“I was outraged that I didn’t know my history. We were not the fairies. We were not the cowering, fearful people I heard us described as. These were tough people, living through the most — unimaginable to me — difficult times.”
- Eric Marcus (host of “Making Gay History”)
Interesting article about Edythe Eyde via @washingtonpost:
Also check out/revisit our episode with Edythe at
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“Things are worse now than they have ever been in Indonesian history for gay people.”
Sometimes it’s hard to ask the next question. That’s what happened when I brought up the subject of AIDS with Morty Manford. You can’t see it because this is audio, but what I saw in that moment, was that Morty’s eyes quickly filled with tears. And that’s why I asked him if AIDS was something I shouldn’t ask about.
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“By choosing to enforce silence, the institutional church pretends that gay priests and religious do not really exist. Because of this, there are no authentic role models of healthy, well-balanced, gay, celibate priests to be an example for those, young and old, who are struggling to come to terms with their sexual orientation. This only perpetuates the toxic shaming and systemic secrecy.”
Morty Manford was one of thousands of young people who joined the fight for gay liberation in the early 1970s. As a member of the Gay Activists Alliance, he challenged New York City’s mayor face to face in a successful effort to get the police off the backs of the gay community.
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Black Gay History and the Fight Against AIDS
“History could be a source of healing, acting as a balm for the psychological and spiritual wounds that Black gay men suffered at the intersection of racism and homophobia.”
These Jamaican LGBTIs found an amazing way to build bridges – by painting the local police station.
Gay sex is illegal in Jamaica. And the police station in question has a particularly painful history for one of the organizers of the painting party.
“I want to celebrate the new, but I also feel an urgent need to document things before they are lost to history.”
