Lindsay Graham
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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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There, Rivera struck up a fast friendship with a black transgender woman named Marcia P.
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Johnson.
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Johnson was five years older, and she gave Rivera advice on how to stay safe on the streets and maximize her profit.
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Johnson and Rivera would become inseparable.
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In their off hours the two would hang in coffee shops and swap stories.
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But despite these moments of happiness, Rivera still lived a precarious existence where the threat of violence was never far.
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So by nineteen sixty five, she was carrying a gun in her purse to protect herself.
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One night, in a pay by the hour hotel room, a client who had discovered Rivera was transgender began to beat her, punching her so hard she flew across the room.
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She reached for her purse, hoping the sight of the gun would make the man think twice before he hit her again, but when he charged at her in rage, she fired.
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Rivera fled without knowing whether the man was dead or alive.
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But beyond the dangers of sex work itself, the risk of police violence and arrest posed an even bigger threat.
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Down by the waterfront along the Hudson River, where sex work was common, police roundups occurred like clockwork.
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Along with other trans women of color, Rivera would be arrested and spend the night in the Tombs prison near the downtown courthouse, only to be released the next day.
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Rivera later recalled, back then we were beat up by the police, by everybody.
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We always
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We always felt that the police were the real enemy.
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We expected nothing better than to be treated like we were animals, and we were.
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We were stuck in a bullpen like a bunch of freaks.
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We were disrespected.
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A lot of us were beaten up and raped.
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