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May 12th, 2026 - Leo Andersen (Queer Asian Museum: St. Pete) · The Big Gay Radio Show

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Apple podcast. Just look up the big gay radio
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show. But first, we're joined by a
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very special guest. We are joined by Leo Anderson,
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the owner of the Queer Asian Museum.
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Hello, Petersburg, right? Yeah, yeah, I seen Saint
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Petersburg go one, 1006 Central Ave.
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Awesome. So where what is the Queer Asian
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History Museum? What is that?
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Where obviously you know the name, you know it gives.
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It gives a little bit of a way, but what is it?
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So it's a museum that focus on the multi nation experience of
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all pan Asian experience and their queers history and arts
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it. That's awesome.
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So where did the idea come from? This Can I tell a little bit
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about my own history? Absolutely, 100%.
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All right, so I was the Beijing LGBT Center directors back in
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201112. So I was heavily involved with
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the China and Taiwan's LGBT movement and by 2013 I start
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work for the United Nation. What on earth?
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Oh my gosh. OK, keep going.
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Keep going. All right, so we actually like
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organized the first Trans Asian Trans Roundtable and yeah,
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that's when I start to realize, you know, it's not just one
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country like the whole Asian. We have so many things that
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share together and that idea always see me and every time I
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go to a museum, I was like, why this is just one country when
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we, you know, if you see chopstick, you wouldn't ask
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that's Chinese, Japanese or Korean chopsticks.
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That's true, although they are all different.
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So you wouldn't know, you wouldn't care.
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So why? There's nothing like a multi
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nation thing. And by the time 2023, a lot of
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my friends back in China start talking, telling me things get a
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little bit difficult and some space got shut down.
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So they want to send me for things for safe keep.
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And I'm like, yeah, yeah, send it over, send it over.
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So after two years, by the year 2025 I have more than 2000
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things from different bars for office and then I cannot just
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leave them, let them sit in my garage.
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Oh, absolutely not. Are you right?
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No, definitely. That makes sense.
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Yeah, Like history is supposed to inspire people.
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You can study it, but at the very end, it's political.
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You need to inspire the next generation, even when it's in
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hiatus. So I talked with some friends
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Like we create this queer Asian museum right here in Sin Peak,
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though that's a whole history of this museum.
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I love that. That's amazing.
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That is such an awesome story. So thank you so much for for,
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you know, sharing that and, and for doing what you're doing
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because that that's actually, I agree.
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You know, history shouldn't be kept in a, in a locker or a, a
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storage unit. You know, there's so much we can
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learn and we can be inspired from when it comes to to the the
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past in just general. And something that, you know,
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really bothers me about about nowadays is that the past always
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repeats itself. Despite having literally the
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entirety of the history of the world in our phones, history
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still is repeating itself over and over and over again.
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We never learn. And the way that we can learn is
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through amazing museums such as yours.
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So thank you again for what you do.
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So I want Vin to go ahead and and it seems like you have some
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stuff to talk about. I do.
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So it's funny that you say that, particularly that history
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repeats itself. I actually had a meeting
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yesterday with Rafi Blue and Rafi was my introduction to you.
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And also I'm like mind blown that we haven't crossed paths in
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all of this time that we've been like circling St.
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Pete together. So I'm actually really grateful
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to be connected with you. When I heard about the Queer
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Asian Museum, I was like, that's oddly specific, right?
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And I was in in my, in my brain. I was like, it's interesting
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that this is oddly specific. And then when I was in my
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meeting with Rafi yesterday, it really put it into perspective
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how influential queer Asian culture really has been in all
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of this time, in like thousands of years.
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If you even look back in the early 1500s, we influenced
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politics, we influenced fashion, we influenced movement.
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And so like, to have a queer Asian museum here now to
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recognize what's happening now, like that's mind blowing.
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It's incredible. It's really inspirational, Leah.
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I think it's very interesting you mention now because, you
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know, right now I actually see some mirroring parallelism
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between what's happening here in the Westerns to what happened in
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China when the things start to get worse, right?
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Like we used to have a golden age around the Olympic time and
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then things just start degrading.
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I agree. Yeah, I do agree.
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Yeah, like. There are so many I every time I
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go through these things, I was like, isn't this just happened
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last week here? Yes.
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It's a sense of deja vu. I know, I know.
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Very much which? Is why I was like, this is
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interesting that you said history repeats itself because I
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do believe that history in its modern way is repeating lessons
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right now and we get a really awesome opportunity from to
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learn from different cultures. So to have an, A, an Asian
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museum, let's start there then. Then to extend it and go deeper,
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to go queer Asian is actually profound.
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I'm really excited to be there on Friday.
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Thank you, Miss Red. Yes.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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So Speaking of Friday, it is the the Queer Asian Icons event in
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the event. Can you give me a little bit of
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a explanation as to to what you're going to be doing there?
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So I'm actually going to be hosting the event.
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I'm very excited to have been invited to host the event.
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Thank you for that, Leo. And I'm actually going to be
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performing as well. Rafi Blue and I are going to be
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performing there and it is going to be from 7:00 to 9:00.
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We're going to get the opportunity to really showcase
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modern icons, modern queer Asian icons in our community.
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And I didn't realize that there were so many of us until we were
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put in the same room. So it's oh.
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Yeah, you got somebody like Alice Marie Grip who is
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absolutely amazing with what she's doing with Equality
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Florida and with with their safe teaching department.
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I forget what the what a specific is called.
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I don't I don't remember the exact title, but Alice in
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general and Alex Quinto like Alice Marie grip, Alex Quinto
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right? Them as people, they really
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create a safe space for human kind, so for them to exist and.
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Same with Claire Leeson, who is also being honored as well.
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Project no labels exactly, exactly.
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So I, you know, we we land in the same spaces sometimes and go
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man, there's not very many of us.
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So I'm really excited to be playing.
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The same role we're. Everywhere it's 60.
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Percent of the population in the world are Asian.
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Yes, that was loud. I am very sure that our
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listeners really appreciated you screaming.
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I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
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That was exciting. Let me calm down.
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Yeah, just take a, take a, take a breather there, then just an
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exciting. Experience.
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Take a chill pill please. I feel you.
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People are in their cars. They just lowered the volume.
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What just sorry, what just happened?
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I thought there was a wombat in here.
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No, sorry. A wombat.
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Do you know a fun fact? The wombat poop.
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How little cubes? Wait, they they poop cubes?
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I had no idea. Our show is very famous for
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talking about poop is. It really.
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Yeah, we have had different, we've had different
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conversations in this show and in the after show in reference
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to poop, human poop and animal poop.
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Yeah, actually. So this so this conversation
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doesn't surprise me at all. Anyways, sorry because my whole
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queer journey starts with a safe place when I started Indian
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Sydney and so like warm bad I just have to throw that.
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They're very cute, by the way. That was such a very interesting
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little. What a way to loop that.
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Actually, that was great. Our show is ADHD 100%.
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We're all over the place. We are, we are.
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As my mother would say to me when I was a little boy, I am
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special. Because she didn't have a.
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Because she didn't have a better word.
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We all vibe special right here. So to kind of go and, and bring
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it back to you. So obviously you you had a very
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extensive history. What what specifically brought
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you to the Saint Petersburg area?
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Oh, interesting. So my aunt was well, a little
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bit sad. She and her family is trying to
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treat cancer. So we have the the Mafia Cancer
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Center here. So when we came here with like,
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this is a very nice area and I was bored a little bit.
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After a couple days, I applied for jobs and here I am.
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I got a job opportunity and Saint Pete is just so awesome.
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So when we opened it, we're like, let's find a place there.
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I love that. Absolutely.
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Yeah. I love that.
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What were you going to? What were you going to save?
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In Saint Pete is its own like happy bubble, so I'm glad that
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you feel loved and welcome here. Yeah.
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So obviously, you know, our experiences as LGBTQ individuals
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would probably be different because as you know, I'm, I'm a
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white man. You're Asian, So what you?
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Know you were wise. Oh my God.
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Oh my God. So what was it?
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What was it like, you know, growing up as an as an LGBTQ
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Asian individual? I have a story that's very
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Asian. Maybe Mr. Vin can relate.
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My mom, my coming out story is my mom.
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When they sit me down, it's like Leo when I clean your room, I
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accidentally your journal fell off the desk and saw one of the
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last love letter you wrote to your classmate.
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Oh my God. Like there's something you want
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to tell me like that is the most.
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Angrier. No, no, she's very
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understanding. My dad on another hand.
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Yeah, see, I had to reverse. Yeah, my father was under
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completely understanding and my mother was the one that reacted
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badly. But she got over it of it.
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Obviously when you when you live as a woman for 50 years, I mean,
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what is she going to do now? It's obviously not a phase.
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Yeah, it's not. Yeah, it turns out my mom
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actually the biggest cheerleader, like even when I
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opened the museum, we donated some of her Chinese painting and
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we sold it on Winter Pride or whatever.
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And that's the initial found that we start the museum that
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pays for all the meetings for the first eight boxes.
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Now, do your parents live here? Do they live in China?
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Oh, my mom just moved to the DC area.
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She had a little bit traumatic experience with the interpreters
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here, so he moved to somewhere she will speak more.
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OK. Yeah.
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So there because with communication you mean?
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Yeah, because, you know, she's in that generation doing the
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traditional Chinese medicine, right?
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And she sometimes said there's fire in my body, there's winding
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going through my head. And the interpreter translate in
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a totally weird way and the doctor saw sees her like some
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lunatics. Like what do you mean?
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I'm really sorry it. Was a language barrier.
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Yeah, that's so sad. That's.
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So frustrating. Yeah, I don't know.
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It's same to like, I don't know for me, like Asians living in
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the queer community saying like sometimes there's a language
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barrier I have to explain myself.
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But my mom for her, like I, I can't have my mom live like like
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that. I have that Saxon City Steve
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moment. It's like my mom can't live like
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this. So I moved her over to DC area.
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Is it better for her there? Yeah, she found a Chinese
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speaking senior activity center and she has things to do every
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day now. OK.
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Good. Culturally, I do believe that DC
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is much more heartwarming, so I feel safer up there, you know
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what I mean? Culturally, culturally,
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culturally. Yeah, well.
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Not in the, Not in the White House, not in the.
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White. House No.
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As a trans person, I don't feel safe.
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As an Asian person, I I can feel.
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Safe and the food is safer. Correct, correct.
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I was actually just in DC 2 weeks ago.
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There were three choir Asian choirs like to form together.
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What? Yeah, it's 'cause it's the
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invisible body, indivisible body, the like the put
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peremptions around the DI. So we have the Cherry Blossom
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Choir from DC and we have Asian Rainbow Choir from New York and
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the local Korean Pure song playing the traditional Korean
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drums. That's.
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Incredible. Yeah, that's incredible.
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So Esme, do you have any last little questions real quick?
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No, no, I've talked to, I've talked to him so much today that
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I'm just, I got everything I needed to get out of him as a
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person. Honestly, I'm just, I'm very
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happy that, you know, we can go ahead and learn from queer
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Asian, you know, communities because honestly, I didn't
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really think of, you know, that segment of the population being,
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you know, having that much of A history.
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And, you know, I can't wait to come down and see, you know, the
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museum. So where can people find a
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little bit more information about the museum?
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Yeah, so you can find us on the website qom.org or Cam, that's
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how I call it. Or if you go to the social
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media, just of there's a queer Asian museum, that's our
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Instagram. Or if you are actually a queer
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Asian person or organization, feel free to donate to us or we
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can set up an item. So our museum actually one of
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our main thing is we're museum create to return.
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So if your organization is in hiatus and stop and after you
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donate to us and when you reopen, we'll return your things
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back to you because. Oh nice.
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Yes, I think we're the only museum does that because our
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idea is to impact inspires the next generation.
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What do you collect from them? Any artifact, documents, video,
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music, anything you want to pass on?
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OK, I see. Yeah.
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So you. Make copies of it.
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Sure, whatever, whatever that's that shows your spirits and by
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the time you're ready, your group is ready, we can give
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those things back to you. That's that's just our museum.
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That's amazing. You know, I you see so many
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museums they just collect and collect and collect and then
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eventually the issue happens where they have so much
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collection that they put it in a storage unit and then they don't
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actually inspire the next generation.
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It just collects destiny we. Believe a flag should pop you
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waving for people to gather and or not be sitting folded on the
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wall. Absolutely.
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No, I completely, completely agree.
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So, Miss Esme, what are we going to talk about after we get back?
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What about Betty Broderick, she was sentenced to life in 1989.
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I'll tell you what she did for those of you that aren't
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familiar with her and why her case is so important even though
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she died in prison. Why her case is so important
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especially for women. Also a Florida Chase Bank is in
18:29
trouble for how they treated a person that was waiting for
18:33
their to make a deposit. I'll tell you what happened to
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this young man. The Hungarian Prime Minister
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takes office. Yay.
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I'm so happy that they have a new Prime Minister and of A and
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a quarter of Americans think that the assassination attempt
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at the White House Correspondents Dinner was
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staged. I'll tell you why that's bad.
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I'm I'm going to tell you why I think that's bad.
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And maybe everybody else has a different opinion.
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So those are my topics. Yes.
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And we also got the hantavirus. We will definitely talk about
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that and our opinions on that. But we also got Erica and
19:10
Charlie Kirk giving a an honorary degree.
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We'll talk about that. And then I also want to go ahead
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and touch on the USF Canvas hack.
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Well, I shouldn't say it's USF specifically, but the nationwide
19:25
Canvas hack that affected USF students.
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I'll give you guys my perspective after the break.
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But first, let's go ahead and throw it over to Claire Leeson
19:33
from Project No Labels for our big gay news.
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And then over to Joanna Grasso for Joe on the Go, our community
19:38
calendar. We'll be right back.
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I'm Claire Leeson from Project No Labels and this is your LGBTQ
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plus news from around the country and right here in Tampa
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Bay in Saint Petersburg from watermark out news.
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Saint Pete pride officially kicked off pride season May 3rd
19:57
with the 2020 sixth mix Saint Pete pride pageant at 1920 ybor
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crowning a new Royal Court in a celebration of local LGBTQ plus
20:04
talent and community. The event built momentum towards
20:07
next month's 24th annual Saint Pete Pride celebration and
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honored the 2025 title holders including Miss Saint Pete Pride,
20:14
Seduction, Dickerson, Mr. Saint Pete Pride, the Oscar de Milo
20:17
and mix Saint Pete Pride Roman Marco Lewinsky, former Miss
20:21
Saint Pete. Pete Pride Jada Fuentes was also
20:22
recognized for 15 years of service and impact within the
20:26
community. During opening remarks, St.
20:28
Pete Pride President Doctor Byron Green Khalid emphasized
20:31
the growing importance of diversity and inclusion efforts
20:34
as state legislation targeting DEI programs continues to impact
20:38
LGBTQ plus organizations and funding opportunities across
20:41
Florida. Crowned as this year's winner
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were ashed in opulence as Mr. Saint Pete Pride 2026, Emmani El
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Valentino as Miss Saint Pete Pride 2026 and Kenzie D Lavish
20:51
make Saint Pete Pride 2026. Congratulations to all who
20:54
competed also from Watermark in Key West.
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Organizers say future pride related events will no longer
21:00
receive state funding following the passage of Florida's anti
21:03
dei legislation. According to a letter provided
21:05
to the Key West Business Guild, state funding tied to events
21:08
like Key West Pride, Tropical Heat and Women's Fest will end
21:11
beginning 2027 as a result of Senate Bill 1134.
21:15
In House Bill 1001, Executive Director Rob Doherty says the
21:19
change will significantly affect how major LGBTQ plus events in
21:23
the Keys are organized moving forward.
21:25
The organizers say this year's events will not be impacted in
21:29
Wisconsin. From the Wisconsin Examiner,
21:31
Governor Tony Ever says his administration has no plans to
21:34
repeal the state's ban on conversion therapy for LGBTQ
21:37
plus clients, in a sharply worded response to two
21:40
conservative groups seeking to overturn the policy.
21:43
Evers called conversion therapy an outdated practice linked to
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depression, anxiety, substance misuse and suicide.
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The dispute follows a recent US Supreme Court ruling that sent a
21:54
challenge to Colorado's conversion therapy ban back to
21:56
lower courts for further review on 1st Amendment grounds.
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And finally, in religious news from the Washington Blade, a new
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Vatican report acknowledges that many LGBTQ plus Catholics have
22:06
felt isolated within the church. The report includes testimony
22:09
from married gay Catholics and appears critical of so-called
22:12
conversion therapy practices. Well, the document does not
22:15
change official church teachings on homosexuality, marriage or
22:18
gender identity. LGBTQ plus Catholic advocacy
22:21
groups welcome the recognition and tone of the report.
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Please remember to stay safe and treat yourself and others with
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kindness. This has been your LGBTQ plus
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news for the Big Gay radio show. I'm Claire Leeson on 88.5 WMNF
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Tampa. Hey, hey Tampa Bay, it's Joanna
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Grosso with Joe on the go. Tampa Bay.
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Here's what's happening around the community this week.
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First up, on Friday, May 15th at 7:00 PM, head to Ten O 6 Central
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Ave. in Saint Pete for a special celebration honoring queer Asian
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icons in Tampa Bay. The night will feature
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performances, storytelling, and local talent including Alice,
22:57
Marine, Grip, Cat Limb and many more than on Saturday, May 16th.
23:01
Equality Floors 2026 Saint Pete Gala is bringing the rainbow
23:05
disco theme into town for a night celebrating the LGBTQ
23:08
community with dinner, dancing, local honorees and a big disco
23:12
inspired party to close out the evening.
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Then on Sunday, May 24th at 3:00 PM FGRA Country Sunday is
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happening at the Garage on Central Ave. in Saint Pete's.
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The Florida Gay Rodeo Association is hosting line
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dancing lessons, patio hangs, drinks in a super welcoming
23:27
country style social vibe. For more events, interviews and
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Tampa Bay happenings make sure to follow Joe on the Have a
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This is the big gay radio show only on 88.5 WMNF.
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Welcome back to the Big Gay Radio Show.
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My name is Chris Gorman and I am joined by Leo Anderson.
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It's just us two in the studio because of everybody else
23:59
decided to abandon us. Talking about ADHD.
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It's just everybody's just wanting to go ahead and go and
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get coffee and go to the bathroom breaks and nobody wants
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to be on time. Now we're joined by the
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vivacious Vince Suasion and the electric trans Queen of radio,
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Miss Esme Russell. I went.
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So fast, I just couldn't and that and and then I and then
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what happened was I was in the in the break room and I was
24:25
listening to Claire and Joanna on the air and I was thinking,
24:28
God, they sound so good. That was the fastest pee I ever
24:32
took. Oh my God.
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Well, it should have been faster.
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I guess so. Good grief.
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Well, I told you you had like a minute and a half.
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Anyways, Esme, what's some tea? What's the top?
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Oh, actually Vin, you want to do a special shout out?
24:44
Yeah, really quick. I just, well, not really quick,
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but anyway, it's today is National Mental Health Provider
24:50
Appreciation Day. The month of May is National
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Mental Health Awareness Month, so I just really quick want to
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shout out thank you so much to project no labels for hosting
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the Dear Self You Are Worth It program.
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Thank you so much to Cypress Wellness for partnering with us
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here in Tampa Bay. Thank you so much to Rainbow
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Family Wellness up in Pasco for partnering with us.
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And a really awesome shout out to the Emerge new growth
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community for being an incredible supplemental
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community for mental health awareness and and growth and
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healing. I really am so grateful and
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proud to have the existence of these organizations.
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Thank you and take care of yourselves y'all.
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We love you, we see you. Absolutely.
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Well, Speaking of mental health. All right.
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So Betty Broderick in 1989 was sentenced to life.
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And the reason she was sentenced to life, if she had made a life
25:37
with this man, she had children with him.
25:39
She put him through medical school.
25:41
No, through. It was medical school, wasn't
25:43
it? Could you check?
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I think it was medical school or law school.
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I'm not sure which one it was. I'm going to.
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I'm going to look it up. Yeah.
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But anyway, so he decided he wanted to leave her for a
25:54
younger woman after she had helped build his life, his
25:57
career. And so he left her.
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What he did do is it was a very filthy, very dirty divorce.
26:06
He took the house from her. He took the credit cards from
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her. He isolated her from her money
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after she had invested in this relationship.
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Medical school and law school. Medical school and law school.
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She gave up her life to raise his children so that he could
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have the life that he wanted. And then after he got that life
26:28
and they were living very well, she was going to elite parties,
26:31
getting dressed very well, had beautiful jewelry.
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He left her and took everything back, wiped her out.
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And so she was financially destitute and he ostracized her
26:42
children from her. No.
26:44
Yes. So what happened was, is the
26:47
daughter one of the the daughter that she had because she has
26:49
several children, the daughter had a key to the house that the
26:52
husband had moved into with the new wife.
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So what does she do? She steals the key, goes into
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the house and kills them both in the bed, husband and the new
27:04
wife. And of course, she was arrested
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and charged. And her defense was that she was
27:09
a traumatized woman, that she had been led to it over a period
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of, you know, years, going through the divorce and having
27:16
no financial backing. She wasn't really.
27:18
She felt like he should have taken care of her better, you
27:21
know, that that's what she felt. So however it worked out, you
27:24
know, you got to realize women haven't always been treated very
27:27
well in court dealings, especially with divorces.
27:30
Not always. People think women always get it
27:32
all, but they don't. And in this case, he was able to
27:35
manipulate the law because he was obviously a lawyer to work
27:38
in his favor. So anyways, he was sentenced to
27:40
life in prison. She ended up dying just a few
27:43
days ago at 78 years of age, they say, of natural causes.
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So she had a lot of health issues.
27:49
So she finally did die. I just want to say that I always
27:53
had AII was angry with her for what she did.
27:56
I was very conflicted. I think that what she did,
27:59
murdering her husband and the ex-wife was completely wrong.
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That was not the way to handle it.
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But on the other hand, there is another hand to this.
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I always felt sad for her because I felt like she got
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trauma. You know, some people aren't
28:13
strong mentally. They got mental issues, right?
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And I think there were mental issues there.
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You know, in the court they said that she was a narcissistic
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behavior. I don't know if she was
28:23
narcissistic. She took care of him.
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She really was there for him 150 percent, 1000%.
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So I think that she should have got taken care of better at the
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divorce level. And I think it just the him
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being married to a beautiful young woman, By the way, she had
28:41
already aged out of his, of what he wanted, right?
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So he took a younger wife, I think.
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I don't want to say that it explains it, but I can see how
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somebody can be driven to insanity.
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What's that song? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's just listen, we've all been there.
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We feel like we haven't been treated right and we lose
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control. She lost control in the most
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horrific way. So she died.
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She died in prison. But I I just wanted to say that
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I have a lot of compassion for women, for anyone that gets to
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go through a bad breakup and gets treated badly during the
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breakup. And in that time also, because
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in that time, women were met, were made to be homemakers.
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So, you know, they don't really get to go for the dreams and
29:29
aspirations that they desire, you know what I mean?
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She said in open court that she gave up her life so that he
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could have his and, and I, and I believe that.
29:38
I believe that she believed that I'm she deserved her prison
29:43
sentence. I'm just going to say that what
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she did, I'm sorry, you just can't, you just can't take the
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law into your own hands like that.
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That's not the way to resolve it, but I could understand how
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it could happen. If you guys want to go ahead and
29:55
talk about history repeating itself, we got viruses in the
29:59
news again. We've got the Hantavirus.
30:01
At least 18 pass US. Passengers from the MV Hondius
30:06
HONDIUS cruise ship are now under observation in Nebraska
30:12
and Atlanta after possible exposure to the hantavirus
30:15
during a deadly outbreak linked to the ship.
30:19
Two passengers, including one with symptoms, were transferred
30:22
to Emory University in Atlanta for further assessment and 1
30:27
passenger in Nebraska tested positive as well.
30:31
So the Hantavirus is in the United States, and Donald Trump
30:36
and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy
30:39
Junior have both said that the outbreak is under control and
30:43
downplayed concerns about broader spread.
30:46
Now, I'm not going to go ahead and say that this is going to
30:50
spread any further. However, this is exactly the
30:53
same stuff that they said when the COVID virus came out.
30:58
I distinctly remember them saying, oh, it's under control,
31:01
it's OK, it's fine. And then, you know, two months
31:04
later, they're telling us to inject bleach.
31:06
So. This is the coming from the
31:08
people that didn't mask up when they needed to mask that so the.
31:11
Hantavirus has been here for years, OK?
31:14
It's always been here, Yes. In February, Gene Kackman and
31:18
his wife died in their home. They were found both dead after
31:22
being there for a week. Hackman's wife died in the
31:25
bathroom. She caught the hantavirus.
31:29
She was either bitten by an animal, something happened that
31:31
she was she, that's what was in her bloodstream.
31:33
Breathing in airborne particles. She died in the bathroom and
31:37
because she was his primary care care caregiver, he died of
31:42
starvation in another room. He just, he was never fully, he
31:46
has, what is it, dementia. So he wasn't even aware that she
31:51
wasn't taking care of him. He just died of starvation.
31:54
So they both died of horrific deaths.
31:57
So this disease has been here for a long time, but oh, yeah,
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obviously now when you spread it from person to person, I mean,
32:05
it can it can get out of control.
32:07
It can blow out of control. So, but our our very what, what
32:11
is it? What is John F KS Our Our
32:14
health. Health and Human Services
32:17
Secretary. OK.
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And well, isn't he an expert in medicine?
32:21
No, no. That's why I would.
32:25
Why would you make someone a a person to handle that job?
32:30
It's like a teacher. You want we're going to make her
32:33
teach Spanish. And then I ask you, does your
32:35
teacher speak Spanish? No.
32:38
Mine did, but yours does. I just want to go ahead and
32:41
clarify. That, yeah.
32:41
But what I'm saying is that's just, it just sounds stupid.
32:44
It sounds so stupid. You're going to make him the
32:47
Secretary of Health and Human Services, but he doesn't have
32:51
any qualifications. All right, I want to go ahead
32:53
and jump into one more our topic and then we'll go ahead and do a
32:56
little bit more of a discussion and other stuff.
32:59
Hillsdale College is to award honorary degrees to Charlie and
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Erica Kirk. College president Larry ARN
33:07
announced the honorary doctorates during Charlie Kirk's
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memorial service in Glendale, AZ on September 21st.
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He he's going to go ahead. It's They said Kirk completed 31
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Hillsdale College online courses and regularly sent him
33:23
certificates of completion. They have also.
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This college has previously honored recipients such as
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Clarence Thomas, Victor Davis, Hanson Bishop, Robert Barron and
33:37
Pat and Leslie Sajak. So not necessarily, you know,
33:43
the greatest list of people, but I think that it's very
33:48
interesting that these people who are so against giving awards
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and jobs based off of just anything other than diversity
33:58
that they are going to just get a random award.
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If she starts calling herself Doctor, I'm going to chop.
34:04
Doctor. They are trying to turn him into
34:08
some kind of a St. and. Interesting to me.
34:11
All you got to do, you don't have to listen to me because you
34:14
know, I'm just doing the radio right.
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Go on YouTube and listen to his speeches to the students, listen
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to the rhetoric, listen to what he says.
34:24
He was not a St., he was many things.
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But so honestly, so I would be so if, if, if Erica Kirk did
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complete 31 Hillsdale College courses and was working on his
34:36
doctorate. If if that's the case, then that
34:39
I can understand. But Erica Kirk has done nothing.
34:43
She isn't even a podcaster. She has married this guy she and
34:47
now she's in charge of of Turning Point USA.
34:49
She's. Scary.
34:50
She really is. Have you ever seen?
34:52
Her look into the camera. Yeah, something wrong with her.
34:55
She really? Is either mental illness or
34:57
something's going on. But the other day she did, she
35:00
did the speech and she, she was dressed like Janet Jackson.
35:03
Yeah, she had on the basement. Owen said that.
35:05
She had the Janet Jackson head on and the T-shirt and she's
35:08
looking in the camera. People.
35:10
People are. I'm like, people are doing white
35:14
face. White face girl.
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People can't do white face if they're white.
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Well, Drewski's black. But yeah, I know.
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But he's great, by the way. But he's not doing a white face.
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He's doing like parodies of her, you know what I'm saying?
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But. Well, as a white person, I'm not
35:27
offended. Yeah, that doesn't pin pin me at
35:29
all. You know, I mean, so the, the
35:31
issue when it comes to blackface is the fact that they went ahead
35:35
that that white individuals were, you know, making fun of in
35:38
an extreme way and, and they were, you know, being completely
35:42
racist with it. All he's doing is parodying her.
35:45
What he's doing is doing exactly what she's.
35:48
Doing. She's literally going here with
35:50
these fireworks behind her and her fake tears in her eyes with
35:55
her little handkerchief, wiping her, her little fake teeth.
35:59
I can, I can fake cry better than her.
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I, I'm, I'm just going to say it right now.
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Vin, what's your perspective? Have you ever been so sick of
36:09
hearing and seeing the same crap over again?
36:12
It just makes you. Tired.
36:14
That's actually really funny, David, Mr. White, Pep, Brian
36:17
said. He's so tired of of circle Kirk.
36:19
I'm literally like I'm so speechless and so like baffled.
36:24
I'm just so my brain is so tired.
36:26
She loves the attention though, by the way, I know that she says
36:29
that she wants privacy and but she.
36:31
Really knows she loves. It If you want privacy, what are
36:34
you doing? Television interviews.
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You don't want privacy, you want to attention.
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She wants attention. Believe me, she loves it.
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Leo, what's your your perspective if you got it?
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I'm just feels like from an Asian person, if you get a
36:48
doctorate degree without putting the work there, I feel offended.
36:52
Thank you, thank you, thank you for saying that.
36:55
Oh my gosh. Well, I'm a I'm about to
36:58
graduate with my political science bachelor's in December
37:01
and I this is hard. It is hard to get a degree, OK.
37:07
And now they want. And then now, now she can
37:09
technically go by Doctor, even though it's honorary.
37:13
No, it's inappropriate. It's she could use that title.
37:16
You know who did deserve their honorary doctorate and I'm very
37:19
proud that USF did this is that is the 2 individuals that were
37:23
murdered this past month. Or so.
37:27
Those people deserved that and those are the people that and,
37:31
and honestly and like I said, Charlie.
37:34
And that's what they were. Working towards if he was
37:36
working towards his doctorate and he was killed while working
37:39
on his doctorate, then I can go ahead and I can give that a
37:43
little bit of leeway. And they were stellar students.
37:45
But Erica Kirk going ahead and getting it without doing
37:49
probably any I I didn't see any sort of, you know, college do
37:54
Janet Jackson, she can do. Janet, she can do.
37:57
Janet can do Janet Jackson. She didn't look like I'm.
38:00
I'm mad that they jumped all the way to doctorates.
38:04
Like are you kidding me? Like not honorary bachelors, not
38:09
honorary masters, Like you're going to jump all the way to
38:11
doctorates with 30 credits? Get out of here.
38:15
These. People are something else, man,
38:16
I tell you. I and, and Leo, you actually
38:20
nailed it because in Asian culture, we take education
38:23
seriously. We take knowledge seriously, We
38:25
take, we take passion and understanding seriously.
38:28
So like for people to like she, I'm speechless.
38:33
And also like if you watch the videos or what he's seeing in
38:37
most of his podcasts or whatever, they basically just
38:40
like bombshell someone with repeating the same sentence.
38:43
There's. It's just.
38:44
The same rhetoric over and over again.
38:46
Exactly. They're using all his powers,
38:48
his presence, his authorities to like, talk down to people like,
38:53
I don't know. They're not talk down to people,
38:54
talk down to college students. Don't forget he's a 30 year old
38:57
man talking down to college students, going from college
39:00
campus to college campus, trying to go ahead and own the libs by
39:04
going ahead and targeting college students.
39:06
Come on, let's not. Let's move on.
39:09
Also, oh wait, one more thing. I'm so sorry.
39:11
The doctorate is supposed to be in biblical studies.
39:16
Oh, God. OK, I'm not I'm not knocking
39:19
biblical studies. OK, I'm not knocking the fact
39:22
that that is a like a legitimate.
39:25
He's got a master's in metaphysics and religious
39:28
education. Religious Education.
39:29
Yeah, yeah. But the religious education,
39:32
religious education, which means there's a spectrum.
39:35
Of yeah. So it's not, it's not, it's not
39:36
a denominational, correct? Yeah.
39:38
It's not a denomination. I learned a lot of different
39:40
religions while I was there, all kinds of different religions.
39:43
I doubt this is the case. No, no.
39:46
Yeah, she she is an openly evangelical Christian and which
39:51
is completely fine, but she still scares me when I look at
39:54
her and when she looks into that camera.
39:56
I'm telling you, I want to run. Yeah, I mean, really well.
39:59
She looks into the camera. I'm like, wow, this lady's not
40:02
well. Anyways, let's move on.
40:05
I'm trying attire to the circle. OK, so yeah, so let's do so the
40:08
Hungarian Prime Minister takes office.
40:10
Peter Magyar took office on May the 9th and I'm.
40:13
As may as crush. I'm just, I love him.
40:16
I'm, I'm just rooting for him. I'm rooting for him and for the
40:18
Hungarian people, you know, under this oppressive government
40:22
that they had for 16 years under Orban.
40:25
He had been in power since 2010. And it's so wonderful to see
40:29
these people that they're getting the gay rights, but the
40:32
gay people are getting their rights back and women are going
40:35
to be able to function in society more openly.
40:37
Remember that authoritarians, that they don't like the races.
40:42
They don't like races, race, races other other than their own
40:45
race. They want to condense religion.
40:49
They want to condense speech. They want to condense everything
40:52
has to be minimized so that people don't have power.
40:55
And this guy wants to give power back to the people.
40:57
The first thing he did, he says he wants to rejoin the United
41:00
Nations, which I think is just wonderful because what there's
41:04
there's power in numbers, right? He had isolated the country.
41:08
So. And by the way, we're being
41:09
isolated right now, you know. Yeah.
41:11
Just terrible. Do you realize that?
41:14
I mean, in Canada, they don't even sell our, most of our
41:19
products aren't being sold anymore because of Canadians are
41:23
boycotting us, you know, because of all the things between him
41:26
and them and the president. You know, and I hear that Las
41:29
Vegas is like, dad, the tourists aren't going there.
41:32
You know, they, they need the tourist industry.
41:35
So our country is hurting because of this.
41:37
Oh, very much so. And I think that I think that
41:40
the rise of far right authoritarianism and and far
41:43
right movements is is happening in a worldwide aspect.
41:46
Everybody should be really scared.
41:48
But then you got people like the Hungarian Prime Minister who won
41:52
and defeated after 16 and how we won by going door to door.
41:57
I agree. Yeah, no.
41:58
It was a foot mission. He went.
42:00
He went to the people. He went to the people.
42:03
I. Said it exactly right, Leo.
42:05
The power of the people, absolutely.
42:07
Well, let's I kind of want to go ahead and talk about the data
42:11
breach that happened. Hillsborough Public Schools and
42:14
USF were impacted by a major nationwide data breach.
42:19
They there was a cybersecurity attack on Canvas, which is the
42:24
learning platform used by schools and colleges.
42:27
Officials say the exposed information was limited to
42:29
names, e-mail addresses and student ID numbers, saying that
42:33
there was number, password, Social Security numbers, birth
42:36
dates, financial information or government ID's compromised.
42:40
The USF was they, they basically shut down the access for canvas
42:46
and they, like, they even removed the button on the home
42:49
page for the canvas. They removed that button.
42:52
So rather than going ahead and, and sending it to like a, a, a
42:55
broken URL, they literally just completely took it off of their
42:59
software, threw it all away in the middle of finals week, in
43:05
the middle of finals week. So people were literally going
43:08
to take their final exams and they couldn't access Canvas.
43:12
Luckily, my professors have gone ahead and moved past going ahead
43:18
and doing digital tests because they've, they've realized that a
43:21
lot of students just go ahead and cheat on those anyways.
43:24
So they've gone ahead and started doing in person exams,
43:29
which honestly? Back to old school.
43:31
I was actually really happy when that, when I saw the canvas
43:36
outbreak that, that this, that this professor was wanting to do
43:40
in person exams, because then I knew, Oh well, you can't go
43:44
ahead and hack my, my test, my paper test, It's there.
43:48
He's going to go ahead and grade it either way.
43:51
I and, and I took it on Monday too, So all my exams were
43:54
already taken. So, but honestly, it's, it's a
43:57
lesson to every single person out there because these data
44:00
breaches and these hackings are probably going to become more
44:03
prevalent. So if you are in school or
44:05
you're going to be in school, make sure if you have a, a test
44:10
of any kind, do it as soon as humanly possible because you
44:14
never know when something like this is going to happen.
44:17
And I honestly, I expected it. I, I genuinely did.
44:21
I knew that the, the, you know, institutions are, you know,
44:24
vulnerable in terms of, you know, because they have so much
44:28
information that, that it's, it was inevitable.
44:32
And I'm glad that we have people that are doing in person stuff.
44:37
What were you going to say as May?
44:38
No, I was going to, I was going to go to the next topic, but if
44:40
you have anything you want to add them.
44:43
No. So Florida Chase Bank, anybody
44:47
know that bank? Anybody familiar with it?
44:49
Well, Florida Chase Bank had a customer the other day and what
44:52
he did I do all the time. I'm one of these people.
44:56
I like to use the tellers inside.
44:58
So I show up at the bank. My bank opens up at 8:30 in the
45:01
morning. I usually get there about 8:10,
45:04
8/15 and I sit in the parking lot and wait.
45:09
I did. This morning.
45:10
We, I think most of us have done.
45:12
I wait until the bank opens and then I run in real fast.
45:15
I do my banking, everybody says hello to me.
45:17
I get out and then I go over to Walmart, which is right next
45:20
door. OK, perfect.
45:22
He had a wad of cash. I guess he works in the bar
45:26
business or something. Young black man, and it's very
45:29
important that I use his color here.
45:30
Young black male. He had a big old wad of cash in
45:33
a in a like a zipper pouch sitting there in his car.
45:37
It's looking at the clock saying, well, the bank opens up
45:40
in 20 minutes and he's ready. He wants to get rid of this
45:43
money and put it deposited in his account.
45:45
This is the money from the weekend.
45:47
Whatever he does doesn't matter the security.
45:50
Other people were also waiting in their cars, by the way, just
45:55
like him. Guess what happens?
45:57
Security comes and taps on his window and pulls him out and
46:00
wants him to show his ID and where are you going and why are
46:03
you sitting? And they called the police
46:05
because they said he was sitting in his car looking suspicious.
46:09
And he said, But look around you, there's other people doing
46:11
the same. Thing.
46:13
This is crazy. Banking while black, that's what
46:18
they call things like that. But when things like that
46:20
happen, yeah. We're not doing it, Yeah.
46:22
That's exactly what it. Is it's just horrible.
46:24
It's exactly what it is. Leave people alone, let people
46:27
live their lives. This boy was this young man was
46:30
not doing anything wrong. Nothing.
46:33
The police were like, I don't understand what's going on here.
46:36
What did you call? I'd regularly go ahead and when
46:39
I was dancing at Bradley's I had an entire backpack full of
46:43
crumpled up jock strap ones and I would go to the bank.
46:46
But I would do it in the early morning so that I can go ahead
46:48
and get it taken care of. It's just, I'm just so saddened
46:51
by this. It's it's terrible.
46:52
By the way, Florida, I've. Never had an issue I've never
46:55
had. I've never had an issue sitting
46:56
in any parking. Lot I've never had anyone knock
46:59
on my window and ask me at that ever and any bank.
47:02
What are you doing here? Never.
47:04
No one's ever said anything to me.
47:05
That's heartbreaking. And I have done worse than that.
47:07
I have actually sat in front of the of the bank like by the door
47:11
because I want to be the first one there.
47:13
So I stand by the door by where the door actually opens.
47:16
No one's ever walked up to me and said, what are you, you
47:18
doing here? No one.
47:20
So I just God, man, leave people alone and leave black folk
47:24
alone. They're not bothering you.
47:26
Leave them alone. I don't know.
47:28
Just so I just when I read this article, I was just so
47:30
frustrated. And by the way, there's a very
47:33
high percentage of black people that go through this in the
47:35
state of Florida all the time. And it's valid, the frustration.
47:39
Like people wonder why we're still mad about racism.
47:43
Because it's still present. It's still exist.
47:45
Oh, this is clearly racism. I don't care what you want to
47:48
call it. It's something that Clarence
47:50
Thomas would never be able to go ahead and and understand because
47:54
he's effectively called the end of racism when it comes to race
47:57
based districting in terms of stuff like that.
47:59
You know what also I didn't, I didn't add to the story which I
48:02
need to. He showed the security guard the
48:04
money. He said he opened up the pouch
48:07
and said, look, this is the I'm not here to I just want to
48:10
deposit this money. He showed him the the wad of
48:14
cash, the, you know, the ones that do whatever was in there
48:17
and he still called the police on the guy.
48:19
Which he didn't have to. No showing him the money.
48:23
Shoot, I don't understand. I'm telling you, I I know I'm
48:26
hyped up about this, but girl, we just got to leave folk alone.
48:29
I love that. I love that the police though
48:32
caught it. Yeah, they did.
48:34
But you know, they're guilty of it too sometimes, you know, not
48:36
all the time. There's a like, like we said,
48:38
off the air, there's a lot of good police officers and then
48:40
there's some that aren't so good.
48:42
There are some good ones though. I'm glad in this particular
48:45
scenario they caught it. I I want to add there are some
48:48
good ones and then there's also good ones that don't turn in the
48:52
bad ones and those make them bad.
48:54
People, you're right about that. I've always been lucky with
48:57
policeman. Police officers have always it's
49:00
I'm really fortunate as a trans person living here, I've never
49:04
had any issues. But police, they've never
49:05
treated me badly. I they're always very and even
49:08
more all the police are very protective of us.
49:11
I wish I could say the same. Oh, I've had some really great
49:13
luck with officers and they're always nice to me.
49:15
And even when they know that I'm trans, I've you know, they know.
49:17
Especially anymore, they know, they know.
49:20
They see all that makeup on. They know you ain't no lady.
49:23
There's some awesome gems up in Pasco County, but there's also
49:27
some crap people in Pasco County.
49:29
Well, we got time for one real quick more topic, and this is
49:33
coming from Fox News. You know, they're all upset
49:36
about this one. More than 20 Catholic colleges
49:39
and universities are holding or planning separate LGBTQ Focus
49:44
Lavender graduation ceremonies alongside their main
49:47
commencements this spring. Seattle Universities event is
49:51
expected to feature a performance by Sativa the drag
49:54
queen, according to the school's event page Schools.
49:57
Schools tied to the events include Georgetown, Boston
50:01
College, the Santa Clara University of San Francisco and
50:07
the universities describe the ceremonies as celebrating and
50:10
honoring LGBTQ plus graduates and their achievements.
50:13
So educate me, what is lavender ceremony?
50:16
I I'm assuming I'm not 100% sure but if I remember correctly the
50:21
in Leo it seems like you might be able.
50:23
To so you know what lavender is a term people used to describe
50:27
them almost like pink. This day, that's a queer.
50:30
So if you're a graduation, that ceremony you probably wear
50:34
something that shows your queer and it's almost like you have a
50:37
Asian graduation, you have a black, you have a Spanish and
50:42
then you have a lavender 1. So it's a separate like a sub
50:45
forum of the graduation ceremony.
50:48
So yeah. So what is the?
50:49
What is the? What is the definition?
50:51
You have the definition of it. Yeah, it says online.
50:54
So the significance of the color it represents, reclamation of
50:57
history, represents the LGBTQ plus community blending the
51:00
colors once used to identify gay and lesbian individuals.
51:04
And so it signifies reclamation. So like in the past, they had
51:07
lavender weddings. OK, so I'm a little bit
51:09
confused. So the university, this
51:11
particular university. There's multiple 20 universities
51:14
that are having LGBTQ focused ceremonies.
51:17
Particularly Catholic colleges. Oh wow.
51:21
Yeah. That is kind of impressive
51:23
though. Very much so so.
51:24
It says so it says we've moved forward, we've moved the needle
51:27
a little bit there, huh? Yeah, it says the ceremonies are
51:30
intended to recognize academic achievements and unique
51:33
contributions of the LGBTQ students.
51:35
The controversy is that that's drawing criticism for
51:38
organizations which argues contradicting Catholic teachings
51:41
and of sexuality and gender. Well, the church came, you know,
51:44
I, I was raised a Catholic, you know, Well, I have protested
51:47
this well, because my mother's Protestant, my dad was Catholic.
51:49
But listen, church can be against it.
51:52
Gay people still exist, you know.
51:55
They don't like trans people, but here I am.
51:58
The Pope says that they still celebrate them.
52:00
Well, I'm here. Doesn't matter if you like them
52:03
or not. I'm not going to go away because
52:05
you don't like them. It's.
52:06
Supposed to be if the Pope says it, that it's like, you know,
52:09
solid. But that's not really what's.
52:11
Happening. You can pass all the laws and
52:13
you can do anything you want against gays and trans people.
52:15
I'm just telling you they're still going to exist, right?
52:18
Well, it's one win for the day. Leo, thank you so much for
52:21
joining us. I want to go ahead and do
52:23
another special shout out to the the Queer Asian Museum over in
52:26
Saint Petersburg. So where can people find more
52:28
information about the Queer Asian Museum in Saint Pete?
52:31
Yeah. Go to theqm.org or follow us on
52:34
Instagram Song Queer Asian Museum.
52:38
Awesome. And I hope you can stick around
52:40
for the Big Gay After Show, which is going to be streaming
52:43
on all streaming platforms at 5:00 PM.
52:45
We're also going to have a streaming exclusive interview
52:48
with the musical artist M, who is going to be at Crowbar
52:52
tonight. And I cannot wait to hear your
52:55
your perspective, Mr. Vin, on how it was opening.
52:59
I think it's going to be a very interesting show.
53:01
I think it's going to be exciting.
53:02
Exactly. I knew you were.
53:04
I knew you were as May. What are we going to talk about
53:06
on the on the after show? So Trump says he's sending an
53:09
elect an an election integrity army into the voting booth.
53:15
If during the midterms that's what he said, those were his
53:17
words. And a quarter of Americans think
53:20
that the assassination attempt at the White House
53:23
Correspondents Dinner was staged.
53:25
I'll tell you why I think that's a really bad.
53:27
And Donald Trump also in the news wants to open Fort Knox.
53:33
He wants to see, he wants to see that the goal that is supposedly
53:36
backing up our American money is really there.
53:40
I'm saying they better lock up Port Knox because he's trying to
53:45
get that money. I'm telling you, there's
53:48
supposed to be $700 billion in gold in there.
53:51
I wouldn't trust Trump in that door.
53:53
He'll probably have a semi truck backed up to the back door,
53:57
girl. I would not trust them people
53:59
with that money. I would tell Port Knox, please
54:03
do not open the door to the president.
54:05
Do not. Do not.
54:07
Well, I got the Education Department opening a probe into
54:10
Smith College for admitting trans women.
54:13
We also have a Tampa man thrown in jail after neighbor drops a
54:17
dime over building a backyard, guest house, pool and pickleball
54:22
court. We'll talk about that.
54:24
And then of course, we've got, you know, the Supreme Court.
54:28
Who is extended a the allotment on the abortion pill?
54:33
I believe it's Myth of Prestone. So we're going to go ahead and
54:35
talk about all of that and more after on the after show.
54:40
And that's streaming at all platforms at 5:00 PM.
54:42
We hope you have a wonderful rest of your day and we'll see
54:44
you next time. Bye.
54:48
This has been the big gay radio show on 88.5 WM and F Tampa.
54:53
Remember to stay kind and prideful, Tampa Bay.