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Making Contact
"Making Contact" is produced by International Media Project, an independent, non-profit organization founded in 1994, committed to investigative journalism, in-depth critical analysis, the promotion of civic participation and the dissemination of educational material. Its core focus is National Radio Project, the team that creates Making Contact.
We go back to the night in June,1969 at New York City’s Stonewall Inn that sparked the LGBT rights movement. On today’s show, we’ll hear about the day that galvanized a generation and the continued fight for LGBT civil rights.
The first Pride parades took place in June, 1970 marking the 1st anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. Michael Schirker and David Isay bring us an oral history- Remembering Stonewall: The Birth of a Movement.
Editor at large of the Huffington Post’s Gay Voices, Michelangelo Signorile, says while there have been a series of recent wins for the LGBT rights movement, bigotry remains a daily reality for many. At a New America NYC forum, Signorile spoke with June Thomas, Culture Critic and Editor of Outward, Slate’s LGBTQ section about what he calls ‘victory blindness’. It’s a central theme in his new book, titled It’s Not Over: Getting to Beyond Tolerance Defeating Homophobia and Winning True Equality.
Special thanks to Pacifica Radio Archives for “Remembering Stonewall: The Birth of a Movement” produced by David Isay for Pacifica Radio. http://www.pacificaradioarchives.org
Special thanks to New America NYC for It’s Not Over: Winning True Equality https://www.newamerica.org/nyc/its-not-over-2
Featuring:
President Barack Obama, Geane Harwood, Bruce Merrow, Sylvia Rivera, Deputy Inspector Seymor Pine, Red Mahoney; Joan Nestle, founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archive; Randy Wicker; Jim Fouratt, yippie leader and helped found the Gay Liberation Front; Howard Smith, reporter for the Village Voice; Martin Boyce aka Miss Martin, Rudy; Mama Jean; Michelangelo Signorile, host of the Michelangelo Signorile Sirius XM, editor at large of the Huffington Posts Gay Voices, and author of It’s Not Over, Getting Beyond Tolerance Defeating Homophobia and Winning True Equality; and June Thomas, Culture Critic and Editor of Outward, Slate’s LGBTQ section.
Credits:
Host: Laura Flynn
Producers: Andrew Stelzer, George Lavender, and Jasmin Lopez
Contributing Producer: David Isay and New America NYC
