Season 4: Episode 1: Introduction

Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive

Making Gay History

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🗓️ 25 October 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Our fourth season is about beginnings. So we’re going to start at the beginning and hear from the activists and visionaries who got the ball rolling for LGBTQ civil rights. In this episode, meet some of the trailblazers who will guide us from 1897 in Germany to the eve of the Stonewall uprising, including Magnus Hirschfeld, Harry Hay, Ernestine Eckstein, Bayard Rustin, and Martha Shelley. 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 history
0:02.0	Eric here
0:03.0	A few months ago we launched Making Gay History's Patreon channel
0:06.0	a place where we're sharing new video interviews
0:09.0	Never Before Heard Clips from my archive
0:11.0	that didn't make it into the episodes and more.
0:14.0	If you're not a member of our Patreon community yet, I hope you'll join today.
0:18.4	Just $5 a month gets you access to these Making Gay History extras, and you'll support us as we work to bring LGBTQ history to life
0:26.1	through the voices of the people who lived it.
0:28.8	Find out more at Patreon.com slash Making Gay History. or go to making gay history
0:34.0	and click on the link in our home page banner and thank you so much.
0:38.0	I'm Eric Marcus and welcome to season four of Making Gay History. This season is about beginnings, about how the LGBT-movement began and unfolded in the years
1:01.1	before the Stonewall Uprising, and how the people who got involved in the years before the Stonewall uprising,
1:03.0	and how the people who got involved in the movement
1:04.9	pre-Stonewall got their start.
1:07.3	But in the spirit of beginnings, first I'd like to tell you
1:09.6	how the Making Gay History Project got its start in 1988, because my journey of discovery is something
1:15.5	like the journey we'll be taking together over the next 10 episodes or so.
1:20.0	It started with a phone call from an editor at Harper and Row, now Harper Collins, who commissioned
1:25.0	me to write an oral history book about what was then called the Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights Movement.
1:30.2	I was a journalist with one book under my belt about same-sex couple relationships.
1:35.0	Why me? I asked.
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