The Moth Radio Hour: Pride 2021
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🗓️ 24 June 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If I get my kid a phone, I'll be able to keep in touch with them all the time. |
| 0:02.8 | We'll be on it all the time. |
| 0:04.1 | He could walk to school by himself. She could see something, she shouldn't. He could chat with grandma. Friends, trolls. They can access anything on the internet. They can access anything on the internet. So, should I give my kid a phone? Growing up with phones isn't always easy. Introducing EEE safer Sims. Sims that help moderate usage and shield harmful content on any smartphone. |
| 0:24.2 | Choose EECF. Growing up with phones isn't always easy. Introducing EEE safer sims. Sims that help moderate usage and shield harmful content on any smartphone. |
| 0:24.2 | Choose EEE safer sims. |
| 0:25.7 | Only on the UK's best network. |
| 0:27.5 | To verify best network, see EE.com.com. This is a moth radio hour. |
| 0:46.3 | I'm your host and frequent moth storyteller, Alistair Bain. |
| 0:51.4 | It's June, Gay Pride Month. |
| 0:57.7 | Most pride celebrations involve a rather fabulous parade that creates visibility, community, and support. In this hour, a mini-pride parade of LGBTQI-plus |
| 1:06.6 | stories from around the world. I'm from the Eastern Shawnee tribe of Oklahoma. |
| 1:14.1 | Many indigenous nations here on this continent that we call Turtle Island have a long |
| 1:19.5 | history of loving and respecting the people amongst us who express unique gender identities. |
| 1:25.9 | It's an honor to celebrate pride with all of my relatives who are |
| 1:30.3 | LGBTQI plus, Two Spirit, or however you choose to define your unique, beautiful, amazing self, all of our families, friends, and allies too. |
| 1:45.0 | Let's get our Pride celebration started with our first story from Meg Farrell, told in New York |
| 1:50.3 | City where WNYC is a media partner of the Moth. |
| 1:55.1 | Here's Meg. |
| 1:59.4 | I wrote him a letter. |
| 2:00.9 | I wrote my dad a letter because at that point, our relationship had been crumbling apart. |
| 2:05.9 | And with each year we became a little bit less us and a little bit more him and me. |
| 2:11.1 | So I wrote him a letter and I told him, I'm gay. |
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