StoryCorps Then and Now: Family Pride

StoryCorps

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🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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StoryCorps' initiatives have long helped us gather voices that are usually omitted from the historical record, like our LGBTQ+ Outloud initiative. In our continuing celebration of twenty years of StoryCorps, we're sharing some of our favorite recordings from that collection... and how a story close to our founder Dave Isay's heart helped lead to its creation.

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0:00.0	This message comes from NPR sponsor Subaru, celebrating the Subaru Share the Love event now through January 2nd.
0:06.5	By years end, Subaru and its retailers will have donated over $285 million to charity.
0:12.2	Visit Subaru.com.
0:14.0	Share.
0:15.0	We've mentioned a lot of numbers over the past few episodes.
0:20.0	27,000 interviews. We've mentioned a lot of numbers over the past few episodes.
0:24.0	27,000 interviews on the mobile tour, 17,000 interviews in just one day when we released
0:29.0	the app, but StoryCord doesn't just care about numbers.
0:32.8	Because who records interviews is just as important as how many we collect.
0:37.4	If we're building an archive of American Voices,
0:39.8	we need to make sure that the archive reflects who actually lives here in the U.S.
0:44.4	So while StoryCorps is open to anyone who wants to do an interview, we've worked hard to make
0:48.9	sure that stories and voices that don't often get included in the historical record are captured in the Story Corps
0:54.9	archive.
0:55.9	We call these efforts initiatives.
0:58.1	You've heard about one already, Story Corps Grio.
1:01.0	There's been quite a lot, like Istorias or military voices our 9-11 initiative. We did
1:06.5	one for people with memory loss and another inviting immigrants to record. But on
1:10.9	this episode we're going to focus on just one of the many that we've done.
1:14.8	Our collection of LGBTQ voices called StoryCorps Out Loud.
1:19.6	To be in the service from my country is the greatest thing I thought I did but I was kicked out for being
1:28.0	homosexual.
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