0.7. Rainbow Revolutionaries: An(other) Interview with Sarah Prager
History is Gay
Leigh Pfeffer
4.6 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to History is Gay's latest minisode! This time, we're interviewing author and queer historian Sarah Prager again, in anticipation of her new book Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History. We get into the details of who is featured in this new book, what it was like writing for a young audience, and get some sneak peek details about the illustrations for the book and the upcoming release party!
You can follow Sarah's work on her website, www.sarahprager.com and check out her daily queer history app, Quist. You can also follow her on twitter @Sarah_Prager!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to History is Gay, a podcast that examines the underappreciated and overlooked |
| 0:05.4 | queer ladies, gents, and gentle enbies that have always been there in the unexplored |
| 0:09.6 | corners of history, because history has never been as straight as you think. |
| 0:37.1 | Yeah. Hey, everyone. It's Lee here on another quarantined Saturday when we're recording this. And I would really like to welcome back to the podcast. |
| 0:41.8 | Author and Queer Historian Sarah Prager, the author of Queer There and Everywhere, |
| 0:47.3 | to talk about her new book, Rainbow Revolutionaries, 50 LGBTQ plus people who made history. |
| 0:53.2 | Hi, Sarah. |
| 0:53.9 | Welcome back. Hello. Thank you Hi, Sarah. Welcome back. |
| 0:54.6 | Hello. |
| 0:55.6 | Thank you so much for having you back. |
| 0:58.2 | It's so good to have you again. |
| 1:00.2 | It is a pleasure to be here across the country. |
| 1:04.8 | Yes, across the country, across the time. |
| 1:07.8 | I think it's been about like two years since we last talked, something like that. |
| 1:12.3 | Should be something like that. Yeah, because you were the very first person that we interviewed |
| 1:17.4 | when we were starting the show. You were our very first minisode. So it's nice to kind of bring it back |
| 1:23.6 | and a little revisiting. And the pod has come so far. Yeah, it's so delightful. |
| 1:30.5 | If, listeners, if you are new and would like an introduction to Sarah and her work, |
| 1:37.2 | we highly recommend you go listen to our first ever in Minnesota. |
| 1:40.3 | You can just scroll back in the feeds. |
| 1:42.2 | We interviewed Sarah about queer there and everywhere and got some of the basics. |
| 1:46.2 | But today, we're going to kind of talk about what you've been up to since, get an update on your life and your experience in the world of queer history and talk about the new book. |
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