From Radio Roots to Podcast Power
Queer Voices brings Houston’s LGBTQ+ community together through powerful stories, insightful interviews, and vibrant conversations. Tune in to our podcast and explore the voices shaping queer culture, history, and advocacy.
Queer Voices Hosts
Bryan Hlavinka
Bryan Hlavinka is an activist, engineer and executive producer of the show. Joining Queer Voices in 2008, Bryan loves producing an entertaining and informative resource for the LGBTQ community. Bryan has been named Favorite Male Community Radio Personality by OutSmart Magazine’ Gayest and Greatest Awards in 2024 and Queer Voices was selected as favorite podcast. Bryan enjoys travel and seeing Broadway shows in NYC.
Brett Cullum
Brett Cullum is a recruiter, theater critic, actor, and podcaster that has been a part of QUEER VOICES since July of 2023. He has written reviews of the Houston performance arts for BROADWAY WORLD for over ten years, and also has a background in performance and film criticism. Brett also writes pieces from time to time for OutSmart magazine, Montrose Living, and other publications around the area. He works as a Talent Acquisition Specialist for UTHealth Houston and has been in recruiting and staffing for over twenty years. He is fascinated by art, pop culture, and anything that can end up on a stage!
Davis Mendoza Darusman
Davis Mendoza Darusman (he/him) is a Houston-based community organizer and event & media producer. He currently serves as the co-president of the University of Houston’s LGBTQ+ Alumni Network, co-founder of QUEENs of Houston — a first-of-its-kind alliance of LGBTQ+ serving organizations — and founder of Houston Unscripted Productions, an event & media production company where he created the LGBTQ+ reality dating show, “Panning for Love.” Davis was also voted OutSmart Magazine’s “Gayest & Greatest” videographer in 2024 and loves capturing events through his camera (that he won on The Price Is Right!) all across Houston.
Deb Moncrief Bell
Deborah Moncrief Bell says having been born in 1950 that she’s mid-century modern. Deboraha long-time feminist activist having served as President of Texas NOW, one of the organizers of Womynspace Collective, and a participant in The Women’s Group that meets at the First UU Church. She has also been involved in the Pride movement, serving as co-chair of Houston Pride in 1987 & 1988. She has been involved as a programmer and producer of the Queer Voices radio show/podcast on KPFT since 1982. She has worked as an editor and writer for several community publications. She was the National Organizer of the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation. In 1997 she was one of the Grand Marshals of Houston Pride. She is the mother of two and has one grandchild.
Glenn Holt
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Queer Voices History
Officially described as a “listener-sponsored community radio station,” KPFT (90.1 FM) has been much more to the gay & lesbian community in Houston. Since the station began in 1970, it provided the only radio outlet for LGBT expression and information in the city. Gay community icon Ray Hill was one of the founders, and hosted the first regular gay & lesbian show, Wilde ‘N Stein, from July 1975 to 1980, at which time he became KPFT’s manager. One of the Wilde ‘N Stein regulars was Mike Miesch (1980 to 1987), whose dedication kept him hosting the show (despite declining health due to AIDS) until one week before his death. When the AIDS epidemic was being sensationalized by the main stream media, programming at KPFT was a source for reliable and accurate information, especially for those who did not have access to printed materials that were being circulated.
LGBT radio has been on the air for almost 50 years. Now available as a podcast, the program continues.
50+ Years Experience
Welcome to Houston LGBT History, which embodies my gay agenda of getting our history online. My approach is to compile information on many aspects of our culture, culled from our publications and coupled with photos and videos when available, and lots more.
And there’s quite a bit of history items from Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth and San Antonio…and the rest of Texas and beyond on these pages…I just can’t help myself….
Queer Music Heritage
From January 2000 until March 2015 “Queer Music Heritage” was both a radio show and a website, and the goal of both was to preserve and share the music of our culture. It has become the resource on the net for the history of LGBT music. Each month’s page gives the playlist and additional pages of info, and you can stream or download every show; there’s over 580 hours of programming available. This is a deep site, covering over 2000 pages. Thanks for your support over the years.
90.1 FM HD1
Listener-sponsored commercial-free community radio from the largest county in Texas. You can also tune in to 89.5 FM in Galveston and 91.9 FM in Huntsville.