Bringing the voices of queer history to life through intimate conversations with LGBTQ champions, heroes, and witnesses to history.
As we approach World AIDS Day on 12/1, we’re revisiting episodes of people we lost to the disease. The late author and activist #VitoRusso is best known for his 1981 landmark book, The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies, and for co-founding both GLAAD (originally known as the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), and ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). Vito died from complications of AIDS on November 7, 1990. He was 44.
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#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
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.
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.
New episode! Morris Kight was a whirling dervish champion of LGBTQ civil rights. He cut his activist teeth in the labor, civil rights, and anti-war movements, and from 1969 on brought all his passion to bear on catapulting himself and L.A.’s gay liberation efforts onto center stage.
Greg Brock never liked the limelight, but the self-described “sissy boy” from Mississippi, didn’t get a choice. From the moment he was born in 1953, it was clear he was different. And the way he was different brought him the kind of attention no one wants—from bullies, gay bashers, and a disappointed father.
But Greg Brock blazed a trail for LGBTQ journalists by being himself. No small thing given what the world was like for journalists when Greg was building a career at big city newspapers. At the time of his 1989 Making Gay History interview, Greg had been out on the job at the Charlotte Observer, the Washington Post, and the San Francisco Examiner, where he was the assistant managing editor in charge of page one. Greg was the highest level openly gay person working at a mainstream newspaper anywhere in the United States.
You likely know his face from an iconic 1953 photo booth photo. But there’s a full life’s story behind that photo that includes love, heartbreak, Alfred Kinsey, and fighting for trans rights. Listen to J.J. Belanger’s story on the podcast this week via your podcatcher (subscribe here http://bit.ly/mgh-subscribe) or at this link: http://bit.ly/mgh-belanger
Greg Brock blazed a trail for LGBTQ journalists by being himself at a time when being yourself could sabotage your career or cost you your job. But Greg didn’t just come out on the job, he came out to everyone on the “ “Oprah Winfrey Show" for the first #NationalComingOut Day on October 11, 1988. Listen to his story at http://bit.ly/mgh-brock
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Morris Kight was a major force in the fight for LGBTQ equal rights in Los Angeles—and he was literally at the front of the parade. .
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