Queer Queeries (2025)

26/09/2021

The 14th and FINAL interview of Season 2 featuring Erica Woodland is OUT NOW!!! 🌞🙏🏻🙌🏻

This was truly an incredible interview. There is so much to be done in terms of repairing relationships between medical institutions and marginalized folks, increasing mental health access, educating practitioners on their approach with folks who have been disenfranchised by the system, and so much more. But the one thing that must be at the center of all of these movements is healing. There is so much healing to be done from years of pain and trauma passed down for generations.

I’m so grateful for and the work he and NQTTCN are doing to help make these changes happen.
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23/09/2021

Philanthropy Thursday

Today, we are featuring the National Q***r and Trans Therapists of Color Network.

The National Q***r and Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN) is a healing justice organization committed to transforming mental health for q***r and trans people of color (QTPoC). They work at the intersection of movements for social justice and the field of mental health to integrate healing justice into both of these spaces. Their overall goal is to increase access to healing justice resources for QTPoC.

You can learn more about NQTTCN at the link in our bio and hear their feature on this week’s upcoming episode 🌞
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21/09/2021

Trailblazer Tuesday 🥸

Today we are featuring gay German s*xologist and early LGBTQ+ rights activist Magnus Hirschfeld.

From a young age, Hirschfield had a fascination with s*x and viewed it as something entirely natural and wholesome. This fascinations me growing agitation with the treatment he saw of gay people led him to found the Scientific Humanitarian Committee in 1897. The strategy was to promote research and education on all s*xual matters; in particular to debunk homophobic prejudice and to present a rational case for the decriminalization of homos*xuality.

Because of the committee and his tireless campaigns against it, in 1898, the German parliament debated the repeal of Paragraph 175 (criminalization of s*x between men). Though they were defeated, the debate put homos*xual equality onto the mainstream political agenda for the first time.

One of the greatest accomplishments of his life was establishing the Institute for Sexual Science in 1919, a space that promoted s*x education, contraception, marriage guidance counseling, advice for gay and transgender people, the treatment and prevention of STI’s, gay law reform, and women’s rights.

To learn more about Magnus Hirschfeld, go to the link in our bio. 💕

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12/09/2021

Our 13th interview of Season 2 featuring Niambi Ra is OUT NOW!! 🎶💙💚🎵

Niambi shares so much about her journey as recording artist and how that has intertwined with her journey as a q***r woman. One thing that really stuck with me though is this quote she made, which really hit home the theme for the season. We as q***r people are surrounded by so many negatives because of how the world still treats many of us. Sometimes we just have to actively remind ourselves about what is working. Surround ourselves with people who affirm us. We need to actively seek that joy so that the generations to come can continuously be inspired and make the change we ultimately wish to see.
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09/09/2021

Philanthropy Thursday 🎭

Today we are featuring National Q***r Theater.

National Q***r Theater is an innovative theater collective dedicated to celebrating the brilliance of generations of LGBTQ artists and providing a home for unheard storytellers and activists. By serving our elders, youth, and working professionals, NQT creates a more just future through radical and evocative theater experiences and free community classes.

You can learn more about National Q***r Theater at the link in our bio and hear their feature on this week’s upcoming episode 🌞
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07/09/2021

Trailblazer Tuesday 🎙

Today we are featuring blues singer, pianist, and gender-bending entertainer Gladys Bentley.

Bentley’s career skyrocketed when she appeared at Harry Hansberry's Clam House in New York in the 1920s, as a Black, le***an, cross-dressing performer. She additionally headlined in the early 1930s at Harlem's Ubangi Club, where she was backed up by a chorus line of drag queens.

She dressed in men's clothes (including her signature: tuxedo and top hat), played piano, and sang her own raunchy lyrics to popular tunes of the day in a deep, growling voice while flirting with women in the audience. Gladys spent much of her life receiving criticism for dressing in “men’s clothing” but, she continued to be brave and paved the way for many LGBTQ+ folks for decades to come.

According to a 2019 New York Times article, Gladys was “Harlem’s most famous le***an” in the 1930s and among the best-known Black entertainers in the United States.

To learn more about Gladys Bentley, go to the link in our bio 💕

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05/09/2021

Our 11th interview of Season 2 featuring Marla Louissaint is OUT NOW!! ❤️❤️

Marla drops countless nuggets of incredible wisdom throughout this episode. But one thing that really stuck with me is the necessity of knowing yourself, knowing what you stand for, so you can show up and do the work necessary to create change in the world. You have to be intentional with the work you do and how you do it. It’s not all reading and conversing. It has to be active. It’s a fight that requires everyone in their own spaces to pull up for black lives and combat each area that systemic racism persists in.
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02/09/2021

Philanthropy Thursday

Today we are featuring Claim Our Space Now ✊🏿

Claim Our Space Now is a resource and multimedia one-stop-shop for information and inspiration that will educate, motivate, unionize, and mobilize us in the task of dismantling an intricately woven system that was built to keep Black and brown bodies under the foot of white supremacy.

You can learn more about COSPACE at the link in our bio and hear their feature on this week’s upcoming episode 🌞
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31/08/2021

Trailblazer Tuesday 🎙

Today we are featuring drag king and q***r activist Stormie DeLarverie.

Stormie is widely known to have been the person to throw the first punch at Stonewall. She was the only “male impersonator”—while the rest of the cast were all men who were in drag—in the Jewel Box R***e, the period’s only racially integrated drag troupe. She not only appeared in traditional male attire onstage but wore it out in her day to day life.

In the period after Stonewall, her girlfriend who was a dancer passed away, and she left the entertainment business. She worked as a bodyguard for rite families during the days and a bouncer for le***an bars at night.

She had no tolerance for what she called “ugly,” meaning rudeness, bullying, or behavior that was otherwise intolerant of her “baby girls” at the bars she was protecting.

To learn more about Stormie DeLarverie, go to the link in our bio 💕

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22/08/2021

Our 10th interview of the season featuring Aneesh Sheth is OUT NOW!!!💕🤍💙

Aneesh and I talk so much, this episode, about the change that has happened amongst artists this past year. So many of us have found power in taking charge of and creating our own stories as opposed to waiting for powers—that don’t always look out for us—to. We look around ourselves and see the role models we for so long we’re unable to find. We are the inspiration and the change we have been needing to see. Aneesh is truly an outstanding guest, and I was so honored to chat about so many of these things with her 👑💕
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19/08/2021

Philanthropy Thursday

Today we are featuring The Next Generation Project ✨

The Next Generation Project is an organization dedicated to distributing resources to Black and Brown trans folks in need. Through donations and crowdfunding campaigns, they raise money to provide Trans people with the access to self care and mental health services to nourish their body, mind, and spirit. They believe by helping alleviate financial burdens today they can assist in shaping a future where the next generation of Trans folk will have leaders and elders to guide them.

You can learn more about The Next Generation Project at the link in our bio and hear their feature on this week’s upcoming episode 🌞
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17/08/2021

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Today we are featuring Ceyenne Doroahow, who is an author, activist, and founder of G.L.I.T.S, an organization dedicated to creating sustainable housing and healthcare for Black transgender people.

Ceyenne (pronounced Kai-Ann), the daughter of past features trailblazer Flawless Sabrina/Jack Doroahow, has always been well known in NYC’s trans and s*x-worker communities, where she’s supported and advocated for vulnerable individuals. She became more of a well-known name after she spoke at the Brooklyn Liberation March in June 2020. Videos of her remarks spread and introduced many cis, straight, white people to the compassion and power she was revered for.

In addition to being the founder and executive director of G.L.I.T.S, she is building her leadership academy and envisioning a medical center and combined housing unit in Queens, NY—building sustainability Like none other.

To learn more about Ceyenne Doroshow, go to the link in our bio 💕

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15/08/2021

Our 9th interview of the season featuring Colette March is OUT NOW!!!💛🤍💜🖤

Colette and I get into so much this episode about allyship, growing up in the early ages of the internet, fear being a hindrance for growth, importance of pronouns, and so much more. But ultimately this episode is about finding who you are without the boxes, labels, and other limitations we put on ourselves because of the society around us. 👑💕
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12/08/2021

Philanthropy Thursday 🏳️‍🌈

Today we are featuring The Center in NYC 🗽

New York City’s Le***an, Gay, Bis*xual & Transgender Community Center is a one-of-a-kind organization that empowers community members to lead healthy, successful lives. They proudly celebrate our community’s diversity and advocate for justice and opportunity.

They offer: Health and wellness programs, Arts, entertainment and cultural events, Parenthood and family support services, and Connection to community and resources.

The Center has been, and will always be, the cornerstone of New York City’s LGBT community. It is a place where people meet and make connections, a support system for those in need and an invaluable resource.

You can learn more about The Center at the link in our bio and hear their feature on this week’s upcoming episode 🌞
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10/08/2021

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Today we are featuring feminist filmmaker and pioneer of Q***r Cinema, Barbara Hammer.

In the early 1970s Hammer studied film at San Francisco State University. She was inspired to make experimental films about her personal life. After coming out as a le***an she “took off on a motorcycle with a super-8 camera” and in 1974 filmed Dyketactics, widely considered to be one of the first le***an films.

Hammer sought to deconstruct and disempower the narratives and structures that oppress women in general and le***ans in particular. From her earliest experimental work, her films are playfully and relentlessly challenging of accepted norms and taboos.

To learn more about Barbara Hammer, go to the link in our bio 💕

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08/08/2021

Our 8th interview of the season featuring Lindz Amer is OUT NOW!!! 🦄🏳️‍🌈💕

It is essential that we teach our kids about not just q***r things but so many other topics that, for whatever reason, are deemed only for adults. Things like consent, racism, privilege, and so much more. As Lindz says on the episode, this is essential so that our kids can be the change makers we need for the future ✨
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05/08/2021

Philanthropy Thursday 🏳️‍🌈

Today we are featuring PFLAG!

PFLAG is the first and largest organization for le***an, gay, bis*xual, transgender, and q***r (LGBTQ+) people, their parents and families, and allies.

With over 400 chapters and 200,000 members and supporters crossing multiple generations of families in major urban centers, small cities, and rural areas across America, PFLAG is committed to creating a world where diversity is celebrated and all people are respected, valued, and affirmed.

You can learn more about PFLAG at the link in our bio and hear their feature on this week’s upcoming episode 🌞
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03/08/2021

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Today we are featuring LGBTQ+ activist, Edith Windsor, whose landmark case led the Supreme Court to grant same-s*x couples federal recognition for the first time and rights to a host of federal benefits.

Edie, as her friends called her, was a well-known figure in New York gay and le***an social circles. She had a forty-plus-year relationship with her partner and eventual wife, Thea Spyer, whom she married in 2007 in Canada, where same-s*x marriage was legal. When Spyer died, in 2009, Windsor’s inheritance from her partner was taxed three hundred and sixty-three thousand dollars by the IRS, because DOMA prevented Windsor from taking advantage of the marital tax deduction available to all straight couples. Windsor wouldn’t have it. She decided to sue the federal government.

To learn more about Edith Windsor, go to the link in our bio 💕

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01/08/2021

Our 7th interview of the season featuring Stephanie Klemons is OUT NOW!!! ✨🥰💕

Stephanie and I discuss many things in this episode: from her and her wife’s journey to have kids as same-s*x parents, to the importance of teaching kids tolerance and allyship, and lastly, to how it seems our society doesn’t value or consider parenting/caretaking like it should. We talk about why having kids seems to be an inconvenience to capitalism and why factoring in parenting/caretaking into our economic structure will enrich as opposed to deter it.
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29/07/2021

Philanthropy Thursday 🎨

This week we are featuring one of my favorite organizations which is Q***r Art.

QUEER|ART is a non-profit arts organization serving a diverse and vibrant community of LGBTQ+ artists across generations and disciplines.

Their mission is to create a diverse and vibrant community through the support of LGBTQ+ art and artists across generations and disciplines.

You can learn more about QUEER|ART at the link in our bio and hear their feature on this week’s upcoming episode 🌞
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27/07/2021

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Today we are featuring drag pioneer, q***r activist, counter-cultural force, and mother to many, Jack Doroshow a.k.a Flawless Sabrina. 👠

Jack was born in 1939, and often recounted the difficulty of growing up as a precocious gay boy of mixed Jewish and Italian ancestry in a rough and almost exclusively Italian South Philadelphia neighborhood. It was during the late 1950’s during Jack’s time at college that he began organizing the Miss All-America Camp Beauty Pageant. Flawless Sabrina who was the drag persona Jack conceived at 19 was a pushy Jewish grandmother who would emcee the shows without making the other contestants feel threatened.

As q***r historian High Ryan chronicled, for a time, Flawless/Jack was perhaps the largest employer of q***r people in the U.S. not only that but she continued throughout her life to advocate tirelessly for artists, q***r people, and children

To learn more about Flawless/Jack go to the link in our bio and check out the documentary The Queen on Netflix💕

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25/07/2021

Our 6th interview of the season ft. Jacob Ratliff is OUT NOW!!! 💡🏳️‍🌈💙

Finding your tribe is such an important element to achieving your dreams. As q***r people, we are often shamed for living in our truths, and it can take us a long time to rediscover it. But by surrounding ourselves with those who choose to uplift and celebrate ourselves, we can achieve greatness. Go listen to the episode to hear more about all Jacob and I discuss pertaining to living as your authentic self ❤️🧡💚💙💜
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22/07/2021

Philanthropy Thursday💡

Today we are featuring StartOut.

Since 2009, StartOut has been the champion for LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs, promoted the successes of our community, and researched the economic impact of LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs. StartOut’s mission is to increase the number, diversity, and impact of LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs and amplify their stories to drive the economic empowerment of the community.

You can learn more about StartOut at the link in our bio and hear their feature on this week’s upcoming episode 🌞
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20/07/2021

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Today we are featuring American Civil Rights Activist, adviser to Martin Luther King Jr., and the main organizer of the March on Washington in 1963, Bayard Rustin.

Born on 17 March 1912, Rustin was one of 12 children raised by his grandparents, Janifer and Julia Rustin, in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Rustin’s life-long commitment to nonviolence began with his Quaker upbringing and the influence of his grandmother.

His non-violent way of protesting led him from the Young Communist League, to the proposed 1941 March on Washington, to being a conscientious objector of WWII, to studying Ghandian philosophy in India, to eventually being a key advisor to Dr. King for the Montogomery Bus Boycott. He taught King about Gandhi's philosophy of non-violent resistance and advised him on the tactics of civil disobedience.

Rustin loved his life as an out and proud gay man which unfortunately forced him to do most of his work behind the scenes. In the 1980s, he became a public advocate on behalf of gay causes, speaking at events as an activist and supporter of human rights.

To learn more about Bayard Rustin, go to the link in our bio. ✊🏿

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18/07/2021

Our 5th interview of the season on Animal Crossing is OUT NOW! 🐾🌴

Though the focus of this episode was Animal Crossing: New Horizons, it’s ultimately about creating community: how common interests can bring q***r people together and the importance of creating media that is about us and for us. 💕🌈
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15/07/2021

SNEAK PREVIEW 👀 for our 5th episode of Season 2 where we are talking about a game that swept quarantines this past year, “Animal 🐾 Crossing: New Horizons”🌴 I’ll be speaking with two amazing guests, Angie and Luca (In Game: Angie of Mokoto and Frankie of Lothorien).

On this episode 🎙, we’ll be talking about the impact of this game specifically on the Q***r community and how it brought so many of us together this past year, in a time where we were physically so distant. We also chat about Q***r representation in gaming and animation, our Animal Crossing Q***r icons, how we can express our q***rness in the game, and so much more 💕 EPISODE OUT THIS SUNDAY 🌞

15/07/2021

Philanthropy Thursday 🏵

Today we are featuring Q***r Cultural Center.

QCC has a mission to promote social justice and the artistic and financial development of q***r art and culture. With a focus on the Bay Area’s q***r arts community, QCC seeks to achieve national visibility and recognition by employing the arts to advance cultural quirky and social justice.

You can learn more about Q***r Cultural Center at the link in our bio and hear their feature on this week’s upcoming episode 🌞
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13/07/2021

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Today we are featuring American socialite, chef, and prohibition-era entrepreneur Lucy Hicks Anderson 👒

Growing up in Kentucky, Lucy knew from a very young age that she was a girl. At a time when the word “transgender” didn’t exist, her parents sought advice from a local physician. Incredibly, the doctor recommended they raise Lucy as a girl, and so they did.

After meeting her first husband, Lucy moved to Oxnard where she quickly became vital to the community. She worked as a nanny and chef, won awards for her cooking, and had a talent for preparing and hosting lavish dinner parties for the wealthy families in town. When she saved up enough money, she purchased a boarding house where she ran a successful brothel and speakeasy. Her good standing in the community made it easy for her to run her illegal business.

It wasn’t until there was a venereal disease outbreak in the Navy that was traced back to her brothel, that things got difficult. The doctor insisted on examine all the women who worked there, including Anderson. He went public and Anderson was charged for “lying” on her marriage license and fraud for receiving money as the wife of a soldier. Anderson became the first trans woman to defend her identity in court.

To learn more about Lucy Hicks Anderson, go to the link in our bio. 💕

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11/07/2021

Our 4th interview of Season 2 with Chloe Davis is OUT NOW!!! 💕👑💕

It was such an honor getting to chat with Chloe who created a truly essential resource for anyone wanting to learn more about the expansiveness of the LGBTQIA+ community. We chat about the eve Pluto on of Q***r vernacular, the different sub-community origins of our language, appropriation vs. appreciation, and so many more incredible things.
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