COMMEMORATE THE TWIN CITIES PRIDE PODCAST
Documenting our Diverse Heritage In 2016, my company, Podletter Media, joined the Twin Cities Pride team. Our mission: To help capture and preserve the voices of the Twin Cities’ LGBTQ+ community as a part of the organization’s “Our Living History” project. It’s hard to believe that was over 100 episodes ago, but here we are. It’s truly been an honor to have been a part of this effort to document the voices and experiences of this incredibly diverse and beautiful community. Here are just a few of the gracious and amazing individuals who
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have contributed their voices to this project along the way. You can listen and subscribe to the TC Pride Podcast on iTunes or on any device at www.TCPridePodcast.org.
RYAN GARZA Really, commemorating our diverse heritage is right up there in our mission. It’s like the first thing. And it’s so important. I think that, as more rights are afforded to the LGBTQ community, people kind of forget about all of the challenges that the community has lived through, that individuals have lived through, and to capture those stories is just so important.
DOT BELSTLER Episode 29: “Reflections on Pride 2016” I think the next year—the next four years, especially—will hopefully help define what we remember ourselves as . . . And I’m hopeful, in a weird way, about how we are going to . . . figure out how we work together and stay in community together . . . And it’s going to be hard, it’s going to be difficult, but I think we were born for such a time as this, and we’re here, and we’re going to make it work.
JACOB THOMAS Episode 35: “Lush Thanksgiving Day Community Meal” Feel it. Feel this love. Feel this Pride. Feel the energy that’s here. And this is how we’re gonna change the world. This is how. Coming together, building community, creating places for everybody across the spectrum, and saying, ‘Look, we have to be in it together.’ This is how we make a difference. And so that’s what Pride means to me.
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