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Does Vermont have enough queer spaces?

Pride Center of Vermont
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Price Center of Vermont
Vermont Public's Jane Lindholm and Connor Cyrus hosted the 2021 Pride Festival in Burlington.

Live call-in discussion: Pride Week in Vermont is coming up--a place to celebrate queer visibility. But aside from the special events, when you look around, there aren't many designated queer spaces.

This hour, host Connor Cyrus asks whether there are there enough queer spaces in Vermont or have we moved beyond their need?

Our guests are:

  • Dana Kaplan, executive director of Outright Vermont
  • Kim Jordan, director of SafeSpace Anti-Violence Program with Pride Center of Vermont
  • Jake McBride, health justice organizer with Out in the Open
  • Liv Dunton, co-owner of Fox Market and Bar in East Montpelier
  • Zoo Holmstrom, organizer for Burlington Dyke Night

Broadcast live at noon on Friday, Sept. 9, 2022.

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Connor Cyrus joined Vermont Public as host and senior producer in March 2021. He was a morning reporter at WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island. A graduate of Lyndon State College (now Northern Vermont University), he started his reporting career as an intern at WPTZ, later working for WAGM in Presque Isle, Maine, and WCAX Channel 3, where he covered a broad range of stories from Vermont’s dairy industry to the nurses’ strikes at UVM Medical Center. He’s passionate about journalism’s ability to shed light on complex or difficult topics, as well as giving voice to underrepresented communities.
Tedra joined Vermont Public as a producer for Vermont Edition in January 2022. Before moving to Vermont, she was a journalist in New York City for 20 years. She has a master’s degree in journalism from New York University.