Episode-14-HoustonRoundupRemote

Jul 30, 2023 · 1h 11m 44s

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What a goldmine! On very short notice (two days!), we learned of this event, a fundraisler for this year's "https://www.houstonroundup.org/", being held at Houston'shttps://lambdahouston.com/. BTW, y'all need to update that...

What a goldmine!
On very short notice (two days!), we learned of this event, a fundraisler for this year's "Houston Roundup", being held at Houston's Lambda Center. BTW, y'all need to update that Roudup website. :)

Anyway, we were thinking it might be a chance to get an interesting interview or two, and to promote the Houston Roundup conference and, what we quickly learned has been a very important part of the Houston LGBTQ+ community for decades, Lambda Center. Sharon, the director of the event, quickly got approval for us to show up and do our thing. On the night of the event, we were just finishing setting up when we were approached by a friendly gentleman who ask Jeri Ann and I if we knew "Phyllis Frye". We allowed that we certainly did, with Jeri Ann adding that Ms. Frye was her attorney. Introductions were quickly done, and Don Kelly sat down and chatted with us for some time. We learned many things in those few minutes and that kind of set the tone for the rest of the evening.
I am almost embarrassed to say that it was not until I did some research during post-production that I learned what a true dignitary our first guest was. Be sure to check out the link about Don Kelly and "The Don Kelly Research Collection of Galy Literature and Culture".

As I said, that first interview set the tone for the rest of the evening, with one wonderful interview after another. I say wonderful for several reasons. First of all, every single one of the people we talked to had a story to tell about what the group hosting the event (Lambda Center) meant to them. These weren't just admirable success stories. They were stories of people who had come to know the value of what that organization had given them. Several used the term "family", in a way that Jeri Ann and I have mentioned before, that "chosen family". Wonderful too, was our interview with Christene Y. Christene teaches history, to high school and college students, and she was a font of fascinating things about LGBTQ history.

We fully intended to be talking one-on-one with some of these people in future episodes. Meanwhile, enjoy this episode that we recorded around the showing of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", complete with the de rigueur live performers in front of the screen.

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