The Golden Queers

California LGBTQIA2S+ elders and youth connect to reflect on our community, our movement, and what older and younger generations have to learn from each other.

This limited-series audio endeavor is sponsored by California State Library and hosted by bilingual Storycorps veteran M.R. Raquel and “Unapologetically Us” producer Je’nae Singh (a.k.a. Jae). Listen in as M.R. and Jae do some deep engaging and listening with a rich array of California LGBTQIA2S+ elder activists and luminaries.

M.R. Raquel (they, elle) is a bilingual audio producer who is committed to storytelling for community-building, accessibility, transformative justice, accountability, and healing. Their ethos is to always honor storytellers in pursuit of folx sharing personal and community narratives. By handing the microphone to folx in their community, this becomes a reality. M.R‘s work has appeared on/at NPR, StoryCorps, iHeart Radio, and The Library of Congress, among other outlets.

Je'nae Singh (she/her) is one of the co-producers for The Outwords Archive podcast project. Since undergrad, she has studied audio production and radio broadcast at SFSU while minoring in journalism. She is currently producing Unapologetically Us, a podcast through The Katra Box. She's previously produced Volume Slider for Fanbyte media, a gaming culture website, which can be found on Spotify.