Season 10
Out gay journalist Randy Shilts desperately wanted to work for a big-city newspaper. No one wanted him. But reporting on the AIDS crisis brought him the success and fame he craved—and more than a little controversy.
Randy Shilts
Out gay journalist Randy Shilts desperately wanted to work for a big-city newspaper. No one wanted him. But reporting on the AIDS crisis brought him the success and fame he craved—and more than a little controversy.
What is the Making Gay History podcast?
The Making Gay History podcast mines Eric Marcus’s decades-old audio archive of rare interviews — conducted for his award-winning oral history of the LGBTQ civil rights movement — to create intimate, personal portraits of both known and long-forgotten champions, heroes, and witnesses to history.
Who is funding the Making Gay History Foundation?
Funding — Making Gay History is made possible with generous funding from the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, which supports investigative journalism, the arts, and documentary film. Funding — The Calamus Foundation awards grants to charitable organizations for programs and activities that focus on services to the LGBT community ...
What is MGH in history?
Making Gay History (MGH) is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization that addresses the absence of substantive, in-depth LGBTQ-inclusive American history from the public discourse and the classroom by providing a window into that history through the stories of the people who helped a despised minority take its rightful place in society as full and equal citizens. In so doing, MGH aims to encourage connection, pride, and solidarity within the LGBTQ community and to provide an entry point for both allies and the general public to its largely hidden history.
How much has the American Theatre raised?
By drawing upon the talents, resources, and generosity of the American theatre community, since 1988 they have raised more than $300 million for essential services for people with HIV/AIDS and other critical illnesses in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, DC.
Who is Will Coley?
Digital Strategist — Will Coley is an independent radio producer and digital media strategist, originally from North Carolina, now based in Queens, New York.
Who is Brian Ferree?
Archival Researcher — Brian Ferree is an archival researcher of gender and sexuality and a student of queer history at Hunter College. Most recently, he was the research assistant for When Brooklyn Was Queer, by Hugh Ryan, and the exhibition “Violet Holdings: LGBTQ+ Highlights from the NYU Special Collections.”.
Who is Eric Marcus?
Founder & Host — Eric Marcus is the author of a dozen books, including two editions of Making Gay History (the original 1992 edition is entitled Making History ), Why Suicide?, and Breaking the Surface, the #1 New York Times bestselling autobiography of Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis. Eric is also the co-producer of Those Who Were There, a podcast drawn from the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. And he is the founder and chair of the Stonewall 50 Consortium . Learn more about Eric in this NBC News profile.
What was Sylvia's impact on the LGBT movement?
In a 2015 NBC News article “A Forgotten Latina Trailblazer,” reporter Raul Reyes gives a solid overview of Sylvia’s life and her impact on the LGBT civil rights movement in New York City, although he mistakenly states that the Stonewall uprising marked the start of the LGBT civil rights movement.
How old was Sylvia when she met history?
Sylvia was all of seventeen when she crossed paths with history at the Stonewall Inn on the night of June 28, 1969.
Who was the trans activist at Stonewall?
In our first episode you’ll meet Sylvia Rivera. She was an iconic trans activist who also happened to be at Stonewall in 1969, June 28, the night of the big uprising.
Who was Ray Rivera's interviewer?
Eric : Interview with Ray Rivera, Saturday, December 9, 1989, at 4:00 p.m. Location is the home of Ray Rivera in Tarrytown, New York. Interviewer is Eric Marcus. Tape 1, Side 1.
Who composed the theme music for Making Gay History?
Our theme music was composed by Fritz Meyers. Making Gay History is a co-production of Pineapple Street Media, with assistance from the New York Public Library’s Manuscripts and Archives Division, which provided us with the Ernestine Eckstein archival tape, and the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
Who coined the phrase "gay is good"?
EM Narration: And a quick reminder that Frank Kameny was the founder of the Mattachine Society of Washington, DC, and a proud militant homosexual who coined the phrase “gay is good.”. He was the organizer of the 1965 protests that Ernestine marched in.
What year did Eckstein picket?
You can see a glimpse of Eckstein picketing at 28:50 in “The Homosexuals,” a controversial CBS program from 1967 hosted by “60 Minutes” veteran correspondent Mike Wallace. You can see footage of the 1968 Annual Reminder in “The Second Largest Minority,” a short documentary by Lilli Vincenz, here.
Who interviewed Ernestine on MGH?
It was MGH’s executive producer Sara Burningham’s idea to renew the search, and she learned from Marcia Gallo’s exhaustive work documenting the Daughters of Bilitis that homophile power couple Barbara Gittings and Kay Lahusen had interviewed Ernestine at great length on tape in 1965.
Who was Barbara Gittings?
And they were showing me all their issues of The Ladder. ———. EM Narration: Pioneering activist Barbara Gittings was the editor of The Ladder from 1963 to 1966, and her partner in life and activism, Kay Lahusen, was a photojournalist who also wrote for the magazine. ———.
Who was the founder of the Mattachine Society?
I was looking at black and white photographs of an October 1965 picket line in front of the White House organized by Frank Kameny, founder of the Mattachine Society of Washington, DC. It was one of the first times gay people had organized to come together and publicly demand their rights here in the US.
Who was the leader of the July 4th picket line?
Ernestine Eckstein was one of the first participants in the July 4th “Annual Reminders,” picket lines organized by homophile organizations—under the leadership of Frank Kameny —from 1965 to 1969 at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall.