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June 24th - Pride Anthems · Queer Voices

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  Brett: You're listening to Queer Voices, a radio show and a podcast that has been a outlet for the LGBTQIA Plus community since the 70s.
• 0:10
  Brett: So the rain may have postponed our big parade this year, but we here at Queer Voices are carrying on the Pride Celebration all June long.
• 0:17
  Brett: Hey, it's our month after all, and this is the last week of it.
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  Brett: I'm Brett Cullum, and today we're going all music for a change in honor of Pride.
• 0:26
  Brett: Queer Voices start now.
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  Brett: Let's start with someone few people know is such a strong ally.
• 0:34
  Brett: Rod Stewart wrote and released The Killing of Georgie parts one and two in 1976.
• 0:40
  Brett: And it tells a true story about a friend of his who was stabbed to death in 1974.
• 0:46
  Brett: Then we have Eraser's 1987 Hideaway from their album Circus, which became one of the definitive songs about coming out.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_14: George boy, a scare I can nothing more or nothing less.
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  SPEAKER_14: The kindest guy I ever knew.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_14: His mother's tears fell in vain the afternoon.
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  SPEAKER_14: George tried to explain that he needed love like all the red.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_14: Car says there must be a mistake.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_14: How can my son not be straight?
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_14: After all I've said and done for him Leaving home on a greyhound bus, cast out by the ones he loves, a bit too of these gay days, it seems Georgie went to New Yorktown where he quickly settled down and soon became the toast of the great white wave.
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  SPEAKER_14: Accepted by Manhattan to leave and all the places that were she.
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  SPEAKER_14: No party was complete without George.
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  SPEAKER_14: Along the Boulevard T cruise and all the old Queens blue refuse.
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  SPEAKER_14: Everybody loved Georgie Boy The last time I saw George alive was in the summer of 75.
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  SPEAKER_14: He said he was in love.
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  SPEAKER_14: I said I'm pleased.
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  SPEAKER_14: George attended the opening night of another Broadway hype with split before the final curtain fell.
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  SPEAKER_14: Deciding to take a shock up home.
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  SPEAKER_14: Arm and only meant no roll.
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  SPEAKER_14: A gentle breeze blew down Fifth Avenue.
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  SPEAKER_14: To roll some innocent, pass a by the beautiful fight.
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  SPEAKER_14: Screams running out in the night.
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  SPEAKER_14: George's head in a sidewalk called a stone.
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  SPEAKER_14: A little kid, a switchblade knife.
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  SPEAKER_14: He did not intend to take his life.
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  SPEAKER_14: He just pushed his luck a little too far that night.
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  SPEAKER_14: A crowd gathered, the police came.
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  SPEAKER_14: An ambulance screamed to a halt.
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  SPEAKER_14: Don't get to third preferred.
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  SPEAKER_14: George is live and dead there.
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  SPEAKER_14: But I ask, who really cares?
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  SPEAKER_14: George once said to me, and I quote, he said, never wait or hesitate.
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  SPEAKER_14: Get in kids before it's too late.
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  SPEAKER_14: You may never get another chance.
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  SPEAKER_14: Cause use a mask, but it don't last.
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  SPEAKER_14: Live it long and live at fast.
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  SPEAKER_14: George he wants a friend of mine.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh my father.
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  SPEAKER_02: Why don't you talk to me now?
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh my mother.
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  SPEAKER_02: Do you still cry yourself to sleep?
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  SPEAKER_02: Are you still proud of you, little boy?
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  SPEAKER_16: And don't be afraid.
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  SPEAKER_16: You don't have to hide away.
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  SPEAKER_16: But he was rejected by the people that he came for.
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  SPEAKER_16: It's not what they expected, but he could not keep it secret anymore.
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  SPEAKER_15: Wait to find the child.
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  SPEAKER_15: I can feel my soul ascending.
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  SPEAKER_15: I'm on my way.
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  SPEAKER_15: Can't stop me now.
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  SPEAKER_15: And you can never say What have you done today?
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  SPEAKER_15: So make you feel proud.
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  SPEAKER_15: What have you done today?
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  SPEAKER_15: Don't make you feel proud.
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  SPEAKER_15: You could be some many people.
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  SPEAKER_15: If you make that grab for Freedom.
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  SPEAKER_15: What have you done today?
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  SPEAKER_15: Don't make you feel prouder.
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  SPEAKER_15: So I stand out of the ordinary.
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  SPEAKER_15: I can feel my soul the same name.
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  SPEAKER_15: I'm on my way.
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  SPEAKER_15: Can't stop me now.
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  SPEAKER_15: You can do the same.
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  SPEAKER_15: What have you done today?
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  SPEAKER_15: Don't make you feel proud.
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  SPEAKER_15: You never to let you cry.
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  SPEAKER_15: What have you done today?
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  SPEAKER_15: Don't make you feel proud.
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  SPEAKER_15: You could be so make it before.
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  SPEAKER_15: If you make the world World today, don't make the feel proud.
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  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, we need a change.
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  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, do it today.
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  SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_15: I can feel my spirit.
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  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, we need a change.
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  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, so do it today.
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  SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_15: Cause I can see you there.
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  SPEAKER_15: Let me hear you, let me hear you, let me hear.
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  SPEAKER_15: So what today?
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  SPEAKER_15: To make you feel proud.
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  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_15: If you make the proud So what have you done today?
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  SPEAKER_15: To make you feel proud.
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  SPEAKER_15: What have you done today?
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, you hear what have you done today?
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  SPEAKER_15: What have you done today?
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  SPEAKER_15: What have you done today?
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  SPEAKER_15: To make you feel proud.
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  SPEAKER_15: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_15: You could be so many people.
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  SPEAKER_15: Just make the crowd me.
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  SPEAKER_15: So what have you done today to make you feel proud?
• 15:29
  Brett: Of course that was Heather Small with Crowd.
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  Brett: The song that was released in 2000, written before the Olympics that summer, but became an official album as a theme song for Queer Smoke in the United States.
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  Brett: Let's move now into David Audio Cry in the Name of Love, which features a ton of queer positive artists covering you two.
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  SPEAKER_15: One man.
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  SPEAKER_15: Take your prize.
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  SPEAKER_13: Till the day I finally saw the light.
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  SPEAKER_13: Wish I was in gay.
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  SPEAKER_13: Wish I was and gay.
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  SPEAKER_13: I don't wish I was and gay no more.
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  SPEAKER_13: Shut that closet door.
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  SPEAKER_11: And I don't wish I was in gay no more.
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  SPEAKER_11: Preacher used to tell me I was headed straight to hell.
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  SPEAKER_11: Something that I tried but couldn't change.
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  SPEAKER_13: Holy revelation I've been saved.
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  SPEAKER_13: Wish I wasn't gay.
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  SPEAKER_13: Wish I wasn't gay.
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  SPEAKER_13: I don't wish I wasn't gay no more.
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  SPEAKER_13: We born I don't wish I wasn't gay no more.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_15: Thought that I was close with no end inside.
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  SPEAKER_15: Till I found my frozen family tree.
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  SPEAKER_15: Kitty Crane of Doctors is a friend of mine.
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  SPEAKER_13: Some cheers shoots queers like you and me.
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  SPEAKER_13: Wish I wasn't gay.
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  SPEAKER_13: Wish I wasn't gay.
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  SPEAKER_13: I don't wish I was gay.
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  SPEAKER_15: I can see the sadness in your eyes.
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  SPEAKER_13: You've been trying to hide what's left behind.
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  SPEAKER_15: They say it's darkest before the dawn.
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  SPEAKER_15: But you've been smiling for so long.
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  SPEAKER_15: Thousand teardrops can't be wrong.
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  SPEAKER_15: I can tell you're sad boy just like me.
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  SPEAKER_15: On the run from a losing game.
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  SPEAKER_15: Just batch your eyes, baby, let me feel my hand.
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  SPEAKER_15: I don't want you to be afraid.
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  SPEAKER_15: Let me see you cry.
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  SPEAKER_15: Come on, baby.
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  SPEAKER_15: I want you to be a brain.
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  SPEAKER_15: Come on, baby cry.
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  SPEAKER_15: Come on, baby cry.
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  SPEAKER_15: Come on, baby.
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  Brett: That was our country salute to pride from the Calgary, with which I was engaged.
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  Brett: And then Orville Taco, Come on, Baby Cry.
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  Brett: You can't have Pride with Alma Donna.
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  Brett: And this is our new song with Arena Carpenter.
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  Brett: Bring your love.
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  Brett: You are listening to queer voices on APFT.
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  unknown: I got something I wanna talk about.
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  SPEAKER_04: Madonna I got something I wanna talk about.
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_04: Don't comment on my ideas.
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  SPEAKER_04: I don't want your judgment on your expectations.
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  SPEAKER_04: Don't want me a good boy.
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  SPEAKER_04: Your vision of me is a cute joy.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_04: I know everybody's a buried.
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  SPEAKER_04: Don't try to drop me out.
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  SPEAKER_04: Don't try to distract me with numbers.
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  SPEAKER_04: I did it all for that.
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  SPEAKER_04: You cannot take me back.
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  SPEAKER_04: But you cannot take me down.
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  unknown: Don't rely on my mouth.
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  unknown: All my discretion.
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  unknown: I have a confession.
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  SPEAKER_04: Don't get them up, beat for action, beat back I know where the bodies are buried.
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  SPEAKER_04: Don't try to make Don't try to destroy Bring it to Freder.
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  SPEAKER_04: You've got something to say about it.
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  SPEAKER_04: Don't wanna come from my eyes.
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  SPEAKER_04: Always be the price.
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  SPEAKER_15: Don't wanna hell a confession of the church.
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  SPEAKER_04: But dear for the Will, you can take me.
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  SPEAKER_12: They blowin' all around me.
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  SPEAKER_12: It's flowing through my body.
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  SPEAKER_12: I can feel it.
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  SPEAKER_12: I can feel it.
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  SPEAKER_12: Don't know if I'm awake or dreamin'.
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  SPEAKER_12: There must be something in here.
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  SPEAKER_12: But time is disappearing.
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  SPEAKER_12: This moment's never leaving.
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  SPEAKER_12: I can feel it.
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  SPEAKER_12: I can feel it.
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  SPEAKER_12: You got discussed, enough another can stop it.
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  SPEAKER_15: It's crazy, I'm falling.
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  SPEAKER_15: I don't know what else to call it.
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  SPEAKER_04: Then we've done together.
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  SPEAKER_04: End up the day could be better.
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  SPEAKER_12: Tomorrow, don't matter.
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  SPEAKER_12: Make the night us together.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_12: So do we do Free Fall, get some new emotion?
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  SPEAKER_12: I swear there's diamonds in your eyes.
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  SPEAKER_12: Come hold me like you mean it.
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  SPEAKER_12: Don't wanna keep this secret.
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  SPEAKER_12: Can you feel it?
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  SPEAKER_12: My heart beat it.
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  SPEAKER_12: You make me wanna do this while things good touches, supernatural.
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  SPEAKER_12: Oh, I give I just feel it.
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  SPEAKER_12: I'm floating through the ceiling.
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  SPEAKER_12: Can you feel it?
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  SPEAKER_12: I can feel it.
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  SPEAKER_12: Oh you got this body, and nothing all I can stop it.
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  SPEAKER_04: It's crazy.
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  SPEAKER_04: I'm falling, I don't know what I've called it.
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  SPEAKER_04: Don't matter, make the next everyone.
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  unknown: Do you believe in that?
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  SPEAKER_15: Don't worry about it.
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  SPEAKER_15: Joke down your side.
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  SPEAKER_15: The queerest of the cards.
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  SPEAKER_15: I want the work to know.
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  SPEAKER_15: Got to let it show.
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  SPEAKER_15: I want the work to know.
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  SPEAKER_10: Got to let it show.
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  SPEAKER_10: There's a new me coming out, and I just have to live.
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  SPEAKER_10: And I wanna get.
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  SPEAKER_10: I'm completely positive.
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  SPEAKER_10: I think this time around, I am gonna do it like you never knew it.
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  SPEAKER_10: Oh, I'll make it through.
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_10: The time has come for me to break out of the shell.
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  SPEAKER_15: I have to show that I am coming.
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  SPEAKER_15: I'm coming up.
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  SPEAKER_15: I want the world to know.
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  SPEAKER_15: I got to let it show.
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  SPEAKER_15: I come it up.
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  SPEAKER_15: I want the work to know.
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  SPEAKER_15: I got to let it show I come in.
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  unknown: I want the work to know.
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  unknown: I come, I love it.
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  unknown: Come, I want the wants to know.
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  SPEAKER_10: I've got to show the world all that I wanna be, and all my abilities.
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  SPEAKER_10: There's so much more to me.
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  SPEAKER_10: Somehow I'll have to make them just understand.
• 41:41
  SPEAKER_10: I got it well in head, and all how I've led.
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  SPEAKER_10: I'm scrapping up, there is no need to fear, and I just feel so good every time I hear I'm coming up.
• 41:57
  SPEAKER_04: I want the world to know.
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  SPEAKER_04: I got to let it show up for it, come on, for now, got to let show.
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_10: I want to watch you know that you let me show me that.
• 45:01
  SPEAKER_15: Yesterday you came to lift me straw and grids of earth.
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  SPEAKER_15: Today I will less than a shadow to all just one of voice and heart.
• 45:32
  SPEAKER_15: Tomorrow leave the windows open as fear grows.
• 45:42
  SPEAKER_15: Please hold me in your arms.
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_15: Won't you help me if you can to shake this anger and need your gentle hands to keep me calm?
• 46:03
  SPEAKER_15: Cause I never thought I'd lose.
• 46:08
  SPEAKER_15: I only thought I'd win.
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_15: I never dreamed I'd flee.
• 46:18
  SPEAKER_15: I can't believe you love me.
• 46:23
  SPEAKER_15: I never thought you'd come.
• 46:26
  SPEAKER_15: I guess I've misjudged love between a father and his son.
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  SPEAKER_15: Things we never said come together, the hidden truth no longer haunting me.
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  SPEAKER_15: Tonight we touched on the things that were never spoken that kind of understanding sets me free Cause I never thought I'd lose.
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  SPEAKER_15: I always thought I'd win.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_15: I never dreamed I'd feel beneath my skin.
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  SPEAKER_15: I can't believe you love me.
• 47:35
  SPEAKER_15: I never thought you hung.
• 47:39
  SPEAKER_15: I guess I must just love between a father.
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  SPEAKER_15: You can't be long.
• 48:45
  SPEAKER_15: Do you be life out of love?
• 48:51
  SPEAKER_15: I can feel some same signs saying.
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  SPEAKER_15: I really don't think strong enough.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_15: What am I supposed to do?
• 49:19
  SPEAKER_15: Sit around and wait for you when I can't do that.
• 49:29
  SPEAKER_15: It takes time to move on.
• 49:33
  SPEAKER_15: It takes love to feel strong.
• 49:42
  SPEAKER_15: Maybe I'm too good for you to love.
• 49:46
  SPEAKER_15: Do you believe in life after love?
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  SPEAKER_15: I can feel some things inside you say.
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  SPEAKER_15: I really don't think strong enough.
• 50:02
  SPEAKER_15: Do you believe in love after love?
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  SPEAKER_15: I can feel some things I say.
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  SPEAKER_15: The minute I'm thinking strong enough love.
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  SPEAKER_15: And I know that I'll get through this.
• 50:31
  SPEAKER_15: I don't need you anymore.
• 50:35
  SPEAKER_15: I don't need you anymore.
• 50:38
  SPEAKER_15: I don't need you anymore.
• 50:42
  SPEAKER_15: I don't need you anymore.
• 50:48
  SPEAKER_15: Do you believe I belong?
• 50:54
  SPEAKER_15: I can feel something inside me, say.
• 50:58
  SPEAKER_15: I really don't think you're strong enough.
• 51:03
  unknown: Do you believe I love?
• 51:09
  SPEAKER_15: I can feel something inside me say.
• 51:14
  SPEAKER_15: I really don't think you're strong enough.
• 51:24
  SPEAKER_15: Do you believe in life after love?
• 51:44
  Brett: Adam Lambert paying tribute to Cher with his cover of Believe, and before that, the last song by Elton John.
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  Brett: That was his 1992 single about the AIDS crisis.
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  Brett: And let's close it out with a pride anthem from Lady Gaga.
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  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't matter if you love him or Capital H I M.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just put your paws up.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cause you were born this way, baby.
• 52:26
  SPEAKER_05: My mama told me when I was young.
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  SPEAKER_05: We were almost too fast.
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  SPEAKER_05: The doesn't want to do you ask your dead Cause it made you perfect.
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  SPEAKER_05: So on the death of the fucking Don't be a draft, just be a clean.
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  SPEAKER_07: Don't be a drag, just be a clean.
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  SPEAKER_05: Don't we care to be careful?
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  SPEAKER_05: I'm about to be myself.
• 54:51
  SPEAKER_07: Your left is your Oreo.
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  SPEAKER_07: But so like disabilities left you out half of the teeth.
• 54:57
  SPEAKER_07: Rejoice and love yourself today.
• 55:02
  SPEAKER_06: Let's be a friend of the vibe.
• 55:04
  SPEAKER_06: I'm on the right, back to baby.
• 55:07
  SPEAKER_06: I was born up the back, don't I?
• 55:12
  SPEAKER_15: I'm on the right, back to the baby, I was born up to birds, but bonus but bonus with that.
• 56:11
  SPEAKER_01: Safety and pay.
• 56:37
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• 56:42
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• 56:46
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• 56:48
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• 56:52
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  SPEAKER_09: For Queer Voices, I'm Glenn Holt.