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From Stonewall to today: LGBTQ+ moments of resilience

A gay and lesbian pride parade marches through the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston in 1975.
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A gay and lesbian pride parade marches through the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston in 1975.

This hour, we take a deep dive into LGBTQ+ Pride and history. We’ll talk about Stonewall, but also other moments in the LGBTQ+ rights movement that don’t get as much attention.

Pride month began 54 years ago today, June 28. Historian Marc Stein describes LGBTQ+ movements that happened before the Stonewall Uprising and two protests that occurred in Bridgeport .

Archivist, and documentarian Sheri Wright tell the tragic story of , a popular New Orleans gay bar in the 1970’s.

Beau Lancaster is an LGBTQ+ historian currently working on a documentary about - a popular New York City bar among the Black LGBTQ+ community.

GUESTS:

  • Marc Stein: Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Professor of History at San Francisco State University; director of the ; coeditor of , a digital history project.
  • Frank Perez: Co-founder and Executive Director of
  • Sheri Wright: Visual artist and producer of , a documentary in production about the Upstairs Lounge and Pulse Nightclub.
  • Beau Lancaster: LGBTQ+ historian and content creator; Adjunct Professor at The City University of New York; producing the documentary Gay, Black, and Blue: The Raid on Blues Bar.

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Wayne Edwards is a freelance producer at º£½Ç»»ÆÞ contributing to multi-platform productions, including ‘Disrupted’, ‘Where Art Thou?’, and ‘Cutline in the Community’.<br/><br/>
Kevin Chang Barnum is a producer for º£½Ç»»ÆÞ Radio’s weekly show Disrupted. Kevin grew up in º£½Ç»»ÆÞ and started his radio work at his graduate university’s radio station, KUCI. He has also worked for HRN, a network of food and beverage podcasts.
Dr. Khalilah L. Brown-Dean is an award-winning scholar at Wesleyan University, author, and host of 'Disrupted' on º£½Ç»»ÆÞ.
Meg Dalton is the director of audio storytelling and talk shows for º£½Ç»»ÆÞ where she oversees the station’s talk shows and podcasts, including the limited series 'In Absentia'.
Catie Talarski is Senior Director of Storytelling and Radio Programming at º£½Ç»»ÆÞ.

Funding provided by:
The º£½Ç»»ÆÞ Office of Film, Television and Digital Media