Season 2: Episode 8: Barbara Gittings & Kay Lahusen — Part 2

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🗓️ 13 April 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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When the Stonewall uprising upended the 1960s homophile movement, Barbara Gittings and Kay Lahusen refused to be put out to pasture. They brought all their passion, humor, and determination to the gay lib ‘70s and showed the youngsters how it was done. Visit our 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.
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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 page banner and thank you so much.
0:38.0	I'm Eric Marcus and this is Making Gay History.
0:44.0	In this episode, you're going to meet Barbara Giddings and Kay Lehousen.
0:55.0	For those of you who got to know Barbara and Kay last season, you're going to get to know them a little better.
1:00.6	For those of you who are new to this dynamic duo, I encourage you to go back and listen to their first episode,
1:05.5	where you'll hear how these happy warriors, self-described gay fanatics and life partners,
1:10.6	met and got their start in the early homophile movement of the 1950s and 60s.
1:19.6	This episode picks up after the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, which lit the match that transformed the small-scale
1:25.6	homophile movement into a national gay liberation campaign. Within a very short time,
1:30.8	the early movement organizations and activists faded into history as
1:34.2	younger more militant LGBTQ people picked up the ball and ran with it. But anyone who
1:40.7	knew Barbara and Kaye would know they'd never go quietly into the night.
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