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Equal Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
4 Episodes 2020 - 0
Episode 1
The Birth of a Movement
Thu, Oct 22, 2020 39 mins
A look at two of the earliest LGBT organizations, Mattachine Society and Daughters of Bilitis. A look at pivotal figures Harry Hay, Dale Jennings, Del Martin, Barbara Gittings, and Phyllis Lyon.
Episode 2
Transgender Pioneers
Thu, Oct 22, 2020 40 mins
One August night in 1966, transgender people took at stand against the police in San Francisco. Featuring Christine Jorgensen, the first transgender celebrity to use the media as a way to educate the public. Her work laid the foundation for the Compton uprising a decade later. The influence and legacy of Lucy Hicks Anderson and Jack Starr are also examined.
Episode 3
Black is Beautiful, Gay is Good!
Thu, Oct 22, 2020 41 mins
Playwright Lorraine Hansberry was a revolutionary and voice for Civil Rights hiding in clear view. She took on a society that oppressed her for her race, gender, and sexuality and wrote about her experience under pseudonyms. This episode explores her life and how the personal and the political combined in a dramatic way.
Episode 4
Stonewall: From Rebellion to Liberation
Thu, Oct 22, 2020 40 mins
A dramatization of the events of the Stonewall Riots in the late 1960s.
