New episode! In 1981 Larry Kramer sounded an alarm almost no one wanted to hear. Gay men were dying from a mysterious disease and the only way to stop its spread was to stop having sex. The outspoken activist went on to co-found @gmhc and @actupny, two of the leading organizations in the fight against AIDS.
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Photo: Larry Kramer with his wheaten terrier, Molly, 1989.
Credit: Photo by Robert Giard courtesy of The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library.
Experience a world where trans people of color don’t just survive, but thrive.
“When I was much younger I thought “gay music” meant disco. I learned gay music actually meant a lot more than that—for instance, that punk wouldn’t have happened without LGBTQ musicians.“
When Deborah Johnson & Zandra Rólon Amato, veterans of the LGBTQ civil rights movement, headed out for a romantic dinner in Los Angeles in 1983, they had no idea that they’d wind up in court defending their right to be served
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“A play in which the gay character was smart, funny and fully alive? A revelation.“
When I first learned about the dance of the 41, I thought, “How has no one done an exposé on this story?” “Why haven’t we learned about this in our history books? Why don’t we use this as fuel for change?”
“All too often, trans history has been minimized or erased from the historical record.”
Zandra Rólon Amato recalls being denied service in a romantic booth with Deborah Johnson at the Papa Choux restaurant in Los Angeles in 1983. Hear the whole story on this week’s episode via your podcatcher (subscribe at http://bit.ly/mgh-subscribe) or at this link: http://bit.ly/mgh-johnson-rolon
New episode! In 1983, Deborah Johnson and Zandra Rólon Amato went to a Los Angeles restaurant for what was supposed to be a romantic dinner. Instead they wound up in court. They fought back against discrimination and won.
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Listen to J.J. Belanger’s war time love story via your podcatcher (subscribe at http://bit.ly/mgh-subscribe) or at this link: http://bit.ly/mgh-belanger
Photo: Belanger’s military portrait at age 17 ½ as a member of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps (RCA), June 1940. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Credit: Courtesy ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.