Thomi Clinton, CEO and Founder of the Transgender Health & Wellness Centers in the Coachella Valley, tells her story from Mountainburg, AR to a community leader in Southern California. Additionally, she addresses the complications of equity for trans communities within LGBTQ+ population, as well as within larger society.

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OUTWORDS is the first-ever national project to record the stories of LGBTQ+ elders across the United States. We share our full catalog of interviews with LGBTQ+ elders, completely free of charge, on our website. We also have a book of interviews, called “The Book of Pride”. We partnered with Flipgrid to share our stories with students and teachers around the globe; offer a wide range of webinars on timely LGBTQ+ topics and issues; and provide paid DEI consulting services to companies and organizations like Microsoft, AARP, and Everytown for Gun Safety. Visit us and sign up for our newsletter today at theoutwordsarchive.org.

Ceyenne Doroshow, founder of G.L.I.T.S. (Gays and Lesbians Living in a Transgender Society), discusses her work in the ongoing struggle to ensure that trans individuals are not tokenized and have ownership of their lives and futures. Featuring excerpts from Ceyenne's oral history interview (recorded remotely during the pandemic), this video focuses on the work it takes to lift everyone up together.

Ceyenne Doroshow's full interview can be found at The Outwords Archive: https://theoutwordsarchive.org/interview/ceyenne-doroshow/

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Editor: Astra Price

OUTWORDS is the first-ever national project to record the stories of LGBTQ+ elders across the United States. We share our full catalog of interviews with LGBTQ+ elders, completely free of charge, on our website. We also have a book of interviews, called “The Book of Pride”. We partnered with Flipgrid to share our stories with students and teachers around the globe; offer a wide range of webinars on timely LGBTQ+ topics and issues; and provide paid DEI consulting services to companies and organizations like Microsoft, AARP, and Everytown for Gun Safety. Visit us and sign up for our newsletter today at theoutwordsarchive.org.

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Motivational speaker and Trans Equality advocate, Charley Burton, shares his journey in finding his way to health, stability, and success after an early life filled with addiction and depression.

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OUTWORDS is the first-ever national project to record the stories of LGBTQ+ elders across the United States. We share our full catalog of interviews with LGBTQ+ elders, completely free of charge, on our website. We also have a book of interviews, called “The Book of Pride”. We partner with Flipgrid to share our stories with students and teachers around the globe; offer a wide range of webinars on timely LGBTQ+ topics and issues; and provide paid DEI consulting services to companies and organizations like Microsoft, AARP, and Everytown for Gun Safety. Visit us and sign up for our newsletter today at theoutwordsarchive.org.

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In this week’s episode of Youspeak Radio 2024, Madeline (she/they) speaks to Joey Terrill about the evolution of queer Latinx representation in art and community activism in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Terrill reflects on the early influence of his father in his artmaking, his experience as an “out” high schooler in 1970s Los Angeles, his efforts to uplift LGBTQ+ Chicano life through visual art, his advocacy work through the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and his advice to LGBTQ+ youth today. Listen at https://www.oneinstitute.org/youspeakradio/
#LatinX #QueerLatinX #QueerArtist #ChicanoArt #chicano

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In this week’s episode of Youspeak Radio 2024, Charlotte (she/they) speaks to Jewelle Gomez about the transformative power of imaginative storytelling and embracing life at the intersection of many identities. Gomez reflects on the inspirational storytelling of her grandmothers, the influence of James Baldwin and her friend Audre Lorde on her writing and activism, her contributions to intersectional feminism, and her advice to LGBTQ+ youth today. Listen at https://www.oneinstitute.org/youspeakradio/
#QueerPodcast #intergenerational #IntergenerationalHealing #BlackLesbians #QueerWriters

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It's been such a pleasure working with @oneinstitute to connect LGBTQ+ high schoolers and elders! In the premiere episode of Youspeak Radio 2024, Kelly (she/her) speaks to Donna Sachet – drag entertainer and community activist – about the power of drag to empower LGBTQ+ people and drive social change. Sachet reflects on her youth in the conservative South, the freedom she found through drag, her friendship with José Sarria in San Francisco, her contributions to HIV/AIDS fundraising, and her advice to LGBTQ+ youth today. Listen now: https://www.oneinstitute.org/youspeakradio/

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Karla Jay saw herself in the counselors at her sleep-away camp as a kid, without having the words for it. #LesbianVisibility #SummerCamp #CampCounselor

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Today is the 34th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), also known as National Disability Independence Day. Writer and disability activist Kenny Fries shares some of the history of the disability rights movement: “Just like Stonewall didn’t happen out of the blue, the disability rights movement did not just happen.” #DisabilityPrideMonth #DisabilityRights #DisabilityAwareness #DisabilityPride #DisabilityAwarenessMonth

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