Lindsay Graham
speaker
1,224 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 6d ago
Lindsay Graham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Even so, this organization of the world.
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around transgender issues was groundbreaking.
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But magazines and correspondence clubs were not much help for young trans people living in American cities, where their very presence in public spaces was often criminalized.
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And unlike Lawrence and Prince, those without political connections or a cushion of white middle class privilege were especially vulnerable.
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That reality was becoming apparent to one pastor in San Francisco who would help the local LGBTQ community gain one surprising ally, the church.
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By nineteen sixty three, the once conservative Glide Memorial Methodist Church had hired thirty-four year old African American pastor Cecil Williams to reinvigorate the aging congregation.
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Glide Memorial was based in the Tenderloin district, an area of sex work, drugs, and after hours entertainment.
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It was also home to people who couldn't afford to live anywhere else, or who faced housing and employment discrimination in other parts of the city, especially gay and transgender youth.
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In fact, San Francisco police actually directed trans people towards the cheap hotels of the Tenderloin district after they had been arrested in other parts of the city.
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Even then, they still often arrested trans women in the neighborhood on suspicion of prostitution just for walking down the street.
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Under Pastor Williams' guidance, Glide Memorial began to reach out to the disenfranchised young people in the surrounding neighborhood.
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Williams later remembered, what happened was I said, I can't live this way.
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I've got to accept people as they are.
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I've got to embrace people, and I'm not going to sit here and just let it happen and not do anything about it.
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Williams enlisted the help of another minister named Ted McIlvaina to call a three day meeting of local ministers, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and others.
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Forget who you represent, McIlvaina told them.
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We represent the human race.
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Let's start there.
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The ministers heard heart wrenching testimonials from Louise Lawrence, along with leaders from Manachin and the DOB.
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They spoke openly about the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality and about the distrust and fear that had formed through the church's encouragement of hatred and injustice.
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