Season 3: Episode 1: Sylvia Rivera — Part 2

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🗓️ 22 October 2017

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Welcome back to Sylvia Rivera’s kitchen, for the second part of a never-before-heard interview from 1989. Pull up a chair for a conversation with the trans rights pioneer as she reflects on a life of activism while cooking a pot of chili. 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'm Eric Marcus and welcome to my decades old audio archive to bring you the voices of
0:25.2	LGBTQ history. For the start of this new season, we're bringing you the second part of a conversation
0:31.2	I had with Sylvia Rivera back in 1989.
0:35.2	Sylvia talked about her memories of the Stonewall Uprising and how she left home in 1962
0:39.9	when she was only 11 years old.
0:41.9	If you haven't already heard that episode,
0:44.1	I urge you to have a listen.
0:46.4	So here's the second part of that conversation
0:48.2	in Sylvia's Tenement Department Kitchen
0:50.1	in North Tarotown, New York.
0:51.9	It's Saturday evening, December 9, 1989.
0:55.0	Sylvia's friend Rennie has just left for work.
0:58.0	On Rennie's way out, she asked Sylvia to save her a drink for when she gets back. Sylvia promises that of course she would,
1:04.0	but as soon as Rennie is out the door,
1:06.0	Sylvia pours herself another generous glass of vodka
1:08.0	from a bottle that is already well on the way to being emptied.
1:12.0	Sylvia's boyfriend Frank is in the next room watching TV.
1:16.0	Frank. Frank.
1:31.1	Frank, what are you doing? I just realize you have to go and buy me some tomato sauce. I've got to a tomato sauce for the tilly. So could you go around and get that?
1:37.0	And, huh? Pick up a couple cans, you know. Yeah, nice cans, not the little ones.
1:46.0	Yeah, the jars.
1:47.0	No, not any millies, I need tomato sauce.
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