A White Horse, re-released on the second anniversary of the shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando.

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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This piece was originally released a few days after the shooting deaths of 49 people at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. It is re-released here on the second anniversary of the event.

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0:00.0	This is the memory palace.
0:02.1	I'm Nate DeMail.
0:05.8	The White Horse Inn on Telegraph in Oakland opened in 1933 where thereabouts.
0:12.0	No one's been able to nail down the date.
0:14.6	Historians have tried.
0:16.5	As have some of its various owners, it seems, over the years.
0:20.5	But if you're not an academic, or if you don't have a personal financial stake in solidifying
0:25.2	its claim as the oldest gay bar in the United States to operate continuously in one location,
0:31.2	it doesn't really matter when the White Horse first opened its doors.
0:36.6	Just that it was soon enough.
0:39.3	For a man to walk in on just the right night in 1936, or 46, or 54, it's the most beautiful
0:46.4	man he'd ever seen in his life.
0:48.4	And just be done for.
0:51.7	Not enough for another man who'd heard of this place, heard of places like it, whispered
0:57.6	about, or mocked by the fellas in the assembly line, or in the office or in his usual join
1:03.6	across town, heard the cracks about pansies and perverts and queers, and feared what they
1:09.8	might mean.
1:11.9	Feared why the word seemed to cut right through.
1:14.8	Sit strange in his belly, and tighten his throat.
1:19.2	But who fought through that fear to make his way there, to the White Horse?
1:23.7	Who may have circled the block all butterflies, before working up the courage to park?
1:29.8	Who may have walked right past it, rather than be seen walking in by some stranger, or
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