284: A History of Stonewall, the Riot That Started the LGBTQ Revolution

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History, Education

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In the early hours of June 28, 1969, a riot broke out at a rundown gay bar in New York City. Today the Stonewall uprising is famous around the world as a clash that helped spark a gay political revolution. Brian and Nathan talk to scholars and participants and discover how Stonewall led to a wave of activism, protest and political agitation.

Image: Marsha P. Johnson hands out flyers for support of gay students at N.Y.U., 1970. Source: New York Public Library Digital Collections

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0:00.0	Major funding for Backstory is provided by an anonymous donor,
0:03.6	the National Endowment for the Humanities,
0:05.7	and the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation.
0:11.7	From Virginia Humanities,
0:15.4	this is Backstory.
0:20.8	Welcome to Backstory, the show that explains the history
0:24.0	behind today's headlines.
0:25.4	I'm Brian Ballot, and I'm Nathan Connolly.
0:28.7	If you're new to the podcast,
0:30.2	we're all historians, and each week,
0:32.2	along with our colleagues Ed Ayers and Joanne Freeman,
0:35.3	we explore a different aspect of American history.
0:38.4	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:45.3	We're going to start today's show
0:47.6	in the wee hours of the 28th of June 1969,
0:51.8	with a police raid on a gay bar,
0:54.2	a raid which would set off an earthquake
0:56.5	that is still being registered today.
0:59.1	From all accounts, it was a shabby place
1:03.1	with watered down drinks much too expensive,
1:06.8	but I think that gay men in particular,
1:09.8	and a few lesbians, loved the place
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