A Call for LGBT Stories for Upcoming Storyteller Event

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Ray Rico, a Latinx advocate, owns a digital marketing agency and publishes Focus LGBT magazine, amplifying LGBTQ+ voices in Tennessee and the Mid-South. He champions HIV advocacy, fighting stigma and discrimination. Through his work, Ray strives for a more inclusive society.
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Kristen Chapman Gibbons, a well known local curator of storytelling, is calling for LGBT+ participants in an upcoming storyteller project in partnership with TEP and Metro Arts.

Gibbons recently posted this plea on social media:

“Are you in the LGBTQ community here in Nashville?

Might you give me an hour of your time for an oral history project? This is an arts collaboration with TEP and Metro Arts.

I will meet you one-on-one for about an hour. This project is audio-only and is around the theme of employment. You do not have to have any particular kind of story and no last names are used.

My deadline is 3/26, with a night of shared stories at abrasiveMedia, Friday, March 30. 7 pm

PM with questions or to schedule a time.”

We interviewed Gibbons for a story in our January+February issue. You can read that here.

To contact Kristen Chapman Gibbons, find her on Facebook or follow her True Stories Let Loose social media page.