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Guest well, i could have begun even earlier, of course, but the 1950s marked the time when gay people started to organize. Incidentally, we were all called gay at that time, not lgbtq, but gay was sort of the umbrella term, the underground term for all of us. So the first ongoing organization that formed started in 1950s, and that would be [inaudible] society and it was very difficult to get people to join that organization. So i talk about the persecutions in the 1950s and why an organization was necessary. You know, in the 50s all of the churches, gay people were sinners. And to psychiatrist...

Encourage you to join friends of the festival. Thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] host youre watching live coverage of the tucson festival of books, we are live from the university of arizona. As you can see, large audiences for each of these author panels. And outside of this theater the festival is going on on a Beautiful Day here this in tucson on the campus. Coming up, there are several more author panels that youll hear including slavery in america, big money and philanthropy and the history of women in the sciences. Now, in just a minute one of the panelists are this last pa...

Difficult to get people to join that organization. So i talk about the persecutions in the 1950s and why an organization was necessary. You know, in the 50s all of the churches, gay people were sinners. And to psychiatrists, all gay people were mentally ill. And to the police, all gay people were criminals. And to the federal government, if you had a job that had anything to do with government and slowly facilitiered down even to teachers filtered down even to teachers and social workers, all gay people were subversives and morally corrupt and shouldnt be employed by the government. And so the...

[inaudible conversations] in the mountain and pacific time zones. Lillian faderman, why does the struggle at least in your book begin in the 1950s . Guest well, i could have begun even earlier, of course, but the 1950s marked the time when gay people started to organize. Incidentally, we were all called gay at that time, not lgbtq, but gay was sort of the umbrella term, the underground term for all of us. So the first ongoing organization that formed started in 1950s, and that would be [inaudible] society and it was very difficult to get people to join that organization. So i talk about the pe...

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