Revisiting the Archive: Episode 13: Larah Helayne & Jean O’Leary

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🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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When high schooler Larah Helayne heard MGH’s episode with Jean O’Leary, it changed the course of her life. Plans to become a nun gave way for a new role as an LGBTQ trailblazer. In this season finale, we celebrate the history-makers who came before and those who follow in their footsteps. Visit the webpages for our season two episodes with Jean O'Leary—part 1 and part 2—for background information, archival photos, and other resources. For exclusive MGH bonus content, join our ⁠Patreon community⁠. ——— To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I history
0:02.0	Eric here
0:03.0	A few months ago we launched Making Gay History's Patreon channel
0:06.0	a place where we're sharing new video interviews
0:09.0	Never Before Heard Clips from my archive
0:11.0	that didn't make it into the episodes and more.
0:14.0	If you're not a member of our Patreon community yet, I hope you'll join today.
0:18.4	Just $5 a month gets you access to these Making Gay History extras, and you'll support us as we work to bring LGBTQ history to life
0:26.1	through the voices of the people who lived it.
0:28.8	Find out more at Patreon.com slash Making Gay History. or go to making gay history
0:34.0	and click on the link in our home page banner and thank you so much. I'm Eric Marcus and this is making gay history.
0:47.0	I'm Eric Marcus and this is making gay history.
0:51.0	Three months ago, when I first shut myself in the guest room closet to revisit the
0:55.9	Making Gay History Archive with you, I had no idea what the future held.
1:01.6	It was my way of trying to make sense of a new and frightening situation and to draw
1:06.6	inspiration, strength, and joy from the voices of our LGBTQ past. I don't know if anyone could have imagined how dark the dark times
1:16.4	ahead would be or how hopeful. It's been head spinning, the ongoing devastation of the pandemic, the persistent failure of the federal government to
1:27.1	prioritize the health of millions, the murder of George Floyd and the mass uprising that's
1:32.2	followed, the Trump administration's shameful of George Floyd and the mass uprising that's followed.
1:33.4	The Trump administration's shameful rollback of health care protections for
1:36.6	trans people and the extraordinary protest in Brooklyn this past Sunday
1:40.5	when 15,000 people came out in support of black trans lives.
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