Season 4: Episode 11: Martha Shelley

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🗓️ 21 February 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Brooklyn-born Martha Shelley was a rebel. She didn’t like being told what to do, wear, or say. She hated the lesbian bars, and even after joining the Daughters of Bilitis she strained against the self-imposed limits of the homophile movement. All along, the 1960s revolution called to her. Visit our episode webpage for background information, archival photos, and other resources. 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.
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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 this is making a history. This is the last episode of season four of Making Gay History. During this season, we've gone back in time to 1897 and the very first gay
1:06.6	rights organization in the world, Magnus Hirschfeld's Scientific Humanitarian Committee in
1:11.5	Germany. We've followed the stories of the very earliest
1:15.4	activists in the US who took inspiration from Dr Hirschfeld and started the first
1:20.1	organizations here. And we've traced the history of these
1:23.9	organizations as they grew, became visible, and started challenging the status quo.
1:30.1	But as this season about beginnings draws to a close, we're approaching a moment that many believe to be the beginning.
1:37.5	The Hot Nights in June 1969 that have become the central story of the fight for LGBT-Q equal rights, often described as where it all began.
1:48.0	The next season of making gay history will focus on that inflection point and its aftermath.
1:54.3	But for now, we've got some more of the pre-Stonewall story to tell.
1:58.3	It's a story about transition from the mid-century homophile movement to the era of gay liberation that followed.
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