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In July of 1969, gay men and women fought back against police raids at New York City’s Stonewall Inn, an event often called the birth of the gay rights movement. Four decades later, many activists say enormous progress has been made, but others feel full equality is still far away. We’ll see where the gay rights movement stands today.

Guests

• Dudley Clendinen, former national reporter and editorial writer for The New York Times and author of several books including Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America
• Irene Monroe, Baptist minister, coordinator of the African-American roundtable of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry (CLGS) at the Pacific School of Religion, and gay rights blogger at the Huffington Post

We'll also hear from

• Genny Beemyn, director of the Stonewall Center at UMass Amherst and a board member at the Transgender Law and Policy Institute