Santa Cruz students help launch podcast series for LGBTQ community

THOSE UNITS HAVE BEEN RESERVED SPECIFICALLY FOR AGRICULTURAL WORKERS. ### THE SANTA CRUZ COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION …. WITH HELP FROM SEVERAL STUDENTS IS PUTTING TOGETHER A SERIES OF VIDEO POD-CASTS FOR THE L-G-B-T-Q COMMUNITY. SPECIFICALLY THEY WANT TO TELL THE STORIES OF SOME OF THE OLD-TIMERS… OUR CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER TOM LOPEZ HAS THE STORY. ## “YOU ARE. CAMERA ONE. THANK YOU.” “THIS PROJECT IS A PODCAST WHERE YOUNG QUEER PEOPLE IN SANTA CRUZ ARE INTERVIEWING OLDER QUEER PEOPLE IN THE AREA.” “JUST ASKING ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCES, THEIR STORY, LIKE COMPARING THE EXPERIENCES OF YOUNGER QUEER PEOPLE AND OLDER QUEER PEOPLE SEEING HOW AND WHAT, YOU’RE JUST TRYING TO PIECE TOGETHER MORE OF OUR HISTORY.” ROB DARROW “STUDENTS TO TALK ABOUT A CURIOSITY ABOUT LGBTQ PLUS HISTORY.” “NOW, YOU KNOW, THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN OUR SCHOOLS, BUT IT ISN’T BEING TAUGHT THERE.” “THERE’S A LOT THAT’S HAPPENED HERE IN THE PAST 30 OR 40 YEARS THAT, ARE FINALLY GETTING DOCUMENTED AND BEING BROUGHT TOGETHER IN ONE GIANT LIKE COMPILATION OF INTERVIEWS” “WE’VE PARTNERED WITH COMMUNITY TELEVISION OF SANTA CRUZ, AND THROUGH A GRANT THEY’VE PROVIDED THIS EQUIPMENT. WE HAVE PODCASTER KITS, WHICH IS A SEMIPROFESSIONAL VIDEO EQUIPMENT THAT ENABLES STUDENT STUDENTS TO ACCESS EQUIPMENT THAT THEY WOULDN’T OTHERWISE BE ABLE TO USE.” “I WANT PEOPLE TO, YOU KNOW, SEE THIS AND KIND OF REALIZE THAT THERE’S A LOT MORE TO OUR COMMUNITY THERE ARE STORIES THAT, YOU KNOW, HAVE KIND OF SHAPED WHAT OUR COMMUNITY HAS BECOME I REALLY HOPE PEOPLE GET TO SEE HOW MUCH THINGS HAVE CHANGED AND HOW, YOU KNOW, BETTER THINGS HAVE BECOME FOR US.” “BEFORE THE INTERNET, TO LEARN ALL THIS STUFF, YOU HAD TO DO IT FROM SOMEBODY WHO WAS KNOWLEDGEABLE, AND THAT WAS USUALLY SOMEBODY WHO WAS OLDER THAN YOU.” “THE QUESTIONS WE ASK ABOUT OUR IDENTITY DOESN’T HAVE THAT HISTORY BAKED INTO IT. THAT SOMEBODY 40 YEARS AGO ASKED ME ABOUT THEIR IDENTITY WOULD HAVE LEARNED” “I WAS WAY TOO YOUNG TO UNDERSTAND THE FEELINGS I WAS HAVING.” “I’M DELIGHTED THAT YOUNG PEOPLE WANT TO PARTICIPATE. I’M DELIGHTED THAT THEY’RE COMFORTABLE ENOUGH IN REACHING OUT TO SOME OF THE OLDER PEOPLE AND LISTENING TO THOSE OLD AND DISTANT STORIES, AND I’M HOPEFUL THAT THEY’LL GAIN A PERSPECTIVE THAT WILL CARRY THEM THROUGH THE MORE CHALLENGING TIMES OF THEIR LIVES AS THEY MOVE FORWARD.” “SANTA CRUZ HAS A RICH LGBTQ PLUS HISTORY THAT I KEEP LEARNING MORE AND MORE ABOUT. SO, YOU KNOW, ONCE YOU LEARN A BIT OF THE STORY YOURSELF, THEN YOU KNOW HOW IT CONNECTS WITH ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE. AND SANTA CRUZ JUST HAS THAT RICH HISTORY” “I’M REALLY HOPING THAT WE DO GET TO, KEEP MAKING THESE, “I HOPE TO GIVE THEM A PLATFORM TO FEEL COMFORTABLE TALKING ABOU