Kody Kay
Kody at the Colorado Gay Rodeo, Golden, CO. July 2014.
At the time of our interview, Kody Kay was 52 years old and living on Arapaho, Cheyenne, Ute, & Sioux land in Longmont, CO, where he ran a heating and cooling company. Kody is trans and he's an announcer on the International Gay Rodeo Circuit. In this interview, recorded at the Rocky Mountain Regional Gay Rodeo in July of 2014, Kody talks about coming out as trans in his 50s, building community with people in his small town, and how he found the gay rodeo community.
For this episode, we’re asking folks who have additional funds to donate to Frontline Farming, a Denver-based womxn & POC-led grassroots nonprofit that focuses on building food sovereignty & farmer liberation. FLF works from an asset-based perspective to “feed our communities with healthy, affordable produce grown from our 5 acres of land, educate our constituents, create equitable policies, and honor the land and our ancestors.” In response to COVID-19, FLF started an initiative called Project Protect Food Systems that seeks to support immigrant food workers across the nation by raising funds to provide PPE, proposing and advocating for equitable policy action, raise awareness to Food Worker strengths and plights, and illuminate the nation to Food Workers’ contributions to our society.
Host/Producer/Lead Editor: Rae Garringer. Assistant Editor/Composer-Performer of Acoustic and Electric Guitar Music: Tommie Anderson. Editorial Advisory Dream Team: Hermelinda Cortés, Sharon P. Holland, and Lewis Raven Wallace. Theme Song Composer/Banjo: Sam Gleaves. Theme Song Pedal Steel: Rebecca Branson Jones. Thank you to Abbie and Winnie, the pigs in Efland, NC for our intro sound, recorded by Karen and Ella. Most importantly, thanks to Kody Kay for sharing his story so generously with us all.