S15: "The Village 3" E1: La Vie en Rose

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4.5 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Joe Rose, a queer activist living with AIDS, is murdered in cold blood on a city bus. So public, so brutal – the city is shocked. The killing becomes a catalyst for ACT UP’s takeover of the 1989 Montreal AIDS conference. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/the-village-the-montreal-murders-transcripts-listen-1.6479960

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Jamie Poisson, host of Frontburner, the CBC's Daily News Podcast.
0:04.8	This is the first pandemic caused by coronavirus.
0:10.7	The involvement that I'd had should have had me remove myself from this discussion.
0:15.4	Every weekday morning we bring you one important story in depth and detail, and we do it in
0:20.4	about 20 minutes.
0:21.8	Of course we cover a lot of Canadian news, but there's a whole world out there, and we
0:26.0	bring you those stories too.
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0:31.7	the CBC Listen app.
0:35.1	This is a CBC podcast.
0:41.3	I'm in the village on a think it's a Saturday afternoon, and I see all these guys that
0:47.5	are obviously queer, but don't look like Montreal queers.
0:53.1	Like they've got a different vibe.
0:54.7	They're wearing different types of clothes and they're cute, and they're all going somewhere,
1:00.4	so I decide I'm going to follow them.
1:02.8	You know, because gay men did that back then.
1:06.5	We followed each other.
1:07.6	We stalked each other down streets and in parks and we didn't have Grindr, you know.
1:13.2	But back then we actually met like face to face.
1:18.8	That's Puello deere, a long time queer activist, sharing with me what happened on that day
1:24.3	in early June of 1989.
1:27.9	So Puello joins the stream of men heading to the Palais de Congré, the conference center
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