Country Queers

Country Queers is a podcast featuring oral history interviews with rural and small-town LGBTQIA2S+ folks. We uplift often unheard stories of rural queer experiences across intersecting layers of identity including race, class, gender identity, age, religion, and occupation. Produced by and for country queers all over, we hope these stories help add more complexity to conversations and ideas about rural spaces and queer communities.

Country Queers is a history podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 29 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Country Queers, a history show with 29 episodes published.

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  The Battle Over Water Rights in Cuyama, CA

  May 7, 202551 minS0

  <p >About halfway between Santa Barbara and Bakersfield, California - on the ancestral lands of the Chumash people - lies a remote and strikingly beautiful high desert valley named Cuyama. The Cuyama Valley finds itself in the middle of a tense and complicated battle over water rights. A battle where all of the residents, farmers, ranchers, and even the rural underfunded school district, have been pitted against the world's largest corporate carrot growers: Bolthouse and Grimmway. </p> <p >The Cuyama Water Basin is one of 21 critically overdrafted basins in the state of California. Since 2020 Cuyama Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency has b...

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  Rural Queer Maine Audio MAGIC!

  Apr 10, 20251h 1mS0

  <p >Q: What happens when you bring a gaggle of country queers together for a weeklong audio workshop and retreat in rural coastal Maine?</p> <p >A: Rural Queer Maine Audio MAGIC!</p> <p >In November 2024 a group of rural and smalltown LGBTQ+ folks from across the state of Maine, spent 5 days together in Passamaquoddy territory / Washington County on the coast of Maine at a rural queer audio retreat.</p> <p >The retreat was organized and hosted by Out in the Open -  a multiracial, majority working class, grassroots, movement and capacity building organization based in Wabanaki territory working throughout t...

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  Preorder the Book! Support the Book Tour!

  Sep 4, 20245 minS0

  <p>Country Queers: A Love Letter arrives October 8, 2024 from Haymarket Books!</p> <p>Listen to Rae multitask morning goat chores while telling you about the book and the fundraiser we've launched to support the costs of book tour travels. Featuring: ducks, goat bells, goats chewing, Rae walking through tall grass, and rambling without a script in the milking shed!</p> <p>You can preorder the book here and please help us bring the book tour to rural areas and small towns all over by supporting our Fundraiser!</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

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  Trans People Belong in West Virginia

  Mar 14, 202342 minS0

  <p >In 2023 state legislatures across the South and Midwest have introduced over 400 bills attacking trans adults, trans kids, and drag queens. This legislative session in West Virginia saw the introduction of more than 15 anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ bills. On Thursday March 9th, 2023 trans organizers held a rally at the Capitol Building in Charleston, WV in protest of House Bill 2007 which would enforce a total ban on gender affirming care for minors in the state. Over 100 people packed the upper level of the capitol building to protest outside the Senate Chambers where the bill was being discussed. In this episode you'll hear...

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  Dorothy Allison

  Apr 5, 202257 minS2

  <p>Dorothy Allison is a 73 year old, white, feminist, working class story teller, who was raised in South Carolina and Florida and now makes her home in California. She is the author of many books including novels, short stories, a poetry collection, and a memoir. In this interview, recorded by Rae Garringer in August 2018, Dorothy talks about memories of growing up "a poor kid in love with language," learning to write, how she got from FL to CA, class, feminism, and the magic of writing.</p> <p>* * * * * * * * * * * * * *</p> <p>For this episode we're asking folks who are able to support...

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