It’s in this landscape—one where trans people must hold our history close, the better for it to fuel our march forward—that Jackie Shane has burst forth once more, her work a totem of empowerment and confidence during troubled times.
It’s not a history lesson, Mac reminds us, but a “radical faery realness ritual sacrifice”.
Wendell Sayers was born 113 years ago today. Listen to his story in the episode from our 1st season at this link: http://bit.ly/mgh-sayers .
We’re back with more stories from queer history as told by the people who lived it. Drawing on decades-old archival audio tape, you’ll hear intimate, personal interviews with LGBTQ civil rights pioneers.
• Sylvia Rivera at a gay rights demonstration in Albany, New York, 1971. Photo by Diana Davies courtesy of the New York Public Library’s Manuscripts and Archives Division. .
• Phyllis Lyon (left) and Del Martin in an undated photo (as seen in the 2003 documentary “No Secret Anymore: The Times Of Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon”). Photo courtesy of A.F. Archive/Alamy.
• Block (left) and J. J. Belanger cheek-to-cheek in a photo booth at the PGE Exhibition, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Canada, 1953. Photo courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
• Sgt. Perry Watkins near his home in Tacoma, Washington, 1983. Photo by Steve Stewart from his book: Positive Image: A Portrait of Gay America, published in 1985 by William Morrow & Company.
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Making Gay History mines Eric Marcus’s 30-year-old audio archive of rare interviews to create intimate, personal portraits of both known and long-forgotten champions, heroes, and witnesses to LGBTQ history. In this preview we offer a taste of what’s to come in Season Three, featuring the extraordinary voices of J.J. Belanger, Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, Morris Kight, Sylvia Rivera, Perry Watkins, Deborah Johnson and Zandra Rolón Amato, and Ellen DeGeneres. Listen via your podcatcher or at MakingGayHistory.com
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Every Thursday this month we celebrate a member of the LGBTQ community for #LGBTHistoryMonth. This week we are celebrating out football player Michael Sam!
After
coming out, he became the first publicly gay player to be drafted in
the NFL. Since then, Michael was awarded the Arthur Ashe Courage Award
at the 2014 ESPY Awards, and was one of GQ Magazine’s Men Of The Year.
Thank you for blazing a trail for out athletes, Michael! (🎨: @heyrooney)
We’re back with more stories from queer history as told by the people who lived it. Drawing on decades-old archival audio tape, you’ll hear intimate, personal interviews with LGBTQ civil rights pioneers. Listen to more via your podcatcher or this link: http://bit.ly/mgh3
Have you listened to our bonus episode: Edythe Eyde’s Gay Gal’s Mixtape? Listen to the full episode via your podcatcher, link in our bio or by retyping this link in your browser: http://bit.ly/mgh-mixtape
To learn more about #EdytheEyde (aka, Lisa Ben) and Vice Versa, her 1947 pioneering ‘zine for lesbians, have a listen to her Making Gay History season one episode. That’s where you’ll also find additional information about Edythe Eyde’s life, writings, and music. Image: Eyde in the 1950s. Credit: Courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
October is #LGBTHistorymonth, and all month @1010WINS AM in #NYC is bringing the voices of LGBT champions from our podcast on air. Morty Manford was a gay rights activist in New York in the 1960s and ‘70s. When he was beaten up by anti-gay bigots as police officers looked on in 1972, his mother decided to speak up. That June, Jeanne Manford marched in the gay pride parade alongside her son, holding a sign that said “Parents of gays: unite in support of our children”. That something they started was #PFlag, originally known as Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. @PFlagnational is now a national organization with more than 200 thousand members and supporters and 400 chapters nationwide. The Manfords have a street corner named after them in Flushing, and a post office in Jackson Heights has been named after Jeanne and her husband Jules. Morty Manford died of complications of AIDS in 1992, aged 41. Jeanne Manford died in 2013, aged 92.
