Unlike our usual format of featuring one or two voices in each episode, in “Prelude to a Riot” we share multiple voices to set the stage for that now-iconic night on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village when LGBTQ people said “Enough!” in a voice so loud and angry that it was the police who ran from us and not the other way around.
And that’s the story we cover in this first of four episodes marking the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. Just a riot and the rest was history.īut I quickly discovered that Stonewall had rich, complex, fraught, compelling, exciting, and inspirational backstory. Gay people fought back against police oppression and the gay rights movement was born. Episode Notesįrom Eric Marcus: Context is everything! When I first started researching the Making Gay History book (originally called Making History and now available as an e-book ), I thought that the Stonewall uprising was a singular event. Credit: From the collection of Tom Bernardin. Signs of infection can include fever along with lesions in the genital area.Matchbook cover advertising Bonnie’s Stonewall Inn, c. Symptoms from the latest outbreak have been relatively mild, with patients usually recovering in a matter of weeks without hospitalization. “We need to slow it down, but it does not spread in the air and we have vaccines to protect against it.” Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP, File A leading doctor who chairs a World Health Organization expert group described the unprecedented outbreak of the rare disease monkeypox in developed countries as “a random event.” Cynthia S. Meanwhile, Heyman stressed that the disease is containable and not airborne. Possible cases have been identified in three US states thus far - New York, Massachusetts and Florida.
The WHO has confirmed about 90 cases of monkeypox in a dozen countries including the US, Germany, France, Israel and Denmark. Photo credit should read FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images He said monkeypox may have sparked up again because of sexual activity at European raves. The chairman of the World Health Organization Emergency Committee, Professor David L. “By nature, sexual activity involves intimate contact, which one would expect to increase the likelihood of transmission, whatever a person’s sexual orientation and irrespective of the mode of transmission,” said Mike Skinner, a virologist at Imperial College London. “And then there were these international events that seeded the outbreak around the world, into the US and other European countries.”īut health officials warn that the virus can spread by close contact with infected parties or their clothing. “It’s very possible there was somebody who got infected, developed lesions on the genitals, hands or somewhere else, and then spread it to others when there was sexual or close, physical contact,” Heymann said. What is monkeypox? Where it’s spreading and warning signs
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An image created during an investigation into an outbreak of monkeypox, which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1996 to 1997, shows the arms and torso of a patient with skin lesions due to monkeypox. The German cases have been linked to sexual activity at raves. Spanish officials said monkeypox cases there have been traced to a Gay Pride celebration in the Canary Islands that drew tens of thousands of revelers. Most of the recent confirmed cases in Europe are linked to sexual contact between men. Until now, monkeypox had not spread beyond Africa, where the disease has been traced to human contact with infected animals. “And it looks like the sexual contact has now amplified that transmission.” “We know monkeypox can spread when there is close contact with the lesions of someone who is infected,” he said. David Heymann said that the unusual spread could have originated from sexual encounters at recent gatherings in Belgium and Spain. The ongoing monkeypox outbreak could have stemmed from sexual activity at raves in Europe, according to a World Health Organization expert.ĭr. Virginia sees its first presumed monkeypox case: report International simulation in 2021 ‘predicted’ current monkeypox outbreak NYC reports two new monkeypox cases, bringing citywide total to four