From Stonewall to an openly gay presidential candidate

Capehart

The Washington Post

News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 28 June 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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50 years after a police raid of Stonewall Inn ushered in the modern LGBTQ rights movement, author Charles Kaiser reflects on how the movement has developed over the years.

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0:14.0	Hey I'm Jonathan Cape Heart.
0:20.0	Welcome to this special episode of Cape Up.
0:24.3	Over the past two months, you've heard our Voices of the Movement series about the Civil
0:28.2	Rights Movement.
0:29.5	If you haven't, please go back and listen. Today, I'm turning the focus to the movement that emulated the strategies of the Black Civil Rights Movement to expand the boundaries of equality and acceptance.
0:41.0	50 years ago today, June 28, 1969,
0:46.7	a typical police raid of a gay bar in Manhattan's Greenwich Village
0:50.1	led to an atypical response from the people inside.
0:54.0	They fought back, and by doing so, they ushered in the modern LGBT-C-C civil rights movement.
1:00.0	The events of that day and the history that followed are chronicled by Charles Kaiser,
1:05.0	author of The Gay Metropolis, the Landmark History of Gay Life in America.
1:10.0	Hear him talk about what gay life was like in 1960s New York, how things have
1:15.9	progressed, and what needs to be done to counter the anti-LgQ
1:20.7	backlash today right now.
1:26.8	Charles Kaiser, welcome to the podcast.
1:29.8	Thank you, Jonathan.
1:30.8	And it's great to be here.
1:32.4	So I couldn't imagine a more perfect person
1:35.5	to talk to about New York City, 1969,
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