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Witness History: Pride Month, from the BBC

 BBC Pride

BPR will air special programming this month in celebration of Pride Month, kicking off with:

Witness History: Pride Month, from the BBC

Fri., 6/9 @ 9am on BPR NEWS

Remarkable stories of LGBT+ rights, told by the people who were there.

Witness history features first-hand accounts, archive material, and insight from historians – in this “Pride Month” special, we meet the first openly gay political candidate in the US, revisit the first pride march in the UK, and hear about the diaries of the woman commonly referred to as “the first modern lesbian” -- that’s “Witness History: Pride Month” from the BBC – Friday morning at 9 on BPR News