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Alzheimer's in the LGBT community - - Number's the nightclub documentary

We speak to the Alzheimer's Association of Southeast Texas about the disease in the LGBT community and about an upcoming awareness event highlighting the services available specifically to the LGBT community. Currently, more than 400,000 Texans living with Alzheimer’s disease, and over 1,449,000 family and friends are providing care. Serving the Greater Houston Metro Area and Southeast Texas, including Galveston and the Bay Area, Beaumont, Lufkin, Nacogdoches, and the Brazos Valley, the Alzheimer’s Association Houston and Southeast Texas is here to help. 

GUEST: Ann Marie MacDonald
https://www.alz.org/texas

We talk to director Marcus Pontello of the film, "Friday I'm in Love," the new documentary about Numbers Night Club, The film will be screened at Numbers on Saturday, July 31 at 8 pm and Sunday, August 1 at 7:30 pm. 

GUEST: Marcus Pontello
http://www.numbersdocumentary.com/credits

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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Hate in the State Legislature - Supreme Court Case Part 2

We speak with Brad Pritchett, field director for Equality Texas, about the Texas legilative session about the potetntial impact on the LGBT community. Brad details plans for the fight against these damaging bills.

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

Then we feature the second part of an interview with attorney Jason Lyon about the Supreme Court decision Fulton County --vs-- Philadelphia. In a surprising unanimous decision recently in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, the Supreme Court ruled that Philadelphia violated the First Amendment’s free exercise clause by refusing to contract with a Catholic foster care agency — Catholic Social Services — that refrained from placing children with same-sex families.

GUEST: Jason Lyon
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/18/supreme-court-handed-conservatives-narrow-religious-freedom-victory-fulton-v-city-philadelphia/?fbclid=IwAR010Q8b0gGBcIMiCg-7Fzf_PBxYRST_pHxyBrD_8w096w3CSUtBsNhJDBU

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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Anti Trans Texas Special Session -- Religious Freedom in the Supreme Court

Andrew Edmonson discusses the special session of the Texas legislature and what is at stake for the LGBT community. We discuss the anti transgender bill banning athletes from competing and its likelihood of passage. 

GUEST: Andrew Edmonson
https://www.equalitytexas.org/special-session-legislative-bill-tracker/

 
We speak with attorney Jason Lyon about the Supreme Court decision Fulton County --vs-- Philadelphia. In a surprising unanimous decision recently in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, the Supreme Court ruled that Philadelphia violated the First Amendment’s free exercise clause by refusing to contract with a Catholic foster care agency — Catholic Social Services — that refrained from placing children with same-sex families.

GUEST: Jason Lyon
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/18/supreme-court-handed-conservatives-narrow-religious-freedom-victory-fulton-v-city-philadelphia/?fbclid=IwAR3QBJRiaFWBP4zDWvS8K2ApMwHzeVtb-LXGVpCG5muCVdfKb68kYX9Ahs4

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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Author Stef M. Shuster - "Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender" -- Tori Williams Oral History Project

Guest co-host Alexis Melvin interviews author Stef M. Shuster regarding the non fiction work, "Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender". Surfacing in the mid-twentieth century, yet shrouded in social stigma, transgender medicine is now a rapidly growing medical field. In Trans Medicine, stef shuster makes an important intervention in how we understand the development of this field and how it is being used to “treat” gender identity today. Drawing on interviews with medical providers as well as ethnographic and archival research, shuster examines how health professionals approach patients who seek gender-affirming care. From genital reconstructions to hormone injections, the practice of trans medicine charts new medical ground, compelling medical professionals to plan treatments without widescale clinical trials to back them up. Relying on cultural norms and gut instincts to inform their treatment plans, shuster shows how medical providers’ lack of clinical experience and scientific research undermines their ability to interact with patients, craft treatment plans, and make medical decisions. This situation defies how providers are trained to work with patients and creates uncertainty. As providers navigate the developing knowledge surrounding the medical care of trans folk, Trans Medicine offers a rare opportunity to understand how providers make decisions while facing challenges to their expertise and, in the process, have acquired authority not only over clinical outcomes, but over gender itself.

GUEST: Stef M. Shuster
https://nyupress.org/9781479899371/trans-medicine/

Tori Williams, local AIDS activist, discusses the 40th anniversary of the first reports in the United States of the disease that would come to be known as AIDS; the Oral History Project's work chronicling the HIV crisis in the Bayou City; and the significant progress that The oH Project has made thus far, with 75 out of 100 interviews having been completed.

GUEST: Tori Williams
https://www.legacycommunityhealth.org/pol-oh-history/

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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History of Houston Pride Parades - Tennessee and Truman biopic

We discuss the history of Pride Parades in Houston with LGBT historian JD Doyle. We discuss how the parade originated and its move to a night time event.

GUEST: JD Doyle
http://www.pridehouston.org

Then we speak about the film "Tennessee and Truman: An Intimate Portrait". The work, lives, and personal journeys of iconic American artists Truman Capote and Tennesee Williams coalesce with creative combustion in this innovative dual-portrait documentary. Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland distills the loves, fears, and artistic achievements of these masters via an array of archival materials, film clips, and vibrant voiceover work from Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto as Capote and Williams, respectively. Packed with pearls of wisdoms and eloquent observations, the film celebrates the sometimes tumultuous friendship of the titular writers through the ages, while honoring the way their queer identity informed their world-renowned artistic achievements and relationships with their family, confidants, and -- most significantly -- each other.

GUEST: Andrew Edmonson
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/apr/22/jim-parsons-zachary-quinto-truman-capote-tennessee-williams?fbclid=IwAR0kSJPhpFnFIp9srVckv22y9wf0Sjfw6_Bp32c-MgslKTwTn9S2GloVbDw

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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Museum of Fine Arts exhibit "Hockney/Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature" -- "Pride" the TV show 

We discuss the Museum of Fine Arts exhibit,"Hockney – Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature". This exhibition examines the common ground between British artist Hockney (born 1937) and Dutch artist Van Gogh (1853–1890). Both expressed their profound love of nature through brilliant color and the capacity to see the world with fresh eyes. The Joy of Nature reveals Van Gogh’s unmistakable influence on Hockney in a selection of carefully selected landscape paintings and drawings.

GUEST: Andrew Edmonson
https://www.mfah.org/exhibitions/hockney-van-gogh-joy-of-nature?fbclid=IwAR1vWlFCiz1XNyw9VG4_yfwJrVKhuvWi73YVTgFsWhwvzyRuyE3ezcHx3aQ

Then we speak about the groundbreaking show,"Pride”.  Seven renowned LGBTQ+ directors explore heroic and heartbreaking stories that define us as a nation. The limited series spans the FBI surveillance of homosexuals during the 1950s Lavender Scare to the “Culture Wars” of the 1990s and beyond, exploring the queer legacy of the Civil Rights movement and the battle over marriage equality.

Guest: Andrew Edmonson
https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/pride

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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Texas Legislative Nastiness -- Pose the TV Show and its Impact

Today on Queer Voices, We speak with Brad Pritchett and discuss the Texas state legislature and the multiple pieces of legislation filed against the transgender community. These bills were unsuccessful in the regular session but the Lieutenant Governor has lobbied for a special session to take up these bills. We discuss these and other bills that are being pushed in Austin.

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

Then, we speak with Diamond Stylz about the television program "Pose" which has recently concluded. We discuss what this show meant to the LGBT community and the barriers that it broke.

Guest: Diamond Stylz
https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/pose

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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Texas State Legislature -- LGBT Senior Center

We discuss the Texas state legislature and the multiple pieces of legisation filed against the transgeder community. These bills were unsuccessful in the regular session but the Lieutenant Governor has lobbied for a special session to take up these bills. We discuss these and other bills that are being pushed in Austin.

GUEST: Andrew Edmonson 
 
We speak with Joseph Magallanes, Senior Services Program Cooridnator of the Montrose Center about the Law Harrington Senior Living Center. The Center at 2222 Cleburne Street is an affordable, LGBTQ-affirming senior living center that will feature 112 one- and two-bedroom independent living apartments for low-income individuals and couples who are 62 years and older. Additional features of the property will include: a social services department managed by the Montrose Center, geriatric primary care clinic provided by Legacy Community Health, a group dining area, meeting and game rooms, a fitness center, dog park, and outdoor recreational spaces.

GUEST: Joseph Magallanes
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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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Trans murders in Texas -- Anna Eastman fights anti-trans legislation

We talk with local activist Diamond Stylz about the murder of Iris Santos. Santos, a 22-year-old Latina transgender woman killed in Houston, Texas, on April 23, 2021. Iris’ death is at least the 18th violent death of a transgender or gender non-conforming person in 2021. We discuss her life and the rise in trans murders in Texas.

GUEST: Diamond Stylz
https://www.hrc.org/news/hrc-mourns-iris-santos-latinx-trans-woman-killed-in-houston

Then we speak with Anna Eastman to discuss the raft of anti-transgender legislation engulfing the Texas legislature, and her perspective on it as the parent of a trans child and as a straight ally and advocate. Eastman has served in the Texas house of representatives and as a trustee on the Houston ISD School Board

GUEST: Anna Eastman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Eastman

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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anti-trans bills in the Texas legislature -- Houston poet Robin Reagler

We discuss the activities of the Texas legislature and the current anti-trans legislation making its way through the state house. Andrew Edmonson is interviewed about the latest bills attacking the trans community in Texas.

GUEST: Andrew Edmonson
https://www.equalitytexas.org/legislative-bill-tracker/

Then, we speak with Houston poet Robin Reagler to discuss her latest book of poetry, "Into The The," which won the "Best Book Award" from Backlash Press. She will read several excerpts from her work to give listeners a sense of her work.

GUEST: Robin Reagler
https://robinreagler.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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