Lindsay Graham
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first heard Sep 2026
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Lindsay Graham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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By June 1970, Craig Rodwell was putting the finishing touches on a demonstration he felt could bring the different factions of the LGBTQ rights movement together.
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It was a simple idea, a parade, to celebrate the one year anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising.
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Rodwell was calling it the Liberation Day March.
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But he still had to go through the proper channels if the march was going to happen at all.
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The Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance both held fundraisers.
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Rodwell himself brought in additional money by asking customers at his bookstore for donations.
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It took some convincing, but eventually even Manachin and the daughters abilities signed on.
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Little by little, Rodwell and the organizers raised the thousand dollars that it took to throw a parade in New York.
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But on the eve of the march, Rodwell's simple idea kept him up all night with worry.
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Public demonstrations across the country were drawing a violent response from the government and the police.
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Just the month before, on may fourth, four students had been shot to death by the National Guard at Kent State University.
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Less than a week later, a group of young anti war demonstrators on Wall Street had been attacked by roughly two hundred unionized construction workers.
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Seventy people were injured as construction workers, many of them carrying American flags and pro war placards, fought students in the street and
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It was called the Hard Hat Riot, and it was this spectre of violent retribution that haunted Craig Rodwell, along with many other activists.
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Even though the Liberation Day March wasn't explicitly about the war in Vietnam, it was clear that a demonstration on this scale, of any kind, could very well end in violence.
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But the Liberation Day march was a success.
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Thousands of LGBTQ people and their allies marched fifty one city blocks from Greenwich Village to Sheet Meadow in Central Park.
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More importantly, no one attacked them.
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Although many curiosity seekers turned out to watch from the sidewalks, the marchers faced little open animosity.
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GAA activist and co founder Marty Robinson was quoted in the New York Times saying, We've never had a demonstration like this.
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