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🗓️ 4 December 2016
⏱️ 10 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to another bonus episode of Women of the Hour. |
0:14.8 | This episode continues in our theme of solitude, but this episode is also about finding much |
0:19.3 | needed community. |
0:21.4 | Sylvia Rivera was a trans revolutionary. |
0:24.0 | At 10 years old, she started hustling on 42nd Street to scratch out enough money to get |
0:28.4 | buy. |
0:29.4 | Seven years of survival later, she crossed paths with history at the Stonewall Inn on the |
0:33.7 | night of June 28th, 1969. |
0:36.8 | She was not alone that night. |
0:38.2 | You're going to hear from a conversation with Sylvia that was recorded at her home in |
0:41.8 | Terrytown, New York in 1989. |
0:44.6 | She was cooking chili and drinking vodka and talking to the writer, Eric Marcus. |
0:49.2 | In this interview, you'll hear Sylvia called Ray, the name she was given at birth. |
0:59.4 | Interview with Ray Rivera, Saturday, December 9th, 1989 at 4pm. |
1:07.3 | Location is the home of Ray Rivera in Terrytown, New York. |
1:10.8 | Interviewer is Eric Marcus, tape one side one. |
1:15.4 | The Stonewall wasn't a bar for drag queens. |
1:18.4 | Everybody keeps saying it was. |
1:21.2 | This is where I get into arguments with people. |
1:24.6 | They say, oh no, it's always a drag queen bar and it was a black bar. |
1:31.8 | Washington Square bar was the drag queen bar. |
1:36.0 | You can get into the Stonewall if they knew you. |
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