November 30th, 2022 Queer Voices- Remembering Arden Eversmeyer - Texas Pride Impact Funds anniversary - Juan Palomo
12/01/22 • 57 min
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:
https://www.facebook.com/QueerVoicesKPFT/ and
https://www.instagram.com/queervoices90.1kpft/
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:
https://www.facebook.com/QueerVoicesKPFT/ and
https://www.instagram.com/queervoices90.1kpft/
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November 23rd, 2022 Queer Voices - LGBT Playwright Bryan Keyth Wilson - Car Takes with Deborah and Joel
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
https://www.instagram.com/queervoices90.1kpft/
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December 7th 2022 Queer Voices - Writer/Director Krystal Bolden, Pride Chorus Houston, Poet Aaron Coleman
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:
https://www.facebook.com/QueerVoicesKPFT/ and
https://www.instagram.com/queervoices90.1kpft/
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