Coming of Age During the AIDS Crisis: Chapter 6: Making History

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🗓️ 10 September 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Being HIV+ was a virtual death sentence. So why get tested? But by 1988 there is a promising, if toxic, drug shown to extend life. Eric and Barry schedule their first test just as Eric starts work on his oral history book about the gay and lesbian civil rights movement. Visit our episode webpage for background information, archival photos, and other resources. For exclusive Making Gay History bonus content, join our ⁠Patreon community⁠. ——— To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi History Makers, Eric here. A few months ago we launched Making Gay History's Patreon
0:06.0	channel, a place where we're sharing new video interviews never before heard clips from
0:10.5	my archive that didn't make it into the episodes and more. If you're not a member of our Patreon
0:15.3	community yet, I hope you'll join today. Just $5 a month gets you access to these Making
0:20.7	Gay History extras, and you'll support us as we work to bring LGBTQ history to life
0:26.2	through the voices of the people who lived it. Find out more at patreon.com slash Making
0:31.6	Gay History, or go to Making Gay History.com and click on the link in our homepage banner.
0:36.9	And thank you so much.
0:39.0	I'm Eric Marcus, and in this season of Making Gay History, I've been revisiting my past
0:47.9	to tell you about the early years of the AIDS crisis when I was coming out and coming
0:52.1	of age as people around me were getting sick and dying. I've returned to memories from
0:57.6	the 1980s trying to reconstruct what happened because it turns out it's part of our LGBTQ history
1:04.4	and because ultimately it's the story behind Making Gay History and how and why it came
1:09.2	about.
1:16.0	This is our sixth and final chapter, Making History.
1:25.3	This is Talk Radio, I'm Michael Jackson. I want to turn immediately to Eric Marcus, the
1:34.0	author of the Male Couples Guide, to living together. We're speaking with homosexual
1:38.2	males who are couples. Throughout 1988, I crisscrossed the country promoting the Male Couples
1:44.2	Guide with appearances on local TV, CNN, and a lot of talk radio shows where the calls
1:51.0	range from hateful to heartfelt.
1:53.5	Hi, John. Hi. Yes, sir. I'm calling to tell you that we match my lover and I in 1956.
2:00.3	We've been together since that. That did too, yes.
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