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The Audio Long Read

From the archive: Party and protest: the radical history of gay liberation, Stonewall and Pride

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

Society & Culture

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors This week, from 2020: A police raid on a gay bar in New York led to the birth of the Pride movement half a century ago – but the fight for LGBTQ+ rights goes back much further than that. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:09.5

Let's be real, when you're working from home in summer.

0:12.2

You wear a conference called Top, sure, but it's paired with bikini bottoms.

0:16.8

You swivel chairs a deck chair.

0:18.6

Your laptop's open, but it's playing summer tunes.

0:22.0

And as you sip your icy coffee and get to work on chasing that one tiny patch of sun around the garden,

0:28.5

it can almost feel like you're on holiday.

0:39.9

Thinking about spilling the tea?

0:41.4

WhatsApp has multiple layers of protection.

0:43.8

With enter-ending encryption, no one but those in the chat can see it,

0:47.1

which means you can spill the whole pot.

0:49.1

And with chat block, you can password protect your most personal chats,

0:52.5

so you can spill the beans too.

0:54.2

And when all the features work together,

0:56.4

you can spill everything on the table without worrying about clean-up,

1:00.2

because you can make it disappear at the press of a button.

1:03.2

So don't just spill the tea, spill it all.

1:06.0

WhatsApp message privately with multiple layers of protection.

1:12.2

The Guardian Archive Long Read.

1:15.1

I'm Anatha.

1:17.1

And in June 2020, I wrote a party and protest,

1:19.8

the radical history of gay liberation, stonewall and pride.

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