Rewind: Stonewall 50: Episode 2: "Everything Clicked… And the Riot Was On"

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🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The Stonewall uprising began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969. Revisit that moment, and the hours and days that followed, with voices from the Making Gay History archive. Relive in vivid detail the dawning of a new chapter in the fight for LGBTQ rights. First aired June 13, 2019. Visit MGH’s episode webpage for background information, archival photos, and other resources, as well the episode’s transcript. To hear more of Marsha P. Johnson and Randy Wicker’s conversation about Stonewall, go here. And listen to Morty Manford’s account of the riots here. 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	Hi History Makers, Eric here. A few months ago we launched Making Gay History's Patreon
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0:36.9	And thank you so much.
0:38.0	Hi, Eric Marcus, and this is Making Gay History. In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969,
1:02.2	I was 10 years old, sound to sleep in my bunk at Camp Lou Emma in Sussex, New Jersey. I
1:09.3	already knew I was different, but hadn't yet put my finger on exactly why. I was a Lego nut,
1:15.4	a big reader, a total loser when it came to team sports, and I struggled to learn how to swim.
1:22.2	I had a girlfriend, even Newman, who was also 10. We looked so much alike, the same height
1:30.8	with thick, wavy brown hair and green eyes, that people thought we were twins, which didn't
1:36.1	creep me out at all because it never occurred to me that that would be creepy. Maybe because
1:40.6	she wasn't that kind of girlfriend. We held hands, played cards, which was about as far
1:46.6	as I'd ever want to go with any girl. On that hot night in June 1969, a sleep under a full moon
1:53.7	in the New Jersey countryside, I was dreaming of my cat Tiger Lily, who I missed terribly.
2:01.0	That's my story about that night 50 years ago, but while I was safely tucked into bed at Camp
2:07.3	Lou Emma, a rumbling of discontent was about to erupt into something much bigger, 50 miles away
2:14.5	in New York City. There are a lot of stories about that momentous night in New York City's Greenwich
2:26.5	Village. The story is much closer to the action than mine. Sadly, many of the people with direct
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