Speaker 1: What We Loved is a new podcast about queer history
Speaker 1: coming May fifteenth. I'm Jordan go and Solves your host. Growing up,
Speaker 1: I thought being gay was the worst thing I could
Speaker 1: ever be. The gay history I learned was tragic.
Speaker 2: Jerry had died of AIDS. Since like, what is happening?
Speaker 3: These young folks are dying.
Speaker 4: And so that was basically by the last time that
Speaker 4: we could look at each other.
Speaker 1: It was survival. That's why it's caused the vital sex.
Speaker 1: But as I interviewed queer elders, I realized there was
Speaker 1: another history that I had never been taught, a history
Speaker 1: of courage.
Speaker 2: I wanted to take control of my story and not
Speaker 2: be ashamed of it.
Speaker 1: It was a history of fighting for what you believe in.
Speaker 3: In the middle of Wall Street, they stopped traffic. They
Speaker 3: were doing a dying.
Speaker 1: And it was a history full of love.
Speaker 4: The joy we found in saying husband again and again
Speaker 4: and again was incredible.
Speaker 1: And while learning this new queer history from my elders,
Speaker 1: I realized they had so much wisdom to pass down.
Speaker 5: There will be losses and ugliness and cruelty, but there
Speaker 5: is also always the power of change. The key is
Speaker 5: to understanding yourself, learning to love and embrace yourself.
Speaker 1: I want to share the queer history I didn't learn
Speaker 1: in school, from the queer elders I didn't know I needed.
Speaker 1: And there's stories of courage, perseverance, and love. For My
Speaker 1: Heart podcasts, I'm Jordan and Solve this is But We Loved,
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