And welcome this very special moment here in San Francisco. I have the great honor to be your mc for this ocean im jupiter per asa. An occasion that is personal to me and close to my heart. For some context why that is, back in 2021 i wrote the initial draft proclamation that designating august as transgender History Month. I was inspired by the cafeteria riots on an august 9 in 1966. We dont know exactly what day it happened but we do know that it happened in august. I asked myself, why is it that we dont know what day it happened . It is monumental history. Why dont we know . The sad reality of it is that this monumental occurrence was so major and unlike anything that had ever occurred before at that scale in the United States , that an effort to eliminate it from records and existence ensued. It persisted. And because of it, watershed moments in the lbgtq Civil Rights Movement followed. Such as the stonewall riots of 1969. So, the idea transgender History Month began to take shape
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Me and close to my heart. For some context why that is, back in 2021 i wrote the initial draft proclamation that designating august as transgender History Month. I was inspired by the cafeteria riots on an august 9 in 1966. We dont know exactly what day it happened but we do know that it happened in august. I asked myself, why is it that we dont know what day it happened . It is monumental history. Why dont we know . The sad reality of it is that this monumental occurrence was so major and unlike anything that had ever occurred before at that scale in the United States , that an effort to eliminate it from records and existence ensued. It persisted. And because of it, watershed moments in the lbgtq Civil Rights Movement followed. Such as the stonewall riots of 1969. So, the idea transgender History Month began to take shape via this train of thought. I thought about black History Month and womens History Month. Now national low recognized months. And the essential education and awarene
I was blown away by this. Reading it for a second time made my experience more profound. I want to die right in and ask you to read a bit. Ill let you take that. Turning toward toward the house on the hillside i see movements of a different kind, tall shadows for the current. My brothers are awake testing the weather. My mother at the stove hovering over brown pancakes. My father by the back door lacing his boots and threading his callous stance into welding gloves. On the highway below the school bus went past without stopping. Im only seven but i understand the suspect more than any other that makes my family different. We dont go to school. Dad worries the Government Forces to go but it cant. For my seven siblings dont have birth certificates. We dont have medical records or school records. When im nine ill be delighted certificate of birth. But at this moment i do not exist. Of course i did exist. I waited for the sun to darken a spent my summers bottling peaches when the world the
Million, but 11 are or very special because he developed an intimate relationship with every president many modern time going back to harry truman. And with us today to talk about this book is Michael Duffy who is a veteran reporter with Time Magazine. He is known in this town as the ultimate insider. He is the reporter who knows the back story on the big story. He is a man who is very well sourced and has a reputation in time for being selfeffacing, very witty and a man who would sit with his coauthor, nancy gibbs, in the bureau and come up with these astounding cover stories, more than 100 of them to their credit, in a mysterious process that no one else quite understands. [laughter] so i want to get to that in a minute, but first, welcome to the show. Welcome to after words, michael, and let me ask you many books, scores of books have been written about billy graham but none that have focused on his relationship with the president s in quite this way. How did you get this idea, whyd