11. Rainbow Rising: The First Pride
History is Gay
Leigh Pfeffer
4.6 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2018
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Leigh and Gretchen welcome you to their first Pride month special and the first of an ongoing series on Queer civil rights movements in the United States. And what better way to do both than to dive into the lives of Gilbert Baker---the maker of the first rainbow pride flag---and Brenda Howard---one of the primary organizers of the first Pride march commemorating the Stonewall riots and Pride week. Pride is a special month for those of us in the queer community, so we wanted to celebrate our forefathers and foremothers that make this month possible. So, without further ado, let's chat about the Mother of Pride and the Gay Betsy Ross!
Outline
0:00 – Introduction
2:56 – Content Warnings
6:35 – Historical Context: Brief Discussion of the Stonewall Riots and Aftermath
22:10 – Brenda Howard: Mother of Pride
41:25 – Gilbert Baker: Creator of the LGBT+ Rainbow Flag
1:06:01 – Fun Segment: Pop Culture Tie-In
1:09:06 – How Gay were They?
1:11:35– Closing and Where to Find Us Online
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to History is Gay, a podcast that examines the underappreciated and overlooked queer ladies, gents, and gentle enbys that have always been there in the unexplored corners of history. |
| 0:12.2 | Because history has never been as straight as you think. |
| 0:33.0 | Yeah. I'm Gretchen. |
| 0:34.0 | Hey, I'm Lee. |
| 0:37.5 | And in this episode, we have a very special episode today. |
| 0:40.2 | We are going to be talking about pride. |
| 0:41.1 | Pride. |
| 0:42.9 | Happy pride, everyone. |
| 0:44.0 | Happy pride. |
| 0:46.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:47.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.2 | It is the month of all the gay. |
| 0:52.8 | All the gay forever and always. |
| 0:58.1 | Except, I guess, in those places where people have prides in like October because it's too hot in June. |
| 0:59.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.9 | Madison actually, we have our Pride March in August. |
| 1:03.8 | And I don't know why because Milwaukee Pride Fest was two weekends ago or was last weekend. So I don't know why Madison's |
| 1:13.2 | weird. I don't know. That's strange. Yeah, it is very strange. So speaking of Pride parades, that's what |
| 1:18.6 | we're going to be talking about today. We will be talking about where the Pride March came from and about |
| 1:24.6 | the Pride flag. Yes. Yeah, we wanted to really focus on the trailblazers that came before us that have made |
| 1:32.0 | it possible for us to be able to go around and dance and celebrate and be our queerest selves |
| 1:39.3 | among community. |
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