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🗓️ 1 June 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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0:00.0 | It's Pride Month and we at Selected Shorts wanted to celebrate with stories that reflect |
0:12.1 | the complexities of love, family, and belonging. |
0:15.6 | In each of them there's both defiance and acceptance. |
0:18.8 | Join me, Meg Wallitzer, as we change the world just a little bit in the company of some |
0:22.9 | very thoughtful writers. |
0:24.6 | Stay with us. |
0:27.0 | We're listening to Selected Shorts, where our greatest actors transport us through the |
0:31.4 | magic of fiction, one short story at a time. |
0:42.6 | The 1969 Stonewall riots were a watershed moment socially and politically, inspiring the |
0:48.7 | gay pride movement, transforming private lives and public perception. |
0:53.6 | One of its legacies was that lives that were once hidden could be shared, and found to |
0:58.0 | be, of course, like any other, with the usual measure of humor and heartache and finally |
1:02.6 | acceptance. |
1:04.0 | This program celebrates that legacy with stories by queer writers. |
1:08.6 | Our first work shares a bold childhood moment, in two stories established couples face change, |
1:14.8 | and a poem creates an anthem out of rejection. |
1:18.4 | We begin with Ivan Icaiote's No Bikini, in which swimming lessons at a summer camp |
1:23.2 | lead to a comic moment of reckoning. |
1:25.8 | Ivan Icaiote is a writer, performer, and activist whose published works include Care of, |
1:31.3 | Rebent Sinner, and the Story Collection One in Every Crowd. |
1:35.6 | Reader Becca Blackwell is an actor, performer, and playwright whose work includes their shows |
1:40.7 | They, Themself, and Schmurm, and Segal, Thinking of You. |
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