Santa Cruz County Queer History Podcast

Created by and for students. Older LGBTQ+ people in Santa Cruz County are interviewed by younger queer students about their stories since the 1970s in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Santa Cruz Pride. Students from across Santa Cruz County conducted the interviews and then edited and produced each 20-minute long podcast. These podcasts will be released each Tuesday in 2025. We thank Patti Maxine on the steel string guitar for providing the music and the art was developed by Hex, one of the involved high school students.

Santa Cruz County Queer History Podcast is a history podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 20 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.

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  Episode #20

  Ep. 20. G Schulz: Gay Mens Groups in Santa Cruz and the Radical Faeries

  Oct 7, 202519 minS1

  <p>G Schulz grew up mostly in Dallas, Texas and attended the University of Texas in Austin where he obtained a Bachelor’s of Architecture degree.  After coming out in 1978 and graduating in 1979, he took a road trip west and landed somewhat by happen-chance in Santa Cruz. There he found a very active gay community, engaging in a gay men’s rap group (that drew upwards of 90 men every week), Gay volleyball  in front of the Dream Inn, two gay bars and a very active social life. He has now been living in Santa Cruz for over 46 years. G has been i...

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  Episode #19

  Ep. 19. Shane Hill: Radical Faerie and Transgender Support Therapist

  Sep 30, 202523 minS1

  <p>Shane Hill was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has worked most of his life as  a clinical psychologist, mindfulness teacher, community facilitator and artist. He moved to Santa Cruz in the 1990s. Shane has been involved in a variety of activities across Santa Cruz County including organizing therapists and counselors to better serve LGBTQ+ youth, supporting the Queer Youth Leadership Awards, founding and facilitating the Santa Cruz queer camp for queer youth, has taught at the Rainbow Sangha sits at Insight Santa Cruz in the Buddhist tradition. He co-founded most of the transgender mental health resources in Santa C...

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  Episode #18

  Ep 18. Patti Maxine, Musician, Lap Steel Guitar performer, lesbian

  Sep 23, 202522 minS1

  <p>Patti Maxine is a musician who plays the lap steel guitar. She began her lifelong love affair with lap steel guitar and Hawaiian music as a young girl in Roanoke, Virginia and then moved to Santa Cruz in 1970. She played and sang at the first Santa Cruz Pride in 1975 and has continued as a solo artist and as part of many collaborations around Santa Cruz County. She continues to play music around Santa Cruz County most every weekend.  She celebrated her 75th birthday in 2013 by inviting her closest friends to Kuumbwa Jazz Center and performed to a sold out c...

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  Episode #17

  Ep.17 Honey Mahogany, Transgender Activist, Politician and Drag Performer

  Jun 24, 202534 minS1

  <p>Honey Mahogany lives in San Francisco and was a keynote speaker at an event in Santa Cruz. Following that event, our podcast team traveled to San Francisco to interview Honey, an out transgender woman who helped found the Transgender District in San Francisco.  She serves as the Director of the office of transgender initiatives for the City of San Francisco, one of the first cities to have a department focused on supporting transgender people. </p><p>The Transgender District spans six blocks in the southeastern Tenderloin and was founded in 2017 by three Black trans women, Aria Sa’id, Janetta John...

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  Episode #16

  Ep.16. Marilyn Mariposa Bernstein and the Santa Cruz Dyke March

  May 29, 202525 minS1

  <p>Marilyn Mariposa Bernstein is one of the founders of the Santa Cruz Dyke March that began in 1994. The event morphed into the Dyke Trans March and takes place on the Saturday prior to the Santa Cruz Pride parade. Mariposa discusses the reasons why the Dyke March started in Santa Cruz. </p>

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