We bring LGBTQ history to life through the voices of the people who lived it, including the Making Gay History podcast (makinggayhistory.org). Since 2016.https://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3mtjotzmi7s2s“The final action took place on August 14, 1942,” remembers Kenneth Roman. Three years prior, the Nazis had arrived in Kenneth’s hometown of Gorlice, Poland. Listen to season 14, The Nazi Era, wherever you get your podcasts. https://makinggayhistory.org/season-fourteen/20 Aug 2026 16:42 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjotzmi7s2shttps://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3msiszh5r5k2q“Have you talked to Jack?” Dick Leitsch to Eric about activist Jack Nichols. It’s 1989. The AIDS epidemic is devastating the gay community. “I keep thinking, as soon as I get my nerves together I’m going to call Jack and make sure she’s okay. Please, Jack, be alright.” 🔊 http://bit.ly/mgh-dick-leitsch07 Aug 2026 14:59 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3msiszh5r5k2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3msc7wq47d22eSOLD OUT!⁠ ⁠ 🎭✨ For one night at Baryshnikov Arts Center, THE GORGEOUS NOTHINGS—the new Off-Broadway musical coming to PAC NYC and the subject of Making Gay History’s upcoming fall podcast series.⁠ ⁠ Event Co-Producers: Baryshnikov Arts Center, PAC NYC, Life Jacket Theatre Company05 Aug 2026 00:01 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3msc7wq47d22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3mruyjt6jxs2nNEW EPISODE: Lou Sullivan was turned down for gender-affirming care in the 1970s because he identified as gay at a time when all trans people were assumed to be straight—a conflation of gender identity and sexual orientation Lou made it his mission to dismantle. 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-sullivan30 Jul 2026 17:44 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mruyjt6jxs2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3mruyjt6jxs2nNEW EPISODE: Lou Sullivan was turned down for gender-affirming care in the 1970s because he identified as gay at a time when all trans people were assumed to be straight—a conflation of gender identity and sexual orientation Lou made it his mission to dismantle. 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-sullivan30 Jul 2026 17:44 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mruyjt6jxs2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3mrdn67f5ic2h"Are you gay?" a reporter asked U.S. Rep Barney Frank in 1987. He replied: "Yes, so what?" W/ that, Frank became the first Congress member to voluntarily come out as gay. The casualness of his reply hid a very real fear of torpedoing his political career. 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-frank23 Jul 2026 20:05 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdn67f5ic2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3mrd34hkans2bSo there they are, a trio out on the water in a little Sunfish sailboat: Eric; Libby, Eric’s friend with a family summer house on Long Island’s North Shore; and Barry, Eric’s “California country bumpkin” coworker at Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-not-alone23 Jul 2026 14:42 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrd34hkans2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3mqrk535k5s2jNancy May’s allyship was as personal as it was political — after all, she was married to a gay man. In 1965, her involvement in San Francisco’s homophile movement put her at the center of a headline-making face-off between the police and SF's LGBTQ community. 🔊 https://makinggayhistory.org/podcast/nancy-may/16 Jul 2026 15:23 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqrk535k5s2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3mqjzwhughc2sActivist and scholar Barbara Smith has been amplifying the voices of Black women for half a century. Before co-founding, with Audre Lorde, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press in 1980, Smith co-founded the Combahee River Collective. 📸 Courtesy of Margo Okazawa-Rey 🔊 http://bit.ly/mgh-barbara-smith13 Jul 2026 15:44 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqjzwhughc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3mqdgktzmm22210/19: For one night only at Baryshnikov Arts Center, be among the first to experience THE GORGEOUS NOTHINGS—the new off-Broadway musical coming to PAC NYC and the subject of #MakingGayHistory’s upcoming fall podcast series. https://baryshnikovarts.org/performance/making-gay-history/11 Jul 2026 00:42 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqdgktzmm222https://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3mqdgktzmm22210/19: For one night only at Baryshnikov Arts Center, be among the first to experience THE GORGEOUS NOTHINGS—the new off-Broadway musical coming to PAC NYC and the subject of #MakingGayHistory’s upcoming fall podcast series. https://baryshnikovarts.org/performance/making-gay-history/11 Jul 2026 00:42 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqdgktzmm222https://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3mqa34gouks2u🏮NEW EPISODE🏮 Raised in a religious home in 1920s and ’30s Texas, Jim Kepner pieced together a sense of his identity where he could—a homoerotic suggestion read between the lines here, a secretly acquired booklet there. #MakingGayHistory 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-kepner09 Jul 2026 16:39 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqa34gouks2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3mpykqpyunc2x🏮NEW EPISODE🏮 Pat Bond joined the Women’s Army Corps in 1945 for patriotism and a desire to be among lesbians. The military turned a blind eye to sexual orientation because the war needed bodies. But as Pat witnessed firsthand, once WWII was won, the anti-gay witch hunts began. 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-bond06 Jul 2026 16:58 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpykqpyunc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3mpyjea6pf22x🏮NEW EPISODE!🏮 Mabel Hampton was a performer and domestic worker who lived as an out lesbian in New York City from 1920 until her death in 1989. Her recorded oral histories offer a rare firsthand account of Black lesbian life during the Harlem Renaissance. #MakingGayHistory 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-hampton06 Jul 2026 16:33 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpyjea6pf22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3movoelcb3c25Season 15, episode 1 is now LIVE! When news broke in 1952 that Christine Jorgensen, an ex-GI from the Bronx, had undergone gender-affirming surgery, she became a global sensation. In this 1957 interview, meet the thoughtful woman behind the frenzied headlines. 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-jorgensen22 Jun 2026 19:59 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3movoelcb3c25https://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3mmcyoe4tbc2fAs an antidote to the threat of erasure facing the country’s only national monument dedicated to LGBTQ+ history, Making Gay History is re-releasing its season about the Stonewall uprising w/ the support of @savingplaces.bsky.social and @protectparks.bsky.social. makinggayhistory.org/season-five/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 May 2026 22:53 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmcyoe4tbc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3mmcyhf6z222fToday, @savingplaces.bsky.social placed the Stonewall National Monument on its list of America’s "11 Most Endangered Historic Places."20 May 2026 22:49 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmcyhf6z222fhttps://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3mltgd2ytmk2jIndian-born activist and lawyer Urvashi Vaid was attuned to injustice early on. Adamant that the fight for LGBTQ equality can't be separated from other struggles, she became one of the most influential and inspiring movement leaders in recent history. She died #OnThisDay 2022. 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-vaid14 May 2026 18:14 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltgd2ytmk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3mlsuwl67vc2wSubversive. Sinful. Sick. Negative opinions about gay people were ubiquitous in the 1970s. “There was no pro-gay propaganda. The support wasn’t out there,” remembered activist and @pflag.org co-founder Morty Manford (died #OnThisDate 1992) during his 1989 interview with Eric. 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-manford14 May 2026 13:03 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlsuwl67vc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3ml4jcquhq22lJoin Eric THIS THURSDAY at Musée Judéo-Alsacien in Bouxwiller, France for VOICE FROM THE SHADOWS: LGBTQ+ Experiences During the Nazi Era. Drawing on "The Nazi Era," Eric will share excerpts from archival interviews that bring this painful—and often overlooked—history to life.05 May 2026 15:37 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4jcquhq22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3mkt6agu3z22wWas there even a moment of hesitation in Jeanne Manford’s mind as she wrote her now-famous letter to the NY Post? “No, I didn’t even think about it.” Why? “I was furious.” #MakingGayHistory 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-manford01 May 2026 22:24 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkt6agu3z22whttps://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3mjp2n7xs5225#OnThisDate 1965, the first gay rights picket at the White House took place. It was organized by members of the Mattachine Society of Washington to protest the unjust treatment of homosexuals by the federal government. #MakingGayHistory #activism 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-kameny17 Apr 2026 13:44 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjp2n7xs5225https://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3mjmr4gzaic2gJoin Eric at University College London 5/5 for "Voices from the Shadows: LGBTQ Experiences During the Nazi Era.” Get an intro to our latest season, the first-ever audio documentary series dedicated to sharing the experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals under the Nazi regime. Learn more: bit.ly/4cOABVy16 Apr 2026 15:48 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjmr4gzaic2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3mifo2z6euc22Reed Erickson was a trans man with a big checkbook and a pet leopard named Henry. Starting in the '60s, he was the money behind the organization that published ONE magazine: ONE, Inc. #TransgenderDayofVisibility #TDOV 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-erickson01 Apr 2026 02:40 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mifo2z6euc22https://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3mhe6j3kerk2k“At Vassar also I got really involved in the women’s movement ... It changed my life, it did.” — Urvashi Vaid Eric’s earliest memory of Urvashi Vaid dates to 1976 when Vassar students demonstrated to protest promo material developed to attract men. #WomensHistoryMonth 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-vaid18 Mar 2026 19:04 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhe6j3kerk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3mgnxqw34rk2rOn a drizzly March day in 1970, Morris Kight took the lead spot at a Gay Liberation Front protest over securing permits for L.A.’s first Gay Pride March. Unlike most of his fellow activists, he was not young: he was already a veteran of multiple political and social movements. 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-kight09 Mar 2026 23:04 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgnxqw34rk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3mggl4buqck2u"By the time I came out to my mom in 1977, I knew about @pflag.org..when my mom told me that she wanted me to see a psychiatrist I told her I’d go if she went to a PFLAG meeting. She said no. I said no. Big mistake." —Eric #WomensHistoryMonth ⁠⁠ 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-manford07 Mar 2026 00:29 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mggl4buqck2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/makinggayhistory.bsky.social/post/3mfxozw274c2aPerry Watkins checked the “homosexual box”—literally. As the Vietnam War entered its 13th year, in 1968, Perry was drafted into the U.S. Army despite having responded "yes" in response to the question on the intake form, "Are you a homosexual?" #BlackHistoryMonth 🔉 bit.ly/mgh-watkins01 Mar 2026 02:30 +0000at://did:plc:sixxvbkouxarbeai5jw34vcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfxozw274c2a