The Moth Podcast: Remembering Stonewall

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This week, we reair a special episode that originally ran to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. It includes a broad range of voices and perspectives, with two Moth stories from LGBTQ storytellers, Richard Cardillo and Sonia Audi, and two interviews, one with Stonewall Veteran Martin Boyce, and one with poet and activist Kay Ulanday Barrett. Hosted by: Dame Wilburn Storytellers: Richard Cardillo, Sonia Audi Interviewees: Martin Boyce, Kay Ulanday Barrett 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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0:30.9	Hi, I'm Mark, producer of the podcast. Happy Pride Month. We wanted to share a favorite episode
0:36.4	from the archives that we first ran to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Stonewall.
0:40.9	Just as a note, Richard Cardillo's story mentions the effects of suicide on a left one.
0:45.5	Stay tuned next week for an all-new episode about pride and family.
0:49.3	Until then, enjoy.
0:52.2	Welcome to the Moth podcast.
0:56.0	I'm your host, Dame Wilburn.
1:00.6	This week we're celebrating Pride Month and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, and we wanted to do it right.
1:02.9	In the planning of this episode, we recognized how the story of Stonewall has historically
1:07.4	been shaped to exclude many voices and perspectives.
1:10.8	So today, we're hoping to help create a fuller picture.
1:14.0	We have two moth stories and two interviews that we hope will add to your understanding of Stonewall 50.
1:19.8	You'll hear from Martin Boyce, who is at Stonewall on the day of the riot.
1:23.3	And at the very end of the episode, we'll hear from Kay Barrett, a poet and activist continuing
1:28.9	the fight for LGBTQ-plus rights today.
1:32.1	We talked with Martin Boyce in the park on Christopher Street just across the street from Stonewall.
1:37.2	He'll set the scene of what New York City was like for a young gay man 50 years ago
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