Hello, and welcome to History It's Gay, a podcast that examines the underappreciated and overlooked

queer ladies, gents, and gentle enbies that have always been there in the unexplored corners of history,

because history has never been as straight as you think.

Thank you. Hello, everyone.

I'm Lee.

Lee Feffer, your host of history is gay podcast coming into your ears and into your podcast feeds for another episode. Yay! I am joined today by a wonderful guest host. It's his first time on the show,

and we're going to be talking about some cool stuff together. So without further ado, I would like to

introduce Tyler Albertario. Hello.

Hello, Lee. It's wonderful to be here. How are you? Yeah. I'm doing well. How are you? I'm excited that we get to

talk about things today, especially just considering your focus in your work. I'm excited.

Well, thank you. I appreciate that. But yes, it's wonderful to be here talking

about the history of the homophile movement. Yes. Yeah, that's what we're going to talk about today.

We're going to talk about early LGBTQ organizing pre-Stonewall. This is part of our kind of

rainbow rising series that we never actually turned into a series. It was just one

episode that we did ages ago and now I'm bringing it back. Yeah, so Tyler, before we get into our

main topic and continue with the intro, your name might not be familiar to some folks listening

to the episode. So could you introduce yourself? Tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do in this work.

Sure. My name is Tyler Arbitario. I'm an amateur LGBTQ historian. I currently working in a bunch of

really cool projects. I run a Twitter account where I try to post a little snippet of LGBTQ history

every day. It's getting a little tough lately with everything going on my life. But I do my best. And

I produce a lot of great content pertaining to LGBTQ history that I think a lot of people really

love and enjoy. And please check me out there. Well, thank you so much for coming on today. And

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