2022 Honorary Grand Marshal Brandon Wolf -- Community Activist Brian Keever
We speak with the 2022 Houston pride honorary grand marshal, Brandon Wolf. We discuss his body of work and activsm over 45 years in Houston. Over the years, Brandon has written several articles for OutSmart magazine.
GUEST: Brandon Wolf
https://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2022/05/pride-houston-365-announces-2022-grand-marshals/
Then, we speak with Brian Keever about his work in the community and activism throughout the years in Houston. Brian Keever moved to Houston from North Carolina. He landed in Montrose, where the gay scene was white-hot and people like him were liberated, free to be themselves. “There were maybe 40 bars here in the early ’80s. … There were drag bars, leather bars, dyke bars—you name it, if there was a type, there was a bar for it,” Keever laughs. “You knew holding your other half’s arm was probably not a good thing to do in La Porte, or Pasadena, or places like that. But down here in Montrose, you could get away with it.” Keever cobbled together a living by working in a florist shop and entertaining in drag under his stage name, Damita Jo. “I like to say I was a professional homosexual,” he jokes today.
GUEST: Brian Keever
https://www.houstoniamag.com/news-and-city-life/2018/02/hiv-aids-houston-history
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