We’ve Always Marched: Why We Protest, Why It Matters, and Why March 28th

In this solo episode of A Queer POV: Friends, Loves & Life, host David Begor traces the full arc of LGBTQ protest, from the first Annual Reminder Day pickets in 1965, through Stonewall, Harvey Milk, ACT UP, and the fight for marriage equality, to the No Kings movement happening right now.

David has attended Pride marches for forty years. In this episode, he makes the case that every single one of those was a protest, and connects that personal history to the largest nonviolent demonstrations in modern American history.

This one is personal. It’s also a call to action.

In this episode:

→  Why Pride has always been protest, even when we didn’t call it that

→  Pre-Stonewall heroes: Annual Reminder Day and the Mattachine Society sip-in

→  Stonewall, Harvey Milk, and the White Night riots

→  ACT UP, the AIDS crisis, and what happens when the government looks away

→  The 1993 March on Washington, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and DOMA

→  The fight for marriage equality: Prop 8 to Obergefell

→  The No Kings movement: from five million to a projected eleven million

→  Why anger matters, and how to aim it

→  March 28th: how to show up safe and smart

→  Harvey Milk’s Hope Speech and why it’s still the assignment

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