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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'I Will Never Lie About Being Gay Again': LGBT Activist Remembers Source Of Pride

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

Fifty years ago this month, police raided a gay bar in New York City called the Stonewall Inn. It was a common occurrence at the time. But on this night, the raid ignited six days of protests and violence. What became known as the Stonewall riots sparked the modern LGBT rights movement. Today from StoryCorps, looking back on life before Stonewall. Eighty-two-year-old Alexei Romanoff sat down with his husband, David Farah, to talk about growing up gay in New York in the 1950s.

ALEXEI ROMANOFF: I already knew that I was gay at 14. And there was a group of us, so we would hang out together. We couldn't get into the bars, but there was a park called Bryant Park. It was kind of like a gay hangout. And there was an older man that used to come at least once a day. He was about 86 years old. And to this day, I don't know his real name. All I know him by is what we called him - Mother Bryant.

He would sit and tell us what it was like to be gay in 1890 when he was 20. He would tell us about the police in the town he came from. They would beat him every day. They didn't want to put him in jail. They just wanted him to go anywhere else. And he moved to New York City, where he'd be anonymous1. Here was a man that openly spoke2 out about being gay, and I was needing that kind of tutoring to feel good about myself. I was never ashamed of being gay, but I got to admit I hid it.

Later on, I met somebody, and we wanted to move in together. But in those days, two men couldn't rent an apartment together if they weren't related. So we used to lie and say, we're brothers, but we had different fathers. That's why our last names are different. So I went to this apartment with my partner at the time, and we looked at it. And we liked it. We said, we'll take it.

Then the landlord asked us, what's the relationship between the two of you? And the thing that stuck in my mind was Mother Bryant. He said, when you're ready to leave this Earth, as I am, if you haven't left your community in a better place than you found it, then you haven't lived. And I wanted to live, so I said, he's my partner and my lover. And then I look at my partner, and his face was as white as a ghost. His mouth was hanging open, and there was this look of, what the hell have you just done? And the landlord looks at me, says, OK. Here's the key. I got goose bumps.

And I looked up, and I said, thank you, Mother Bryant. I will never lie about being gay again. And I haven't to this day. You know, after all these years, I think to myself, I hope I'm a lot like Mother Bryant. He was responsible for making me proud of who I am.

(SOUNDBITE OF BLUE DOT SESSIONS' "SURLY BONDS")

MARTIN: That was Alexei Romanoff speaking with his husband David Farah at StoryCorps in 2015. Yesterday, the NYPD police commissioner3 formally apologized for the raid at Stonewall. They said it was, quote, "wrong; plain and simple."


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1 anonymous lM2yp     
adj.无名的;匿名的;无特色的
参考例句:
  • Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。
  • The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。
2 spoke XryyC     
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
参考例句:
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
3 commissioner gq3zX     
n.(政府厅、局、处等部门)专员,长官,委员
参考例句:
  • The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
  • He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。
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