This week on the Queer News podcast Anna DeShawn remembers Kitty Monroe, a Latina trans woman who was murdered in Arizona. Missouri is continuing their commitment to hate with another record day of hearing 9 anti-trans & anti-LGBTQ bills in one day. Anna attended Creating Change 2024 in New Orleans and tells us all about it. GLAAD won an Emmy and dropped their 2024 GLAAD award nominees. Giselle Byrd becomes the first Black trans woman to lead a regional theater company and Shannon Balenciaga is on VH1’s “My True Crime Story” spilling the tea about her $17.5 million dollar scam.

00:00 – Welcome to the Queer News podcast 

00:22 – Queer News Listenership Survey Update

1:31 – Join the QCrew, https://bit.ly/3L3Ng66 

3:01 – Queer News headlines

3:55 – Kitty Monroe we speak your name, 

7:03 – Missouri hears 9 anti-trans bills in one day

9:39 – Anna attends Creating Change in New Orleans

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18:16 – GLAAD wins an Emmy

21:09 – Giselle Byrd makes history

23:34 – Shannon Balenciaga is on VH1’s “My True Crime Story”

25:19 – Anna’s Got a Word

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Things for you to check out

Kitty Monroe’s GoFundMe

https://www.gofundme.com/f/marcos-lugo

Sign Petition – Missouri’s 9 Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills in One Day

https://secure.everyaction.com/O3J12zKthEOGWfLkT0i5Lw2#!

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Transcript

Family, it’s your favorite queer radio personality Anna DeShawn and this is Queer News. Your fav weekly news pod where race & sexuality meet politics, culture, and entertainment. 

I want to give an update on our listenership survey. I’ve been digging through the data and it’s been so enlightening. I’ll be sharing some key findings on the show next week and I’m really looking forward to implementing some of the things you’d like to see more on the show. Also, I did pull a winner for the $50 gift card but they haven’t replied to my email. Liz if you’re out there can reply. If I don’t hear from you by next episode I’ll spin our virtual wheel again for a new winner. 

QCrew! Did you enjoy the Raquel Willis interview? You all got the exclusive. Raquel is an award-winning activist, author, and media strategist dedicated to Black transgender liberation. She has released her memoir titled “The Risk it Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation” and I got the opportunity to sit down with her and talk all about it.Now family, you can watch it too on our E3 Radio YouTube channel. Now the QCrew is our Queer News community where you receive a weekly email sharing our top queer news stories, an unedited video from me about the top queer stories, and now first dibs on our exclusive interviews. The QCrew helps to supplement the costs of pod; podcast hosting, editing, marketing, PR, travel, etc. If you believe in the work we do. If you believe LGBTQ stories need to be amplified. If you love and respect how I report on the news and tell our stories, join the QCrew. A link is in the show notes. 

Now for the news. Kitty Monroe we speak your name today. Kitty was a Latina transwoman who was killed in Arizona. Missouri is continuing their commitment to hate. They had another record day of hearing 9 anti-trans & anti-LGBTQ bills in one day. I attended Creating Change 2024 and I want to tell you all about it. GLAAD dropped their 2024 GLAAD award nominees. Giselle Byrd becomes the first Black trans woman to lead a regional theater company and Shannon Balenciaga is on my true crime story. Let’s go!

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Sources 

Trans Latina Kitty Monroe of Phoenix is the First Reported Victim Of 2024 Violence

https://www.pghlesbian.com/2024/01/trans-latina-kitty-monroe-of-phoenix-is-the-first-reported-victim-of-2024-violence/

Phoenix trans Latina woman Kitty Monroe run over and killed by a truck

https://www.advocate.com/crime/trans-latina-kitty-monroe-killed

Missouri Hears 9 Anti-Trans Bills In A Single Day

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/missouri-hears-9-anti-trans-bills

Legislative Update: 9 Anti-LGBTQ Bills in One Day (And Some Positive Bills)

https://promoonline.org/blog/9-anti-lgbtq-bills-2024/

GLAAD ANNOUNCES NOMINEES FOR THE 35th ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS

https://glaad.org/releases/glaad-announces-nominees-for-the-35th-annual-glaad-media-awards/

Giselle Byrd Is Putting Trans Voices Center Stage

https://www.them.us/story/giselle-byrd-theater-offensive-profile

TTO

https://thetheateroffensive.org/ttocapitalcampaign

Gaye Magazine 

https://www.instagram.com/gayemagazine/p/C1sUmkmv10j/?img_index=1

Kitty Monroe we speak your name, Missouri hears 9 anti-trans bills in one day, Anna attends Creating Change, GLAAD wins an Emmy, Giselle Byrd makes history & Shannon Balenciaga is on VH1’s “My True Crime Story” – January 22, 2024