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Stonewall 50: Episode 2: ”Everything Clicked… And the Riot Was On”
FromMaking Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive
Stonewall 50: Episode 2: ”Everything Clicked… And the Riot Was On”
FromMaking Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive
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Length:
34 minutes
Released:
Jun 13, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
At 1:20 a.m. on June 28, 1969, the New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, an unlicensed gay club in New York’s Greenwich Village. I wasn’t there. Of these two facts I feel certain. The first one, because the police report from that night states the time that the police entered the Stonewall Inn. And the second, because I was ten years old at the time and didn’t see Greenwich Village for the first time until I’d graduated from Hillcrest High School in Queens, New York, in June 1976. (I’m shocked now by what an incurious teenager I was back then.)But there’s plenty about the raid on the Stonewall Inn and the subsequent uprising that’s less certain and often the focus of disagreements and heated debate. I like to think that the story of Stonewall is big enough for all the recollections and memories and inevitable myths that have taken shape in the five decades since Stonewall became a key turning point in the history of the LGBTQ civil rights movement and the birthplace of the “gay liberation” phase of the fight for equality.So in this second episode of our special Stonewall 50 season, we’re bringing you multiple voices—and multiple and often conflicting memories—from people who were inside and outside the Stonewall Inn a half-century ago. Voices drawn from my three-decade-old archive and from other archival audio unearthed by Making Gay History’s team of archive rats—including some tape dating back to the first year after the raid. Have a listen and decide which memories ring true for you.
Released:
Jun 13, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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