Bonus: From the Vault: Sylvia Rivera & Marsha P. Johnson, 1970

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🗓️ 27 December 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In 1970, a young radio reporter recorded an interview with Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, and other members of the newly formed Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries—STAR. Nearly 50 years later, MGH unearthed their remarkable conversation in a basement archive. Visit our episode webpage for background information, archival photos, and other resources. For exclusive Making Gay History bonus content, join our ⁠Patreon community⁠. ——— To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I history
0:02.0	Eric here
0:03.0	A few months ago we launched Making Gay History's Patreon channel
0:06.0	a place where we're sharing new video interviews
0:09.0	Never Before Heard Clips from my archive
0:11.0	that didn't make it into the episodes and more.
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0:18.4	Just $5 a month gets you access to these Making Gay History extras, and you'll support us as we work to bring LGBTQ history to life
0:26.1	through the voices of the people who lived it.
0:28.8	Find out more at Patreon.com slash Making Gay History. or go to making gay history
0:34.0	and click on the link in our home page banner and thank you so much. You're going to see. I'm Eric Marcus and this is a special bonus episode of Making Gay History.
1:01.8	The sixth season of our podcast is focused on LGBTQ activism in the post-Stonewall 70s.
1:08.0	Two of the most prominent trans-activists to emerge out of that period were Sylvia Rivera and Marsha
1:13.8	P Johnson. In 1970 the year after the Stonewall Uprising in New York City's
1:19.2	Greenwich Village, the two friends founded Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries or Star,
1:25.0	and set up a bare-bones refuge in a rundown apartment building on the lower
1:29.7	east side of Manhattan for street kids much like themselves. They called it Star House.
1:34.7	In December 1970, Liza Cowan, a 20-year-old reporter for WBAI radio conducted what we believe is the oldest
1:45.3	recorded interview with Sylvia Marsha and other members of Starr. She used a real
1:49.7	to real tape recorder and set out to do a story on what was then known as cross dressing.
1:56.0	Eventually, a single reel containing an edited version of the interview found its way into the basement
2:01.6	of the lesbian Her Story Archives in Brooklyn, New York.
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