In this special Christmas episode, Reba and I have a quiet "let's get real conversation talking about our lives and where we are today as artists, and the evolution of our friendship. Her writing is up there with the greats for me and is much an inspiration.Reba talks about the changes in her life and how she deals with it as it comes. As an artist and a woman, what do changes like divorce and being a mother mean. As a vocalist of "seventy years young" what do you do when y...
Dec 24, 2023
20 min
In our fourteenth and final episode of Season 1:How did the city of New Orleans treat the survivors of the arson at the Upstairs Lounge? There were a lot of social and political changes happening in the @lgbti community regarding organizing and social awareness. Regina became the woman of her creation or as she said "started living in drag." Listen and find out about who Fury was and what it was like hustling in the seventies.How did the Advocate magazine did to help th...
Dec 15, 2023
47 min
A transwoman and a writer’s unique experience of the Vietnam War. Civil rights in New Orleans. The Please U restaurant. What happened to Eartha Kitt when she stood up to Lady Bird Johnson about the war in Vietnam? How does Viet Name veteran identify and feel about hormonal replacement therapy? Lady Bird Johnson takes a stand about Walter Jenkins being arrested for tea room behavior.Historian Frank Perez explains the mission of the LGBT+ Archives of Louisiana and a welcome to Quie...
Dec 3, 2023
33 min
What happened when Charlene Schneider didn't quite make it to the Upstairs Lounge. Troy Perry and his activisim beginnings.Charlene's dedication to her activism to change thingsFather Tony from St. Jude's on Rampart Street speaks on his congregation and the Pope's rulling on the LGBT pluse coomunity.Historian Frank Perez explains the mission of the LGBT+ Archives of Louisiana and a welcome to Quiet Conversations. with Rio RiggenSupport the Show.
Nov 22, 2023
43 min
Amy Daley Williams, along with Frank Perez, Katheleen Conlon and the LGBT plus Archives produces the 50the anniversary of the fire.Kathleen Conlon, organizes multi eventsongtime admirer of the New Orleans LGBT plus community brings a creatvie panel together to share their stories for the fiftieth anniversary of the fire.Max Vernon writes a musical and brings the story around the world.Monica Ordonez inspires her dance troupe to experience the art that has been made around the Upstairs arson a...
Nov 22, 2023
34 min
What happened to Regina Adams in the aftermath of the fire at the Upstairs Lounge Fire? What happened to the kids of Luther Boggs and Jean Gosnell?Then there were Mitch Mitchell's two sons that we will learn about.Troy Perry and Paul Britton come to New Orleans to offer comfort to those in need.Frank Perez talks about Ferris LeBlanc and the plight to find his body.Historian Frank Perez explains the mission of the LGBT+ Archives of Louisiana and a welcome to Quiet Conversations. with Rio...
Nov 17, 2023
26 min
People who are in a lot of mental anguish and pain don't always crumble and give up. Instead, they reach out to help their community. After being ostracized by his mother his whole life, Bill Larson left home to create himself as the head pastor of the New Orleans chapter of the MCC moving the church from the backroom of the Upstairs Lounge to its new home in the New Orleans Uptown Garden District.What happened that night at the Upstairs Lounge Fire? "It went from people cele...
Nov 11, 2023
26 min
Gay boys celebrate every Sunday in the French Quarter with what's called, "Tea Dance." Regina and Reggie, a young interracial couple went out to celebrate Gay Pride at a bar called the Upstairs Lounge on June 24, 1973.Stuart and his lover Alfred were also there with their new playmate in their lover's triad.Regina left the bar to take Adam Fontenot to dinner. Find out what happened to change the lives of these four people and so many o their friends forever.Historian Frank Perez e...
Nov 9, 2023
23 min
In this episode, we meet my new best friend, Lila who once worked as an emcee on Bourbon Stree at the Gunga Den. She tells us about how she needs adventure in her life and as the universe says, "Ask and it shall be given.."Trucker Patti tells us about working at the Midship and dealing with some of the rowdy trans-women when they drank too much.And finally, we call my friend Mary, Marcy Marcelle's sister continuing the legacy we started with their sister, Sylvia.Historian Frank Perez ex...
Nov 5, 2023
34 min
In this episode, we meet Penny, who, grew up in the Mississippi Delta in a time where there were lines that couldn’t be crossed. At a young age, she was aware of not crossing lines drawn by society including her parents. After growing up and becoming awakened, she’s made a difference, She tells us of meeting and photographing Ernest Cole who came to Mississippi to photograph the differences between people of color and caucasians.Then we later hear how the shifts in civ...
Oct 29, 2023
37 min
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