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The Promise of Pride

Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast

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The Gay Life in the 1960s

The gay life really meant like this kind of poor working class life hidden and criminalized that took place in bars. There's a spiritual component to corporate pride that I think we are disallowed from talking about because you know homophobia and transphobia  are secular kinds of things but no there's a spirit, practice and modality. It says oh you don't even know youDon't even know we walk among you every day and we could be running this world for the better hey straight people you could be going on right sexy ass a Potomac Cruz but you don't your life sucks relatively right but you have kept us down. We were all self-conscious about our own cynicism

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