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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The really revolutionary thing is people on the street, acting in that dramatic context.
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Let's set up the stage so that the right events happen.
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This message of direct action appealed to Sylvia Rivera.
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She was then nineteen years old, and still involved with sex work.
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She'd had some troubles with drugs, and she lived on the streets when she couldn't keep a room of her own.
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But in the spring of 1970, she saw a magazine on a newsstand called Gay Power and was floored.
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Flipping through the pages of one of the first nationally distributed gay magazines, Rivera realized that something really had changed.
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That same day, she ran into her friend Marcia P.
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Johnson, a friend and fellow sex worker, who told Rivera that she should get involved with the Gay Activists Alliance.
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But at her first GAA meeting, Rivera
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A trans feminine person of Puerto Rican descent was greeted with stares and odd looks by the young, mostly white, mostly middle class members.
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Despite the GAA's message of inclusiveness, one of the group's founders would later say the general membership is frightened of Sylvia and thinks she's a troublemaker.
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They're frightened by street people.
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But despite feeling rejected, Rivera stuck it out.
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She kept returning to meetings, forcing GAA members to engage with her, whether they liked it or not.
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She spoke passionately to her fellow sex workers too, urging them to join the movement as well.
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And she jumped into political actions with abandon.
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While collecting signatures in Times Square for a gay rights petition, Rivera was arrested by New York Tactical Police who were sweeping up anti war protesters just one block away.
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Rivera was charged with disorderly conduct, unlawful assembly, and in her recollection, creating a riot.
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She managed to post a fifty dollar bail out of her own pocket, but she still had to fight her charges through the court system.
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