2006 Year-End Newsletter
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outLoud Hearts You
Clearly things are movin' and shakin' around outLoud. We are working with more and more youth producers, reaching a wider and wider audience and all because we continue to receive great support from YOU!
Help us to continue spreading the good word by making an end of year donation — and reap the reward of hearing more, young, queer voices on the radio.
Working with outLoud is a lot of fun (see photos above!) and it is also incredibly important work.
Donate today! We are headed for great new adventures in 2007... join us!
December 2006
outLoud has had a busy year, traveling across country, hosting new instructors, and making radio — read on!
Bringing Queer Youth Stories to Talkeetna
In 2006, we aired stories from coast to coast, from San Francisco to Philadelphia, from Alberquerque to Chicago, from Berkeley all the way to Talkeetna, Alaska. The Public Radio Exchange funded us to make more of our pieces available to stations around the world.
Everybody's talking about outLoud!
We are super super proud of our Youth Producer Celia La Luz, whose work in the LGBTQ community with outLoud and her GSA won her a Point Foundation Scholarship in 2006. The scholarship will pay for her studies at Reed College. Since becoming a Point Scholar, Celia and her work with outLoud have been featured in The Advocate Magazine, Air Magazine, GONYC, Willamette Week Newspaper and Just Out Magazine.
And then there were two
Julianna Sassaman, who has been volunteering as an instructor/mentor/all-around outLoud superstar for a couple of years now, joined us in November as a paid staff member! We couldn't be more pleased.
Summer Program 2006
This past summer, outLoud helped create the Intergenerational Storytelling Project, bringing together youth interns and LGBT elders. We recorded many personal stories and historical recounts, getting new perspective on our present LGBT community. The project was such a success that we are doing a second series starting in January 2007!
outLoud was lucky to have a visiting instructor for this summer's program. Laura Starcheski is an independent radio producer from New York City who infused outLoud with great humor and excellent technical advice. We saw her again in Chicago receiving the Silver Award at the Third Coast International Audio Festival for her radio documentary work.
Thanks to LYRIC (the San Francisco LGBT youth center), the GLBT Historical Society and New Leaf Counseling Services for collaborating on this project!
outLoud Travels...
We make it a priority to connect our participants to other radio geeks nationwide. By attending conferences we get great new ideas and technical tips, but most importantly we meet peers and share our stories. outLoud continues to be the ONLY program nationwide that specifically works with LGBTQ youth and allies...
Three outLoud teachers and producers attended the National Youth in Radio Training Project in Portland, OR in April '06. Workshops, lectures, collaboration with other youth radio groups... lots of fun!
We also trekked to the Third Coast International Audio Festival in Chicago, IL to hear the VERY BEST of radio documentary work from all over the world. Four of us froze our toes and met radio superstars.
Check out our latest work!
We think you'll dig the new "That's My Song" pieces we've been airing around the country. More song pieces are in the pipeline...
Our 'Queeriosity' Slam Poetry Special has been updated for National Poetry Month and we expect it to be aired again in April.
Our youth producers have been working on a range of stories: from Celia La Luz's 'Sounding Gay', an exploration of gay speech and inflection, to Galen Wong's story about a gay man growing up between the Middle East and Mississippi.