E26: The Stonewall riots and Pride at 50, part 2
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🗓️ 2 June 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome back to part two of our podcast on the Stonewall Riots and Pride. |
| 0:05.1 | If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, I'd go back and listen to that first. |
| 0:14.0 | Stand up, stand up, stand up, stand up, stay. |
| 0:22.6 | We're not stand up, gay, folks up gay Yes we have |
| 0:24.6 | We don't stand up for he cried |
| 0:28.6 | After the first night of rioting, word got out about what happened, partly through word and mouth in the gay community. |
| 0:34.6 | So the following night, Saturday night, which was technically the early hours of Sunday morning, and even bigger crowd gathered and rioting reignited. |
| 0:42.9 | Things died down a bit on Sunday night, but clashes continued on Monday and Tuesday, and there |
| 0:47.5 | was a final confrontation, which again was a big battle on the night of Wednesday. |
| 0:52.7 | Martha Shelley was actually in the village on Saturday night |
| 0:55.6 | and saw the clashes but didn't realize what they were about. |
| 0:59.6 | It was Saturday night, and there were two women from Boston |
| 1:05.1 | who wanted his daughter-daughter-saflead's chapter, |
| 1:09.6 | and they were visiting New York City. |
| 1:12.1 | And the women who were running the OB were, they asked me to give these women a tour of |
| 1:20.0 | Greenwich Village and so on. So I took the women down to Greenwich Village and gave them a tour |
| 1:25.8 | and that night we passed by the |
| 1:27.7 | stone wall and I saw these young people throwing things at cops and the women from |
| 1:34.6 | Boston were taken aback they said what's that and I said oh that's a riot we have |
| 1:40.1 | them all the time and I thought it was an anti-war riot which we did have all the time. And I thought it was an anti-war riot, which we did have all the time at that |
| 1:46.2 | point. And I didn't realize it was a gay riot or I would have stopped and participated. |
| 1:53.0 | Martin Boyce was one of those who felt compelled to go back the next night. |
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