Welcome back to Sylvia’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’s reflects on a life of activism while she cooks a pot of chili.
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Just as we did for our first two seasons, we’re taking a deep dive into my decades-old audio archive to bring you the voices of LGBTQ history. For the start of this new season, we’re bringing you the second part of a conversation that host Eric Marcus had with Sylvia Rivera back in 1989.
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Sylvia Rivera would have loved knowing that in the years since her death in 2002 she’s become an icon—a symbol of LGBTQ people fighting back against police repression and fighting for respect and equal rights. But she’d also want you to know that she was a human being, born in the Bronx in 1951. Eleven years later the self-described effeminate child found himself homeless and hustling on 42nd Street to scratch out enough money to get by. Sylvia was all of seventeen when she crossed paths with history at the Stonewall Inn on the night of June 28, 1969. She died at 51, having struggled with addiction and homelessness for much of her life, even as she continued to fight for trans rights and LGBTQ equality.
Photo: Sylvia Rivera posing in front of fountain, 1970
Credit: Photo by Kay Tobin courtesy of Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
While you’re waiting for Season 3 of the podcast… A Sylvia Rivera Encore. Sylvia Rivera would have loved knowing that in the years since her death in 2002 she’s become an icon—a symbol of LGBTQ people fighting back against police repression and fighting for respect and equal rights. Listen via your podcatcher, the link in our bio or by retyping this link in your web browser: http://bit.ly/mgh-rivera3 Video credit: Clip from 1973 Christopher Street Liberation Day rally in Washington Square Park via Lesbians Organized for Video Excellence
“While “Making Gay History” podcast covers some well-known LGBTQ activists like Sylvia Rivera and lesbian duo Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin — host Eric Marcus also covers less known historical figures like Morty Manford, Perry Watkins, and Paulette Goodman. Marcus takes decades old archived audio interviews to “create intimate, personal portraits of both known and long-forgotten champions, heroes, and witnesses to history.”And it is well worth the listen. Many of these activists have been forgotten about because LGBTQ people and stories weren’t deemed as important at the time they were creating change. Marcus is ensuring that they will not be forgotten any longer and the work they paved for our current LGBTQ community will be remembered.“
There are lots of other historic sites throughout Philadelhia that played a part in the LGBTQ rights movement.
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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All students do better when they receive a full picture of the past – and that includes LGBTQ history, says Eliza Byard, executive director of GLSEN. “There are periods of U.S. history that make a lot more sense when you include LGBT history,” she says.
Sergeant Perry Watkins played by the rules. The U.S military did not. Drafted in 1968, he was thrown out fifteen years later despite his honesty and stellar record of service. He fought back and won. (Photo: Perry’s high school yearbook photo via Classmates.com)
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Listen via your podcatcher (subscribe here http://bit.ly/mgh-subscribe) or by visiting http://MakingGayHistory.com
New episode! Sergeant Perry Watkins played by the rules. The U.S military did not. Drafted in 1968, he was thrown out fifteen years later despite his honesty and stellar record of service. He fought back and won. Listen to more of his story via your podcatcher (subscribe here http://bit.ly/mgh-watkins) or visit
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Steve Stewart shot this photo of Sgt. Perry Watkins near his home in Tacoma, Washington in 1983 as part of a book of photographs called Positive Images: A Portrait of Gay America, published by Olympic Marketing Corp in March 1985.
Credit: Photo by Steve Stewart from his book: Positive Image: A Portrait of Gay America, www.stevejstewart.com
Happy birthday to Frida Kahlo The legendary Mexican artist would have been 111 today. Her work has inspired generations of artists. Frida occasionally wore men’s clothing and was proudly bisexual — despite the world being hostile to LGBTQ people in the early 20th century. 📸: #NickolasMuray The first portrait was taken by Frida’s father, Guillermo Kahlo, in 1926.