Season 6: Episode 4: Nancy Walker

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🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In 1976 Nancy Walker joined the Gay Community News, an influential Boston-based weekly paper. She was in her 40s, an outspoken New Yorker, and a moderate pragmatist. Not surprisingly, Nancy and the younger, more radical GCN staff often locked horns... 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
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0:56.1	I'm Eric Marcus and this is making gay history.
1:00.4	Nancy Walker had a type. She liked the brainy ones. In 1962, when Nancy was in her late 20s, she met Penny. Penny was smart as a whip,
1:11.0	wise beyond her 18 years, and she read James Joyce.
1:15.0	Nancy was impressed.
1:17.2	The two fell in love and became life partners.
1:20.2	By the time Nancy and Penny got involved in the gay rights movement in the early 1970s,
1:24.8	they were living in Toronto, Canada, where Penny was attending graduate school.
1:29.2	That's where they joined their first gay organization.
1:32.2	In the mid-70s they moved back to the US to
1:35.6	Boston, Massachusetts and Nancy soon volunteered to work at a weekly newspaper called
1:40.3	The Gay Community News. As you know from our previous episodes the called the gay community news.
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