Rewind: Stonewall 50: Episode 3: “Say It Loud! Gay & Proud!”

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🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Like so many other acts of LGBTQ resistance, the 1969 Stonewall riots could have become a footnote in history. But the protests and organizing that followed launched a new phase in the fight for LGBTQ rights. Hear how anger found its voice and how joy propelled the first Pride marches. First aired June 20, 2019. Visit MGH’s episode webpage for background information, archival photos, and other resources, as well as the episode’s transcript. To hear more from Craig Rodwell, go here. And listen to Barbara Gittings and Kay Lahusen here as they discuss how homophile activists fared in the heady days of post-Stonewall organizing. 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.
0:38.5	Do you think all of this was in part because people were so angry for so long? People were
0:49.5	very angry for so long. I mean how long can you live and cause?
0:55.2	It's the beginning of July 1969 and the riots are over. But some of the most important
1:01.6	things about the Stonewall uprising have yet to happen. I want to take you through the
1:06.2	year or so of chaos, organizing, protest, and celebration that happened after Stonewall.
1:12.3	To hear how activists took six nights of unrest and Greenwich Village and built them into
1:16.5	a national movement. And we're going to try to trace how the anger that erupted outside
1:21.2	the Stonewall Inn was channeled, co-opted, and in some cases excluded from organizations
1:27.4	and events that helped shape the movement for decades to come. How anger fueled power
1:33.2	and joy coalesced into pride.
1:38.8	I'm Eric Marcus. This is Making Gay History's Stonewall 50 season and I'm joined by an amazing
1:44.3	guide to help us on this part of our journey.
1:47.3	This is Breck Artery and I am the producer and narrator of a documentary record album
1:54.4	called June 28th 1970 Gay and Proud.
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