Season 4: Episode 7: Reed Erickson

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🗓️ 27 December 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Reed Erickson was a trans man with a big checkbook, a pet leopard, big dreams for a better world for gay people and trans folks—and single-handedly financed ONE Incorporated and founded the first trans rights organization. Morgan M Page and AJ Lewis join MGH to help us bring Reed’s story to life. 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.
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 making gay history dot com and click on the link in our
0:35.5	home page banner and thank you so much.
0:38.1	I'm Eric Marcus and this is making gay history. As you've been hearing through the voices of this season of the show, the early LGBTQ civil rights
1:00.4	organizations and activists faced all kinds of
1:03.3	potentially devastating challenges from internal conflicts over
1:06.7	goals and tactics to FBI investigations and police entrapment. But there's one
1:12.0	challenge we haven't explored yet. That's money. Or, more precisely,
1:17.6	lack of money. Take one incorporated, for example. Our last couple of episodes have focused on the people
1:24.1	who in the early 1950s launched that organization's first effort,
1:28.3	One Magazine.
1:30.1	We shared with you their disagreements and infights,
1:32.3	the court battle with the US post office
1:34.1	to send one magazine through the mail, and a landmark win in the US Supreme Court.
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