Season 4: Episode 9: Ernestine Eckstein

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🗓️ 24 January 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Ernestine Eckstein is an iconic figure from the 1960s homophile movement—from photos showing her as the only African American woman at the earliest protests, to her trailblazing cover story in The Ladder. Now we can put a voice to those images with a never-before-heard 1965 interview. 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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0:18.4	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.
0:41.0	I'm Eric Marcus and this is making gay history. The first time I saw Ernestine X-teen 30 years ago now, I had no idea who she was,
1:02.0	but I'll never forget the image.
1:04.0	I was looking at black and white photographs of an October
1:07.7	1965 picket line in front of the White House
1:10.9	organized by Frank Kammany, founder of the Madishing Society of Washington, D.C.
1:16.5	It was one of the first times gay people had organized to come together and publicly
1:20.3	demand their rights here in the US.
1:23.6	The photos showed a couple of dozen earnest-looking white men in suits walking in circles
1:27.9	holding protest signs.
1:29.6	As far as I could tell, there was only one exception, the only woman I could see in the parade of protesting
1:34.1	men, a black woman dressed in stylish office clothes, a white blouse, dark skirt suit, and
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