Bayard Rustin demonstrating in Washington, D.C., in the late 1940s to “Free Imprisoned War Objectors.” Credit: Photo courtesy of the Estate of Bayard Rustin
"None of us is free and none of us can practice democracy fully so long as any other segment of the community or any country is not democratic." —Bayard Rustin #MakingGayHistory #BlackHistoryMonth
🔊 bit.ly/mgh-rustin
📣 JUST ANNOUNCED: During 2026, Life Jacket will be the first-ever theatre company in residence w/ #MakingGayHistory, the nonprofit educational organization that brings LGBTQ+ history to life through the voices of the people who lived it. 🎭️🎤 1/6
The first Mattachine Christmas party, December 1951, colorized. From left to right: Konrad Stevens (back of head), Dale Jennings (in profile), Harry Hay, Rudi Gernreich, Stan Witt, Bob Hull, Chuck Rowland, and Paul Bernhard. Credit: © John Gruber
The first Mattachine Christmas party, December 1951, colorized. From left to right: Konrad Stevens (back of head), Dale Jennings (in profile), Harry Hay, Rudi Gernreich, Stan Witt, Bob Hull, Chuck Rowland, and Paul Bernhard. Credit: © John Gruber
Season’s greetings from #MakingGayHistory!
📸 The first Mattachine Christmas party, December 1951, colorized. From left to right: Konrad Stevens (back of head), Dale Jennings (in profile), Harry Hay, Rudi Gernreich, Stan Witt, Bob Hull, Chuck Rowland, and Paul Bernhard. Credit: © John Gruber
Making Gay History host Eric Marcus and #GayUSA's Ann Northrop recording our mini-podcast episode
Making Gay History host Eric Marcus looking out at crowd
Broadway star Adam Kantor
NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project's Ken Lustbader and Amanda Davis
Thanks to the wonderful audience members who came to QUEER QUIZ SHOW, and to Broadway star Adam Kantor, @nyclgbtsites.bsky.social's Ken Lustbader and Amanda Davis, and Ann Northrop (#GayUSA) for helping record our live mini-podcast recording of #MakingGayHistory. 🎤 🏳️🌈🎉
Photo Credit: Loris Guzzetta
American journalist and broadcaster Eric Marcus, best known as the host of the Making Gay History podcast, was BOTD in 1958, turning 69 today. #ericmarcus #supergays #bornonthisday #makinggayhistory
Making Gay History event to watch The Queen, Photo credit: Loris Guzzetta
Making Gay History event to watch The Queen, Photo credit: Loris Guzzetta
Eric speaks at the Making Gay History event to watch The Queen, Photo credit: Loris Guzzetta
Making Gay History event to watch The Queen, Photo credit: Loris Guzzetta
Thanks to the sold-out audience who came out to watch THE QUEEN for Movie Night, and for participating in our live mini-podcast recording of #MakingGayHistory. 🎤👠💋👑
🎟️ Three more events are scheduled for this season! #MakingGayHistoryLive 👇
linktr.ee/makinggayhistorypodcast
📷 Loris Guzzetta
Kick off #LGBTQHistoryMonth by going back to the very beginning, where #MakingGayHistory began nearly eight years ago. And stay tuned all month long for clips from our archive of interviews with LGBTQ trailblazers!
🔉 makinggayhistory.org/season-one/
Larry Kramer at home in 1989, after he learned he was HIV positive. Credit: Sara Krulwich for The New York Times
“The New York Times article that alerted everybody, really, was July 3, ’81 ... When I saw that in the @nytimes.com, I was scared … the Times has a way of making you really sit up and say wow.” — activist and writer Larry Kramer, speaking with Eric in 1989 #MakingGayHistory
🔊 bit.ly/mgh-kramer
Close-up of the front page/cover sheet for the @sfexaminer.bsky.social “Gay In America” series, June 4, 1989. Credit: Courtesy of the Oakland Museum of California
In June 1989, @sfexaminer.bsky.social ran a 16-day special report, “Gay in America,” in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. No news outlet had published anything like it before. Greg Brock was a driving force behind the series. #MakingGayHistory
🔊 bit.ly/mgh-brock
Film still of Lucy Salani, aged 95, from the 2021 documentary “C’è un soffio di vita soltanto” (“A Breath of Life”) directed by Matteo Botrugno and Daniele Coluccini. Credit: Blue Mirror and Kimerafilm.
Among those on #MakingGayHistory season 14 is Italian trans woman Lucy Salan:
“There was a guard who would take a piece of white bread, cut off a slice, remove the crust, and put the butter on, right in front of us — we who were so hungry..." 1/4
Undated photo of Fredy Hirsch. Credit: Beit Theresienstadt, Kibbutz Givat Haim-Ihud, Israel
🚨🚨NEW EPISODE🚨🚨 Fredy Hirsch was one of the most charismatic gay heroes of the Nazi era. Hear from those who knew him best—the child survivors he devoted himself to protecting and saving in the Theresienstadt ghetto and later in Auschwitz. #MakingGayHistory
🔊 bit.ly/mgh-hirsch
Join Eric IN PERSON next week in London for “Voices from the Shadows,” a powerful event exploring LGBTQ+ experiences during the Nazi era. Presented in partnership with Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR). #MakingGayHistory
Register: www.outsavvy.com/event/26475/...
📸☝️ Sylvia (center), her partner Julia Murray (right) and friend Christina Hayworth). Credit: © Luis Carle
#TDOV In 2015, Sylvia Rivera made transgender history when this portrait was added to the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. It’s the first portrait of a transgender person to be included in NPG's holdings. #MakingGayHistory #TransgenderDayOfVisibility
Italian-born Lucy Salani was assigned male at birth, so when she came of age during Benito Mussolini’s fascist regime, she was conscripted into the Italian army. #MakingGayHistory
🔉 bit.ly/mgh-salani
Those with black triangles were categorized as “asocials,” a catchall for ethnic groups such as the Sinti and Roma. The persecution experienced by LGBTQ+ individuals during the Nazi era is the focus of our current series, now available where you get your podcasts. #MakingGayHistory
Image courtesy Toni Boumans via US Holocaust Memorial Museum US Holocaust Museum
🚨🚨NEW EPISODE🚨🚨
“What do you want sir, shave or a haircut?” For three months, Dutch lesbian resistance fighter Frieda Belinfante disguised herself by presenting as a man. She was so convincing that even the barber didn’t suspect. #MakingGayHistory
🔉 bit.ly/mgh-belinfante
Kay Lahusen (left) and Barbara Gittings in 1995 on the steps of their house in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Credit: Photo by Ray Harriman. Courtesy Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
In the aftermath of the June 1969 #Stonewall riots, Barbara Gittings and Kay Lahusen found themselves challenged by younger activists new to the movement. And that’s where the dinosaurs in the photo come in. #MakingGayHistory
🔉 bit.ly/mgh-gittings...
As you listen to stories of the homosexual experience during the Holocaust, replay season four, episode one. Eric interviews a group of experts and archivists dedicated to seeing Hirschfeld’s legacy understood and celebrated. #Holocaust #MakingGayHistory
🔉 bit.ly/mgh-hirschfeld
The stories you’ll hear this season are shocking and upsetting. But we owe it to the people who had the courage to share them to bear witness to their suffering, their fortitude, their survival. #Holocaust
#MakingGayHistory: The Nazi Era is available where you get podcasts.
🔉 bit.ly/mgh-season14
Event on AIDS at the Center for Brooklyn History w/ Making Gay History guest Michelle Lopez
Michelle Lopez is a force of nature, a survivor of #HIV/#AIDS, and a #MakingGayHistory favorite. Join her on 11/25 at the #CenterforBrooklynHistory w/ @thenation.com and the makers of @wnyc.org podcast "Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows."
RSVP: bit.ly/3Z4fVkw
Michelle on MGH: bit.ly/mgh-lopez
Thread on the erasure of queer history from hostile archival traditions #makinggayhistory #gaywall
