0.1. Queer, There, and Everywhere
History is Gay
Leigh Pfeffer
4.6 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to a special first here in History is Gay: our first ever minisode! As Gretchen has been busy traveling this month, she and Leigh are filling in with a special guest interview with Sarah Prager, author of Queer, There, and Everywhere and creator of the Queer history app Quist. If you love queer folks from history and learning fun, daily facts about queer history, then this interview should be right up your alley!
Outline
0:00 – Introduction
2:15 – Interview with Sarah Prager
37:27– Closing and Where to Find us Online
Follow Sarah's work on her website, www.sarahprager.com and check out her app Quist. You can also follow her on twitter @Sarah_Prager!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all. This is Lee. And this is Gretchen. And we do not have a regular episode for you today, sadly. We were traveling throughout the month. Gretchen just got back from Clexicon. Yes. Very, very gay. Very gay. Super fun. Yeah, I'm really excited to hear all about it. |
| 0:22.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.0 | But so yeah, so no regular episode this week. |
| 0:26.3 | We were strapped a little bit thin, but we do have some really awesome content for you. |
| 0:30.7 | So this episode is our first minisode. |
| 0:34.2 | It's an interview with someone named Sarah Prager. |
| 0:37.2 | She is the author of a really fantastic |
| 0:39.6 | book called Queer There and Everywhere. It's like the first history book for a young adult, |
| 0:44.9 | a queer history book for young adults, which is awesome that such a thing exists because |
| 0:50.8 | it's, I mean, these kinds of stories should be available to everyone. |
| 0:57.2 | And it's got 23 stories of awesome queer people. |
| 1:03.0 | Some of them are ones that we've already covered, like Ma Rainey and Sohuana Ines de la Cruz. |
| 1:07.8 | And then there are 21 other amazing, awesome queer people. |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah, some that were like surprises for even us, which was really fun. |
| 1:13.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.6 | She's also the creator of a really, really awesome queer history app called Quist, where you download it, you can get it in the app store or Google Play or kind of anywhere you do your |
| 1:24.7 | app-y thing, And you open it up. |
| 1:29.1 | Gretchen's laughing at me for my appy thing. |
| 1:32.2 | But yeah, you open it up and it'll tell you what happened in queer history for that day, |
| 1:38.5 | which is really super neat. |
| 1:41.4 | Well, I believe today in 2014 was the first day where gender identity was put under |
| 1:49.7 | protection in... Oh, in the Constitution of Malta. Yes. Yes. Yeah, in Malta's Constitution. |
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