Twenty-one years ago today @TheEllenShow came out publicly on national TV. The backlash was fierce and her future cast in doubt. In this 2001 interview hear a beloved icon at a crossroads. Listen to the full episode here: http://bit.ly/mgh-degeneres
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In this week’s episode: Ellen DeGeneres didn’t grow up thinking that she’d be a pioneer in the fight for LGBTQ equal rights and visibility. But that’s exactly where she found herself in 1997 when she broke out of the professional closet she’d inhabited since becoming a standup comic. Listen via your podcatcher (subscribe here http://bit.ly/mgh-subscribe) or at this link: ttp://bit.ly/mgh-degeneres
When Deborah Johnson & Zandra Rólon Amato, veterans of the LGBTQ civil rights movement, headed out for a romantic dinner in Los Angeles in 1983, they had no idea that they’d wind up in court defending their right to be served
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Listen: When gay-bashing homophobes put Joyce Hunter in the hospital, they could never have imagined their brutal act would propel Joyce into a leading role helping LGBTQ youth avoid the kind of traumatic childhood she had experienced.
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Photo: Joyce Hunter in her office at the Hetrick-Martin Institute talking with two students from the Harvey Milk High School, 1986. Credit: © JEB—Joan E. Biren.
Listen: Jean O’Leary was passionate—about women, nuns, feminism, and equal rights. She left an indelible mark on the women’s movement and the LGBTQ civil rights movement, but not without causing controversy, too. After all, she was a troublemaker. And proud of it. Listen to the full episode here: http://bit.ly/mgh-oleary1 . Photo: Jean O’Leary at the July 1, 1979 Houston, Texas, Gay Pride Parade.Jean had just changed from a white dress shirt to the Houston Gay Pride Week T- shirt. She was wearing nothing underneath, hence the big smile on Jean’s face and on the faces of the spectators. Credit ©Larry Butler, courtesy of the Botts Collection, University of Houston Libraries.
This Saturday in Brooklyn: JoinMaking Gay History, Food 4 Thot, Nancy and LGBTQ&A for the biggest, queerest live show, one night only. Get your tickets here http://bit.ly/bigqueerpodfest
New episode! Everybody loves Ellen. But that wasn’t always so. When she came out on screen and in real life the backlash was fierce and her future cast in doubt. In this 2001 interview hear a beloved icon at a crossroads. Listen via your podcatcher (subscribe here http://bit.ly/mgh-subscribe) or via this link: http://bit.ly/mgh-degeneres
Zandra Rólon Amato recalls being denied service in a romantic booth with Deborah Johnson at the Papa Choux restaurant in Los Angeles in 1983. Hear the whole story on this week’s episode via your podcatcher (subscribe at http://bit.ly/mgh-subscribe) or at this link: http://bit.ly/mgh-johnson-rolon
Like most pioneers across time, Ellen DeGeneres brushed past the risks knowing full well that there was peril in stepping off the ledge. For Ellen that peril was the potential loss of everything she’d worked for, including her very popular TV sitcom that featured Ellen DeGeneres as Ellen Morgan. Listen now to her episode via your podcatcher (subscribe here http://bit.ly/mgh-subscribe) or at this link: http://bit.ly/mgh-degeneres
New episode! In 1983, Deborah Johnson and Zandra Rólon Amato went to a Los Angeles restaurant for what was supposed to be a romantic dinner. Instead they wound up in court. They fought back against discrimination and won.
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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.