This is a tape three side one

I've been told I've got a good speaking voice.

You have. Yeah. Hi, I'm Eric Marcus.

This is Making Gay History and we're back for our third season.

We're bringing you 10 new episodes of never before heard interviews drawn from my archive of decades

old conversations with LGBTQ trailblazers.

Voices of people you've heard of and some you haven't. Like J.J. Belanger and his account of love and

acceptance in the 1940s. Daddy walked from the pantry. He walked through with

his brandy in a cigar in one hand and here we were doing our thing in front of the fireplace

with not a thing on and daddy just looked at it says hi fellas see in the morning and

breakfast you'll meet Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin who founded the first national

organization for lesbians. I mean it was a Sunday September afternoon and we were

cleaning house and where would we have gotten the idea about starting a national

movement in September of 1955.

You'll hear from Morris Kite, who moved to Los Angeles in the late 1950s and joined the fledgling

movement.

The state was a source of oppression, repression, exploitation.

The state, in all of its delivery of services, did not deliver those services to us at all,

indeed denied them from us.

Indeed, the state was a source of much of our oppression.

We'll have more from the one and only Sylvia Rivera and her activism beyond Stonewall.

So June comes out of the bathroom and she walks right in front of the council table.

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