A Vaccinated Day at the Ballpark, and Sarah Schulman on ACT-UP

The New Yorker Radio Hour

WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

Politics, Arts, News, Wnyc, Books, David, Storytelling, Society & Culture, Yorker, New, Remnick

4.2 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The staff writer Patricia Marx checks out the new vaccinated sections at New York’s Major League Baseball parks. The author and activist Sarah Schulman talks with David Remnick about her new book on the early years of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power. The group’s radical tactics forced changes in government policy and transformed how America saw gay people and AIDS patients.

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0:00.0	This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:11.0	All right.
0:12.0	What's wrong?
0:13.0	Well, you're in the mask, so that's going to be...
0:15.8	What do you mean in the mail?
0:16.8	The microphone is underneath the mask.
0:20.6	There's no microphone?
0:21.7	Yeah, there's a microphone right here. Oh, okay. Yeah. So what do you want me to be doing? So take the mask off. Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. So let's do the mask first, and then we'll put the earbuds in. I put the mask on first. Yes. So we get to take it out of here. It's so hard to be a report.
0:37.7	And then take this off here.
0:39.9	Okay.
0:40.6	So let's just... first. Yes. So we get to take it out of here. It's so hard to be a reporter.
0:37.7	And then take this off here.
0:39.9	Okay.
0:40.6	So let's just mask on.
0:43.4	The other day, Patricia Marks got suited up by her producer, Stephen Valentino.
0:48.6	And Patty and Stephen headed out to City Field to see the Mets take on the Colorado Rockies.
0:56.0	Okay, so we're... Are you sure we're heading in the right place?
0:58.0	Yeah.
0:59.0	It's like we're heading somewhere that we're advertising discount mufflers.
1:04.0	It wasn't just any game.
1:05.0	This was the first game of the season with a vaccinated seating section
1:09.0	where you could sit in a big group of your friends
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