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