Season 4: Episode 10: Dick Leitsch

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🗓️ 7 February 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Dick Leitsch came to New York City in the early 1960s to smoke cigarettes, drink cocktails, and pick up handsome young men. He got his wish and then some, but the native Kentuckian also took on the police and political power brokers to successfully fight entrapment and discrimination. 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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0:38.0	I'm Eric Marcus and this is making gay history. I could be pretty judgmental, not quite as judgmental as my late Grandma May, but this apple didn't fall far from that tree.
1:08.0	After I interviewed Dick Leitch on Monday January 23rd, 1989 at his apartment on West 72nd Street in Manhattan,
1:15.8	I wrote the following in my post-interview notes.
1:21.2	Dick greeted me at the door wearing 501 jeans and a plaid cotton shirt opened one button too many.
1:27.0	The jeans looked stuffed. Dick, who was charming, had the look of someone who has smoked too much and perhaps he drank too much as well.
1:34.0	Hard to say.
1:35.6	During the interview he went from one cigarette to another, sometimes barely taking a half dozen
1:39.6	quick drags before putting it out.
1:42.2	Dick's apartment is a pre-war two bedroom.
1:44.0	The sofas were covered in wine-colored velvet.
1:46.0	The floor was covered with a green deco oriental.
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