#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
Last week, our host Eric Marcus received an award from the Oral History Association. Here’s a photo with an MGH fan, Karen Wisely, a graduate student from the University of North Texas. The second photo is the award which reads: “2017 Oral History in a Nonprint Format Award for outstanding use of oral history is presented to Making Gay History, Eric Marcus, creator and host.” .
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
#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:
bit.ly/gag-oct5
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Today would have been Maraha P Johnson’s 72nd birthday. Marsha P. Johnson and Randy Wicker took dramatically different approaches to activism, but each left an indelible mark on the LGBTQ civil rights movement. Listen to the full episode at the link in our bio or by typing this link into your web browser: http://bit.ly/mgh-johnsonwicker
Making Gay History at the the United Nations! This week during the UN General Assembly in New York, our producer Sara Burningham attended an event entitled “Ending Violence and Discrimination against LGBTI Persons.” You can read the speech given by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein here
On this day in 1955, Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon founded 1st lesbian political organization in US: Daughters of Bilitis. Stay tuned for their story in Season 3, starting next month. In the meantime, listen to voices of other members: i.e.
Shirley Willer, Episode 12:
http://bit.ly/mgh-willer
Barbara Gittings and Kay Lahusen, Episode 9:
http://bit.ly/mgh-gittings-lahusen1
Episode 18:
http://bit.ly/mgh-gittings-lahusen
New Yorkers! The @NationalParkService service invites you to a public meeting to learn about Stonewall National Monument’s first planning initiative - development of a foundation document. Stop by @LGBTCenterNYC, 208 W 13th Street in Manhattan on Tuesday September 26 to share your ideas and learn how you can be involved: For more information, visit this link: http://bit.ly/stonewall-planning
Photo of #EdieWindsor at the #NYC #PrideMarch in 2016. 📷 by Suzanne Poli.
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