Revisiting the Archive: Episode 8: Morris Foote

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🗓️ 9 May 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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In late 1955, the police of Boise, Idaho, started a sweeping investigation into an alleged “homosexual underground.” Fearing arrest, Morris Foote fled town, not to return till 20 years later. A story of Pride from the U.S. heartland to remind us that what unites us transcends red/blue state divides. Visit our season two episode webpage for background information, archival photos, and other resources. For exclusive Making Gay History 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 you from inside my guest room closet for another
0:56.0	socially distanced trip into the archive.
1:00.0	It's now been eight weeks since my partner Barney and I began sheltering in place here in New York City,
1:05.0	and I'm feeling a growing sense of despair over what I'm seeing happen across the country.
1:10.0	It's not just the horrifying number of deaths, the new normal of more than a thousand families bereaved every day.
1:18.0	It's this, despite so many of us united in sorrow, each passing week it feels like the fault lines between
1:25.2	red states and blue states, between cities and rural communities, are growing wider.
1:31.0	That inability to come together in the face of this crisis adds another layer of sadness to this challenging chapter.
1:37.0	But I remind myself, these divisions are not new.
1:41.0	They were there 30 years ago when I first started recording
1:44.3	interviews for the Making Gay History book. That's why I very consciously
1:48.6	decided to look beyond New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles to unearth our gay history.
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