The Pentagon's Secret Gaggle of Gays, from Nancy

The Sound of Pride: Stonewall at 50 | Jun 19, 2019

Even after "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was repealed, the military wasn't an easy place to be out.

  • Audrey Quinn, a WNYC health reporter, reported and produced this story.
  • Special thanks to Alex Wagner, Tarak Shah, Todd Breasseale, and Sue Fulton.
  • All season we'll be reporting stories about being out at work. Tell us yours at nancypodcast.org/work.

Episode scoring by Jeremy Bloom and Isaac Jones with additional music by Andy G. Cohen ("A Perceptible Shift"), Kevin MacLeod ("Dances and Dames," "Faster Does It," and "I Knew a Guy"), Anamorphic Orchestra ("Creature Comforts" and "Taking Dark Matter Lightly"), the U.S. Army Band ("To The Color"), and the U.S. Army Old Guard Fife & Drum Corps ("Soldier's Farewell").

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