Season 3: Episode 8: Morris Kight

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🗓️ 7 December 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Morris Kight was a whirling dervish champion of LGBTQ civil rights. He cut his activist teeth in the labor, civil rights, and anti-war movements, and from 1969 on brought all his passion to bear on catapulting himself and L.A.’s gay liberation efforts onto center stage. Visit our episode webpage for background information, archival photos, and other resources. 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
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0:09.0	Never Before Heard Clips from my archive
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0:26.1	through the voices of the people who lived it.
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0:38.0	I'm Eric Marcus and this is Making Gay History. One of the things that I quickly learned when I first started researching the LGBTQ Civil Rights Movement was that the movement was local.
1:06.3	Every city had its own history, and every history had its own cast of characters, and some of
1:11.6	those characters were real characters, like Morris Kite, a high-energy, high-drama Texas native who found
1:18.2	his way to Los Angeles in the late 1950s.
1:22.2	Before founding the L.A. chapter of the Gay Liberation Front in late 1969, Morris focused
1:27.9	his passion for social justice mostly on labor organizing civil rights and the anti-Vietnam war movement.
1:35.0	On the side, he informally helped LGBT-people with referrals and resources during an era
1:41.4	when gay people faced routine discrimination and worse.
1:46.5	With the founding of the Gay Liberation Front, Morris devoted all his energy to the LGBTQ
1:52.2	Civil Rights Movement, earning a reputation as a dogged, creative, and at
1:56.7	times Limelight hogging crusader.
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