Lindsay Graham
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1,224 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 5d ago
Lindsay Graham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like many women, Giddings went to gay bars in the city because there was nowhere else she could meet lesbians like herself.
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But even there, she remembered she didn't fit in.
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In those days, there were two types of women in gay bars the so-called butch ones in short hair and masculine attire, and the so-called femme ones in dresses and makeup.
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I felt like there was no real place for me in straight culture.
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of culture, but the gaybar culture wasn't the place for me either.
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At the age of twenty five, Giddings arrived on the West Coast and quickly became involved with the Daughters Abilitus, or DOB.
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She found the organization's name silly and unpronounceable, and she felt that their politics were far too conservative.
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But still, she signed up to work on the DOB magazine, The Latter, and soon took over as editor.
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But while the latter was mostly concerned with lesbians working to fit in within straight society, Giddings pushed for a more progressive tone.
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Lesbians, she felt, were very much their own people, with her own concerns.
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Straight society should have to make room for them, not the other way around.
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By the mid-sixties, she had helped form a chapter of the DOB in New York City.
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It was around this time that she met Frank Kameny.
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The two shared a philosophy of progressive action and a commitment to educating the public about issues affecting the gay community.
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But with even the word homosexual considered unfit to print, Kameny and Giddings would have to convince the world that gay, in fact, was good.
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Imagine it's April seventeenth, nineteen sixty-five.
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You're a young woman demonstrating in front of the White House in Washington, DC.
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You and around thirty other gay activists walk in a broad oval, one behind the other, each one of you holding up a sign.
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Sexual preference is irrelevant to federal employment.
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You'd be the first to admit it's tough marching in a skirt and dress heels, but it's also thrilling.
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