I'm Still Here- Creating trans + queer intergenerational community and choosing rural life
Out in the Open Radio Hour, Episode 32, Lucy Webb (our guest host and Chair of our Board) has a conversation with Ben Power from the Sexual Minority Archives. Listen to Ben share about his journey as a trans man, his life's work of the Sexual Minority Archives- one of the oldest and largest collections of LGBTQIA+ historical documents, media, and artifacts in the world, creating of intergenerational community, and choosing rural life that is affirming and nurturing. So many gems in this conversations, when asked what message he would give to his younger self, he says, "You are stronger than you think....and you have to join with others to do what you want to do in life." Below are some links to many of the references named in the conversation.
Music at the beginning and end of the episode is from My Gay Banjo. The first song at the beginning of the episode is Exactly Who you Are, and at the end of the episode we hear I'll Meet you in the Streets. Thank you My Gay Banjo for the use of your music! <3 Links:
Stonewall Rebellion, listen to our Out in the Open Radio Hour Episode 9,
When asked what the oldest publication in the Sexual Minority archives, Ben shared about the Public Universal Friend, an early rural gender queer person who documented their experience.