Cathy Renna talks about the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor at the Stonewall Inn and the seven trans and nonbinary ancestors who were honored at the 2025 ceremony.

This year’s honorees are: Alan Hart, Chilli Pepper, Jiggly Caliente, Lady Chablis, Lynn Conway, Ruddys Martinez, and Sam Nordquist.

Cathy Renna - Celebrating our Trancestors at the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor

Michelle Matlock talks with accomplished musician and community builder, Hayden Stern about the Trans Trad Music Festival and the importance of trans and gender nonconforming artists being visibly represented in traditional music spaces.

Hayden Stern - Trans Trad Music Festival

Hosted by Michelle Matlock, Trans Heartbeat celebrates and affirms trans existence, empowers responses to the rising tide of transphobic rhetoric in our country, and showcases the power of trans artistic expression.
Keep listening! Keep creating! Keep shining your light!
Trans Heartbeat is a project of TRACTION: Trans Community Action www.tractionpnw.org 

Michelle Matlock

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