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LGBTQ&A

DeRay Mckesson: Out of the Quiet

LGBTQ&A

Jeffrey Masters

Society & Culture

4.7703 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

DeRay Mckesson (On The Other Side of Freedom) talks about myths we tell about black people, being stripped of every marker of strength as a public gay person, and why he used to avoid talking publicly about his love life. He also discusses how we begin to hold police accountable for misdeeds and questions if people will remain as mobilized as they are now when Trump is out of office. Never miss an update! Sign up for our (short!) newsletter at www.LGBTQpodcast.com Join GLAAD's #AmpYourVoice campaign and make sure your voice is heard this election year. Click here to take the pledge to vote. LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters and is part of The Advocate Magazine.

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0:00.0

From The Advocate Magazine, I'm Jeffrey Masters and you're listening to LGBTQ and A.

0:08.4

Today I'm talking to Dorey McKesson.

0:11.4

Dorey is a civil rights activist, one of the most recognizable faces in the Black Lives Matter movement,

0:16.8

and the author of On the Other Side of Freedom.

0:20.2

We talk about what the Black Lives Matter movement has accomplished, what's still being worked on,

0:24.8

and then Drey poses a really interesting question that he says he doesn't have an answer to.

0:29.7

And that is that when Donald Trump is no longer president and that suddenly doesn't mean

0:34.8

everything's going to be okay, when that happens and when the threat is less overt,

0:40.0

will we still be as mobilized to do something about it as we are now?

0:44.6

So that conversation is coming up,

0:46.7

but before we get to it,

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0:52.0

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0:55.8

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0:57.4

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1:01.6

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Thank you for that.

1:05.8

All right, without further ado,

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