Tokyo Night Festival event. Tokyo Night Festival was started when Chef Naoki, owner of Shun Japanese Kitchen, decided to bring together amazing chefs that have been inspired by Japan to create Japanese street food with their own flair. Tokyo Night Festival aims become the largest attractions in Texas through bridging Japanese communities and those that love Japanese culture, by bringing a piece of Japan to Houston.

Guest: Tam Lo
https://www.tokyonightfest.com

Then, we speak with the incomparable Shana Ross for part two of her interview, fitness guru and author of the novel, Tribeless. For many adoptees, feeling out of place with no sense of true belonging is all too common. From the time she was a small child, Shana Ross struggled with these emotions. She felt mismatched from her family and her environment – like an outsider waiting to be let in.

And then the truth came: her parents told her she was adopted. From that moment forward, Shana felt that her inner nature overruled nurture at every turn. She felt isolated and alone.

Tribeless is Shana’s account of her tumultuous upbringing by parents who never understood the biracial child they adopted from an agency in 1950s Texas. She shares the pivotal events that finally pushed her to challenge the Texas court system in 1994 to unseal her closed birth records and begin a two-year search for her birth mother that ended in heartbreaking failure. Her quest gained new hope with the advent of online DNA testing that led to the discovery of her accepting tribe twenty-two years after her search first began.

Tribeless: Discovering the Truth about Nature vs. Nurture as One Woman Finds Her Birth Mother is a guiding memoir for adoptees who have craved a family that truly understood them – for those who have been waiting for their true tribe.

Guest: Shana Ross
https://www.amazon.com/Tribeless-Discovering-Nature-Nurture-Birthmother-ebook/dp/B0BFK5VDTF

Queer Voices airs in Houston Texas on 90.1FM KPFT and is heard as a podcast here.  Queer Voices hopes to entertain as well as illuminate LGBTQ issues in Houston and beyond.  Check out our socials at:

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Equality Texas GOTV -- Walk for Mental Health -- Author Shana Ross

First, we speak with Brad Pritchett about his work as Field Director of Equality Texas. We talk about the need to get out and vote in this election.  We discuss the upcoming Get Out the Vote event, "The Met Queerla" occurring this Saturday at the West Gray Metropolitan Service Center from noon to 2pm.

Guest: Brad Pritchett
https://www.equalitytexas.org


Then, we speak with Patrick McIlvain about the founding of the Walk for Mental Health Awareness.  The Walk for Mental Health Awareness – Houston is a community based event that helps raise awareness and funding for Greater Houston area non-profit agencies and programs that provide mental health services; creating an environment for our positive public dialogue.

Guest: Patrick McIlvain
https://www.thehoustonwalk.org/home/

Finally, we speak with Shana Ross who has written a book entitled "Tribeless". "Tribeless" is Shana’s account of her tumultuous upbringing by parents who never understood the biracial child they adopted from an agency in 1950s Texas. She shares the pivotal events that finally pushed her to challenge the Texas court system in 1994 to unseal her closed birth records and begin a two-year search for her birth mother that ended in heartbreaking failure. Her quest gained new hope with the advent of online DNA testing that led to the discovery of her accepting tribe twenty-two years after her search first began.

Guest: Shana Ross
https://www.amazon.com/Tribeless-Discovering-Nature-Nurture-Birthmother-ebook/dp/B0BFK5VDTF

Queer Voices airs in Houston Texas on 90.1FM KPFT and is heard as a podcast here.  Queer Voices hopes to entertain as well as illuminate LGBTQ issues in Houston and beyond.  Check out our socials at:

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Stages Theatre production "Plumsugah:The Rise of Lauren Anderson" Director and Choreographer

We speak with director, Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton of the Stages Theatre production of "Plumsugah:The Rise of Lauren Anderson". This innovative new work blends spoken word, dance, music, and theater for a vivid and intimate look into Lauren Anderson’s rise to ballet royalty and her eventual triumphant rise to accept her authentic self. In 1990, Lauren Anderson became one of the first Black principal ballerinas of a major ballet company when she ascended to Principal Dancer of the Houston Ballet. Unknown to her adoring audiences, she brought with her on stage the weight of her own tumultuous relationships, abuse, and battles with addiction. In PLUMSHUGA , you’ll share a conversation with Lauren at home, where she breaks the fourth wall to discuss her greatest trials and successes by reliving them in memories painted by music and dance. This is Lauren Anderson’s story in her words, for the first time ever.

Guest: Deborah Mouton
https://stageshouston.com

Then we speak Harrison Homer-Guy, activist and choreographer of Plumsugah about his work on this production and his work in the community.  A leader in Houston’s Black queer community since 2005, Guy was no stranger to being at the helm of an LGBTQ-focused organization. To those who knew him, his work, and his community involvement, there was no question of what he was capable of doing or what he had already accomplished. But the Mayor’s Board presented a new challenge for Guy—and the community was watching closely. What transpired over the next three years was sincere, honest, and inspiring leadership. Guy also is behind the creation of Urban Souls, In the Beginning History: Urban Souls Dance Company (USDC) grew from a solo performed by founding artistic director Harrison Guy at the city-wide dance festival Dance Houston on July 30, 2004. Harrison decided to explore his potential for leadership and choreography and began teaching a free modern dance class on Sundays at Barnevelder Movement Arts Complex. 

Guest: Harrison Homer-Guy
http://urbansouls.org

Queer Voices airs in Houston Texas on 90.1FM KPFT and is heard as a podcast here.  Queer Voices hopes to entertain as well as illuminate LGBTQ issues in Houston and beyond.  Check out our socials at:

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Return to the studio (live radio)

We speak with the folks from the Houston LGBT Political Caucus about the Equality Brunch. The 13th Annual Equality Brunch: Not Going Back, presented by Texas State Senator John Whitmire on Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 11:15 AM at the Post Oak Hotel. VIP Reception starts at 10:30 AM.

Emceed by Lisa Foronda Harper, the Equality Brunch will raise funds to help us elect our slate of pro-equality candidates this fall during the midterm elections. The afternoon will include a special appearance by former Kansas State Representative Stephanie Byers, as well as our annual Caucus award presentations.

Guest: Piper Madland

Then we speak about the history of gay radio in Houston.  We speak with Jack Valinski about his work in the community,

Guest: Jack Valinski

Finally we speak with Judy Reeves about the history of Afterhours and the show that took its place, Facets.

Guest: Judy Reeves

Queer Voices airs in Houston Texas on 90.1FM KPFT and is heard as a podcast here.  Queer Voices hopes to entertain as well as illuminate LGBTQ issues in Houston and beyond.  Check out our socials at:

https://www.facebook.com/QueerVoicesKPFT/ and
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