York, thank you very much for being with us. Thank you very much for having me. American history tv products are now available at the new cspan online store. Go to cspanstore. Org. To see whats new. And check out all of the cspan products. Each week, american artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums and Historic Sites around the country. Up next we visit the rise up exhibit at the museum in washington, d. C. , to learn about the 1969 stonewall riots and how they served as a catalyst for the modern lgbtq rights movement. Welcome to the museum. Im patty rule, the Vice President of exhibits and content. Were here at the prologue of rise up, stonewall and the lgbt movement. It was an event in 1969, an up rising that propelled forward the modern movement. This is where we tell that story of how ordinary americans used their First Amendment freedoms, freedom of speech, the press, petition, assembly, religion, to advocate for change and change society. Were going to walk around the corn
Saddest and thee ugliest part o being a homosexual. T have your first bad i am h love experience, for instance, and you cant go to your brother or your sister and say im hurting. Rea at firstli i was very guilty. And then i realized that all the things that are taught you not only by society but by i psychiatrists just to fit you in a mold. Ive just rejected the mold. And when i rejected the mold, ie was happier. These are mostly independent organizations all60 and across e country. Theyre somewhere between 60 and 75 independent groups across the United States, maybe more now ocause they keep growing up overnight. And thisto 30 or is a unified e the part of somewhere between 20 and 30 organizations on the east coast. There are differences primarily of approach and of tactics. Certainly groups, for example, tend to emphasize very milltant confrontation tactics. Other groups will emphasize a more educational approach, going out into areas where there are what you might call people who,t
Yes, in the very back there. Wait for the microphone. Safe foundation. Sir, i was impressed with your presentation. Now, i have a more fundamental question about the government of the United States and the people who control this country, the right and the left both together. Now, the kind of activities we are engaged in at this time, the spying on american citizens, the entire war crimes that we are committing all over the world, all these things, 20, 30 years from now we will be very, very ashamed as we are ashamed of the things that were being done in the 50s and 60s by those who controlled our government. How do we change this . We are continuously doing such tremendous amount of activities which are inhuman and barbaric. One of the themes and we could have a separate discussion of how bad the conduct of one or another American Government is at any given time, but i think one of the themes that we bring out from today is that if you cant speak freely about, it you cant document it,
Heard of that. We all remember typhoid mary of lore and she had the ability to infect people. Do your typhoid marys have the ability to infect people when theyre asymptomatic . We dont know. Thats the question. Typhoid mary, in the case of her, she was dealing with a bacterial infection. Right. What i do know for a fact, there have been a number of asymptomatic nonfebrill people whose blood has been drawn and they tested positive. I think there is something about the pcr test. In medicine, you never say 100 . The thing with ebola, if you dont bat 1 wh00 every day, it exposed. My point is we need go to africa and fight the disease over there and keep it contained. Two of your doctors were infected and werent sure why. We had two nurses in dallas and were infected and were not sure why. That underscores there is a lot more not known about this disease and is known and i would extend that to mr. Waxman, we all need humility on this. And what you did in dallas to have good discipline to wh
Library and also bpl presents, which is the libraries arts and culture arm tonight. I am thrilled to welcome author james gaines whose latest book which comes out on february 8th is titled the 50s and underground history. Im going to tell you a little bit about what Publishers Weekly says, it says this revisionist history is packed with insights it goes on to say that gains delivers a compassionate and insightful Group Portrait of singular men and women who spoke out on lgbtq issues womens rights civil rights and the environment in the 1950s, not the complacent era that we all think it is. So tonight jamess conversation partner is writer daniel okrent. And before i introduce the two of them. I just have a few quick notes for you first while the book is not released for a few more weeks. This is kind of a sneak peek. You can preorder it and we will put a link in the chat to the website of a local brooklyn bookstore the Community Bookstore so that you can do that if you so desire with ju