Season 6: Episode 5: Damien Martin

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🗓️ 19 December 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Damien Martin grew up in foster care and on the streets of Philadelphia, so he knew all too well about the needs of vulnerable youth. In 1979, when he and his partner, Dr. Emery Hetrick, heard about a 15-year-old gay kid thrown out of a shelter after being gang-raped, they decided to take action. Visit our episode webpage for background information, archival photos, and other resources. For exclusive Making Gay History bonus content, join our ⁠Patreon community⁠. ——— 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. You're going to see. I'm Eric Marcus and this is making gay history.
0:59.0	The first time I saw Damien Martin was on the New York Times style page. It was December 10th
1:05.0	1984. The headline read, Homosexual Couples Find a Quiet Pride. I'd never seen anything like it and definitely not in the New York Times.
1:16.0	Mainstream press coverage of LGBTQ people has changed so dramatically since then
1:21.0	that it's hard to explain just how shocking that headline was.
1:25.0	Almost as surprising was the photo that accompanied the article.
1:29.0	Dr. Damien Martin and his partner Dr. Emory Hetrick,
1:32.0	they looked so average. A couple of
1:35.4	conservatively dressed middle-aged men, a college professor and a psychiatrist, at
1:39.7	home in their library. A domestic scene so out of step with depictions of gay men in 1984
1:46.1	that it looked bizarre to my 26 year old eyes. Hopeful too, I clipped the article and have saved
1:52.1	it ever since.
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