(Gay) Pride and (Institutional) Prejudice

To celebrate Pride Month, this week we learn about LGBTQ history with Dr. Jennifer Terry, the chair of gender and sexuality studies at UC Irvine. We discuss how the medical and scientific communities have studied the LGBTQ community throughout the past century, as detailed in her book, An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society. We also talk about the history of the gay liberation movement through the 60s, 70s, and 80s, amidst the AIDS crisis. The conversation concludes with discussing how the US government and its institutions of the military and the police currently treat LGBTQ citizens. To find more of Dr. Terry's work: https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4925 https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo3626344.html Some places to donate to: https://marshap.org/# https://www.thetrevorproject.org/ https://www.theokraproject.com/ https://www.naacpldf.org/ Our intro song was "If I Had a Dime" by David Ryan Harris.