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🗓️ 16 April 2022
⏱️ 222 minutes
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0:00.0 | So I'm old enough to remember a time when people had no idea that they were gay people in |
0:12.5 | the world. |
0:14.5 | When I grew up in the 70s and in the 80s, I remember sort of kind of knowing that they were |
0:20.8 | gay people and lesbians in the world, but I certainly didn't know any first standard. |
0:25.9 | I didn't know that I knew any because of all the people who were closeted. |
0:30.6 | And I remember thinking that, sure, you know, there might be the one or two gay people |
0:36.6 | on the planet, but certainly there aren't a lot of people who are gay and lesbian. |
0:42.7 | There were some characters on TV in the 70s. |
0:45.4 | I remember the TV show Soap with Billy Crystal. |
0:49.3 | He was gay and maybe trans, but I might have been too young to really get what that was |
0:53.2 | about. |
0:54.2 | I remember some episodes of All in the Family where they tried to tackle, you know, bigotry |
0:59.3 | with the main guy. |
1:02.6 | He was always bumping up against his bigotry and sort of overcoming it in small ways. |
1:07.8 | And but again, I think it just went over my head. |
1:11.6 | I barely understood heterosexuality when I was a kid, let alone homosexuality. |
1:16.8 | So it was a very distant thing to me. |
1:20.7 | But then in college, I entered college in late 1989. |
1:24.8 | And instantly I started meeting gay people, lesbians, and friends of mine started coming |
1:31.0 | out. |
1:32.5 | And there were, it just seemed like in my world anyway, there was a sudden explosion. |
1:37.3 | And then through the 90s, there were characters on TV and more awareness, more advocacy, |
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