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The Expert Witness from Uncover

S3 Bonus: The Village at Stonewall (World Pride New York)

The Expert Witness from Uncover

CBC

True Crime

4.510.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Join host Justin Ling and a panel of special guests in front of a live audience at the Human Rights Conference as part of World Pride in New York City marking the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. Panelists from around the world reflect on the movement since Stonewall and what's next for LGBTQ+ rights today.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Damon Fairless, host of Hunting Warhead from CBC Podcasts in the Norwegian newspaper VG.

0:06.1

Hunting Warhead follows a global team of police and journalists as they attempt to dismantle a

0:11.6

massive network of predators on the dark web. Winner of the Grand Prize for Best Investigative

0:16.8

Reporting at the New York festivals and recommended by the Guardian, Vulture, and the Globe and Mail,

0:21.9

you can find Hunting Warhead on CBC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:27.4

This is a CBC Podcast.

0:33.4

Good afternoon.

0:38.8

My name is Justin Leng, I am the host of the Uncover, the Village Podcast for the CBC,

0:44.0

and we are here in New York City at the World Human Rights Conference in front of a live audience.

0:50.0

That's you folks.

0:50.8

The podcast we produce takes a deep dive looking to the murders of eight gay men in Toronto by

1:00.0

serial killer Bruce MacArthur, and we look at murders going back decades, many of which have remained

1:05.1

unsolved. But what we also try to do with this podcast was to show some of these bigger questions.

1:10.8

What happened in these cases? What did that tell us about policing? About society at large?

1:15.2

What were the social forces that allowed this to happen? And we looked at the point where the

1:19.2

queer community in Canada stood up and said enough. Now we're here for a pretty auspicious occasion.

1:26.2

It is world pride and it's the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots which ignited the

1:31.6

queer rights movement. It's the 50th anniversary of the day that police raided the Stonewall in and

1:37.3

forced people out into the streets. Now we're going to talk a bit about Stonewall and about the

1:41.7

legacy of those riots, but first we were going to go international. Earlier this month, but

1:46.8

it's won a decriminalized homosexuality. Brazil legislated homophobia as a crime and Ecuador and

1:51.8

Taiwan legalized same-sex marriage. But while there's been progress, it can often feel like we've

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