Revisiting the Archive: Episode 2: Edythe Eyde

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🗓️ 28 March 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Musical uplift for anxious times. When Eric Marcus interviewed lesbian publishing pioneer Edythe Eyde in 1989, she treated him to a concert for one on her front porch singing her gay songs from the '50s and ‘60s. You can’t not smile. Visit the webpage of our season one episode featuring Edythe Eyde 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	I'm Eric Marcus and this is Making Gay History.
0:07.0	We're back with another episode from the Making Gay History episode archive.
0:14.0	This time, recording from a closet instead of under a table surrounded by comforters.
0:20.0	Last week I was trying to get that perfect recording studio sound that, well, isn't possible to get under a table surrounded by comforters. The news here in New York City grows more grim by the day and we're apparently not even close to the peak of what's coming.
0:39.0	I'm finding it hard to sleep.
0:42.0	Some of those sleepless hours are spent worrying about my brother
0:45.3	who does intake at an emergency room in Annapolis, Maryland, and my niece, who's a nurse and works
0:50.8	at an urgent care place in Worcester, Massachusetts.
0:54.0	She had a scare, but the illness that kept her at home for the past week turned out not to be COVID-19.
1:00.0	Her test came back negative.
1:02.0	So she's back at work and in danger of exposure again.
1:05.0	I'm so proud of my brother and niece.
1:09.0	I just wish that proper protective gear wasn't in such short supply. But I'm working really hard not to spend
1:16.4	all my time during the night fretting. Sometimes I take myself back in time to places where I found joy and inspiration. One of those places was the front
1:26.7	porch of a modest bungalow in Burbank, California, for a very special concert from Edith
1:32.3	I'd for an audience of one, just me.
1:35.0	I interviewed Edith in 1989 for the first edition of the Making Gay History book.
1:41.0	What interested me about Edith was the newsletter she published for
1:45.0	lesbians on her office typewriter at a Hollywood movie studio in 1947.
1:50.0	1947? You can hear more about that part of Edith's life and are pioneering
1:57.4	contributions to the LGBT-movement in an episode from our first season.
2:01.6	But the episode I'm revisiting today
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