LGBT history podcast
Podcast
Making Gay History Genre LGBTQ oral history Language English Hosted by Eric Marcus Audio format Podcast (via streaming or downloadable MP3) No. of seasons15 Original release October 13, 2016 (2016-10-13 ) Updates Weekly Website makinggayhistory
Making Gay History oral history podcast on the subject of LGBT history , featuring trailblazers, activists, and allies. Most episodes draw on the three-decade-old audio archive of rare interviews conducted by the podcast's founder and host Eric Marcus in the late 1980s and 1990s.
Marcus began interviewing notable figures in the LGBTQ civil rights movement in the late 1980s while writing an oral history of the movement. The first edition of the book, published in 1992 under the title Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990, [ 1] [ 2] Stonewall Book Award winner in 1992 and was described by acclaimed oral historian Studs Terkel as "[o]ne of the definitive works on gay life." In the late 1990s, Marcus undertook another round of interviews for the updated second edition of the book, which was titled Making Gay History (2002).
In 2016, Marcus revisited the archive of his original recordings, which had since been digitized by the New York Public Library , along with executive producer Sara Burningham, who suggested that the interviews be used as the basis for a podcast.[ 3] [ 4]
Since its launch in October 2016, the podcast has featured interviews with transgender rights icon Sylvia Rivera ;[ 5] Lisa Ben ;[ 6] Ellen DeGeneres ;[ 7] Pauline Phillips ("Dear Abby");[ 8] Ernestine Eckstein and Bayard Rustin , and has used contemporary interviews to chronicle the life and work of Magnus Hirschfeld and Reed Erickson .[ 9] [ 10] Marsha P. Johnson .[ 11]
For the eighth season of the podcast, Marcus partnered with the Studs Terkel Radio Archive to release interviews conducted by the legendary radio host and oral historian Studs Terkel. Marcus cites Terkel and his work as inspiration for his own.[ 12]
In February 2020, Making Gay History was adapted for the stage at New York University 's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development .[ 13]
The podcast's ninth season, "Coming of Age During the AIDS Crisis," is an audio memoir exploring Marcus's memories of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.[ 14]
In September 2017, NBC Out Making Gay History was voted #2 out of 11 ranked.[ 15]
In October 2017, the Oral History Association honored Making Gay History with its Oral History in a Nonprint Format Award.[ 16]
On December 27, 2019, The Atlantic Making Gay History' s Stonewall 50 season one of the best podcasts of 2019.[ 17]
Season 1
Episode
Date
Episode 1
Sylvia Rivera , Part IOctober 13, 2016
Episode 2
Wendell Sayers (called Paul Phillips in the book Making Gay History )[ 18]
October 20, 2016
Episode 3
Edythe Eyde October 27, 2016
Episode 4
Dr. Evelyn Hooker
November 3, 2016
Episode 5
Frank Kameny November 10, 2016
Episode 6
Jeanne & Morty Manford November 17, 2016
Episode 7
Chuck Rowland November 23, 2016
Episode 8
Pauline Phillips (Dear Abby) December 1, 2016
Episode 9
Barbara Gittings & Kay Tobin Lahusen December 8, 2016
Episode 10
Vito Russo December 15, 2016
BONUS
Love is Love
February 14, 2017
Season 2
Episode
Date
Episode 1
Marsha P. Johnson & Randy Wicker March 2, 2017
Episode 2
Shirley Willer March 9, 2017
Episode 3
Hal Call March 16, 2017
Episode 4
Jean O'Leary , Part IMarch 23, 2017
Episode 5
Jean O'Leary , Part IIMarch 26, 2017
Episode 6
Morris Foote
March 30, 2017
Episode 7
Herb Selwyn April 6, 2017
Episode 8
Barbara Gittings & Kay Tobin Lahusen , Part IIApril 13, 2017
Episode 9
Evander Smith & Herb Donaldson April 20, 2017
Episode 10
Joyce Hunter
April 27, 2017
Episode 11
Tom Cassidy May 4, 2017
BONUS
Rewind: Sylvia Rivera, Part I
October 5, 2017
BONUS
Edythe Eyde 's Gay Gal's MixtapeOctober 11, 2017
Season 3
Episode
Date
Episode 1
Sylvia Rivera , Part IIOctober 22, 2017
Episode 2
Perry Watkins October 26, 2017
Episode 3
Ellen DeGeneres November 2, 2017
Episode 4
J.J. Belanger
November 9, 2017
Episode 5
Deborah Johnson & Zandra Rolón Amato
November 16, 2017
Episode 6
Larry Kramer November 23, 2017
Episode 7
Phyllis Lyon & Del Martin November 30, 2017
Episode 8
Morris Kight December 7, 2017
Episode 9
Paulette Goodman December 14, 2017
Episode 10
Greg Brock
December 21, 2017
Episode 11
Morty Manford December 28, 2017
BONUS
Love Is Love
February 14, 2018
BONUS
Kay Lahusen 's Gay TableJune 21, 2018
BONUS
Farewell Dick Leitsch
June 23, 2018
Season 4
Episode
Date
Episode 1
Introduction
October 25, 2018
Episode 2
Magnus Hirschfeld October 25, 2018
Episode 3
Harry Hay November 1, 2018
Episode 4
Billye Talmadge November 15, 2018
Episode 5
Dorr Legg , Martin Block & Jim Kepner of ONE November 29, 2018
Episode 6
Stella Rush (who wrote under the pseudonym Sten Russell)December 13, 2018
Episode 7
Reed Erickson December 27, 2018
Episode 8
Bayard Rustin January 10, 2019
Episode 9
Ernestine Eckstein January 24, 2019
Episode 10
Dick Leitsch February 7, 2019
Episode 11
Martha Shelley February 21, 2019
Season 7 (Revisiting the Archive)
Episode
Date
Episode 1
Frank Kameny
March 21, 2020
Episode 2
Edythe Eyde
March 28, 2020
Episode 3
Wendell Sayers
April 4, 2020
Episode 4
Shirley Willer
April 11, 2020
Episode 5
Vito Russo
April 18, 2020
Episode 6
Kay Lahusen's Gay Table
April 25, 2020
Episode 7
Ellen DeGeneres
May 2, 2020
Episode 8
Morris Foote
May 9, 2020
Episode 9
Joyce Hunter
May 16, 2020
Episode 10
Perry Watkins
May 23, 2020
Episode 11
Larry Kramer
May 29, 2020
Episode 12
Bayard Rustin
June 7, 2020
Episode 13
Larah Helayne & Jean O'Leary
June 18, 2020
Season 9 (Coming of Age During the AIDS Crisis)
Episode
Date
Chapter 1
Buried Headline
July 1, 2021
Chapter 2
Not Alone
July 15, 2021
Chapter 3
318 West 22nd Street
July 30, 2021
Chapter 4
Complications of AIDS
August 12, 2021
Chapter 5
In or Out
August 27, 2021
Chapter 6
Making History
September 10, 2021
Season 10
Episode
Date
Episode 1
Randy Shilts February 24, 2022
Episode 2
Dr. Ronald Grossman
March 3, 2022
Episode 3
Sara Boesser
March 10, 2022
Episode 4
Randy Boyd March 17, 2022
Episode 5
Ann Northrop March 24, 2022
Episode 6
Michelle Lopez
March 31, 2022
BONUS
Rewind: Stonewall 50: Episode 1: Prelude to a Riot
June 2, 2022
BONUS
Rewind: Stonewall 50: Episode 2: "Everything Clicked...And the Riot Was On"
June 9, 2022
BONUS
Rewind: Stonewall 50: Episode 3: "Say It Loud! Gay & Proud!"
June 16, 2022
BONUS
Rewind: Stonewall 50: Episode 4: Live from Stonewall
June 23, 2022
Season 11
Episode
Date
Episode 1
Craig Rodwell November 3, 2022
Episode 2
Rev. Carolyn Mobley-Bowie
November 10, 2022
Episode 3
Faygele Ben-Miriam November 17, 2022
Episode 4
Urvashi Vaid November 24, 2022
Episode 5
Robert Bauman December 1, 2022
Episode 6
Kathleen Boatwright
December 8, 2022
BONUS
A Complicated Love Story
February 14, 2023
Season 12 (Coming of Age During the 1970s)
Episode
Date
Chapter 1
A Surge of Energy
April 13, 2023
Chapter 2
Fire Island and Other Stories
April 27, 2023
Chapter 3
Family Ties
May 11, 2023
Chapter 4
Respectable
May 25, 2023
Chapter 5
Thank You, Anita
June 8, 2023
Chapter 6
Marching On
June 29, 2023
Season 13 (Dismantling a Diagnosis)
Episode
Date
Episode 1
A Kind of Madness
December 15, 2023
Episode 2
The Cure
December 22, 2023
Episode 3
Out of the DSM & into the Present - A Conversation about LGBTQ+ Mental Health
December 29, 2023
GUEST
Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows: Mourning in America
February 15, 2024
BONUS
Feminist Bookstores: A Love Story - with June Thomas
May 23, 2024
Season 14 (The Nazi Era)
Episode
Date
Episode 1
Prologue
January 27, 2025
Episode 2
Overview, Part I
January 30, 2025
Episode 3
Overview, Part II
February 6, 2025
Episode 4
Stefan Kosinski
February 13, 2025
Episode 5
Pierre Seel February 20, 2025
Episode 6
Frieda Belinfante February 27, 2025
Episode 7
Gad Beck March 6, 2025
Episode 8
Lucy Salani March 13, 2025
Episode 9
Margot Heuman March 20, 2025
Episode 10
Kenneth Roman
March 27, 2025
Episode 11
Fredy Hirsch April 3, 2025
Episode 12
Epilogue
April 10, 2025
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