Podcast appearances and mentions of owen keehnen

In this enlightening episode of the Trans* Lesson Plan Podcast, we delve into the extraordinary life of Michael Dillon, a pioneering figure in transgender history. Michael became the first known transgender man to undergo phalloplasty, setting the stage for modern gender-affirming surgeries. From his groundbreaking medical procedures to his spiritual journey as a Buddhist monk, Michael's story is one of courage, resilience, and relentless pursuit of authenticity. Join us as we explore how this remarkable individual challenged societal norms, advocated for transgender rights, and left an indelible mark on both medical science and LGBTQ+ history. CNN Article: https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/14/us/transgender-awareness-week-reveals-a-community-in-crisis/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------- @translessonplan @mariiiwrld Merch: ⁠https://trans-lesson-plan.printify.me/products⁠ Subscribe to our newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://mailchi.mp/a914d2eca1cf/trans-lesson-plan ---------------------------------------------------------- Citations: Dillon, Michael, et al. Out of the Ordinary a Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions. The Lilliput Press, 2021. Regan, Julie. “The Possibilities of Emptiness and the Realities of (Trans) Gender.” Living Treasure: Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in Honor of Janet Gyatso, Wisdom Publications, pp. 107–121, Accessed 6 June 2023. Salvo, Victor. “Michael Dillon.” Edited by Owen Keehnen and Carrie Maxwell, Legacy Project Chicago, legacyprojectchicago.org/person/michael-dillon. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024. Transguy. “FTM History - Brief History of FTM Trans Civilization.” TransGuys.Com, 16 May 2022, transguys.com/features/ftm-trans-history. Ward, Lauren Ward, and Duncan Jones. “Michael Dillon: A Biographical Exhibition.” St Anne's College Crest, www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/life-here/library/blog/michael-dillon/. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024. Whittle, ST. A Brief History of Transgender Issues. The Guardian (Guardian News and Media Limited), 2010. “The World's First Trans Phalloplasty - Michael Dillon.” FTMsurgery.Net, 10 Oct. 2019, www.ftmsurgery.net/first-trans-phalloplasty.htm. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/translessonplan/support

This episode is part of the ChicagoHamburg30 podcast series, which celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Chicago-Hamburg Sister-City Partnership. Happy Pride Month! We celebrate with an episode about Queer Chicago featuring two historians of Queer History, Owen Keehnen and Timothy Stewart-Winter. Topics include the following: -The difficulties of accessing Queer history since it was repressed and marginalized for so long -The recovery and reclamation of Queer history -Early Gay cultures in the Levy District -The Society for Human Rights, which was the first Gay rights organization in the US, founded in Chicago by Henry Gerber in 1924 -The influence of the German writer and thinker Magnus Hirschfeld on Gay culture in Chicago -The special historical role of Chicago as the Midwestern Queer city, which differentiates it from the more well-known Gay cities of New York and San Francisco -The repeal of anti-sodomy laws by the Illinois in 1961, the first state to do so -Chicago's Human Rights Ordinance of 1988, which formally protected the Queer community from discrimination -Black Queer Chicago -Lesbian Chicago -The AIDS crisis -The Belmont Rocks and the AIDS Garden Check out Owen's Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/owenkeehnen/

Picture it: The Windy City, 1975. You're surrounded by scores of naked men, TV celebrities, a very chatty puppet, AND... world famous fan dancer, Sally Rand! For Chicago LGBT Hall of Famer Gary Chichester, it was "just another day at work." I chatted with the gay rights activist and entertainment producer about his tenure as manager of the legendary gay bathhouse, courting Sally Rand and shushing Paul Lynde, clowning around inside a big top, close encounters with the Boys in the Band, and why learning about LGBT history is the only way to securing our Queer future. Shout outs to the incomparable Chuck Renslow, Wayland Flowers and Madame, Bruce Vilanch, Franne Golde, Owen Keehnen, Tracy Baim, Circus Vargas, and so many others in this super gay, extra PRIDEful edition of Show Boys.  Read more about Gary Chichester's 50+ years in gay rights activism and show business: https://www.windycitytimes.com/lgbt/Gary-Chichester-A-Remarkable-Life/28823.html Follow Chris Harder: @TheChrisHarder on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and www.HarderChris.com Questions for Chris? Email him at ShowBoysPod@gmail.com or HarderBurlesque@gmail.com Special thanks to Mel and the Leather Archives and Museum: https://leatherarchives.org/ Gary Chichester and the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame: https://chicagolgbthalloffame.org/chichester-gary/  

History can be fun. That's the message Owen Keehnen wanted to share in this latest book LGBTQ+ Icons. It features short bios of members of the LGBTQ+ community alongside vibrant and exciting artwork from David Lee Csicsko. Hear the serendipitous story of how this celebration of LGBTQ+ figures in history came to be. Website: legacyprojectchicago.org Twitter: @lgbt_legacy Owen's Instagram: @owenkeehnen David's Instagram: @csicskokid

OUT CHICAGO kicks off LGBTQ History Month with special guest host Ken Mejia-Beal, Chair of the Democratic Party of DuPage County. Guests are: Carolyn Pinta (Buffalo Grove Pride), author Owen Keehnen and artist David Lee Csicsko's new book LGBTQ+ ICONS, and art historian Jonathan Katz on the new exhibit The First Homosexuals at Wrightwood 659.

93:   Owen Keehnen, Chicago gay bar historian, recalls some of Chicago's iconic gay bars as well as a couple that had an impact on his personal evolution in the gay world. #gaybarchives #ilovegaybars #lgbthistory Find more segments at tv.GayBarchives.com #gayCHICAGO #pridemonth GayBarchives = Gay + Bar + Archives 

We are joined by queer historian and LGBTQ Hall of Fame Member Owen Keehnen to discuss the origins of Chicago's queer spaces, the Belmont rocks, and how being yourself is the most radical act of queer liberation. To learn more about Owen's work, go to www.owenkeehnen.com.

Today's guests: - Congressman Mike Quigley, Representing Illinois 5th District - David Lee Csicsko and Owen Keehnen, authors of a new book, LGBTQ+Icons - Marck Jacob, Ex-editor at Chicago Tribune & Sun-Times - Jennifer Schulze, Media Executive

This week we're doing something a little different - we're not going to a bar, a club, or even a community group. We're embracing summer and headed to a lost queer beach! The Belmont Rocks were large limestone rocks on the lakefront of Lake Michigan, Chicago, that served as a gathering place for the LGBTQ+ community for decades, but were removed in 2003 due to erosion. I caught up with the writer Owen Keehnen, who runs 'A Place for Us', a facebook page that gathers people's memories of Belmont Rocks, to discuss his early days in Chicago in the 80s (when his dream job was to work at Ripley's Believe It or Not), coming out during the AIDS crisis, and why it was so important to him to have access to this space. Do you have any memories of The Belmont Rocks?, or clubbing from your own queer scene that you want to share? Well, if you have please get in touch - I want to create the biggest online record of people's memories and stories - go to www.lostspacespodcast.com and find the section 'Share a Lost Space' and tell me what you got up to! Bonus points for embarrassing photos! You can also find me on Facebook (www.facebook.com/lostspacespod), Instagram (www.instagram.com/lostspacespod) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/lostspacespod) Find out more about Owen by visiting his website www.owenkeehnen.com, following him on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/owenkeehnen), or follow the facebook page 'A Place for Us' - https://www.facebook.com/A-Place-for-Us-LGBTQ-Life-at-the-Belmont-Rocks-1962452347335386/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/k-anderson/message

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH EVERYONE!!!! As if watched over by the incisive, kick-ass celluloid trio of Adrienne Barbeau, Karen Black & Lynda Day George, writer-historian (and consummate horror lover) Owen Keehnen has been one of Chicago's most colorful and important chroniclers of the LGBTQIA experience for decades now. From his work with the iconic powerhouses of ACT UP in the ‘80s to his current passionate pursuit of chronicling the history of both the Belmont Rocks and Man's Country, Keehnen is the very essence of Pride in action. Thus, Dagger Cast is thrilled to have him as our guest this June. Please join us as Owen regales us with tales of such iconic Midwest drag personas as Miss Tillie & The Bearded Lady and explains why Barbara Hershey is the perfect scary movie goddess for his (and every) generation!”

In 2014, Gerber/Hart received a collection of photo albums that belonged to a performer named Miss Tillie “The Dirty Old Lady of Chicago.” The collection is incredibly rich, with over a thousand images of Miss Tillie performing throughout the 1940s-1990s as well as a VHS tape with a short documentary created by Daniel Lee that aired in 2002 at the Reeling Film Festival.Much of Miss Tillie's life is shrouded in mystery. We know that she moved to Chicago in 1961 from Dayton, Ohio. Tillie's first show was at The Front Page, where she “screamed above a Sophie Tucker record.” Performer Roby Landers added “The Dirty Old Lady” to Tillie's name, and from then on, she became known as Tillie “The Dirty Old Lady of Chicago.” Tillie performed all over Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s. She was one of the early performers at The Chesterfield and was arrested in several bar raids that occurred there in the early 1960s. She also frequently performed at House of Landers and later worked with Chuck Renslow to start a drag show at Sparrow's. Tillie passed away in 2005.Listen in to learn more about Miss Tillie and her collection. Episode features interviews with grassroots historian Owen Keehnen, Gerber/Hart volunteer and staff member Jen Dentel, and former Gerber/Hart board president Carrie Barnett.Want to learn more? Visit gerberhart.org!

Today's episode was recorded live on October 25th, 2021 on Zoom. We begin with some new voices at our open mic before this month's headliners. First, Queer author, activist, and grassroots historian Owen Keehnen. His newest book, Voices in Isolation: 4 Queer Plays at a Social Distance, comes out next month. He is a cofounder of the LGBTQ history, arts, education organization, the Legacy Project and was inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame in 2011. He is part of the founding group dedicated to making AIDS Garden Chicago a reality. He lives in Chicago with his husband Carl and their two dogs. Then, Kai Davis, she is a Black Queer writer, performer, and teaching artist from Philadelphia. Her work explores Blackness, Queerness, womanhood, and the many ways these identities converge. In 2017 Kai received the Leeway Transformation Award for her art for social change work in Philadelphia. She is currently a Co-Organizer for The Philly Pigeon poetry slam and retreat, Poetry Editor for Apiary Magazine, member of The Philadelphia Poet Laureate Committee, and the 2020 NextFab x Leeway Art and Technology Artist-in-Residence. Kai has performed for TEDX Philly, CNN, BET, PBS, and NPR, and her work has been published in The Offing (2018), The Shade Journal (2019), and Mouths of Rain (2021) among others.

We all have stories -- sometimes poignant, sometimes entertaining, and usually quite interesting. As historians of LGBTQ life, St Sukie de la Croix and Owen Keehnen, have been recording and collecting the memories, personal experiences, and anecdotes of queer folks for decades. The Tell Me About It series is an extension of their ongoing work.The Tell Me About It series collects personal anecdotes in response to a series of questions. Like its two predecessors, Tell Me About It 3 is full of moving, horrendous, hilarious, and thought-provoking answers by LGBTQ people from across the country and around the globe, capturing a variety of experience, often revealing more profound similarities. Tell Me About It 3 offers glimpses of what makes us different, who we are, what we share, and where we fit inSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/House-of-Mystery-True-Crime-History. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to the OutSpoken Pride special episode! This is a special interview of Tree, a longtime bartender at the Stonewall Inn, where he had just started working the night a very famous riot broke out in 1969... He's interviewed here by historian Owen Keehnen live at Sidetrack on June 5, 2019.  CELEBRATE & SUPPORT Black trans lives! In lieu of our typical Pride celebrations at the bars and parades, please consider donating to Brave Space Alliance, Black Queer & Intersectional Collective, Queer the Land, Black Transmen Inc., and/or For the Gworls.  For more information about the Stonewall Riots, check out "Stonewall" by David Carter. For more information on Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera's involvement in the riots which catalyzed the LGBTQ rights movement, check out Johnson's interview with Eric Marcus of Making Gay History.  Stage Manager: Brad Balof  Podcast Producer: Devlyn Camp Audio/Visual Tech: Bryan Smith  Story Collector: Ray Teresi  Our regular Outspoken event takes place the first Tuesday of every month at Sidetrack and is audio recorded in front of a live audience.  Sidetrack is dedicated to providing entertainment and hospitality in a respectful, safe, and inclusive space for the LGBTQIA community.  Find out more at SidetrackChicago.com  You can find more information about Outspoken at  https://www.sidetrackchicago.com/outspokenchicago/

Sal delivers their groundbreaking study, The Grindr Report. Devlyn ponders the queer possibilities of the Frasier reboot. (Don’t erase Roz’s bisexuality!) We also reveal our secret tactics for making men online spiral into madness.This week our guest is the beautiful B in our LGBT Pride month interviews, Courtney Feiler! (Sal’s girlfriend!) We’re talking about the new Hulu show “The Bisexual,” and sexual exploration!You can still win a free copy of one of Owen Keehnen’s new books “Tell Me About It” or “LGBTQ Book of Days” by DMing us or tagging us on Instagram! (More about his books in last week’s episode.)Join our Patreon now on any of our three tiers: Supportive Lady, Sugar Mother, or The Reba McEntire Level. You’ll get our new BONUS podcast “More Queers For Your Ears,” buttons, posters, Q&A videos, and more! This month’s bonus is about HBO’s new vvvv lesbian show Gentleman Jack. Queer history! Click here or go to www.patreon.com/theythempod to join now!Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @theythempod Support the show and get fun rewards and bonus episodes at patreon.com/theythempod Visit theypodcast.com to submit music, suggestions, guest appearances, or if you are a Chicago pro-LGBTQ+ business interested in sponsoring the show!Opening song “Sticks and Stones” by Jackie Shane. Music by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Owen Keehnen  has had his fiction, essays, erotica, reviews, columns, and interviews appear in dozens of magazines and anthologies worldwide.His books include Dugan's Bistro and the Legend of the Bearded Lady, Tell Me About It with St Sukie de la Croix, The LGBTQ Book of Days and A Place for Us: LGBTQ Life at the Belmont Rocks. With the Windy City Times co-founder Tracy Baim, Owen co-authored, the Chicago LGBT historical biographies including Leatherman: The Legend of Chuck Renslow, Jim Flint: The Boy From Peoria, and Vernita Gray: From Woodstock to The White House. He’s a co-founder of the Legacy Project. The Legacy Project was inspired the first time the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt was shown at the National March on Washington for LGBT Civil Rights in 1987. Chicago's Legacy Project celebrated the LGBTQ community by installing the first of its kind “Rainbow Pylon” streetscape, This Legacy Walk is a dynamic outdoor LGBTQ history exhibit. Every year on National Coming Out Day new plaques are added. The pylons are to be named the first multi-block LGBTQ landmark in the world. Owen is a frequent speaker on LGBTQ history and has chaired several panels for the Out at CHM, the Chicago History Museum series.

Devlyn talks about living in the space between being a gay man and a straight woman. Sal serves up some Botswanan tea!Give us a G! We’ve got the G in our LGBT Pride month interviews, grassroots historian Owen Keehnen! She’s back! Talking about legendary disco Dugan’s Bistro, socialized queer censorship, Pride and cynicism, and the Belmont Rocks. Win a free copy of one of Owen’s new books “Tell Me About It” or “LGBTQ Book of Days” by DMing us or tagging us on Instagram!Join our Patreon now on any of our three tiers: Supportive Lady, Sugar Mother, or The Reba McEntire Level. You’ll get our new BONUS podcast “More Queers For Your Ears,” buttons, posters, Q&A videos, and more! This month’s bonus is about HBO’s new vvvv lesbian show Gentleman Jack. Queer history! Click here or go to www.patreon.com/theythempod to join now!Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @theythempod Support the show and get fun rewards and bonus episodes at patreon.com/theythempod Visit theypodcast.com to submit music, suggestions, guest appearances, or if you are a Chicago pro-LGBTQ+ business interested in sponsoring the show!Opening song “Sticks and Stones” by Jackie Shane. Music by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

A giggle fest of an episode! Aurora Gozmic told us about her worst number ever, Owen Keehnen shared the inspriation behind his latest book Dugan's Bistro and The Legend of the Bearded Lady, and Laurel Zoff Pelton and Elizabeth Andrews made me giggle so hard. Recorded live at Scarlet Bar in Boystown by Matt Ciani

Sal is ready for the actual T. Devlyn is taking us all back to Pawnee. We celebrate our book giveaway of “Dugan’s Bistro and the Legend of the Bearded Lady” by Owen Keehnen! (Don’t forget the upcoming Bearded event at Unabridged Bookstore.)Our special guest JACOB TOBIA joins us to talk about faith, gender, and grandma fashion. Get your tickets now to their March 12 event at WeWork, in conversion with Imp Queen! They’ll be discussing their brand new memoir SISSY: A COMING-OF-GENDER STORY. It’s f*cking gorgeous. Please purchase.Check out more about Brave Space Alliance right here! They’re the first Black-led, trans-led LGBTQ Center located on the South Side of Chicago, and designed to create and provide affirming and culturally competent services for the entire LGBTQ community of Chicago. Brave Space Alliance was created to fill a gap in the organizing of and services to trans and gender-nonconforming people on the South and West Sides of Chicago.Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @theythempod theypodcast.com to submit content, suggestions, or if you are a Chicago pro-LGBTQ+ business interested in sponsoring the show!Music by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Devlyn launches their campaign to #UngenderTheOscars. Sal is already planning their Cate Blanchett “Carol” holiday party. We call on our queer community to bring back femme disco clubs!Our special guest is LGBTQ grassroots historian Owen Keehnen! He has new book out called “Dugan’s Bistro and the Legend of the Bearded Lady,” and you can win a free copy! Look below! It’s about the 1970s Chicago disco legend and his legendary queer club. It’s super fun queer history! Owen’s event celebrating the book, the Bistro, and the Bearded Lady is March 7 at 7PM at Unabridged Bookstore. Come see rare photos of the disco legends and roll around in the glitter!Want a free copy of the Bearded Lady book?! Share our Instagram post or Twitter post to have your name entered to win during next week’s episode! Find more of his work (including biographies of Chuck Renslow, Vernita Gray, and Jim Flint) check out owenkeehnen.com.MUSICAL GUEST! COOL! Shane Chestnutt! Check him out right here!Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @theythempod theypodcast.com to submit content, suggestions, or if you are a Chicago pro-LGBTQ+ business interested in sponsoring the show! Music by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0