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My name is Arthur Severio, and welcome to Quiet Conversations I left home with a suitcase filled with dreams, a pack of brand-new Fruit of the Loom underwear, two pairs of 501s, and some shirts that weren’t exactly made for a fat kid like me. My mama had stuffed a twenty-dollar bill in my pocket just in case I wanted a snack and a Diet Coke from the vending machine for my ride into the Crescent City. My brother met me at the downtown Greyhound bus terminal to take a United Cab back to his Fr ...
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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 artis…
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Anita Bryant’s Pie in the Eye, how New Orleans shut her down, Stuart Butler and Regina Adams after the Upstairs Lounge Fire
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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." Liste…
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WALTER JENKINS, EARTHA KITT, LADYBIRD JOHNSON, and G.I. JANE
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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 be…
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The Legacy of 32 Victims Left Us and the Pope’s new ruling of the LGBT+ Community
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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 things Father 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 …
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The Art that the Upstairs Lounge Fire has inspired
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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 musica…
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The Thirty-two Victims of the Upstairs Lounge Arson Attack
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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 plig…
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Bill Larson and Bubba Copeland and the World Today
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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 …
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The Fire at a Gay Bar in the French Quarter
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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 Fonten…
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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. A…
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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 t…
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In this episode, we hear from someone who grew up in a showbiz life around the exotic Kalantan. Kalantan, famous for her burlesques show danced on the world famous Borubon Street in the 1950’s. In a couple with a non gender identifying lesbian named Lenny, she travelled all of the nightclub circuit. In the second half we meet my friend Marcy. who w…
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Becoming the Women They Were Destined to Be
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"If people want to see it, then they are going to have to pay." Christene Jorgensen said returning to America after having sexual reassignment surgery. We will also hear Charlotte Mcleod story as the second woman who had sexual reasiugnmenr surgery and both ladies working on Bourbon Street. My friend Lisa tells their story and we have a conversatio…
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The Changing Chiaroscuro of the French Quarter
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In this episode, we discover the culture of the French Quarter in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. We first hear from historians and authors Johnny Townsend, ” “Let the Faggots Burn,” Frank Perez, a"Ambush Magazine "and "French Quarter Journal’. and Robert Fiesler “Tinderbox: the Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Libera…
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Stonewall and the Use of Electricity to Cure Homosexuality
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In this epospde, I speak with Tree Sequoia about the night that the Stonewall riots started. Was Marsha P. Johnson the heroine? Whe initiated the crowd in a riot? Is homosexuality cureable? A doctor from New Orleans sure thought he had the magicc cure to turn one man into a heterosexual normal man.Bethany Bultman intorduces me to this part of histo…
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I was only seventeen when I moved to the French Quarter. My brother lived betwen the Bourbon Pub and Lafitte’s. It was 1984 and AIDS hadn’t quite made it’s mark on the gay community. I’ve met so many great people along my journey and wanted to share their stories as I’ve understood them and how they touched my life. Welcome to Quiet Conversations. …
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On our first episode,you’ll get to meet me your host Arthur Severio and hear from author, Professor Alecia P. Long as we discuss what it was like to be a part of a community that was not only different but harassed for being themselves. She and I will discuss her book “Cruising For Conspirators: How a New Orleans D.A. Prosecuted the Kennedy Assassi…
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