0.9. Back in the Saddle Again: Trans Edition
History is Gay
Leigh Pfeffer
4.6 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Get ready to slap on your spurs once more, because we're back with more trans vagabonds of the wild west! In our last full episode, Leigh and guest host Ashten promised more tidbits and tales of transgender trailblazers that we weren't able to cover in our time together, so here's a bonus for you! Strap in to hear the (abbreviated) tales of several awesome folks we just couldn't bear to leave out.
Thank you to Ashten Hope for the additional research provided to make this bonus episode possible!
Outline:
0:00 - Introduction and event announcement
2:37 - Joe Monahan
5:58 - John Runk
7:17 - Ray Leonard
8:58 - Bert Martin
10:35 - Joseph Lobdell
15:21 - Jean Bonnet
19:14 - Closing
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| 0:00.0 | We've always been here every single year, from ancient gays right up to today's see |
| 0:11.4 | history is queer. Some think it's a new way, but we've got something to say. |
| 0:22.8 | History is very, very, very, very, very gay. |
| 0:30.6 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:32.0 | Welcome to a little minisode, and I promise that it's actually going to be a minisode this time. |
| 0:38.4 | We promised this in our last episode, Stealing Hearts and Horses, Transvagabonds of the Wild West. |
| 0:46.4 | Well, we have more transvagabonds that we didn't get time to talk about in episode 32, |
| 0:52.6 | so I'm going to tell you a little bit about some of our faves that |
| 0:56.6 | didn't make the cut. But first, before I get into that, I've got an announcement. On October 7th at |
| 1:04.1 | 12 p.m. Pacific Time, I will actually be co-moderating and part of a virtual conversation on |
| 1:10.8 | queer history podcasting |
| 1:12.1 | with some really wonderful and amazing other podcasters. This is going to be an event hosted |
| 1:17.3 | by the GLBT Historical Society. I'll be joined by Eric Marcus of Making Gay History Podcast, |
| 1:25.3 | Alice Y. Hum of Historically Queer, and our good old Australian friends, |
| 1:30.7 | Alice McInnis and Jason Best over at Queer's Fact. It's going to be a free event, so grab a ticket, |
| 1:37.5 | ASAP, and if you feel like throwing a few bucks towards the society, it'll be extremely appreciated, |
| 1:42.8 | especially as we've been trying to recover |
| 1:44.6 | from closure because COVID. So to get tickets, you can go to gLBThistory.org |
| 1:50.8 | slash events to find the link to register, and we've also tweeted about it with the direct |
| 1:56.1 | link if you follow us on Twitter. This will be the first of two conversations with another |
| 2:00.5 | one in November |
| 2:01.4 | featuring Ben Miller and Hugh Lemmy of Bad Gay's podcast, Morgan M. Page of One from the |
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