Subscribe
Listen Live on KKFI
Every Saturday at 1:00pmAbout the Show
The Tenth Voice (LGBTQIA)
The Tenth Voice is the Kansas City area's only weekly broadcast created by and for LGBTQIA+ people in our community in the Greater Kansas City area and around the world online. Listeners can tune in each Saturday at 1:00 PM. Each week our team of hosts and producers present interviews, information, music, news and features especially important to Lesbians, Gay Men, Bisexuals, Transgender & Nonbinary people, Queer, Intersex, Asexual & Aromantic people and Allied collective communities. Since 1989, The Tenth Voice radio show has documented and informed the LGBTQIA+ Kansas City Community.
Greetings Tenth Voice listeners. We are so excited to announce that over the next several weeks we will be introducing new hosts and new voices to the Tenth Voice family. This week we are proud to announce the debut show of Rainbow Spirit with your host MG Salazar (They, Them)
MG has long been a political activist in many arenas, most recently gathering children’s books for a mobile library for underserved elementary students in the KC area. Salazar studied in Buenos Aires and wrote their thesis on the occupied and recuperated workplaces movement. In 2009, they spoke at the United States Social Forum in Detroit as an advocate for an undocumented teen who needed a heart transplant. They served as a water protector in the winter of ‘16/’17 at the Standing Rock reservation. Salazar assisted the planning board for Transgender Day of Remembrance in 2016 and 2017 and is a former member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a safe-sex and AIDS advocacy group. They are the author of three poetry books, a former cultural reporter for KCUR, the founder of poetry group La Resistencia and the founder of La Resistencia Press. Salazar is also a member of the Latino Writers Collective and a founding member of Brown Voices/Brown Pulse, a queer POC group of artists that formed after the Pulse nightclub massacre. Salazar has helped pass the Conversion Therapy Ban in Kansas City, recognition of Transgender Day of Remembrance, testified at a successful bid for an LGBTQIA non-discrimination ordinance in Blue Springs, Missouri. Salazar made history as the first Latinx and openly queer candidate for Missouri’s Fifth District US Congressional Representative.
Rainbow Spirit centers on the histories, present, and talents of indigenous queer and two – spirited people. Before colonization, queer people were an important part of many nations daily lives and ceremonies. We seek to highlight our ancestors’ stories while promoting our relatives’ and their work.
