“I thought that someone was pulling a prank on me, but I was overcome with joy when my attorney told me that it was all true, that I had been pardoned by the governor.”
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Listen via @KPCC: “The history of LGBT people in #LosAngeles is incredibly rich. In 1950, activist Harry Hay founded the Mattachine Society to fight for gay rights. The nation’s first large-scale and documented protests happened here in 1967 at the Black Cat Tavern. And the Metropolitan Community Church, the nation’s first LGBT-inclusive congregation, began holding services in 1968. But less is known about the history of LGBT people of color during these same years. "In many ways we’re only starting to understand the breadth of queer history in Los Angeles,” says David Evans Frantz, curator at the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC. Those stories are in the spotlight at “Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in #Chicano L.A.,” now on exhibition at MOCA Pacific Design Center.“ Listen by retyping this link in your web browser: http://bit.ly/queer-chicanos
Photo of #EdieWindsor at the #NYC #PrideMarch in 2016. 📷 by Suzanne Poli.
“Virginia has changed so rapidly over the past 20 years. It’s gone from a state where no politician would dare to condemn the Confederacy to a state where a suburban district would elect a transgender candidate,” said Stephen J. Farnsworth, a political-science professor at the University of Mary Washington. “The Old Dominion gives way to a very different New Dominion.”
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.
Listen at this link: http://bit.ly/mgh-rivera-part2
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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
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
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
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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#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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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.