Lindsay Graham
speaker
1,224 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 3d ago
Lindsay Graham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Kameny, who spent nearly a decade crafting and defining the goals of the gay rights movement, was now seen as hopelessly out of touch by a younger generation of activists.
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They felt new ideas were needed for the new decade to come.
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A young activist named Carl Whitman presented the new philosophy of the movement in what he called a gay manifesto.
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In it he wrote, We have pretended that everything is okay because we've been afraid.
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In the past year, there has been an awakening of gay liberation ideas and energy.
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We are full of love for each other and we are showing it.
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We are full of anger at what has been done to us as we recall all.
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the self-censorship and repression for so many years, and we are euphoric, high with the initial flourish of a movement.
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Whitman's manifesto was a rallying cry that reverberated through the younger members of the LGBTQ community.
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But twenty six year old Martha Shelley needed no convincing.
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Both Jewish and gay, Shelley already considered herself a double outsider.
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She later told an interviewer, it was very easy when the gay liberation movement came along, to run around in a tie dyed tank top and a pair of cut off jeans and say, The hell with it, I didn't have to pretend to fit in anymore.
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There was a whole movement that was supporting my not fitting in.
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Shelley was involved with the lesbian organization Daughters Abilitus, but after Stonewall she felt the group's tentative approach to activism was no longer enough.
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Just a few days after Frank Kameny scolded women for holding hands in public in Philadelphia, Martha Shelley spoke at a hastily organized gay power vigil in New York's Washington Square Park on july thirty first.
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Shelley, underneath a lavender colored banner, addressed a crowd of five hundred gay men and lesbians.
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She told the crowd, The time has come for us to walk in the sunshine.
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Brothers and sisters, welcome to this city's first gay power vigil.
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We're tired of being harassed and persecuted.
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If a straight couple can hold hands in Washington Square, why can't we?
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