Pushkin.

It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here?

Fiasco is a history podcast for the co-creators of Slow Burn.

In our first season, Bush v. Gore, we examined an unmistakable turning point in American

politics, the 2000 election, which resulted in a high-stakes stalemate, ended with one of the most

controversial rulings in Supreme Court history. So if you're trying to make sense at the present

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I was so happy to be fighting back into standing up for who I was.

We were happy.

It probably was the happiest riot in the history of America.

For a minute, I just stood there.

I just stood and took it all in.

And I knew something was changing.

From Pushkin Industries, this is Deep Background, the show where we explore the stories behind the stories in the news.

I'm Noah Feldman.

Welcome to this week's episode, where we're going to talk about the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising,

an iconic moment in the history

of the rights of gay and lesbian people in the United States. It's also an opportunity for

reflecting on the universe that existed at the time of Stonewall, on government surveillance

and oppression of gay and lesbian and transgender people, and on the changes that have

been wrought over the last half century,

both the changes that have made things so much better

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