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Harvey Milk

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4.8644 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we are talking about Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay politicians elected in the USA. Tune in for incredibly theatrical political campaigns, an even more dramatic love letter, and recordings of speeches from the man himself. Transcript available here

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Queer's Fact. My name is Eli. I'm Alice. I'm Irene.

0:04.2

We are a queer history podcast coming out on the first and 15th of every month

0:08.4

talking about queer history from all around the world. Today we are talking about Harvey Milk,

0:13.5

one of the first openly gay politicians to be elected in America.

0:27.6

Music So we have some content warnings for this episode.

0:31.1

The biggest, the most prominent, I guess, is periodypical homophobia.

0:38.4

Sometimes we say that and what we mean is like the person's family has some like discomfort with them being queer in the background. it's not overall too much of a big deal that's not the case in this episode it's really

0:43.0

the focus of the episode how bad mid 20th century America was about gay people that's going to

0:48.5

include talking about police intimidation and brutality it's going to include death threats and gay bashings. We're going to

0:55.7

talk about assassination, gun violence, and we're going to use some homophobic slurs. Okay. Okay.

1:02.4

We're still here. We're still here. Okay. I'm not dumb. That was part one. That was part one.

1:08.8

We're also going to discuss someone being outed to the press against

1:11.5

their will. There's several suicides. There's mentions of alcoholism, anti-Semitism,

1:17.2

the Holocaust and concentration camps, war, underage sex, and drugs. And also, I think I

1:22.3

swear a couple of times in quotes. I can't remember what made it in. So if any of that sounds like

1:26.2

something that you don't

1:27.6

want to listen to, we fully understand. We have plenty of other content and some of it has barely

1:32.7

any content warning. So if you'd rather not, we'll see you in two weeks. So we are going to go

1:38.1

through the first 40 years of Harvey's life very, very quickly. So he's born May 22nd in 1930 in New Jersey and he goes to school and then

1:47.0

he goes off to a liberal arts teaching college. Then he joins the Navy and after that he becomes

1:51.8

a businessman for quite a while. Harvey really just drifts around for the first 40 years of his life.

1:56.0

He's always very average in terms of like his grades and his success at athletics and things like that.

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