Resisting the Erasure of Pauli Murray

Resisting the Erasure of Pauli Murray

Author: Overnight Productions, Inc. April 8, 2025 Duration: 28:58
Even at the National Historic Landmark dedicated to a queer civil rights activist, legal scholar, author and Episcopal priest, the Trump administration is rewriting U.S. history. Executive Director Angela Thorpe Mason of the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice in Durham, North Carolina is fighting to keep the legacy alive (produced by David Hunt). And in NewsWrap: Greek men whether gay or straight won’t be able to access surrogacy services under a law being proposed to parliament, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office declares The Elton John AIDS Foundation “undesirable” because of its support for queer rights, a new law goes into effect making “conversion therapy” against the law in New South Wales, anti-queer hate speech is now illegal in the Australian state of Victoria, an injunction puts a law forcing Montana trans people to use sex-segregated facilities according to their birth certificate gender on temporary hold, Utah is the first U.S. state to ban LGBTQ Pride flags at all public schools and government buildings, and more international LGBTQ+ news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Ava Davis (produced by Brian DeShazor). All this on the April 7, 2025 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

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