On this day in 1955, Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon founded 1st lesbian political organization in US: Daughters of Bilitis. Stay tuned for their story in Season 3, starting next month. In the meantime, listen to voices of other members: i.e.
Shirley Willer, Episode 12:
http://bit.ly/mgh-willer
Barbara Gittings and Kay Lahusen, Episode 9:
http://bit.ly/mgh-gittings-lahusen1
Episode 18:
http://bit.ly/mgh-gittings-lahusen
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Photo of #EdieWindsor at the #NYC #PrideMarch in 2016. 📷 by Suzanne Poli.
#Repost for #indigenouspeoplesday via @logotv: Adored by her tribe, We'Wha was considered two-spirit and regarded as a cis woman by her tribe. Narrated by @lavernecox and illustrations by @arzola_d. #activism #activists #gay #gayrights #gayhistory #haveprideinhistory #history #humanrights #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqi #lgbthistory #lgbtpride #oralhistory #podcast #pubmedia #queer #queerhistory #resist #socialjustice #trans #transgender #2spirit #twospirit #zuni #Wewha
#Repost @gaysagainstgunsny: Our motto - #HonorThemWithAction PHOTO by @mattxiv from our march on Monday in #NYC. Attend the next meeting at @lgbtcenternyc on Thurs 10/5. Details at this link:
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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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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
In the first episode of our third season, we visit Sylvia Riveras’s kitchen, for the second part of a never-before-heard interview from 1989. Pull up a chair for a conversation with the Stonewall veteran and trans rights pioneer who reflects on a life of activism while she cooks a pot of chili. Listen via your podcatcher (see link in bio) or retype this link in your web browser: http://bit.ly/mgh-rivera-part2
First episode of Season 3! Welcome back to Sylvia Rivera’s kitchen, for the second part of a never-before-heard interview from 1989. Pull up a chair for a conversation with the Stonewall veteran and trans rights pioneer who reflects on a life of activism while she cooks a pot of chili. Listen via your podcatcher or at this link : http://bit.ly/mgh-rivera-part2
STAR stands for the “Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries.”
Photo credit: Photo by Harvey Wang from Holding On: Dreamer’s, Visionaries, Eccentrics and other American Heroes (W.W. Norton & Co 1995).
For #NationalComingOutDay, Bonus Episode — Edythe Eyde’s Gay Gal’s Mixtape. Listen to full episode via your podcatcher or here: 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: http://bit.ly/mgh-eyde1 . 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.
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.