Stonewall and the fight for gay rights

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🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Fifty years after the Stonewall riots in New York City, historian Chris Parkes explores the background to the events and shows how the episode became a pivotal moment in LGBTQ+ history. Historyextra.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:38.8	On today's podcast, we'll be discussing one of the milestones of the gay rights movement,
1:40.0	the Stonewall riots.
1:47.1	This year marks the 50th anniversary of the event when LGBTQ protests erupted outside New York's Stonewall Inn. Our world history's editor Matt Elton spoke to the historian Chris Parks,
1:52.8	whose research focuses on sexuality in 20th century America, about why the riots was so significant.
1:59.3	Please be aware that some of the discussion of responses to the riot
2:02.6	includes language that some might find offensive today.
2:05.6	Okay, so this summer marks the 50th anniversary of Stonewall,
2:09.6	which is a thing that I think some people might have heard of and some people might not be so familiar with.
2:14.6	What would you explain it as?
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