Eric Marcus’s podcast, the third season of which premiered last week, uses each episode to dive deep into forgotten figures and events from the LGBTQ civil rights movement, as remembered by the people who lived it. It’s been downloaded in 206 countries and territories around the world, seen rave reviews, and made a number of best-of podcast lists.
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“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.“
‘In the early 20th century, Arabs were ashamed of their ancient history,’ [Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, a gay imam] added. ‘They tried to purify it, censor it, to make it more masculine. There had to be nothing about femininity, homosexuality or anything. That’s how we got to how we are today.’
“He was an activist,” said Sara Burningham, producer of Making Gay History, a podcast about important figures in North American LGBTQ history.
“He was not a central activist but he was there at some really important moments in the civil rights struggle.
"But what’s become almost as important about him is that photograph.”
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.
In his Making Gay History interview, Larry talks about how he thought he was the only gay student at Yale when he was a freshman in 1953. Today, Yale maintains an Office of LGBTQ Resources. To learn about the history of LGBT studies at Yale, click here: https://lgbts.yale.edu/history-lgbts-yale.
Listen to the full episode at this link:
http://bit.ly/mgh-kramer
(and subscribe here: http://bit.ly/mgh-subscribe).
Photo: Kramer in cap and gown in between his parents at his 1957 Yale graduation.
Credit: Photo courtesy of Larry Kramer Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Unlike ethnic or national communities, queer and trans people aren’t born into our histories. A lot of us have to struggle through years of confusion and pain before we discover a continuity of brothers, sisters and lovers.
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.