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A transgender woman who’s spent nearly 50 years preserving trans history · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 3: Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath. Coming up, some quality queer creatures. First, though,
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  Speaker 3: the transgender woman who spent nearly 50 years preserving trans history.
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  Speaker 3: Bob Davis from California says it all started with a
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  Speaker 3: magazine called Female Mimics International in 1980, and being a
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  Speaker 3: compulsive collector, things snowballed in the decades since. So she
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  Speaker 3: set up the Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive to house all
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  Speaker 3: these artefacts, including trans-related books, posters, artwork, newsletters and photos.
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  Speaker 4: Louise has a tremendous impact on the formation of the
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  Speaker 4: contemporary trans community. She's one of the unsung mothers, I
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  Speaker 4: call her. There's one thing I really wish people would
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  Speaker 4: know when they leave the archives, something they would have discovered.
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  Speaker 4: This is not unusual. It's not a new idea. It's
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  Speaker 4: part of being human.
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  Speaker 3: Bob was named one of the Grand Marshals at the
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  Speaker 3: San Francisco Pride Parade over the summer. Her archive's named
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  Speaker 3: after Louise Lawrence, a transgender pioneer in California. She began
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  Speaker 3: living as a woman full-time back in 1942 and helped
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  Speaker 3: advance understanding of gender non-conformity among medical researchers. Next, an
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  Speaker 3: evangelical pastor reckons being gay... should get you executed. Happy Thursday, everyone.
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  Speaker 3: Awful Alan Stout, who's from a church in Florida, has
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  Speaker 3: been speaking to Italian TV, telling them homosexuality is a
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  Speaker 3: grave sin and a crime worthy of the death penalty.
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  Speaker 3: This Christian crackpot's also against transgender rights. Who'd have thought?
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  Speaker 3: And thinks women should obey their husbands. Pride Daily. And
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  Speaker 3: Adelaide Zoo in Australia is celebrating queer creatures with its
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  Speaker 3: Beaking the Binary tour. Like breaking the binary. It's a
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  Speaker 3: visual pun, really. They're exploring the huge diversity of sex,
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  Speaker 3: reproduction and social behaviours to be found across the animal kingdom,
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  Speaker 3: showing this is actually a fundamental part of the natural world.
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  Speaker 3: Don't tell Pastor Alan Stout, for God's sake. He'll have
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  Speaker 3: them all put down. Aside from gay penguins, which we've
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  Speaker 3: all heard about, come on, you can also learn about
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  Speaker 3: the fat-tailed dunnut, a tiny mouse-like marsupial with both male
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  Speaker 3: and female biological traits. Help shape the future of Pride
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