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American History Tellers

Wondery

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, History, Education For Kids

4.7 • 18.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

As the 1960s dawned, LGBTQ activists began to voice frustration with the gradual approach to civil rights advocated by groups like the Mattachine Society. If LGBTQ people wanted to make real progress, they concluded, they would need to take direct action — starting with tactics shared with the Black civil rights movement.

Through protests and sit-ins in places like New York, Washington DC, and San Francisco, LGBTQ activists started agitating for greater rights. They would tackle employment discrimination along with the widespread issues of police harassment, abuse, and entrapment, which targeted LGBTQ people nationwide.

But as white gay activists pushed for acceptance by a white, middle-class American majority, transgender activists and people color faced even greater challenges related to their race and gender identity. They would respond by forging their own communities and strategies to protect themselves from harassment and violence.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to American History Tellers add free on Amazon Music,
0:05.6	download the app today.
0:07.8	A listener known, this episode includes sexual situations and violence may not be suitable
0:13.0	for all listeners.
0:17.1	Imagine its January 1958 in Washington, D.C.
0:29.9	You are a 32-year-old astronomer with US Army Map Service just back from assignment
0:34.4	in Hawaii.
0:35.4	You miss the warm night breezes, looking up at the star through a high-powered telescope.
0:40.4	For you, mapping the constellations was almost a spiritual experience, but now the capital
0:45.4	feels colder than ever.
0:47.0	Like a chill has seeped inside the very elevator you're standing in.
0:50.6	You feel a shiver run up your back.
0:54.0	Hello, my name is Franklin Camini.
0:58.7	I was told to be here at 930.
1:01.4	The receptionist looks up and smiles faintly.
1:04.0	You recall to report to the Civil Service Administration building, but you have no idea
1:08.0	why.
1:10.2	She stands and usheres you inside the small, windalous office.
1:13.6	The sign outside with the word, investigator, doesn't make you feel any better about this
1:17.7	meeting.
1:19.7	Inside the office, a man in a dark-ray suit stares at you narrowly from behind a spare
1:24.0	desk.
	...

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