Hello and welcome to Queerist Fact, the podcast that brings you queer history from around the world and throughout time.

My name is Eli. I'm Alice. I'm Irene.

And today we are finishing our conversation about the activist, lawyer, priest and poet Pauli Murray.

Before we get started, we have some content warnings for you.

This, of course, includes parietpical racism, sexism and transphobia.

I'm going to read one quote that misgenders poorly, as well as quotes that use now outdated language for African Americans, and we're also going to discuss

individual and generational preference regarding those terms a little bit.

Apart from that, we're going to briefly touch on the assassination of Martin Luther King,

Jr., as well as briefly mention violence, once in the context of domestic abuse,

and once regarding a threat that poorly made but never carried out.

If any of that sounds like something you'd rather not listen to, feel free to skip this one, and join us next. of domestic abuse and once regarding a threat that Pauley made but never carried out.

If any of that sounds like something you'd rather not listen to,

feel free to skip this one and join us next time instead.

As you will have noticed from the title, this is the second part of two about Polly Murray.

Probably you could get through this okay if you haven't listened to the first half,

but I would encourage you to go and listen to the first one if you can. It very much contains the first, like, 55 years of this person's life. Also,

just a quick note, as we noted at the beginning of the last one, we are going to be referring

to Pauley with he-ham pronouns. We discussed somewhat about his transgender identity in the last episode,

so that's another reason to listen to it if you haven't, and we'll go into it in more detail at the

end of this one. To give a quick recap, though, if you can't go and listen to the first episode,

or if you've forgotten in the two weeks intervening.

We covered Polly's early life in the segregated American South and his decision to go to law school and his early law career. During this time, he developed a groundbreaking legal strategy

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