Created by and for students. Older LGBTQ+ people in Santa Cruz County are interviewed by younger queer students about their stories since the 1970s in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Santa Cruz Pride. Students from across Santa Cruz County conducted the interviews and then edited and produced each 20-minute long podcast. These podcasts will be released each Tuesday in 2025. We thank Patti Maxine on the steel string guitar for providing the music and the art was developed by Hex, one of the involved high school students.
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Signup to Generate a PitchCreated by and for students. Older LGBTQ+ people in Santa Cruz County are interviewed by younger queer students about their stories since the 1970s in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Santa Cruz Pride. Students from across Santa Cruz County conducted the interviews and then edited and produced each 20-minute long podcast.
Recent episodes include "Ep. 20. G Schulz: Gay Mens Groups in Santa Cruz and the Radical Faeries" (7 October 2025, 19 minutes), "Ep. 19. Shane Hill: Radical Faerie and Transgender Support Therapist" (30 September 2025, 23 minutes), and "Ep 18. Patti Maxine, Musician, Lap Steel Guitar performer, lesbian" (23 September 2025, 22 minutes).
Santa Cruz County Queer History Podcast publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 23 minutes across 20 episodes.
Booking probability for Santa Cruz County Queer History Podcast is 20%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Santa Cruz County Queer History Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Santa Cruz County Queer History Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.
Santa Cruz County Queer History Podcast is a history show with 20 episodes published.
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Episode #20
<p>G Schulz grew up mostly in Dallas, Texas and attended the University of Texas in Austin where he obtained a Bachelor’s of Architecture degree. After coming out in 1978 and graduating in 1979, he took a road trip west...
Episode #19
<p>Shane Hill was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has worked most of his life as a clinical psychologist, mindfulness teacher, community facilitator and artist. He moved to Santa Cruz in the 1990s. Shane has been...
Episode #18
<p>Patti Maxine is a musician who plays the lap steel guitar. She began her lifelong love affair with lap steel guitar and Hawaiian music as a young girl in Roanoke, Virginia and then moved to Santa Cruz in 1970. She...
Episode #17
<p>Honey Mahogany lives in San Francisco and was a keynote speaker at an event in Santa Cruz. Following that event, our podcast team traveled to San Francisco to interview Honey, an out transgender woman who helped...
Episode #16
<p>Marilyn Mariposa Bernstein is one of the founders of the Santa Cruz Dyke March that began in 1994. The event morphed into the Dyke Trans March and takes place on the Saturday prior to the Santa Cruz Pride parade...
Episode #15
<p>Tobin was born in Washington D.C. to a military family, later living in Hawaii, and moving with his mother to San Diego. At a young age, he became very interested in art, which acted as a creative outlet for him. He...
Episode #14
<p>Bob Correa and Denny Carroll moved to Santa Cruz in 1998 after retiring from jobs in San Jose. They had met in San Jose through an activist group that Denny co-founded called the High-Tech Gays. </p><p>After moving...
Episode #13
<p>Stuart Rosenstein is chair of the Queer Youth Task Force and organizer of the Queer Youth Leadership Awards. The Queer Youth Task Force works to foster a vibrant community where every youth thrives in their...
Santa Cruz County Queer History Podcast
<p>Dr. Jen Hastings has been a pioneering force in transgender health care. Jen launched the Transgender Health Care Program at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte in Santa Cruz and led the initiative for two decades. Jen’s...
Santa Cruz County Queer History Podcast
<p>In this episode, you will hear from Margaret Leonard and Claire Sheils, two activists who have been serving the queer community in Santa Cruz County for decades. Margaret grew up in Santa Cruz, attended Harbor High...
Episode #10
<p>In this episode you will hear from Sandy Stone who has been an out transgender woman living in Santa Cruz since the 1970s. Sandy moved to the Santa Cruz area in the 1970s as she was transitioning from male to female...
Episode #9
<p>John Laird moved to Santa Cruz in 1968 from Vallejo, and attended University of California Santa Cruz, just 3 years after the university’s founding. He majored in politics and took part in early LGBTQ+ organizations...
Episode #8
<p>Larry Friedman helped organize the first Santa Cruz Pride events in 1975. Larry moved to Santa Cruz in 1971 during what he called the “hippie era” for meditation, yoga and vegetarian living. As Larry was discovering...
Episode #7
<p>Adam Spickler was the first out transgender man elected to public office in California when he was elected to the Cabrillo College Board of Trustees in 2018. Adam came out twice in his life, first as gay in his teen...
Episode #6
<p>Monica Martinez became the first out and first Latina to be elected to the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors in 2024. She began her new position in 2025. Monica shares here coming out story and what it means to...
Episode #5
<p>Gail Levine was Vice Principal at Santa Cruz High in 1996 when some students asked to start the first gay straight alliance. She guided the students and established the Rainbow Alliance - the first student LGBTQ+...
Episode #4
<p>Hear gay therapist Jerry Solomon talk about how gay men were entrapped by the Capitola police in 1980 and how the community responded at a Capitola City Council meeting in 1981.</p>
Episode #3
<p>Jerry Solomon was the first out gay therapist in Santa Cruz in the 1970s. He talks about what that was like and how he brought people together so support one another.</p>
Episode #2
<p>Santa Cruz Pride was one of the first smaller city Pride events in the U.S. and began in 1975. Understand the context of SC Pride within the larger LGBTQ+ rights movement. Chair Rob Darrow shares the historical...
Episode #1
<p>Santa Cruz Pride Chair Rob Darrow, and college students Mars Redmon, Levi Kreisa and Maddie Hall share about the history of creating the podcast and what to expect from future episodes. New episodes will be released...
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