Bonus: Kay Lahusen’s Gay Table

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Making Gay History

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🗓️ 21 June 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Join us as Making Gay History pulls up a chair at Kay Tobin Lahusen’s monthly gay dinner table. Spend some time with this gang of elders and hear how love, friendship, and activism live on for these trailblazers—even in their retirement community. 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.
0:14.0	If you're not a member of our Patreon community yet, I hope you'll join today.
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.
0:38.0	I'm Kay Tobin Lazen and this is making gay history. And I'm Eric Marcus.
0:55.0	Welcome to a very special pride episode of Making Gay History
1:01.0	with one of this podcast's most beloved heroes Kay Tobin lehousin.
1:06.0	Kay and her partner Barbara Giddings are icons of the early LGBTQ civil rights movement.
1:12.0	While Barbara organized picketed and published the You've probably seen the black and white mid-1960's photos from Reminder Day in Philadelphia
1:25.4	and the first protests in front of the White House. That was Kay. That photo of Sylvia Rivera
1:31.1	draped on the edge of a fountain, that was K2. I call K and Barbara
1:36.1	the happy warriors of the movement because they knew how to have a good time while changing
1:39.9	the world, our world, for the better.
1:43.2	Barbara died in 2007.
1:45.8	K is 88 now and living in a retirement community.
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