The Stonewall Uprising
You're Wrong About
Sarah Marshall
4.6 • 23K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2019
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
“Humans aren’t good at remembering what got us where we are.” Mike tells Sarah how a turning point in the gay rights movement became an immediate controversy, a lasting inspiration and a never-ending debate. Digressions include “Newsies” (of course), “True Romance” and “Norma Rae.” Mike's creaking chair and Sarah's rustling blanket-fort are heard throughout.
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| 0:00.0 | Also the fact that people are whipping pennies that people suggest to me that there are more |
| 0:04.7 | Philadelphiaians in this crowd. |
| 0:15.7 | Welcome to your wrong about the show. Oh my god, I have nothing. I thought something would come to me, |
| 0:20.0 | but it's just not there. Oh, I know I remember it. Okay. Welcome to your wrong about the show where |
| 0:26.7 | we celebrate pride without corporate sponsorship. Oh, that's pretty good actually. No absolute |
| 0:33.9 | vibe cats in this show. I am Michael Hobbs. I'm a reporter for The Huffington Post. I'm Sarah |
| 0:40.5 | Marshall. I'm working on a book about the Satanic Panic. And if you want to support the show, |
| 0:44.2 | we're on Patreon at patreon.com slash you're wrong about. And if you prefer to send us good vibes, |
| 0:49.2 | we accept those also. Oh yes. And today we're talking about Stonewall. Which we're both pretty |
| 0:54.1 | anxious about. So anxious. Oh my god. I'll tell me about your anxiety. Oh, little buddy. This, I mean, |
| 1:00.3 | this is a part of my own history in this weird inco-8 sense. It's a history that people feel a huge |
| 1:06.8 | sense of ownership over. And there's a way in which everything in gay history, all of the debates |
| 1:13.6 | in the gay rights movement for 50 years have been shoved into this one event in June of 1969. And so |
| 1:22.1 | a lot of the debates over Stonewall are much larger debates about the direction of the gay rights |
| 1:28.0 | movement, the legacy of the gay rights movement. I might have gone a little bit overboard for this |
| 1:32.6 | episode. I've read two books. I interviewed four historians. I talked to someone who was there. |
| 1:39.2 | I have like really, really, really tried to get this one right. You put more effort into doing |
| 1:45.8 | an episode of this show than some people do when they write entire books. You've read the I read |
| 1:51.2 | two books books. I know I have. One of them runs Sociology. I also know because the history is so |
| 1:59.4 | contested that like there will be many people who will listen to this episode and there is a detail |
| 2:06.0 | of the night of Stonewall that is really important to them. And I'm not going to include it. |
| 2:11.6 | Just because like there's so many details, there's so many sources, the details of the event change |
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