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- SET A PURPOSE JOURNALISTS NEED TO ASK THEMSELV WHAT THEY ARE TRYG TO ACPLISH THROUGH THEIR VERAGE OF PRI EVENTS, REGNIZG THAT THEIR GOAL WILL LIKELY PEND ON THEIR LOTN. “IN SOME PLAC, MIGHT BE TO DOCUMENT A CELEBRATN WH CIZENS OUR MUNY,” SAID KELLY MCBRI, THE CHAIR OF THE CRAIG NEWMARK CENTER FOR ETHICS AND LEARSHIP AT POYNTER, WHICH IS BASED ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA. “THAT WOULD BE A PERFECTLY LEGIMATE REASON. BUT WE’RE HERE FLORIDA, AND I WOULD SAY THAT YOU PROBABLY WANT TO BE A LTLE MORE AMB THAN THAT.” MCBRI POTED TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AS AN EXAMPLE. JT AS THE 1960S, SHE SAID, ’S IMPORTANT THAT JOURNALISTS AVOID PRENTG “BOTH SIS” A FALSE EQUIVALENCY. “THERE ARE MOMENTS WHERE PEOPLE ARE ASSERTG THEIR EQUALY AT THE SAME MOMENT THAT THE STATE IS ASSERTG THEIR EQUALY, AND THAT LOOKS VERY DIFFERENT,” SHE SAID. “AND SO REGNIZE THAT WE’RE A MOMENT TIME RIGHT NOW WHERE THERE’S A HUGE GAP BETWEEN WHAT MEANS TO EXIST WH DIGNY AND A FULL TACT SET OF HUMAN RIGHTS.” DR. GREEN-CALISCH ECHOED THIS POT. “JT BEE SOMETHG HAS BEEN POLICIZED DO NOT MAKE POLIL,” HE SAID. “I THK ’S A VERY, VERY IMPORTANT NOTE TO SAY THAT WE’RE TALKG ABOUT PEOPLE’S EXISTENCE RIGHT NOW.” MCBRI SAID JOURNALISTS SHOULD TE REARS AND VIEWERS ON THE SPECIFICS OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ LAWS. MANY OF THE NEW BILLS ARE BASED ON TEMPLAT WRTEN BY NATNAL NSERVATIVE GROUPS, WHICH ARE DISSEMATED TO LOL LAWMAKERS TO ADAPT TO THEIR STATE AND THEN BACKED WH MULTI-LN DOLLAR FUNDG MPAIGNS. “THIS IS A REALLY GOOD TIME TO PRS THE ABSURDY OF THOSE LAWS AND TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNY TO DO SOME EXPLANATORY JOURNALISM ABOUT HOW THOSE LAWS ARE EVEN GOG TO WORK AND WHO N BE PROSECUTED BEE THEY’RE DIFFERENT DIFFERENT STAT,” MCBRI SAID. “YOU DON’T HAVE TO PUT YOUR OWN VIEWPOT , BUT YOU FELY SHOULDN’T SHY AWAY OM LEANG TO THE NTROVERSY A WAY THAT T THE PUBLIC WHOUT FLAMG THE SUATN.” IF A JOURNALIST CHOOS TO MENTN PROTTERS AGAST PRI EVENTS, ’S IMPORTANT TO PUT THEM PROPER NTEXT GIVEN RELATIVE SIZE, RATHER THAN PRENTG “BOTH SIS” AS EQUAL PARTICIPANTS. IF THERE ARE 100,000 PEOPLE AT A PRI PARA AND 50 PROTTERS, REPORTERS SHOULD REGNIZE THAT REPRENTS .05% OF THE CROWD AND TAILOR THEIR REPORTG ACRDGLY. “YOU DON’T WANT TO CREATE A FALSE EQUIVALENCY YOUR VERAGE OF PROTTERS,” MCBRI SAID. PROVI HISTORY AND NTEXT JOURNALISTS HAVE A RPONSIBILY TO UNRSTAND THE HISTORY OF THE EVENT THEY ARE VERG. THE FIRST “PRI” WAS A RT. ON JUNE 28, 1969, A GROUP OF QUEER PATRONS AT THE STONEWALL INN ON CHRISTOPHER STREET NEW YORK CY CID ENOUGH WAS ENOUGH. LED PRIMARILY BY BLACK AND BROWN TRANS WOMEN, THE QUEER PEOPLE FOUGHT BACK AGAST POLICE MISTREATMENT A STREET RT THAT LASTED DAYS. THIRTEEN PEOPLE WERE ARRTED. EVERY YEAR AFTERWARD, LGBTQ+ PEOPLE AND THEIR ALLI MARCHED PEACEFULLY ALONG CHRISTOPHER STREET SUPPORT OF GREATER RIGHTS FOR QUEER PEOPLE WHAT HAS BEE KNOWN AS A PRI PARA. “IT WAS AN ACT OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE,” SAID DR. GREEN-CALISCH. IT’S IMPORTANT THAT JOURNALISTS KNOW THAT PRI TODAY IS NOT “JT WAVG FLAGS AND SG,” BUT A CELEBRATN OF THE “FIGHT TO HAVE THE RIGHTS THAT WE DO TODAY.” THIS YEAR, PRI IS LIKELY TO TAKE ON MORE ASPECTS OF PROTT THAN SIMPLE CELEBRATN. “THERE HAS BEEN CREASGLY A TRANSN TO REALLY EMBODYG WHAT PRI WAS ORIGALLY TEND TO BE, WHICH IS A PROTT,” SAID MAX FENNG, PRINT OF PRISM, A SOUTH FLORIDA NONPROF FOCED ON LGBTQ+ YOUTH. “SO THAT’S A BIG PART OF ; WE SHOW UP TO THE MORE FIERY THAN WE DID THE PAST.” IT’S ALSO IMPERATIVE THAT JOURNALISTS BE AS SPECIFIC AS POSSIBLE THEIR LANGUAGE WHEN REPORTG ON PRI EVENTS AND ANTI-LGBTQ+ LAWS. MANY PROPOSED LAWS TARGET DRAG PERFORMERS, CLUDG LAWS THAT BAN THEIR PERFORMANC PUBLIC PLAC OR AT EVENTS WH CHILDREN; TRANSGENR PEOPLE, SUCH AS LAWS THAT BAN GENR-AFFIRMG RE FOR MORS; AND LGBTQ+ PEOPLE GENERALLY, SUCH AS LAWS THAT BAN TORS OM TEACHG ABOUT THE GAY MUNY. WHEN VERG THE LAWS, JOURNALISTS NEED TO BE REFUL NOT TO NFLATE DIFFERENT THGS, FOR EXAMPLE, NOT ALL TRANS PEOPLE ARE DRAG PERFORMERS AND NOT ALL DRAG ARTISTS INTIFY AS TRANSGENR. “THE KEY DIFFERENCE IS THAT TRANSGENR IS AN INTY AND AN NATE QUALY OF A PERSON, WHEREAS DRAG IS AN ART FORM,” FENNG SAID. “SO BEG TRANSGENR MEANS THAT YOU DO NOT INTIFY WH THE SEX THAT YOU WERE ASSIGNED AT BIRTH, THE ONE THAT WAS PUT ON YOUR BIRTH CERTIFITE. IT IS A STATE OF BEG … WHEREAS DRAG IS AN ART FORM, AND FOR SOME A PROFSN, A TYPE OF DRS THAT SENTIALLY TURNS GENR EXPRSN TO PERFORMANCE OR TO ART.” THE DISTCTN IS IMPORTANT PART BEE MANY LGBTQ+ LAWS ARE WRTEN TO BE TENTNALLY VAGUE. “THE PURPOSE OF THAT IS SO THAT (THE LAWS) N BE OVERTERPRETED AND OVERENFORCED AND OVERIMPLEMENTED. AND SO ’S IMPORTANT FOR JOURNALISTS TO BE VERY, VERY CLEAR AND VERY, VERY PRECISE TERMS OF WHAT THE PIEC OF LEGISLATN DO AND DO AND DO NOT,” FENNG SAID. FOR EXAMPLE, S.B. 1438 TECHNILLY BANS THE “LEWD EXPOSURE OF PROSTHETIC OR IMATN GENALS OR BREASTS,” WHICH IS NOT SIMPLY A “DRAG BAN.” “IT’S ACTUALLY ANTI-TRANS,” DR. GREEN-CALISCH SAID. “THE REALY … IS THAT THERE ARE TRANS PEOPLE THAT LIVE AND EXIST WAYS THAT ARE NGENT WH THE LANGUAGE OF THIS BILL, WHICH IS WHY WE’VE BEEN RAISG AS MANY NCERNS AS POSSIBLE BEE NOW YOU HAVE PEOPLE THAT MAY WALK TO A LIBRARY AND ULD POSSIBLY BE ARRTED FOR EXISTG.” LIMG PUBLIC UNRSTANDG OF THE BILL TO BANNG ALL DRAG DO A EP DISSERVICE TO THE LGBTQ+ MUNY — AND IS ACCURATE REPORTG. BY LLG S.B. 1438 A DRAG BAN, “WE’RE SENTIALLY GIVG THE NSERVATIVE POLICIANS WHO HAVE TO DANCE AROUND WHEN WRG , WE’RE SORT OF GIVG THEM WHAT THEY WANT,” FENNG SAID. ED PHOTOGRAPHY WH AN EYE TOWARD ACCURATE REPRENTATN PHOTOJOURNALISTS SHOULD BE THOUGHTFUL ABOUT THE PHOTOS AND VIOS THEY CHOOSE TO REPRENT A PRI EVENT. THEY SHOULD RIST CHOOSG THE MOST SALAC OUTFS TO GET THE “BT PICTURE,” AND STEAD MAKE CHOIC THAT ACCURATELY REPRENT THE DIVERSY OF THE CROWD GATHERED. MCBRI POTED OUT THE DISPROPORTNATE NUMBER OF PHOTOGRAPHS PUBLISHED OM PRI PARAS THAT SHOW, FOR EXAMPLE, MEN LEATHER HARNS OR CHAPS. “I GET THAT THOSE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE SOMETIM THE MOST TERTG … (BUT) THEY ARE NOT NECSARILY REPRENTATIVE OF THE MUNY,” SHE SAID. “GO BACK TO: WHAT’S YOUR PURPOSE? ARE YOU TRYG TO MAKE THE GAY MUNY LOOK AS WEIRD AS POSSIBLE? ESPECIALLY FLORIDA, RIGHT? I FEEL LIKE ’S MOSTLY MOMS AND THEIR KIDS, BUT YOU DON’T OFTEN SEE THAT THE PHOTOGRAPHS.” SOME PRI ANIZERS FLORIDA SAY THEY’RE NERVO THAT UNREPRENTATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY AT THEIR EVENTS ULD LEAD TO CRIMAL CHARG UNR S.B. 1438. JEFEY STERLG, CEO OF STONEWALL PRI INC. AND ANIZER OF WILTON MANORS STONEWALL PARA & STREET FTIVAL, CHOSE TO DRASTILLY CHANGE THE EVENT STAFF AND PERFORMERS’ DRS AND NDUCT S SO THAT CHILDREN ULD ATTEND WHOUT ANY POTENTIAL F OR JAIL TIME AGAST ANIZERS OR PARENTS. “NO BUTTOCKS, NO GENALS VISIBLE FOR FEMAL OR FEMALE-PRENTG PEOPLE WEARG PROSTHETIC OR FAKE BOOBS,” HE SAID. “THERE’LL BE NO VULGARY, NO SEXUALIZED LANGUAGE, NO TOUCHG YOURSELF A SEXUAL WAY. NO TOUCHG OTHERS A SEXUAL WAY. NO DANCG A SEXUALIZED WAY. SO IF YOU’RE AN EARLY MADONNA, THAT A’T GOG TO FLY. LATER MADONNA, WHERE SHE GOT OLR, IS MORE LIKE WHAT WE’RE TALKG ABOUT.” STERLG IS WORRIED ABOUT PRS PHOTOGRAPHERS FOCG ON ANY ACTN THEY SEE, RATHER THAN THE OVERALL FAY-IENDLY ENVIRONMENT. “EVERYTHG REPORTED THE PRS IS FODR TO FEED THE NNON OF (GOV. RON) DESANTIS. SO I JT ASKED THEM TO BE FAIR ON THAT,” HE SAID. “IF OUT OF 50,000 PEOPLE, THERE’S ONE SET OF BREASTS OUT, ACTUALLY, THAT’S PRETTY GOOD.” JOURNALISTS SHOULD ALSO ASK PERMISSN, PECIALLY OF PARENTS OF MORS, BEFORE PHOTOGRAPHG ANY CLOSE-UP OR INTIFIABLE IMAG. “OBVLY NSENT IS THE KEY WORD,” FENNG SAID. HAVE A PLAN FOR VLENCE IT’S IMPORTANT NEWSROOMS AND JOURNALISTS HAVE VERAGE PLANS FOR VLENCE AT PRI EVENTS. VLENCE IS NOT A FAR-FETCHED POSSIBILY. IN MARCH, POLICE ORLANDO SAID A TRAFFIC SIGN WAS TAMPERED WH TO READ “KILL ALL GAYS.” WHE NATNALIST ANIZATN THE PROUD BOYS HAVE ALREADY PUBLICIZED THEIR TENT TO VLENTLY DISPT PRI EVENTS, ACRDG TO MULTIPLE WATCHDOG ANIZATNS. DRAG EVENTS, PECIALLY THOSE FOR CHILDREN, HAVE BEEN THE TARGET OF HUNDREDS OF THREATS, TIMIDATN TACTICS AND ARMED PROTTERS. “CERTALY THERE’S AN CREASED CHANCE OF VLENCE AT ALL OF THE EVENTS THIS YEAR,” MCBRI SAID. “THE RHETORIC HAS BEEN SO HEATED AND PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SO EMBOLNED THAT I THK EVERYBODY NEEDS A NTGENCY PLAN FOR VERG SOME SORT OF OUTBREAK.” PRI ANIZERS AND PARTICIPANTS ARE WELL AWARE OF THE THREAT. “THERE IS A HEIGHTENED UNEASS” THIS YEAR, SAID FENNG, WHOSE ANIZATN PRISM WILL BE TABLG AT PRI EVENTS FLORIDA, WHERE A LAW JT PASSED ALLOWG PEOPLE TO RRY A NCEALED HANDGUN WHOUT A PERM. “THAT IS A MAJOR NCERN FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE AT PRI.” HE ANTICIPAT A SOMEWHAT BTERSWEET UNRTONE TO MANY PRI CELEBRATNS. LET QUEER JOURNALISTS LEAD DURG PRI
- JOURNALIST GRANT WAHL, WHO WAS DETAED FOR WEARG GAY PRI SHIRT AT THE WORLD CUP, DEAD AT 48
- EIGHT QUEER PODSTS TO LISTEN TO DURG PRI MONTH AND BEYONDFROM THE RADIL ROOTS OF PRI TO STORI OF TRANS PEOPLE THE WILD WT, THE SHOWS N EXPAND LISTENERS’ KNOWLEDGE OF QUEER HISTORY THE UNED STAT.BY JTE GOOJUNE 24, 2020ILLTRATN BY ALICIA TATONE.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEPRI LOOKS DIFFERENT THIS YEAR. WH BLACK LIV MATTER PROTTS PROLIFERATG ACROSS THE NATN THE MONTH OF JUNE, THE UAL CELEBRATORY ATMOSPHERE OF PRI MONTH—WHICH RECENT YEARS, HAS FEATURED CREASGLY RPORATE EVENTS—HAS SHIFTED TO SHOW SOLIDARY WH THE CURRENT CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AGAST SYSTEMIC RACISM.BUT PRI AND AND BLACK LIV MATTER ARE FAR OM MUTUALLY EXCLIVE; FACT, GAY LIBERATN AND BLACK LIBERATN ARE HISTORILLY TERWED, WH BLACK TRANS ACTIVISTS RTG AT THE CENTER OF BOTH MOVEMENTS. AND AS MANY AMERINS ARE SEEKG TO EPEN THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF BLACK HISTORY, SO TOO SHOULD THEY SEEK TO UNRSTAND THE HISTORY OF QUEER PEOPLE AMERI AND BEYOND, WHICH HAS BEEN SIARLY ELID OM OUR TEXTBOOKS.THE PODSTS ARTFULLY LK THE PAST TO THE PRENT, REVEAL HIDN HISTORI, OFFER A SENSE OF REPRENTATN AND MUNY, AND HONOR THE ORIGS OF PRI SELF—WHICH WAS, AFTER ALL, A RT.NANCYHOSTED BY KATHY TU AND TOB LOW, NANCY HAS BEEN HIGHLY ACCLAIMED SCE S LNCH 2017, NOT LEAST BEE S HOSTS’ INTI AND PERSONAL JOURNEYS HAVE BEEN WOVEN TO THE SHOW’S DNA OM THE JUMP. IN NANCY’S FIRST EPISO, TU AND LOW BOTH TERVIEWED THEIR MOTHERS—WHO GREW UP TAIWAN AND CHA, RPECTIVELY—ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENC G OUT, TO VERY DIFFERENT RULTS. SCE THAT SEMAL EPISO, NANCY HAS PROVID A PLATFORM WHERE VAR LGBTQIA+ EXPERIENC N BE UNPACKED, SHARED, AND CELEBRATED. FEATURG A MIX OF CELEBRY TERVIEWS, QUEER HISTORY, POP-CULTURE ANALYIS, AND ANK NVERSATNS ABOUT THE STGGL QUEER PEOPLE AMERI NTUE TO FACE, ’S AN IMPRSIVELY WELL-ROUND SHOW, AND ONE OF WNYC’S CROWN JEWELS.LISTEN: “BLACK TRANS LIV MATTER,” A NVERSATN WH AWARD-WNG JOURNALIST IMARA JON ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF CLUDG BLACK TRANS PEOPLE THE BLACK LIV MATTER MOVEMENT, AND THE RADIL ROOTS OF PRI.SUPPORT NANCYGENR REVEALRELEASED EVERY MONDAY, GENR REVEAL AMPLIFI THE STORI OF TRANS AND NONBARY FOLKS. STILL NOT QUE SURE WHAT “NONBARY” MEANS? THAT’S OKAY—GENR REVEAL ALSO PRIS SELF BEG A EE ROURCE FOR THOSE SEEKG TO TE THEMSELV ABOUT GENR. ITS PILOT EPISO, “GENR 101,” EXPLAS TERMOLOGY LIKE “CISGENR,” “TERF,” “GENRQUEER,” AND MORE (LISTENERS N THEN GRADUATE TO “GENR 102,” “GENR 103,” “GENR 201,” “GENR 202,” “GENR 301,” “GENR 401,” “GENR 402,” “GENR 501,” AND “GENR 502”). HOST TUCK WOODSTOCK, WHOSE FECT LGH PUNCTUAT EACH TERVIEW, HAS FEATURED MORE THAN 60 GUTS OVER THE URSE OF FIVE SEASONS, MAKG THIS THE PERFECT PLACE TO GET ACQUATED WH QUEER AND NONBARY PEOPLE WHO ARE TRANSFORMG THEIR MUNI AND THE WORLD.LISTEN: “DOMIQUE, RIAH, LAYLEEN, AND ALYSSA PARIAH,” A NVERSATN WH ACTIVIST ALYSSA PARIAH ABOUT BLM, BLACK TRANS LIBERATN, AND HOW BAIL FUNDS N SAVE BLACK TRANS LIV.SUPPORT GENR REVEALMAKG GAY HISTORYOVER THE URSE OF SEVEN SEASONS, MAKG GAY HISTORY HAS REVEALED THE HIDN HISTORY OF THE LGBTQIA+ CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT THROUGH THE VOIC OF S MOST PROMENT LEARS. FEATURG ARCHIVAL TERVIEWS WH GAY-RIGHTS ACTIVISTS CLUDG SYLVIA RIVERA, MARSHA P. JOHNSON, BARBARA GTGS AND KAY LAHEN, AND BAYARD RT, MAKG GAY HISTORY’S UNPARALLELED ACCS TO PRIMARY SOURC MAKE THIS SHOW A PARTICULARLY POWERFUL LISTEN. HOST ERIC MARC NDUCTED THE TERVIEWS HIMSELF OVER S, AND THE RULT IS A WI-RANGG ORAL HISTORY PROJECT THAT FEELS BOTH TIMATE AND IMMEDIATE.LISTEN: “STONEWALL 50: EPISO 2: EVERYTHG CLICKED… AND THE RT WAS ON,” A FIRST-PERSON ACUNT OF THE 1969 STONEWALL UPRISG AS TOLD BY MARSHA P. JOHNSON AND OTHER QUEER ACTIVISTS WHO WERE AT THE RT.MOST POPULAROUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW MK, THIEL, ZUCKERBERG, AND ANDRESEN—FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS—ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE, AUTOCRATIC REALYBY JONATHAN TAPLSUPPORT MAKG GAY HISTORYAOQUEER PODSTHOSTED BY SELLY THIAM, A JOURNALIST, ORAL HISTORIAN, AND PRODUCER, AOQUEER CELEBRAT THE LOVE STORI OF QUEER AINS, FEATURG THE EXPERIENC OF PEOPLE OM BOTH THE AIN NTENT AND THE DIASPORA. THE BETIFULLY PRODUCED EPISOS EXPLORE TOPICS CLUDG AIN G-OUT STORI, THE DISAPPEARANCE OF A QUEER SOMALI WOMAN MNEAPOLIS, THE STORY OF A UGANDAN MAN WHO PLANNED TO HOST FIRST GAY PRI EVENT AT A REFUGEE MP, AND THE PLITED DYNAMICS OF G GRDR AI, WHERE SOME UNTRI STILL CRIMALIZE HOMOSEXUALY. THROUGH A MIX OF LIVE STORYTELLG, TERVIEWS, AND VTIGATIVE REPORTG, THE PERSONAL NARRATIV THAT THIAM UNVERS ARE PROFOUNDLY MOVG, AND WILL UNDOUBTEDLY EXPAND LISTENERS’ UNRSTANDG OF THE LIVED EXPERIENC OF QUEER BLACK PEOPLE ACROSS THE GLOBE.LISTEN: “HOW ARE YOU DOG?,” WHICH EXAM HOW THE PANMIC HAS BEEN AFFECTG QUEER AIN MUNI ALL OVER THE WORLD, OM UGANDA TO SWEN TO WT AI TO BOSTON.SUPPORT AOQUEER (NONE ON RERD)QUEER AMERIQUEER AMERI SEEKS TO TE LISTENERS ON THE LGBTQIA+ HISTORY THAT WAS NOT TGHT CLASSROOMS, WH EPISOS THAT ARE SPECIFILLY SIGNED FOR STUNTS AND TEACHERS WHO WANT TO TEGRATE QUEER HISTORY TO THEIR STANDARD CURRICULUM. THIS MEANS THAT EPISOS ALTERNATE BETWEEN THOUGHTFUL HISTORIL ANALYSIS (CLUDG DISCSNS OF THE LAVENR SRE, “ROMANTIC IENDSHIPS” BETWEEN LBIANS THROUGHOUT HISTORY, HOW WW II IMPACTED GAY AND LBIAN MUNI, AND THE AIDS EPIMIC), AND PRACTIL GUIS TO RPORATG QUEER HISTORY TO CLASSROOMS. A SPECIAL SERI OM TEACHG TOLERANCE, A PROJECT OF THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER, EACH EPISO PAGE OF QUEER HISTORY CLUS A THOROUGH ROURCE AND READG LIST TO HELP LISTENERS FURTHER TE THEMSELV. HOSTED BY LEILA RUPP AND JOHN D’E, QUEER AMERI IS AS PELLG AS IS PREHENSIVE.LISTEN: “THE EXPERIENCE OF TRANS PEOPLE,” A NVERSATN WH HISTORIAN AND WRER GENNY BEEMYN ABOUT THE HISTORY OF TRANS AND GENR NONNFORMG FIGUR, OM THE WILD WT TO THE MORN DAY.SUPPORT QUEER HISTORY (SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER)QUEERWOC: THE PODSTQUEERWOC IS AN ONLE MUNY CREATED SPECIFILLY FOR “PEOPLE WH FEME ENERGI, MARGALIZED GENRS, SEXUALTI, AND RAC” TO MEET AND SOCIALIZE. ITS ACPANYG PODST (“AN SURGENT PODST FOR QUEER WOMEN OF LOR”) IS HOSTED BY FOUNRS NIKEETA, AN ANIZER AND ACTIVIST, AND MONEY, A MENTAL HEALTH UNSELOR AND DOCTORAL NDIDATE, WHOSE NATURAL BANTER F EVEN THE MOST DIFFICULT TOPICS WH A SENSE OF LEVY AND MARARIE. TOGETHER, NIKEETA AND MONEY HOLD SPACE FOR NVERSATNS AROUND FATPHOBIA THE LBIAN MUNY, WHY PEOPLE GET TRIGGERED, COVID-19 AND THE REVOLUTN, AND HOW AUDRE LOR’S WRG N HELP FACILATE HEALG. THEY ALSO FEATURE SEGMENTS CLUDG “MENTAL MOMENT,” WHICH ENURAG TROSPECTN AND OFFERS TOOLS FOR SELF-PRERVATN, AND “LEFTIST LBIAN LUMARY LABOR LECTURE,” WHICH T LISTENERS ON THE LGO OF THE SOCIAL-JTICE MOVEMENT.MOST POPULAROUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW MK, THIEL, ZUCKERBERG, AND ANDRESEN—FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS—ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE, AUTOCRATIC REALYBY JONATHAN TAPLLISTEN: “YA GAY AUNTI ‘DIGG’ FOR GEMS’ FT. QUEERWOC,” A WI-RANGG NVERSATN WH HANIFAH WALIDAH AND RED SUMMER OF THE PODST YA GAY AUNTI ABOUT RECENT PROTTS, THE “BLACK YEEHAW AGENDA,” BLACK ROLLER-SKATG CULTURE, AND MORE. AND AS NIKEETA NOT AT THE TOP OF THIS EPISO, QUEERWOC DON’T NEED A FEATURE PUBLITNS LIKE THE NEW YORK TIM OR, SAY, VANY FAIR, TO VALIDATE THE WORK THEY’RE DOG—BUT THEY WELE ALL NEWFOUND LISTENERS WILLG TO EMBRACE THEIR MSAGE.SUPPORT QUEERWOC: THE PODSTOUTWARDA MONTHLY “SALON” HOSTED BY RUMAAN ALAM, J. BRYAN LOWR, AND CHRISTA CTECCI, OUTWARD DIV EP TO QUEER CULTURE, CURRENT EVENTS, AND LGBTQIA+ HISTORY. THROUGH TERVIEWS WH ACTIVISTS, JOURNALISTS, AND THORS, THE HOSTS LVE TO THE PLEXI OF TOPICS CLUDG RADIL MOVEMENTS, CHOSEN FAY, TRAVELG AS A GAY PERSON, AND QUEER SEX. LISTENG TO OUTWARD EPISOS OFTEN FEELS LIKE STG AT A DNER PARTY WH A BUNCH OF FASCATG, OPNATED PEOPLE—LISTENERS WILL BE PELLED TO LEAN FORWARD AND SOAK UP EVERY WORD OF THE THOUGHT-PROVOKG, ROUNDTABLE-STYLE NVERSATNS.LISTEN: “COVID-19, AIDS, AND COMMUNY,” WHICH THE HOSTS DRAW PARISONS BETWEEN THE COVID-19 PANMIC AND THE AIDS EPIMIC WH ALPHONSO DAVID, PRINT OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— AUTHOR UZODMA IWEALA ON WHE SIGNS AT BLACK PROTTS— “GEE FLOYD WAS KILLED MY NEIGHBORHOOD”— 15 YEARS AFTER KATRA, A SEND STORM—CORONAVIS—HS NEW ORLEANS— HOW MEGHAN MARKLE DECID TO FALLY SPEAK OUT ABOUT GEE FLOYD— NIKKA OLIVER ON SEATTLE’S EXTRAORDARY PROTTS AND WHAT COM NEXT— WHERE J.K. ROWLG’S TRANSPHOBIA COM FROM— FROM THE ARCHIVE: THE ORIG OF “STRANGE F,” BILLIE HOLIDAY’S BALLAD AGAST RACISMLOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.JTE GOO
- DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
SET A PURPOSE JOURNALISTS NEED TO ASK THEMSELV WHAT THEY ARE TRYG TO ACPLISH THROUGH THEIR VERAGE OF PRI EVENTS, REGNIZG THAT THEIR GOAL WILL LIKELY PEND ON THEIR LOTN. “IN SOME PLAC, MIGHT BE TO DOCUMENT A CELEBRATN WH CIZENS OUR MUNY,” SAID KELLY MCBRI, THE CHAIR OF THE CRAIG NEWMARK CENTER FOR ETHICS AND LEARSHIP AT POYNTER, WHICH IS BASED ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA. “THAT WOULD BE A PERFECTLY LEGIMATE REASON. BUT WE’RE HERE FLORIDA, AND I WOULD SAY THAT YOU PROBABLY WANT TO BE A LTLE MORE AMB THAN THAT.” MCBRI POTED TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AS AN EXAMPLE. JT AS THE 1960S, SHE SAID, ’S IMPORTANT THAT JOURNALISTS AVOID PRENTG “BOTH SIS” A FALSE EQUIVALENCY. “THERE ARE MOMENTS WHERE PEOPLE ARE ASSERTG THEIR EQUALY AT THE SAME MOMENT THAT THE STATE IS ASSERTG THEIR EQUALY, AND THAT LOOKS VERY DIFFERENT,” SHE SAID. “AND SO REGNIZE THAT WE’RE A MOMENT TIME RIGHT NOW WHERE THERE’S A HUGE GAP BETWEEN WHAT MEANS TO EXIST WH DIGNY AND A FULL TACT SET OF HUMAN RIGHTS.” DR. GREEN-CALISCH ECHOED THIS POT. “JT BEE SOMETHG HAS BEEN POLICIZED DO NOT MAKE POLIL,” HE SAID. “I THK ’S A VERY, VERY IMPORTANT NOTE TO SAY THAT WE’RE TALKG ABOUT PEOPLE’S EXISTENCE RIGHT NOW.” MCBRI SAID JOURNALISTS SHOULD TE REARS AND VIEWERS ON THE SPECIFICS OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ LAWS. MANY OF THE NEW BILLS ARE BASED ON TEMPLAT WRTEN BY NATNAL NSERVATIVE GROUPS, WHICH ARE DISSEMATED TO LOL LAWMAKERS TO ADAPT TO THEIR STATE AND THEN BACKED WH MULTI-LN DOLLAR FUNDG MPAIGNS. “THIS IS A REALLY GOOD TIME TO PRS THE ABSURDY OF THOSE LAWS AND TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNY TO DO SOME EXPLANATORY JOURNALISM ABOUT HOW THOSE LAWS ARE EVEN GOG TO WORK AND WHO N BE PROSECUTED BEE THEY’RE DIFFERENT DIFFERENT STAT,” MCBRI SAID. “YOU DON’T HAVE TO PUT YOUR OWN VIEWPOT , BUT YOU FELY SHOULDN’T SHY AWAY OM LEANG TO THE NTROVERSY A WAY THAT T THE PUBLIC WHOUT FLAMG THE SUATN.” IF A JOURNALIST CHOOS TO MENTN PROTTERS AGAST PRI EVENTS, ’S IMPORTANT TO PUT THEM PROPER NTEXT GIVEN RELATIVE SIZE, RATHER THAN PRENTG “BOTH SIS” AS EQUAL PARTICIPANTS. IF THERE ARE 100,000 PEOPLE AT A PRI PARA AND 50 PROTTERS, REPORTERS SHOULD REGNIZE THAT REPRENTS .05% OF THE CROWD AND TAILOR THEIR REPORTG ACRDGLY. “YOU DON’T WANT TO CREATE A FALSE EQUIVALENCY YOUR VERAGE OF PROTTERS,” MCBRI SAID. PROVI HISTORY AND NTEXT JOURNALISTS HAVE A RPONSIBILY TO UNRSTAND THE HISTORY OF THE EVENT THEY ARE VERG. THE FIRST “PRI” WAS A RT. ON JUNE 28, 1969, A GROUP OF QUEER PATRONS AT THE STONEWALL INN ON CHRISTOPHER STREET NEW YORK CY CID ENOUGH WAS ENOUGH. LED PRIMARILY BY BLACK AND BROWN TRANS WOMEN, THE QUEER PEOPLE FOUGHT BACK AGAST POLICE MISTREATMENT A STREET RT THAT LASTED DAYS. THIRTEEN PEOPLE WERE ARRTED. EVERY YEAR AFTERWARD, LGBTQ+ PEOPLE AND THEIR ALLI MARCHED PEACEFULLY ALONG CHRISTOPHER STREET SUPPORT OF GREATER RIGHTS FOR QUEER PEOPLE WHAT HAS BEE KNOWN AS A PRI PARA. “IT WAS AN ACT OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE,” SAID DR. GREEN-CALISCH. IT’S IMPORTANT THAT JOURNALISTS KNOW THAT PRI TODAY IS NOT “JT WAVG FLAGS AND SG,” BUT A CELEBRATN OF THE “FIGHT TO HAVE THE RIGHTS THAT WE DO TODAY.” THIS YEAR, PRI IS LIKELY TO TAKE ON MORE ASPECTS OF PROTT THAN SIMPLE CELEBRATN. “THERE HAS BEEN CREASGLY A TRANSN TO REALLY EMBODYG WHAT PRI WAS ORIGALLY TEND TO BE, WHICH IS A PROTT,” SAID MAX FENNG, PRINT OF PRISM, A SOUTH FLORIDA NONPROF FOCED ON LGBTQ+ YOUTH. “SO THAT’S A BIG PART OF ; WE SHOW UP TO THE MORE FIERY THAN WE DID THE PAST.” IT’S ALSO IMPERATIVE THAT JOURNALISTS BE AS SPECIFIC AS POSSIBLE THEIR LANGUAGE WHEN REPORTG ON PRI EVENTS AND ANTI-LGBTQ+ LAWS. MANY PROPOSED LAWS TARGET DRAG PERFORMERS, CLUDG LAWS THAT BAN THEIR PERFORMANC PUBLIC PLAC OR AT EVENTS WH CHILDREN; TRANSGENR PEOPLE, SUCH AS LAWS THAT BAN GENR-AFFIRMG RE FOR MORS; AND LGBTQ+ PEOPLE GENERALLY, SUCH AS LAWS THAT BAN TORS OM TEACHG ABOUT THE GAY MUNY. WHEN VERG THE LAWS, JOURNALISTS NEED TO BE REFUL NOT TO NFLATE DIFFERENT THGS, FOR EXAMPLE, NOT ALL TRANS PEOPLE ARE DRAG PERFORMERS AND NOT ALL DRAG ARTISTS INTIFY AS TRANSGENR. “THE KEY DIFFERENCE IS THAT TRANSGENR IS AN INTY AND AN NATE QUALY OF A PERSON, WHEREAS DRAG IS AN ART FORM,” FENNG SAID. “SO BEG TRANSGENR MEANS THAT YOU DO NOT INTIFY WH THE SEX THAT YOU WERE ASSIGNED AT BIRTH, THE ONE THAT WAS PUT ON YOUR BIRTH CERTIFITE. IT IS A STATE OF BEG … WHEREAS DRAG IS AN ART FORM, AND FOR SOME A PROFSN, A TYPE OF DRS THAT SENTIALLY TURNS GENR EXPRSN TO PERFORMANCE OR TO ART.” THE DISTCTN IS IMPORTANT PART BEE MANY LGBTQ+ LAWS ARE WRTEN TO BE TENTNALLY VAGUE. “THE PURPOSE OF THAT IS SO THAT (THE LAWS) N BE OVERTERPRETED AND OVERENFORCED AND OVERIMPLEMENTED. AND SO ’S IMPORTANT FOR JOURNALISTS TO BE VERY, VERY CLEAR AND VERY, VERY PRECISE TERMS OF WHAT THE PIEC OF LEGISLATN DO AND DO AND DO NOT,” FENNG SAID. FOR EXAMPLE, S.B. 1438 TECHNILLY BANS THE “LEWD EXPOSURE OF PROSTHETIC OR IMATN GENALS OR BREASTS,” WHICH IS NOT SIMPLY A “DRAG BAN.” “IT’S ACTUALLY ANTI-TRANS,” DR. GREEN-CALISCH SAID. “THE REALY … IS THAT THERE ARE TRANS PEOPLE THAT LIVE AND EXIST WAYS THAT ARE NGENT WH THE LANGUAGE OF THIS BILL, WHICH IS WHY WE’VE BEEN RAISG AS MANY NCERNS AS POSSIBLE BEE NOW YOU HAVE PEOPLE THAT MAY WALK TO A LIBRARY AND ULD POSSIBLY BE ARRTED FOR EXISTG.” LIMG PUBLIC UNRSTANDG OF THE BILL TO BANNG ALL DRAG DO A EP DISSERVICE TO THE LGBTQ+ MUNY — AND IS ACCURATE REPORTG. BY LLG S.B. 1438 A DRAG BAN, “WE’RE SENTIALLY GIVG THE NSERVATIVE POLICIANS WHO HAVE TO DANCE AROUND WHEN WRG , WE’RE SORT OF GIVG THEM WHAT THEY WANT,” FENNG SAID. ED PHOTOGRAPHY WH AN EYE TOWARD ACCURATE REPRENTATN PHOTOJOURNALISTS SHOULD BE THOUGHTFUL ABOUT THE PHOTOS AND VIOS THEY CHOOSE TO REPRENT A PRI EVENT. THEY SHOULD RIST CHOOSG THE MOST SALAC OUTFS TO GET THE “BT PICTURE,” AND STEAD MAKE CHOIC THAT ACCURATELY REPRENT THE DIVERSY OF THE CROWD GATHERED. MCBRI POTED OUT THE DISPROPORTNATE NUMBER OF PHOTOGRAPHS PUBLISHED OM PRI PARAS THAT SHOW, FOR EXAMPLE, MEN LEATHER HARNS OR CHAPS. “I GET THAT THOSE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE SOMETIM THE MOST TERTG … (BUT) THEY ARE NOT NECSARILY REPRENTATIVE OF THE MUNY,” SHE SAID. “GO BACK TO: WHAT’S YOUR PURPOSE? ARE YOU TRYG TO MAKE THE GAY MUNY LOOK AS WEIRD AS POSSIBLE? ESPECIALLY FLORIDA, RIGHT? I FEEL LIKE ’S MOSTLY MOMS AND THEIR KIDS, BUT YOU DON’T OFTEN SEE THAT THE PHOTOGRAPHS.” SOME PRI ANIZERS FLORIDA SAY THEY’RE NERVO THAT UNREPRENTATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY AT THEIR EVENTS ULD LEAD TO CRIMAL CHARG UNR S.B. 1438. JEFEY STERLG, CEO OF STONEWALL PRI INC. AND ANIZER OF WILTON MANORS STONEWALL PARA & STREET FTIVAL, CHOSE TO DRASTILLY CHANGE THE EVENT STAFF AND PERFORMERS’ DRS AND NDUCT S SO THAT CHILDREN ULD ATTEND WHOUT ANY POTENTIAL F OR JAIL TIME AGAST ANIZERS OR PARENTS. “NO BUTTOCKS, NO GENALS VISIBLE FOR FEMAL OR FEMALE-PRENTG PEOPLE WEARG PROSTHETIC OR FAKE BOOBS,” HE SAID. “THERE’LL BE NO VULGARY, NO SEXUALIZED LANGUAGE, NO TOUCHG YOURSELF A SEXUAL WAY. NO TOUCHG OTHERS A SEXUAL WAY. NO DANCG A SEXUALIZED WAY. SO IF YOU’RE AN EARLY MADONNA, THAT A’T GOG TO FLY. LATER MADONNA, WHERE SHE GOT OLR, IS MORE LIKE WHAT WE’RE TALKG ABOUT.” STERLG IS WORRIED ABOUT PRS PHOTOGRAPHERS FOCG ON ANY ACTN THEY SEE, RATHER THAN THE OVERALL FAY-IENDLY ENVIRONMENT. “EVERYTHG REPORTED THE PRS IS FODR TO FEED THE NNON OF (GOV. RON) DESANTIS. SO I JT ASKED THEM TO BE FAIR ON THAT,” HE SAID. “IF OUT OF 50,000 PEOPLE, THERE’S ONE SET OF BREASTS OUT, ACTUALLY, THAT’S PRETTY GOOD.” JOURNALISTS SHOULD ALSO ASK PERMISSN, PECIALLY OF PARENTS OF MORS, BEFORE PHOTOGRAPHG ANY CLOSE-UP OR INTIFIABLE IMAG. “OBVLY NSENT IS THE KEY WORD,” FENNG SAID. HAVE A PLAN FOR VLENCE IT’S IMPORTANT NEWSROOMS AND JOURNALISTS HAVE VERAGE PLANS FOR VLENCE AT PRI EVENTS. VLENCE IS NOT A FAR-FETCHED POSSIBILY. IN MARCH, POLICE ORLANDO SAID A TRAFFIC SIGN WAS TAMPERED WH TO READ “KILL ALL GAYS.” WHE NATNALIST ANIZATN THE PROUD BOYS HAVE ALREADY PUBLICIZED THEIR TENT TO VLENTLY DISPT PRI EVENTS, ACRDG TO MULTIPLE WATCHDOG ANIZATNS. DRAG EVENTS, PECIALLY THOSE FOR CHILDREN, HAVE BEEN THE TARGET OF HUNDREDS OF THREATS, TIMIDATN TACTICS AND ARMED PROTTERS. “CERTALY THERE’S AN CREASED CHANCE OF VLENCE AT ALL OF THE EVENTS THIS YEAR,” MCBRI SAID. “THE RHETORIC HAS BEEN SO HEATED AND PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SO EMBOLNED THAT I THK EVERYBODY NEEDS A NTGENCY PLAN FOR VERG SOME SORT OF OUTBREAK.” PRI ANIZERS AND PARTICIPANTS ARE WELL AWARE OF THE THREAT. “THERE IS A HEIGHTENED UNEASS” THIS YEAR, SAID FENNG, WHOSE ANIZATN PRISM WILL BE TABLG AT PRI EVENTS FLORIDA, WHERE A LAW JT PASSED ALLOWG PEOPLE TO RRY A NCEALED HANDGUN WHOUT A PERM. “THAT IS A MAJOR NCERN FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE AT PRI.” HE ANTICIPAT A SOMEWHAT BTERSWEET UNRTONE TO MANY PRI CELEBRATNS. LET QUEER JOURNALISTS LEAD DURG PRI
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Virtual Journalist Vis Opportuni for LGBTQIA+ Pri Month. In celebratn of LGBTQIA+ Pri Month, we are featurg several journalists who have reported on relevant topics, and who would love to vis your classroom! Take a look at our featured gut speakers below, and click here to nnect your class wh a journalist. Journalist Gut Speakers for Pri Month Journalists n share stori about issu affectg LGBTQIA+ people around the world and stori of empowerment. Robert Tokanel and Yuhong Pang, two journalists and filmmakers who produced a short documentary featurg Tatenda Ngwa, an asylum seeker and tersex advote om Zimbabwe. Ngwa is also available to jo virtual viss. Daniella Zalcman, a photojournalist who reported on the LGBTQIA+ muny Uganda, queer activism, and Pri celebratns. Gopika Ajay and Annick Lrent, a reportg team whose documentary follows how two queer Asian women have supported the Asian Amerin muny amid the COVID-19 panmic and an creasg number of hate crim. Misha Friedman, a photographer who documented Sochi’s Gay Cabaret amid anti-queer legislatn, and Crimea’s LGBTQIA+ muny durg the Rsian ary annexatn of the regn 2014. Pablo Albarenga, a documentary photographer and visual storyteller whose reportg featured an Indigeno activist fightg agast LGBTQIA+ discrimatn her muny. Kallie Cox and Angel Chevrett, a reportg team whose project followed the journeys of trans and genr non-nformg dividuals who cross the U.S.-Mexi borr to seek asylum. Ana González and Frerick Bernas, journalists and filmmakers who produced the film “Flamen Queer,” which dancer Manuel Liñán rejects tradnal flamen norms and prepar for a flamen showse drag. Chloé Lula, a wrer and mician who is passnate about verg genr jtice, gay and lbian history, issu affectg queer rights, and women's health and policy. Lula reported on trans discrimatn and activism Geia. Bradley Secker, a eelance photojournalist based Istanbul who reported on the unique experienc of LGBTQIA+ refuge, asylum seekers and migrants when they arrive Europe. Aarti Sgh and Jake Nghton multimedia journalists who reported on LGBTQIA+ muni India. Kwasi Gyamfi Asi, a New York Cy-based journalist who reported on the impact of pendg anti-LGBTQIA+ legislatn Ghana. NOTE: Due to availabily, we nnot always guarantee a specific journalist, but we will work wh you to suggt several optns based on your goals and meetg tim. About the Virtual Journalist Vis Program The Pulzer Center offers ee virtual journalist viss to K-12 schools worldwi. We have worked wh more than a thoand journalists over the years, verg diverse topics and geographic regns, and we will match you wh a journalist based on your requt. We e many different platforms to nnect, cludg Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams, and will work wh you to intify the bt technology for your learners. Virtual journalist viss are a great way to help stunts: Unrstand how what they're studyg affects people's liv Learn how rearch, wrg, cril thkg, multimedia, and more skills are ed journalism Practice preparg and askg qutns of an expert Get exced about g the news to learn about the world And much more! Schle your virtual vis! * journalist gay pride *
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EIGHT QUEER PODSTS TO LISTEN TO DURG PRI MONTH AND BEYONDFROM THE RADIL ROOTS OF PRI TO STORI OF TRANS PEOPLE THE WILD WT, THE SHOWS N EXPAND LISTENERS’ KNOWLEDGE OF QUEER HISTORY THE UNED STAT.BY JTE GOOJUNE 24, 2020ILLTRATN BY ALICIA TATONE.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEPRI LOOKS DIFFERENT THIS YEAR. WH BLACK LIV MATTER PROTTS PROLIFERATG ACROSS THE NATN THE MONTH OF JUNE, THE UAL CELEBRATORY ATMOSPHERE OF PRI MONTH—WHICH RECENT YEARS, HAS FEATURED CREASGLY RPORATE EVENTS—HAS SHIFTED TO SHOW SOLIDARY WH THE CURRENT CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AGAST SYSTEMIC RACISM.BUT PRI AND AND BLACK LIV MATTER ARE FAR OM MUTUALLY EXCLIVE; FACT, GAY LIBERATN AND BLACK LIBERATN ARE HISTORILLY TERWED, WH BLACK TRANS ACTIVISTS RTG AT THE CENTER OF BOTH MOVEMENTS. AND AS MANY AMERINS ARE SEEKG TO EPEN THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF BLACK HISTORY, SO TOO SHOULD THEY SEEK TO UNRSTAND THE HISTORY OF QUEER PEOPLE AMERI AND BEYOND, WHICH HAS BEEN SIARLY ELID OM OUR TEXTBOOKS.THE PODSTS ARTFULLY LK THE PAST TO THE PRENT, REVEAL HIDN HISTORI, OFFER A SENSE OF REPRENTATN AND MUNY, AND HONOR THE ORIGS OF PRI SELF—WHICH WAS, AFTER ALL, A RT.NANCYHOSTED BY KATHY TU AND TOB LOW, NANCY HAS BEEN HIGHLY ACCLAIMED SCE S LNCH 2017, NOT LEAST BEE S HOSTS’ INTI AND PERSONAL JOURNEYS HAVE BEEN WOVEN TO THE SHOW’S DNA OM THE JUMP. IN NANCY’S FIRST EPISO, TU AND LOW BOTH TERVIEWED THEIR MOTHERS—WHO GREW UP TAIWAN AND CHA, RPECTIVELY—ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENC G OUT, TO VERY DIFFERENT RULTS. SCE THAT SEMAL EPISO, NANCY HAS PROVID A PLATFORM WHERE VAR LGBTQIA+ EXPERIENC N BE UNPACKED, SHARED, AND CELEBRATED. FEATURG A MIX OF CELEBRY TERVIEWS, QUEER HISTORY, POP-CULTURE ANALYIS, AND ANK NVERSATNS ABOUT THE STGGL QUEER PEOPLE AMERI NTUE TO FACE, ’S AN IMPRSIVELY WELL-ROUND SHOW, AND ONE OF WNYC’S CROWN JEWELS.LISTEN: “BLACK TRANS LIV MATTER,” A NVERSATN WH AWARD-WNG JOURNALIST IMARA JON ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF CLUDG BLACK TRANS PEOPLE THE BLACK LIV MATTER MOVEMENT, AND THE RADIL ROOTS OF PRI.SUPPORT NANCYGENR REVEALRELEASED EVERY MONDAY, GENR REVEAL AMPLIFI THE STORI OF TRANS AND NONBARY FOLKS. STILL NOT QUE SURE WHAT “NONBARY” MEANS? THAT’S OKAY—GENR REVEAL ALSO PRIS SELF BEG A EE ROURCE FOR THOSE SEEKG TO TE THEMSELV ABOUT GENR. ITS PILOT EPISO, “GENR 101,” EXPLAS TERMOLOGY LIKE “CISGENR,” “TERF,” “GENRQUEER,” AND MORE (LISTENERS N THEN GRADUATE TO “GENR 102,” “GENR 103,” “GENR 201,” “GENR 202,” “GENR 301,” “GENR 401,” “GENR 402,” “GENR 501,” AND “GENR 502”). HOST TUCK WOODSTOCK, WHOSE FECT LGH PUNCTUAT EACH TERVIEW, HAS FEATURED MORE THAN 60 GUTS OVER THE URSE OF FIVE SEASONS, MAKG THIS THE PERFECT PLACE TO GET ACQUATED WH QUEER AND NONBARY PEOPLE WHO ARE TRANSFORMG THEIR MUNI AND THE WORLD.LISTEN: “DOMIQUE, RIAH, LAYLEEN, AND ALYSSA PARIAH,” A NVERSATN WH ACTIVIST ALYSSA PARIAH ABOUT BLM, BLACK TRANS LIBERATN, AND HOW BAIL FUNDS N SAVE BLACK TRANS LIV.SUPPORT GENR REVEALMAKG GAY HISTORYOVER THE URSE OF SEVEN SEASONS, MAKG GAY HISTORY HAS REVEALED THE HIDN HISTORY OF THE LGBTQIA+ CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT THROUGH THE VOIC OF S MOST PROMENT LEARS. FEATURG ARCHIVAL TERVIEWS WH GAY-RIGHTS ACTIVISTS CLUDG SYLVIA RIVERA, MARSHA P. JOHNSON, BARBARA GTGS AND KAY LAHEN, AND BAYARD RT, MAKG GAY HISTORY’S UNPARALLELED ACCS TO PRIMARY SOURC MAKE THIS SHOW A PARTICULARLY POWERFUL LISTEN. HOST ERIC MARC NDUCTED THE TERVIEWS HIMSELF OVER S, AND THE RULT IS A WI-RANGG ORAL HISTORY PROJECT THAT FEELS BOTH TIMATE AND IMMEDIATE.LISTEN: “STONEWALL 50: EPISO 2: EVERYTHG CLICKED… AND THE RT WAS ON,” A FIRST-PERSON ACUNT OF THE 1969 STONEWALL UPRISG AS TOLD BY MARSHA P. JOHNSON AND OTHER QUEER ACTIVISTS WHO WERE AT THE RT.MOST POPULAROUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW MK, THIEL, ZUCKERBERG, AND ANDRESEN—FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS—ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE, AUTOCRATIC REALYBY JONATHAN TAPLSUPPORT MAKG GAY HISTORYAOQUEER PODSTHOSTED BY SELLY THIAM, A JOURNALIST, ORAL HISTORIAN, AND PRODUCER, AOQUEER CELEBRAT THE LOVE STORI OF QUEER AINS, FEATURG THE EXPERIENC OF PEOPLE OM BOTH THE AIN NTENT AND THE DIASPORA. THE BETIFULLY PRODUCED EPISOS EXPLORE TOPICS CLUDG AIN G-OUT STORI, THE DISAPPEARANCE OF A QUEER SOMALI WOMAN MNEAPOLIS, THE STORY OF A UGANDAN MAN WHO PLANNED TO HOST FIRST GAY PRI EVENT AT A REFUGEE MP, AND THE PLITED DYNAMICS OF G GRDR AI, WHERE SOME UNTRI STILL CRIMALIZE HOMOSEXUALY. THROUGH A MIX OF LIVE STORYTELLG, TERVIEWS, AND VTIGATIVE REPORTG, THE PERSONAL NARRATIV THAT THIAM UNVERS ARE PROFOUNDLY MOVG, AND WILL UNDOUBTEDLY EXPAND LISTENERS’ UNRSTANDG OF THE LIVED EXPERIENC OF QUEER BLACK PEOPLE ACROSS THE GLOBE.LISTEN: “HOW ARE YOU DOG?,” WHICH EXAM HOW THE PANMIC HAS BEEN AFFECTG QUEER AIN MUNI ALL OVER THE WORLD, OM UGANDA TO SWEN TO WT AI TO BOSTON.SUPPORT AOQUEER (NONE ON RERD)QUEER AMERIQUEER AMERI SEEKS TO TE LISTENERS ON THE LGBTQIA+ HISTORY THAT WAS NOT TGHT CLASSROOMS, WH EPISOS THAT ARE SPECIFILLY SIGNED FOR STUNTS AND TEACHERS WHO WANT TO TEGRATE QUEER HISTORY TO THEIR STANDARD CURRICULUM. THIS MEANS THAT EPISOS ALTERNATE BETWEEN THOUGHTFUL HISTORIL ANALYSIS (CLUDG DISCSNS OF THE LAVENR SRE, “ROMANTIC IENDSHIPS” BETWEEN LBIANS THROUGHOUT HISTORY, HOW WW II IMPACTED GAY AND LBIAN MUNI, AND THE AIDS EPIMIC), AND PRACTIL GUIS TO RPORATG QUEER HISTORY TO CLASSROOMS. A SPECIAL SERI OM TEACHG TOLERANCE, A PROJECT OF THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER, EACH EPISO PAGE OF QUEER HISTORY CLUS A THOROUGH ROURCE AND READG LIST TO HELP LISTENERS FURTHER TE THEMSELV. HOSTED BY LEILA RUPP AND JOHN D’E, QUEER AMERI IS AS PELLG AS IS PREHENSIVE.LISTEN: “THE EXPERIENCE OF TRANS PEOPLE,” A NVERSATN WH HISTORIAN AND WRER GENNY BEEMYN ABOUT THE HISTORY OF TRANS AND GENR NONNFORMG FIGUR, OM THE WILD WT TO THE MORN DAY.SUPPORT QUEER HISTORY (SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER)QUEERWOC: THE PODSTQUEERWOC IS AN ONLE MUNY CREATED SPECIFILLY FOR “PEOPLE WH FEME ENERGI, MARGALIZED GENRS, SEXUALTI, AND RAC” TO MEET AND SOCIALIZE. ITS ACPANYG PODST (“AN SURGENT PODST FOR QUEER WOMEN OF LOR”) IS HOSTED BY FOUNRS NIKEETA, AN ANIZER AND ACTIVIST, AND MONEY, A MENTAL HEALTH UNSELOR AND DOCTORAL NDIDATE, WHOSE NATURAL BANTER F EVEN THE MOST DIFFICULT TOPICS WH A SENSE OF LEVY AND MARARIE. TOGETHER, NIKEETA AND MONEY HOLD SPACE FOR NVERSATNS AROUND FATPHOBIA THE LBIAN MUNY, WHY PEOPLE GET TRIGGERED, COVID-19 AND THE REVOLUTN, AND HOW AUDRE LOR’S WRG N HELP FACILATE HEALG. THEY ALSO FEATURE SEGMENTS CLUDG “MENTAL MOMENT,” WHICH ENURAG TROSPECTN AND OFFERS TOOLS FOR SELF-PRERVATN, AND “LEFTIST LBIAN LUMARY LABOR LECTURE,” WHICH T LISTENERS ON THE LGO OF THE SOCIAL-JTICE MOVEMENT.MOST POPULAROUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW MK, THIEL, ZUCKERBERG, AND ANDRESEN—FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS—ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE, AUTOCRATIC REALYBY JONATHAN TAPLLISTEN: “YA GAY AUNTI ‘DIGG’ FOR GEMS’ FT. QUEERWOC,” A WI-RANGG NVERSATN WH HANIFAH WALIDAH AND RED SUMMER OF THE PODST YA GAY AUNTI ABOUT RECENT PROTTS, THE “BLACK YEEHAW AGENDA,” BLACK ROLLER-SKATG CULTURE, AND MORE. AND AS NIKEETA NOT AT THE TOP OF THIS EPISO, QUEERWOC DON’T NEED A FEATURE PUBLITNS LIKE THE NEW YORK TIM OR, SAY, VANY FAIR, TO VALIDATE THE WORK THEY’RE DOG—BUT THEY WELE ALL NEWFOUND LISTENERS WILLG TO EMBRACE THEIR MSAGE.SUPPORT QUEERWOC: THE PODSTOUTWARDA MONTHLY “SALON” HOSTED BY RUMAAN ALAM, J. BRYAN LOWR, AND CHRISTA CTECCI, OUTWARD DIV EP TO QUEER CULTURE, CURRENT EVENTS, AND LGBTQIA+ HISTORY. THROUGH TERVIEWS WH ACTIVISTS, JOURNALISTS, AND THORS, THE HOSTS LVE TO THE PLEXI OF TOPICS CLUDG RADIL MOVEMENTS, CHOSEN FAY, TRAVELG AS A GAY PERSON, AND QUEER SEX. LISTENG TO OUTWARD EPISOS OFTEN FEELS LIKE STG AT A DNER PARTY WH A BUNCH OF FASCATG, OPNATED PEOPLE—LISTENERS WILL BE PELLED TO LEAN FORWARD AND SOAK UP EVERY WORD OF THE THOUGHT-PROVOKG, ROUNDTABLE-STYLE NVERSATNS.LISTEN: “COVID-19, AIDS, AND COMMUNY,” WHICH THE HOSTS DRAW PARISONS BETWEEN THE COVID-19 PANMIC AND THE AIDS EPIMIC WH ALPHONSO DAVID, PRINT OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— AUTHOR UZODMA IWEALA ON WHE SIGNS AT BLACK PROTTS— “GEE FLOYD WAS KILLED MY NEIGHBORHOOD”— 15 YEARS AFTER KATRA, A SEND STORM—CORONAVIS—HS NEW ORLEANS— HOW MEGHAN MARKLE DECID TO FALLY SPEAK OUT ABOUT GEE FLOYD— NIKKA OLIVER ON SEATTLE’S EXTRAORDARY PROTTS AND WHAT COM NEXT— WHERE J.K. ROWLG’S TRANSPHOBIA COM FROM— FROM THE ARCHIVE: THE ORIG OF “STRANGE F,” BILLIE HOLIDAY’S BALLAD AGAST RACISMLOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.JTE GOO
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Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) Pri events garner media verage each summer muni across the untry, and this toolk was created as a rource for media profsnals their verage of Pri events. School anizatns such as gay-straight allianc e together to celebrate the muny ralli and addn, Pri events now occur ternatnally throughout the year, and they are most popular Canada, Lat Ameri, Atralia and throughout Europe, though events are held other parts of the world. MEDIA Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) Rich Ferraro Director of Communitns (646) 871-8011 ferraro@glaad.
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