Season 2: Episode 9: Evander Smith and Herb Donaldson

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🗓️ 20 April 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Four years before the 1969 uprising at NYC’s Stonewall Inn, a San Francisco confrontation between the police and that city’s LGBT community proved a turning point. Gay attorneys Herbert Donaldson and Evander Smith were among the night’s heroes. 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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0:26.1	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.
0:41.0	I'm Eric Marcus and this is making gay history. When I think of Herb Donaldson and Evander Smith, I think of
0:59.4	delicious homemade pie. That's because I interviewed the two long-time friends in
1:04.3	Avenger's San Francisco kitchen over generous slices of pecan pie.
1:10.4	I first
1:13.8	1965 costume ball at San Francisco's California Hall.
1:17.8	It's sometimes called the West Coast Stonewall
1:20.6	because it wound up being a huge and very public confrontation with
1:24.4	that city's police department. The ball was a fundraising event for a new
1:28.0	organization called the Council on Religion and the Hom, or CRH.
1:33.0	It brought together progressive ministers and local gay rights groups
1:36.0	with the goal of educating the city's religious communities
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