The LGBT Community Is the Fabric of America
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this rebroadcast episode from earlier this year, Maria and Julio are joined by Shelby Chestnut, National Organizing and Policy Strategist with Transgender Law Center, and Verónica Bayetti Flores, freelance writer and co-host of Radio Menea. They discuss the LGBT rights movement and how the media can do a better job of covering the LGBT community.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey you're listening to In The Thick, this is a podcast about politics, race and culture from a POC perspective. |
| 0:05.5 | I'm Maria Inohosa. |
| 0:07.1 | And I'm Juhu Rhelorica Loberella. |
| 0:08.5 | All right, so guess what? |
| 0:10.3 | What? |
| 0:11.3 | Yeah, Futuro media, the company that I created, right? |
| 0:14.0 | The best thing you do is that we give our entire staff a summer break. |
| 0:18.0 | So everybody's off for a full week. |
| 0:22.0 | Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 0:23.0 | Thank you. Marilla Nahosa. We love to do this. |
| 0:25.0 | Julio, what are you going to do? |
| 0:27.0 | I'm dropping my daughter to college. |
| 0:29.0 | Weee. And then I'm going to go see my dad in Florida and my brothers and I think we're gonna play a couple |
| 0:34.8 | of rounds of golf. Great and I'll be writing a book in Plunta Kana with my family. |
| 0:39.2 | Not bad. We're very lucky, very, very blessed people. And so one of the things that we wanted to do |
| 0:43.8 | is that we wanted to bring you |
| 0:45.1 | some of our favorite episodes of this year. |
| 0:46.8 | Right, we wanted to treat you all, our listeners. |
| 0:49.3 | And many of you wrote in after this episode that we're about to listen to, you wrote in to tell |
| 0:54.7 | us how moved you were by this episode. |
| 0:57.5 | The title of this episode is The LGBT Community is The Fabric of America, and Shelby Chestnut national organizing and |
| 1:05.3 | policy strategist with the Transgender Law Center and also Veronica Mageti Flores |
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