June 19, 2025 • 10 mins
It's Pride Month and Kentuckiana Pride vice president Tim Weyrauch reminds all of us about the value of communicating with friends and loved ones. We all want to live authentic lives and be respectful of others who may have differing views.
Life is good when tolerance and understanding are kept in the forefront.
Life is good when tolerance and understanding are kept in the forefront.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're with News Radio eight forty whas Terry Miners here.
Glad to make your electronic acquaintance. As always, I was
texting with one of my friends, one of my all
time best friends, Greg Burke. He's got a great piece
he wrote in the Courier Journal. I don't know if
it was dated today or not. I just happened to
see it. Yeah, it's dated today, June nineteenth. Greg Burke
(00:22):
and his husband, Michael da Leone got married Canada in
two thousand and four, and then, of course, you know
what happened with the Supreme Court ruling here, but that
was ten years ago and they had two kids and
they're doing wonderfully. So Greg just kind of wrote an
update on how life is for Michael and himself. And
Greg and I are in the same high school class,
so we'll see each other at our reunion next week.
(00:44):
You know, we were texting about that and about how
old we are and all that business. Anyway, it's nice
that we live in an age now where people can
talk like grown ups and just add a little realism
to life. Tim Wyrox in the studio with me. He's
vice president of Kentucky Inta Pride it's good to see
you again.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
You as well, By the way, how's your daddy.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Oh he's in Well, he's an awesome Oh.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Good acceptance for you and your family. Was that a
tough thing?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
It was actually interesting. The person that had the most
difficulty was my mother, But my father, being a god
fearing man, was the most accepting person that I've ever
actually encountered in my life at this point. And so, yeah,
while it might have been difficult conversation, he was so
open to having the conversation and has been very accepting
(01:34):
to me.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
You know, Greg that I just mentioned a few minutes ago,
he he just told all of us, all of his
buddies in high school and we were like, yeah, who
the Yankees playing tonight? And I mean nobody made anything
of it at that time, and it was just like
maybe everybody has an inkling of something. So it wasn't
really terribly shocking, but it just wasn't so earth shattering.
(01:56):
And you know, my love for him doesn't change one
I owed or other gay people that are in my life.
It's just like we got to live our lives absolutely,
and that's really what the pride Kentucky and pride is about. Right,
just can we just all just roll along with our
lives and exactly I respect each other.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Can we just not be a community together? You know,
it's been twenty five years since the Kentucky and a
Pride Foundation was really formed, but it was a start
of a picnic in nineteen eighty two. And if you
think about that and you take it back, en roll
back history. Nineteen sixty nine was when the first kind
of stone so to speak, was thrown in New York
City at Stonewall End, and Marsha P. Johnson was a
(02:34):
transwrits activist at that time. But at once upon a time,
like really, the gay community or the LGBT plus community
was closeted and couldn't really live their authentic selves and
so there would be police free raids all the time
into wherever establishments they were in. So you fast forward
nineteen eighty two, we have our first picnic here in
(02:56):
the Otter Creek Park area, which then led to the
found eventually of the Kentucky and a Pride Foundation. So
twenty five years we're celebrating this year.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I know there's a parade later in the week, but
don't you start with home sort of a party.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Tonight, Yes, at the Chilbar Highlands at seven pm is
the kickoff party, and that will be at chill Bar
and what we'll do is we'll have a drag show,
We'll have some community awards that'll be going on at
that time. But definitely a great time to kick start
the weekend and get as prepared for all the events
that's ahead of us.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Okay, well, obviously we have to talk about the Supreme
Court decision this week, and so you know, that's a
I'm sure many people in the community feel like, oh
my gosh, we're taking another.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Punch in the face right exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
So you know, I know, it was a ruling about Texas,
but it does affect Kentucky and many other states.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
If you think about it.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
One of the things that's happening right now people don't
really understand in our community is even the state of
Kentucky's been impacted by some of the decisions. Whether it's
the Supreme Court or whether it's administrative law that's happening
from the executive branch. But essentially there was some funding
that was cut recently here in Kentucky that actually cut
fundamental health services to whether it's HIV testing whether it's
(04:11):
HIV really prevention. In our local organization of Kentucky and
a Pride Foundation, we had a grant for about fifty
thousand dollars roughly from the state through federal money, of course,
and that has been paused in definitely right now. And
so if you think about that, there's many of nonprofit
organizations that's having that same impact. So, whether it's a
(04:31):
Supreme Court decision around trans rights and healthcare and things
like that, whether it's decisions that's happening at the executive level,
it does have real community impact.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I've heard voices though from the other side oftentimes say
some kids that are seven years old shouldn't be sure
that somebody shouldn't be considering giving them surgery. But that's
not legal in Kentucky, is it?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Not that I'm aware of, you know, not that I'm
aware of. But there are definitely a lot of stuff
that's happening on the legislative side. I know the Human
Rights can Pain is doing things to activate. There's certainly
things that's in the gay community that we're doing to
activate to try to make sure that we're talking to
our legislators trying to protect things in the Kentucky area.
There's been several bills that's come up in the legislation
(05:13):
branch here in Kentucky that's had done done things related
to performance and dragged and things to you know, trans writes,
et cetera. So I wouldn't say that we would count
it off or out, but it's been tabled maybe prematurely
right now, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah, because there are there's a myriad of voices and
thoughts about participation by young kids in various events and people.
So it's it's you need to parent your own children, absolutely,
And obviously some people don't have any issue with that.
Others are like stop. So that's really where I am
on that too. It's like you got to kind of
parent your own kids in the way you think is best.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I don't, I don't. I don't think anybody should have
anything forced on them. But absolutely that's that's what a
community does, though.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
That is what a community does exactly, and the LGBT
plus community it's literally that, right, it's a community. It's
an open space you can live your true authentic self.
There are so many services, so many nonprofits that we
have in the community that have those services, whether it's
for the kids, whether that's for the adults, whether it's
people that's living with some kind of disease or disorder,
(06:18):
whether there's you know, housing issues, et cetera. There's plenty
of opportunity out there in the community. And that being said,
the kitchen table is really where the conversation needs to start,
right Like, kind of what we're doing right here, we're
having this conversation really openly. That dialogue needs to happen
at the home. That's what happened to me, right. So,
when I came out as a young kid, I was
asked a couple times for my parents like are you gay?
(06:39):
And I'm like, no, why would I be getting Why
are you asking that question? And it took me several
years to really come to my true self. I was
raised in a Christian household again, god fearing parents, and
I'm a God fearing man myself.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I know you well enough to know you are.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
So that being said, like you know that that's one
of those things that conversation is really important to have
because we should be able to exist together. And that
being said, you know, if we have those conversations at
the kitchen table, there's much more education that can be happening.
We can be talking about, like you said, decisions that
(07:17):
need to happen in the home, decisions that need to
happen with the parents, and these sometimes these decisions are
not easy. I have a friend she was actually born
intersext so some people don't even know what that means.
And so there was a decision the parents made about
a gender and really it took that individual, working with
(07:38):
their families to really understand that, you know what, like,
I'm this person, right, I.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Was someone who was born with all the factory equipment, absolutely,
and so yeah, something had to be done.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And I have known her all my life now at
this point, and I say all my life, but you know,
for at least from some from my teenage years. And
that being said, one of the greatest people I've ever
you know, surely known and had a friendship with. And
so those are tough decisions, and I know they're tough decisions.
In the community knows they are tough decisions. What we
want them to do is to be able to have
those conversations at home. But you know what, if you
(08:11):
have laws that really prevent those minorities from being able
to make those decisions, and having those fundamental rights over
their lives, it's harder to do anything about it, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Good point.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
All right, So when is the parade this week? Is
that on Saturday?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Everything?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yeah, So our kickoff tonight definitely has showbar. Tomorrow, we
have a dance party at Play Louisville, followed by the
parade and the festival, which we'll all kick off.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
At noon in Nulu.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
So around the Market Street areas where you're gonna find
like feast. I believe that's Chestnut if I remember correctly,
there on Market and Chestnuts, kind of where the staging
area begins, and we'll go down through that area all
the way down to the River Road area to the
festival grounds with the Big four lawn. That's where we'll
get all the things kickstarted. Entertainment starts to believe that
around two o'clock, so it's a little bit slightly after
(09:00):
the gates open at noon. We've got Natasha Bettingfield, We've
got Sosassey, Santana, Tanna Adell, Molly Gray's, Grant Nokis, so
lots of great national artists, plus the voices of Kentuckyana
is going to be there, so we get local entertainment.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
They will be there.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Plus we're going to be honoring one of our own
here in the community, Anthony Munger, who's working at the
Lottll Pride Foundation, for all his work he's doing in
the community. So please come out and share him on
as a community activist. And Plus we'll be making a
donation on behalf of Anthony and Amarage Saling, who was
a community service advocate herself to the University of Louisville,
(09:36):
So we'll be getting two thousand dollars on behalf of
him to the community for a scholarship award that they
have for trans rights activists.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You admit a lot of positive energy. That's that's just
the best thing you can do. That that's what opens
the communication. Absolutely if people will just reach out and
talk or not shut their door and say I don't
want to hear.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
This right agreed, per I'm willing to talk to anyone.
We all are willing to talk to anyone. If people
want to get involved, they want to have a conversation,
check out Kypride dot com. We've got tons of information there.
But as you know, I'm just literally a phone call away,
email away.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You're a regular guy here like here to do that
here here, here, here, Happy Pride.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Months, Happy Pride. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
You're always welcome here, Tim, on any topic, anytime.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Appreciate this.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Jesus one of those people that emits joy. We need
more of that in the world, that's for sure, Tim
Y Rock. And it's you, said, Kypride.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Dot org, Kypride dot com dot com.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Thank you, Kypride dot com. All right, we'll step aside
back in a few On news Radio eight forty wha
s
You're with News Radio eight forty whas Terry Miners here.
Glad to make your electronic acquaintance. As always, I was
texting with one of my friends, one of my all
time best friends, Greg Burke. He's got a great piece
he wrote in the Courier Journal. I don't know if
it was dated today or not. I just happened to
see it. Yeah, it's dated today, June nineteenth. Greg Burke
(00:22):
and his husband, Michael da Leone got married Canada in
two thousand and four, and then, of course, you know
what happened with the Supreme Court ruling here, but that
was ten years ago and they had two kids and
they're doing wonderfully. So Greg just kind of wrote an
update on how life is for Michael and himself. And
Greg and I are in the same high school class,
so we'll see each other at our reunion next week.
(00:44):
You know, we were texting about that and about how
old we are and all that business. Anyway, it's nice
that we live in an age now where people can
talk like grown ups and just add a little realism
to life. Tim Wyrox in the studio with me. He's
vice president of Kentucky Inta Pride it's good to see
you again.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
You as well, By the way, how's your daddy.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Oh he's in Well, he's an awesome Oh.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Good acceptance for you and your family. Was that a
tough thing?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
It was actually interesting. The person that had the most
difficulty was my mother, But my father, being a god
fearing man, was the most accepting person that I've ever
actually encountered in my life at this point. And so, yeah,
while it might have been difficult conversation, he was so
open to having the conversation and has been very accepting
(01:34):
to me.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
You know, Greg that I just mentioned a few minutes ago,
he he just told all of us, all of his
buddies in high school and we were like, yeah, who
the Yankees playing tonight? And I mean nobody made anything
of it at that time, and it was just like
maybe everybody has an inkling of something. So it wasn't
really terribly shocking, but it just wasn't so earth shattering.
(01:56):
And you know, my love for him doesn't change one
I owed or other gay people that are in my life.
It's just like we got to live our lives absolutely,
and that's really what the pride Kentucky and pride is about. Right,
just can we just all just roll along with our
lives and exactly I respect each other.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Can we just not be a community together? You know,
it's been twenty five years since the Kentucky and a
Pride Foundation was really formed, but it was a start
of a picnic in nineteen eighty two. And if you
think about that and you take it back, en roll
back history. Nineteen sixty nine was when the first kind
of stone so to speak, was thrown in New York
City at Stonewall End, and Marsha P. Johnson was a
(02:34):
transwrits activist at that time. But at once upon a time,
like really, the gay community or the LGBT plus community
was closeted and couldn't really live their authentic selves and
so there would be police free raids all the time
into wherever establishments they were in. So you fast forward
nineteen eighty two, we have our first picnic here in
(02:56):
the Otter Creek Park area, which then led to the
found eventually of the Kentucky and a Pride Foundation. So
twenty five years we're celebrating this year.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I know there's a parade later in the week, but
don't you start with home sort of a party.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Tonight, Yes, at the Chilbar Highlands at seven pm is
the kickoff party, and that will be at chill Bar
and what we'll do is we'll have a drag show,
We'll have some community awards that'll be going on at
that time. But definitely a great time to kick start
the weekend and get as prepared for all the events
that's ahead of us.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Okay, well, obviously we have to talk about the Supreme
Court decision this week, and so you know, that's a
I'm sure many people in the community feel like, oh
my gosh, we're taking another.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Punch in the face right exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
So you know, I know, it was a ruling about Texas,
but it does affect Kentucky and many other states.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
If you think about it.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
One of the things that's happening right now people don't
really understand in our community is even the state of
Kentucky's been impacted by some of the decisions. Whether it's
the Supreme Court or whether it's administrative law that's happening
from the executive branch. But essentially there was some funding
that was cut recently here in Kentucky that actually cut
fundamental health services to whether it's HIV testing whether it's
(04:11):
HIV really prevention. In our local organization of Kentucky and
a Pride Foundation, we had a grant for about fifty
thousand dollars roughly from the state through federal money, of course,
and that has been paused in definitely right now. And
so if you think about that, there's many of nonprofit
organizations that's having that same impact. So, whether it's a
(04:31):
Supreme Court decision around trans rights and healthcare and things
like that, whether it's decisions that's happening at the executive level,
it does have real community impact.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I've heard voices though from the other side oftentimes say
some kids that are seven years old shouldn't be sure
that somebody shouldn't be considering giving them surgery. But that's
not legal in Kentucky, is it?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Not that I'm aware of, you know, not that I'm
aware of. But there are definitely a lot of stuff
that's happening on the legislative side. I know the Human
Rights can Pain is doing things to activate. There's certainly
things that's in the gay community that we're doing to
activate to try to make sure that we're talking to
our legislators trying to protect things in the Kentucky area.
There's been several bills that's come up in the legislation
(05:13):
branch here in Kentucky that's had done done things related
to performance and dragged and things to you know, trans writes,
et cetera. So I wouldn't say that we would count
it off or out, but it's been tabled maybe prematurely
right now, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah, because there are there's a myriad of voices and
thoughts about participation by young kids in various events and people.
So it's it's you need to parent your own children, absolutely,
And obviously some people don't have any issue with that.
Others are like stop. So that's really where I am
on that too. It's like you got to kind of
parent your own kids in the way you think is best.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I don't, I don't. I don't think anybody should have
anything forced on them. But absolutely that's that's what a
community does, though.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
That is what a community does exactly, and the LGBT
plus community it's literally that, right, it's a community. It's
an open space you can live your true authentic self.
There are so many services, so many nonprofits that we
have in the community that have those services, whether it's
for the kids, whether that's for the adults, whether it's
people that's living with some kind of disease or disorder,
(06:18):
whether there's you know, housing issues, et cetera. There's plenty
of opportunity out there in the community. And that being said,
the kitchen table is really where the conversation needs to start,
right Like, kind of what we're doing right here, we're
having this conversation really openly. That dialogue needs to happen
at the home. That's what happened to me, right. So,
when I came out as a young kid, I was
asked a couple times for my parents like are you gay?
(06:39):
And I'm like, no, why would I be getting Why
are you asking that question? And it took me several
years to really come to my true self. I was
raised in a Christian household again, god fearing parents, and
I'm a God fearing man myself.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I know you well enough to know you are.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
So that being said, like you know that that's one
of those things that conversation is really important to have
because we should be able to exist together. And that
being said, you know, if we have those conversations at
the kitchen table, there's much more education that can be happening.
We can be talking about, like you said, decisions that
(07:17):
need to happen in the home, decisions that need to
happen with the parents, and these sometimes these decisions are
not easy. I have a friend she was actually born
intersext so some people don't even know what that means.
And so there was a decision the parents made about
a gender and really it took that individual, working with
(07:38):
their families to really understand that, you know what, like,
I'm this person, right, I.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Was someone who was born with all the factory equipment, absolutely,
and so yeah, something had to be done.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And I have known her all my life now at
this point, and I say all my life, but you know,
for at least from some from my teenage years. And
that being said, one of the greatest people I've ever
you know, surely known and had a friendship with. And
so those are tough decisions, and I know they're tough decisions.
In the community knows they are tough decisions. What we
want them to do is to be able to have
those conversations at home. But you know what, if you
(08:11):
have laws that really prevent those minorities from being able
to make those decisions, and having those fundamental rights over
their lives, it's harder to do anything about it, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Good point.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
All right, So when is the parade this week? Is
that on Saturday?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Everything?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yeah, So our kickoff tonight definitely has showbar. Tomorrow, we
have a dance party at Play Louisville, followed by the
parade and the festival, which we'll all kick off.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
At noon in Nulu.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
So around the Market Street areas where you're gonna find
like feast. I believe that's Chestnut if I remember correctly,
there on Market and Chestnuts, kind of where the staging
area begins, and we'll go down through that area all
the way down to the River Road area to the
festival grounds with the Big four lawn. That's where we'll
get all the things kickstarted. Entertainment starts to believe that
around two o'clock, so it's a little bit slightly after
(09:00):
the gates open at noon. We've got Natasha Bettingfield, We've
got Sosassey, Santana, Tanna Adell, Molly Gray's, Grant Nokis, so
lots of great national artists, plus the voices of Kentuckyana
is going to be there, so we get local entertainment.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
They will be there.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Plus we're going to be honoring one of our own
here in the community, Anthony Munger, who's working at the
Lottll Pride Foundation, for all his work he's doing in
the community. So please come out and share him on
as a community activist. And Plus we'll be making a
donation on behalf of Anthony and Amarage Saling, who was
a community service advocate herself to the University of Louisville,
(09:36):
So we'll be getting two thousand dollars on behalf of
him to the community for a scholarship award that they
have for trans rights activists.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You admit a lot of positive energy. That's that's just
the best thing you can do. That that's what opens
the communication. Absolutely if people will just reach out and
talk or not shut their door and say I don't
want to hear.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
This right agreed, per I'm willing to talk to anyone.
We all are willing to talk to anyone. If people
want to get involved, they want to have a conversation,
check out Kypride dot com. We've got tons of information there.
But as you know, I'm just literally a phone call away,
email away.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You're a regular guy here like here to do that
here here, here, here, Happy Pride.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Months, Happy Pride. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
You're always welcome here, Tim, on any topic, anytime.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Appreciate this.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Jesus one of those people that emits joy. We need
more of that in the world, that's for sure, Tim
Y Rock. And it's you, said, Kypride.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Dot org, Kypride dot com dot com.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Thank you, Kypride dot com. All right, we'll step aside
back in a few On news Radio eight forty wha
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