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Welcome back to the campus of university of arizona and day two of the tucson festival of books. Booktv is life aga we are in the gallagher theater and here is a quick look at the lineup in just a few minutes we will be discussing politics that followed by a callin program with venetians in his book is called People Get Ready. You will hear the authors talk about civil rights in the Supreme Court, freedom of the press, immigrants and education and epidemics. All sorts of callin programs today including one with maureen dowd of the New York Times. You can follow along with our programming and g...

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...

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[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...

Could you talk to our audience about your home, the circumstances of your upbringing. Guest yes, thank you so much for having me. I grew up in mexico and my family, theyre all entrepreneurs and they worked really, really word to be able to provide my siblings and i a better life and even when i was in mexico i was really surrounded by a really large support system because my family is really close not just emotionally experience. So i grew up in mexico from middleincome family. I use today take piano lessons and karat lessons in my small hometown and that also same with sacrificed and the bigg...