Happy Pride. Here’s What We’re Fighting For.
The Mother Jones Podcast
Mother Jones
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🗓️ 5 June 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Happy Pride Month! This week marks the start of annual celebrations for the LGBTQ community in what has been a turbulent year in the fight for equality. On the one hand, queer communities are more visible than ever. Pete Buttigieg, the openly gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is running for president, and the 2018 midterms ushered in an unprecedented number of LGBTQ elected officials at all levels of government. On the other hand, President Donald Trump has become more aggressive in pushing forward with banning transgender people from joining the military. It’s also a historic pride year, marking half a century since the revolution at a small New York City bar that started it all. On this show, you’ll hear from two Stonewall veterans who were there, and a filmmaker who chronicled the making of the LGBTQ movement before the uprising. You’ll also take a trip to Jacob Riis Beach, a historic summer haven for queer New Yorkers, where sun-lovers answer a simple yet surprisingly provocative question: What makes a queer space in 2019? Finally, a quick correction: In the podcast, we say the Stonewall uprising was half a decade ago. It was clearly half a century ago. Our excuse? Gays don’t age.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Mother Jones podcast. I'm your host, Jamila King at the beach. |
| 0:06.0 | We are at J Reese Beach in New York City. It's Pride Month. We're here to talk to folks about what pride means to them. |
| 0:21.0 | We're going to talk a little bit about the history of pride and the |
| 0:24.2 | present where we're going. Stay tuned. We've got a lot in store. June marks the official beginning of LGBT Pride Month in cities across the globe. |
| 0:48.8 | What that often means is rainbow-colored flags, wild parties, and a big sun-drench parade |
| 0:52.4 | in whatever big city is closest to you. But this year, Pride feels different. |
| 1:05.0 | Queer communities are more visible than ever. |
| 1:11.0 | But the Trump administration is pushing forward with banning |
| 1:14.2 | transgender people from joining the military. It's also a historic pride year. |
| 1:19.1 | Half a decade on from the revolution at a small New York City bar that started it all. |
| 1:26.4 | On today's show, you'll hear from two Stonewall veterans who were there 50 years ago this year and a filmmaker who chronicled the making of the |
| 1:35.8 | LGBT movement later on in the podcast. But first, the Beach, a historic beach. |
| 1:45.0 | Jacob Reese Beach is one of the most important queer spaces in New York City. |
| 1:50.0 | Since the 1950s, it's been home to gay, queer, and trans communities who just |
| 1:56.7 | want to lay out in the sun and have fun. Think of it as Stonewall on the water. |
| 2:03.0 | Now getting a Jacobree speech involves a massive amount of work. |
| 2:12.0 | Either you take a couple trains to a buck. involves a massive amount of work. |
| 2:13.0 | Either you take a couple trains to a bus, you use a car, |
| 2:17.0 | or if you're me, you take an hour and a half out of your day |
| 2:21.0 | to bike clear across Brooklyn. It's always worth the trip. |
| 2:24.8 | On a typical summer weekend you get to Reese Beach and it's packed. There's often |
| 2:30.7 | house music blaring from speakers and there are always people everywhere |
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