Brian Lerer on WNYC.

Now we continue our WNYC Centennial series, 100 Years of 100 Things, and we are almost done.

We began the series on WNYC's actual 100th birthday. That was

July 8th last year and we committed to exploring 100 years of 100 different things over the

course of a full year. Not 100 things about the radio station. We used it as an excuse to book guests

and take your oral histories about a hundred

different things, from 100 years of freedom versus fascism on the very serious end to 100 years

of ice cream and maybe we can say 97 things in between. And today, as they say when

introducing Aaron Judge at Yankee Stadium,

it's thing number 99. This one is for Pride Month, which is not canceled here. It's 100

years of the fight for LGBTQ rights. As it happened, the first documented gay rights

organization in the United States was launched just about 100 years ago in 1924.

So we'll begin there as we welcome who I think will be our final historian guest in this

100 year series. It's Mark Stein, Professor of History at San Francisco State University,

director of the Out History website, author of

queer public history, essays on scholarly activism, and editor of the Stonewall

Riots, a documentary history, and the encyclopedia of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and

transgender history in America.

So thanks for coming on for this, Professor

Stein. Welcome back to WNYC. Thanks very much for having me back. And listeners, as we have throughout

this series, we want to invite your oral histories today, who has a really old gay or

otherwise LGBTQ rights story that's been handed down from family or friends.

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