Take two side two.

This is making gay history and season two is almost here.

I'm Eric Marcus and nearly three decades ago I wrote an oral history of the

LGBT-Cival rights movement. Chriscrossing the country I recorded interviews with

a hundred people, some well known others whose stories had never been told.

Last season I introduced you to some amazing pioneers.

For this second season, you'll hear new stories from a dozen more people.

People whose stories I captured on cassette tape

while we sat at kitchen tables, on front porches,

and even in an office above a porn theater.

Complex people, sometimes controversial people, and in one case this season, someone I didn't

like very much.

But one person I loved was Shirley Willer. Her passion to change the world came from heartbreak,

from seeing a friend left to die simply because he was gay.

Anybody who calls themselves an American who believes in any kind of religion to deliberately allow someone to die or force them into a position where they're going to die, it's unforgettable.

For Hal Call, it was getting fired that changed the course of his life.

He said, we can't have anybody like that working for the Kansas City Star.

And I said, well, that may be so OK.

But if you fired all the homosexuals on the Kansas City Star,

you wouldn't get the newspaper out.

I mean, you couldn't even set the

linotype at the time. You'll hear again from Barbara Giddings and Kayehousin who

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