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Music Hello, everyone. Welcome to August. I am Lee Pfeffer, your host of History is Gay, and we are back in your feeds for the second part of an episode that we brought you last time. I am joined again by guest host Tyler Albertario, who was with me for our first discussion on the rise of the homophile movement,

pre-stonewall, early gay rights organizing. And today, we're going to continue that conversation where we're going to get into the meat of the 60s and a little bit into the 70s. Hi, Tyler. It's wonderful to have you back.

Hi, Lee. Thanks for having me. I'm very excited. Heck yeah. Is there anything that you are like

particularly excited to get into today that we didn't get a chance to talk about last time?

Well, it's just one giant ball of drama, so I'm excited for all of it.

Excellent. Yeah, so this is part two of a two-part episode. So if you have not listened to our

previous episode, episode 42, I highly suggest you go and listen to that because not a lot of

this episode will make a huge amount of sense if you don't have

some of that context.

And also you get to, you know, listen to me and Tyler talk about things like Confirmed Bachelor

and the pre-drama to the drama that we'll be covering.

In terms of content warnings for this episode, it's going to be similar to our part one

discussion of erypical homophobia and discrimination.

We're going to be talking about some Nazis.

We're going to be continuing a little bit of the conversation on queer people and

the homo-medicalist narrative.

We'll, as usual, put the time codes in our show notes so you can determine where you'd

like to opt in or opt out.

So last time we went into kind of the origins and all of the main players and gave you

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