Do We Know Enough About Queer History? With Matthew Riemer & Leighton Brown

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Comedy, Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Riemer & Leighton Brown are the co-creators of the Instagram @LGBT_History, and co-authors of the book “We Are Everywhere.” Both use powerful images of love, protest, inclusivity, and stories, to spotlight movements and people throughout Queer history. They joined Jonathan to discuss why they started these projects, the importance of visibility to avoid erasure and share some interesting stories about important figures from the past! Follow Matthew and Leighton on Instagram and Twitter @LGBT_History, and find out more about their book at www.QueerHistory.com. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Benes and every week I sit down for a 40 minute
0:04.7	conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:10.3	On today's episode, I'm joined by the co-creators of the Instagram and handle LGBT history and co-authors
0:15.4	of We Are Everywhere, protest, power and pride in the history of queer liberation, latent
0:21.0	brown and Matthew Reemer, where I ask.
0:23.8	Do we know enough about queer history?
0:26.6	Welcome to Getting Curious, this is Jonathan Benes, I'm so excited for this week's episode.
0:31.4	Instagram icons, well I'm actually I think you're icons in real life too, but I've been following
0:35.0	your Instagram for such a long time and it's so important and I'm so excited to meet you
0:39.2	in real life finally.
0:40.7	Welcome to Getting Curious, Matthew Reemer and Elatin Brown.
0:43.4	Thank you very much.
0:45.0	Thank you very much.
0:46.0	Can I tell you this is only the second time in getting curious third time in getting
0:50.5	curious history where I've had two guests.
0:53.4	Oh.
0:54.4	Because usually I don't, but you guys are too important to you can't you know, divide.
0:58.3	We got to have you guys together.
1:00.2	If you don't know who these two are, they run the incredible account on Instagram, LGBT
1:06.2	underscore history, which is I think made me a more well-rounded, I got to see you in
1:11.8	the eyes.
1:12.8	There we go.
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