Making Gay History
Vintage voices of people who changed the world. Making Gay History mines Eric Marcus’s decades old audio archive of rare interviews — conducted for his award-winning oral history of the LGBTQ civil rights movement — to create intimate, personal portraits of both known and long-forgotten champions, heroes, and witnesses to history.
- Website
- http://makinggayhistory.com
- Description
- Vintage voices of people who changed the world. Making Gay History mines Eric Marcus’s decades old audio archive of rare interviews — conducted for his award-winning oral history of the LGBTQ civil rights movement — to create intimate, personal portraits of both known and long-forgotten champions, heroes, and witnesses to history.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-02-20 10:19
- last episode published
- 2025-02-20 09:00
- publication frequency
- 20.95 days
- Contributors
- Eric Marcus
- Author
- Eric Marcus and Sara Burningham
- Owner
- Explicit
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- Number of Episodes
- 147
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- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture Sexuality History Health & Fitness
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Episodes
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| 2025-02-20 | In 1939, French teenager Pierre Seel had his watch stolen at a cruising spot in his hometown. When he reported the crime to the police, he was placed on a list of suspected homosexuals. Two years later, with the city now under Nazi occupation, he was s... |
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| 2025-02-13 | Polish teenager Stefan Kosinski was beaten, tortured, and sent to prison. His crime? He fell in love with a Viennese soldier serving in the German army. When the soldier was sent to the Eastern Front, Stefan sent him a love letter, which was intercepte... |
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| 2025-02-06 | In our second introductory episode, we focus on life in the Nazi concentration camps and offer a glimpse into the experiences of LGBTQ people in occupied countries during WWII as we continue to set the context for the eight profile episodes to follow. ... |
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| 2025-01-30 | In this first of two introductory episodes, hear how the walls closed in on LGBTQ people after Hitler came to power through the recorded and written memories of multiple queer people who witnessed or fell victim to the Nazis’ persecution. Visit our epi... |
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| 2025-01-27 | Host Eric Marcus welcomes listeners to MGH’s “Nazi Era” series by going back in time to 1980 and a darkened Broadway theater where his interest in LGBTQ Holocaust history was kindled. Join Eric as we embark on a 12-episode journey and honor Holocaust R... |
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| 2024-11-08 |
WWFKD — Drawing Strength from One of Our Movement’s Most Ferocious Crusaders Frank Kameny lived by three rules: have absolute confidence in your beliefs; fight for what’s right; never, ever give up. Let them be a battle cry in these dark times. Visit MGH’s webpage for the original 2016 episode featuring Frank Kameny for backgro... |
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| 2024-07-24 |
Guest Episode: But We Loved: Evan Wolfson, Godfather of the Marriage Equality Movement In 1983 Evan Wolfson wrote a law school thesis that asserted that gay people had a constitutional right to marry. Thirty-two years later, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed as much. In this guest episode from But We Loved, get to know the man behind one o... |
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| 2024-06-28 | Like so many other acts of LGBTQ resistance, the 1969 Stonewall riots could have become a footnote in history. But the protests and organizing that followed launched a new phase in the fight for LGBTQ rights. Hear how anger found its voice and how joy ... |
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| 2024-06-21 | The Stonewall uprising began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969. Revisit that moment, and the hours and days that followed, with voices from the Making Gay History archive. Relive in vivid detail the dawning of a new chapter in the fight for L... |
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| 2024-06-14 | Conflict has context. In this first episode of Making Gay History’s Stonewall season, we hear stories from the pre-Stonewall struggle for LGBTQ rights. We travel back in time to the turbulent 1960s and take you to the tinderbox that was Greenwich Villa... |
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