OUT IN THE VALLEY
Our weekly show on WKNY Radio Kingston, focusing on the people and issues important to our community.
Hosted by Richard Heyl de Ortiz, the Community Center’s Executive Director, Out in the Valley highlights the people and issues important to the queer and trans folks in the Mid-Hudson Valley.
The one-hour show airs live at 9:00 Saturday mornings. Radio Kingston can be found at 107.9 FM or 1490 AM.
The show is also available as a podcast on the Monday following airing. Recordings of past shows can be found below or by visiting the archive on Radio Kingston’s website.
HAVE AN IDEA FOR OUT IN THE VALLEY? WANT TO BE A GUEST ON THE SHOW? WANT TO HELP WITH BOOKING GUESTS?
If so, get in touch with Richard at richard@lgbtqcenter.org or 845.331.5300, extension 1002.
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One of the themes in Heartstopper, the graphic novel, show and movie, is the important and uplifting role that art teachers and art rooms can play for queer youth. Host Richard Heyl de Ortiz and Eva Tenuto, Executive Director of the TMI Project, welcome Fran Sutherland, their former high school art teacher, to talk about that role in a very personal way, as well as to talk about Sutherland’s decades-long career as a local artist and Eva’s upcoming exhibit.
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Host Richard Heyl de Ortiz sits down with Tracy Bouvette and Carl Grauer to discuss “Dimensions of the Interior,” the current exhibit in the Community Center’s Apuzzo Hall gallery and the meaning of this exhibit and the works it contains for us as queer people.
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Fresh off presenting at a conference in Greece, Blake Pfeil, Operations and Programs Manager for the TMI Project, joins host Richard Heyl de Ortiz to talk about what he learned in Greece, why storytelling is important, and what lies ahead for the TMI Project.
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Host Richard Heyl de Ortiz sits down with Dina Suggs, the Chief Diversity Officer for Ulster County, to learn about what a Chief Diversity Officer does, get their thoughts about doing this work in this moment, and hear why they think this work is important to our community and others.
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Troi Stover, a Community Center board member, talks with host Richard Heyl de Ortiz about what “non binary” is and about Non the Binary, a social and support group they are facilitating starting in July.
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Stefano Diaz, owner and head butcher of The Meat Wagon, chats with host Richard Heyl de Ortiz about butchering, business and changes afoot.
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Stefano Diaz, owner and head butcher of The Meat Wagon, chats with host Richard Heyl de Ortiz about butchering, business and changes afoot. Sydnie Grosberg Ronga, Director of a current production of Fun Home at the Rosendale Theatre, pops in to tell us a bit about this Tony Award-winning musical.
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Join us to get to know Maria Espinal, the Grand Marshal of this year’s Hudson Valley Pride March, who comes into the studio to talk with host Richard Heyl de Ortiz. Cam Ronnei, from Key of Q chorus, also drops in to talk about the group’s upcoming Pride performances.
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Please join our co-hosts Charlie Solidum Director of Programs and Johnathan Hornig Director of Well-Being Services at Hudson Valley LGBTQ+ Community Center. The two explore the overlapping need to destigmatize mental health care within the LGBTQ+ Community as well as the AAPI Queer population. COVID left it’s scars on our mental health, it’s time we begin a discussion to address it.
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Broadcasting live from the Community Center as the landmark pride and trans crosswalks are painting, host Richard Heyl de Ortiz talks with community members and with other Pride organizers in the region.
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Host Richard Heyl de Ortiz talks with his husband about supporting one another, recent events, growing together over the years and other things that are on their minds.
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Community Center volunteer Linda Epstein talks with host Richard Heyl de Ortiz about bringing her vision of a Youth Library at the Community Center to life, and the role books play for queer and trans youth.
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Local attorney Amy Ingram joins host Richard Heyl de Ortiz to discuss the Community Center’s soon-to-launch legal clinic and why providing access to legal advice for LGBTQ+ folks is so important.
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On the cusp of Lesbian Visibility Week, host Richard Heyl de Ortiz and Johnathan Hornig, the Community Center’s Director of Well-Being, acknowledge the important contribution of lesbians nationally and in the Hudson Valley and move on to a discussion about Johnathan’s recent trip to Mexico as part of his work with Smile Train and about protecting our well-being in a time of chaos and continuing anxiety.
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Artists Sabrina Kee and Raymond Vagg join Community Center Gallery Committee members Tracy Bouvette and Michael Erp to discuss the upcoming “. . . And We Shine,” exhibit at the Community Center and the focus on highlighting pre-colonial identity and its connection to issues in our queer community today.
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Claire Galloway, a student at Bard, is working on her senior thesis, which will be a look at the queer community in the Hudson Valley, specifically focusing in and around Kingston. Host Richard Heyl de Ortiz and Claire will discuss the project, how our area became the queer oasis that it is and how people can take part in the project.
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Local faith leaders Pastor Tobias Anderson, Reverend Mandie Mac McCoy, Rabbi Jack Sherratt, Donna Schlachman and Pastor Robert Sweeney join Out in the Valley host Richard Heyl de Ortiz for a discussion about faith and its relationship to the LGBTQ+ community and queer individuals.
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Ashley Molesso and Chess Needham, known to many in our community simply as Ash and Chess, join host Richard Heyl de Ortiz to talk about the Everywhere Shop, their unique uptown shop, and what it’s like to be a queer and trans owned business in today world.
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Troi Stover, community volunteer and an incoming member of the board of the Hudson Valley LGBTQ+ Community Center talks with host Richard Heyl de Ortiz to talk about their thoughts on our community and their passion about faeries.
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Jami Smith and Julia Fulan, both members of the LGBTQ+ community, join host Richard Heyl de Ortiz to talk about their new roles as full-time hosts at Radio Kingston
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Leah Damour and Andrew Wolfson join host Richard Heyl de Ortiz to discuss their work and their upcoming programs at the Community Center.
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June Nemon, Lead Organizer at the Hudson Valley Tenants Union, joins host Richard Heyl de Ortiz to discuss the realities of housing in the Hudson Valley and this issue impacts queer people.
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Johnathan Hornig, Director of Well-Being at the Community Center and MSW Interns Dragan Mitric and Scott Wilson join host Richard Heyl de Ortiz to talk about their goals and plans to support good mental health and wellness in our community.
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Celeste Lecesne, the founder of the Trevor Project, stops into the studio for a conversation with host Richard Heyl de Ortiz about the Trevor Project, the Future Perfect Project, their current cause, and more.
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Host Richard Heyl de Ortiz sits down for a “get to know you” conversation with Angelee Santillo, the Community Center’s Vice President.
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Director of Communications and Community Engagement Giselle Manzano sits down with three Hudson Valley artists whose work explores how fragments become whole. Nathan Gwirtz (ceramic artist creating ornate vessels), Pat Horner (multidisciplinary artist and author of Loving Scott), and Robert Ohnigian (collage artist transforming found materials) share their creative journeys, what drives their work, and how art functions as creative healing for individuals and community.
Their exhibition “Parts and Pieces: A Conversation in Collage, Pottery, and Memory” opens Saturday, January 24, 4-6pm at the Apuzzo Hall Gallery at the Hudson Valley LGBTQ+ Community Center. Free admission.
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In the wake of the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis, host Richard Heyl de Ortiz sits down to talk with Ulster County Sheriff Juan Figueroa about law enforcement, public safety and the sometimes challenging relationship between law enforcement and the LGBTQ+ community.
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Guests Sterling Cruz-Herr and Charlie Solidum join host Richard Heyl de Ortiz for a conversation about aging and mentorship in the transmasculine community from the perspective of two relative elders.
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Johnathan Hornig, Director of Well-Being at the Community Center, joins host Richard Heyl de Ortiz to discuss challenges faced by some around the holidays, the role chosen family plays and what tools and supports are available.
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Host Richard Heyl de Ortiz and Charlie Solidum has a follow up talk with Dani and Avalon of Trans Closet of the Hudson Valley to learn about what’s new with Trans Closet.
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Claudia Corrigan D’Arcy and Katie Doyle-Bunker of the Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York talk with host Richard Heyl de Ortiz about identity, transparency and chosen family in the world of adoption and what these principles share with our experiences as queer and trans people.
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Thought provoking discussion about Queer Icons in History with your Co-Hosts for the day Director of Programs and Services, Charlie Solidum and Director of Well-Being, Johnathan Hornig.
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Jay Blotcher, Edgar Hartley and Heather Love join host Richard Heyl de Ortiz to discuss the intersection of adoption, queerness and identity.
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Mark Walter and Andre Junget, the incoming facilitators of the Community Center’s ManKind social and support group, talk with host Richard Heyl de Ortiz about the group, their involvement and what their goals as facilitators are.
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Sterling Cruz-Herr joins host Richard Heyl de Ortiz to talk about evolving as we age, putting their own special queer spin on it.
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Jess Edelman, Adriana Wong and Fred Mayo sit down with host Richard Heyl de Ortiz to talk about the Community Center’s upcoming events marking the organization’s 20th anniversary, and how plans focus on joy, storytelling and a bit of comedy.
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Radio Kingston’s Erica Brown joins Eva Tenuto, S. Leigh Thompson and host Richard Heyl de Ortiz to talk about their collaboration at the recent Joy: Loving the World in Dark Times conference hosted by the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College.
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Eve Papp and Gene Fischer sit down with host Richard Heyl de Ortiz to discuss their roles in an upcoming screening as part of the Borscht Belt Film Festival.
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Ulster County Comptroller March Gallagher sits down with host Richard Heyl de Ortiz to educate us about the role of a comptroller, about our local economy and the economic impact and vulnerability of our LGBTQ+ community.
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A “double header” marking the upcoming Woodstock Film Festival and Freedom to Read Day. Host Richard Heyl de Ortiz starts off talking with Iris Dukatt, a queer filmmaker who directed “Long Pork,” which makes its Hudson Valley premiere at the Woodstock Film Festival, and then pivots to a conversation with James Conrad, owner of Woodstock’s Golden Notebook bookstore, about banned books, Freedom to Read Day and LGBTQ+ themed books in general.
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Host Richard Heyl de Ortiz sits down with Cyree Jarelle Johnson, a clinical herbalist, rootworker and diviner (and much more!) who owns Balm in Gilead, a shop in Kingston.
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Host Richard Heyl de Ortiz and Charlie Solidum talk with Dani and Avalon of Trans Closet of the Hudson Valley.
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With the annual O+ Festival just a few weeks away, host Richard Heyl de Ortiz sits down with Lindsey Wolkowicz, Art Director for O+
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Andy Monk and Anddy Egan-Thorpe join host Richard Heyl de Ortiz to talk about comedy and drag in our community, and why it’s so important, especially now.
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Local artist Barbara Masterson and host Richard Heyl de Ortiz sit down to talk about Masterson’s art, particularly Los Migrantes, the exhibit at the Hudson Valley LGBTQ+ Community Center, and the importance of art and artists at this moment in time.
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Host Richard Heyl de Ortiz is joined by Charlie Solidum, Johnathan Hornig, Katie Haab and Nadine Ferraro to discuss the past weeks events, including fallout from the shooting in Minneapolis and the turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
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On this week’s show Johnny will be exploring what being queer in the Hudson Valley looks like from the gay male perspective. His special guest will be Ben Rendich a local writer, director, group facilitator, and overall creative human being who also happens to be queer. The two will explore the birth of Ben’s creative self and his passion for the arts as well as white cis gay male privilege in our society.
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On this week’s show Johnny will be facilitating a conversation on a topic which is long overdue & deserves attention. There will be a discussion with the cis partners of trans folks -some subjects to be explored, if they went through the transition with their partner, what the partner's personal transition was like, and/or what it's like be an ally to trans people, how their gender or other identities have changed. We are thrilled to hear “their point of view”.
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Host Johnathan Hornig and Local Artist Andre Junget talk about being a self-taught artist, the types of art he creates, and his late in life coming out story.
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Host Richard Heyl de Ortiz and Jonathan Hornig, Director of Well-Being at the Community Center, talk about well-being in our community, building partnerships and what’s planned for the fall.
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Host Richard Heyl de Ortiz chats with Nova Darkstar, Sterling Cruz-Herr and June Nemon, three of the organizers of Happy 80th, Marsha, an upcoming celebration of Marsha P. Johnson, Stonewall trailblazer and activist.
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Host Richard Heyl de Ortiz sits down with Kade Friedman, who was elected President of the Board of Directors last month.
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Host Richard Heyl de Ortiz sits down with Linda Epstein and Roger Braman, Community Center volunteers at the Community Center’s Fred Mayo Library
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Host Richard Heyl de Ortiz sits down with Derrick Jackson, one of the organizers of Pride in the Catskills, when takes place in Pine Hill.
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Ulster County Executive Jen Metzger joins host Richard Heyl de Ortiz for a discussion of about the state of affairs in Ulster County, the state and the country, and how these things impact the lives of queer and trans people.
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Johnathan Hornig, the Community Center’s new Director of Well-Being, joins host Richard Heyl de Ortiz to discuss Johnathan’s plans for the Well-Being Institute, the importance of good mental health and the marking of Men’s Mental Health Month.
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Author Sarah Miller joins Meg Martin and host Richard Heyl de Ortiz to discuss Miller’s recently released “Hick,” about journalist Lorena Hickok’s friendship and romantic relationship with first lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Richard touches base with fellow WKNY host Jami Smith of Songs that Saved Your Life about that day's preparations for Kingston Pride and the Hudson Valley Pride March.
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Host Richard Heyl de Ortiz talks with Fox North, the Adult and Teen Programmer at the Esopus Library, about the library’s plans for Pride, Girl Scout cookies and building community.
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Host Richard Heyl de Ortiz talks with the people behind many of this year’s Pride activities in communities around the Hudson Valley.
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Host Richard Heyl de Ortiz and his husband Anthony Ortiz talk about their years together, their time in Philly, Philly’s LGBTQ community versus our in the Hudson Valley and where we are today.
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Host Richard Heyl de Ortiz talks with Charlie Solidum and Phoenix Laxton, the Programs team at the Community Center, about all that’s in the works for Kingston Pride and the Hudson Valley Pride March.
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Host Richard Heyl de Ortiz talks withEva Tenuto, Executive Director of the Kingston-based TMI Project about the power of storytelling to replace shame with freedom and turn apathy into empathy.
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Host Richard Heyl de Ortiz talks withAndrew S. Evans, Jr. about his work, his art and his upcoming show at the Community Center.
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Host Richard Heyl de Ortiz talks with Troi Stover, Deacon of the Old Dutch Church in Kingston, about their upcoming March of the Faeries Event, about Old Dutch and about the world today.