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As president of the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis, she confronted FBI infiltrators and police harassment. This season we’re adding the stories of five more people who came into their own as activists during the 1970s, including Ruth Simpson. If you’re new to Making Gay History or need a refresher, go back and listen to our episodes featuring Jeanne and Morty Manford, Vito Russo, Jean O’Leary, and Morris Kight, among others. In past seasons we’ve already shared several stories from the 1970s that give a sense of how dynamic, complicated, and contentious these years were. So you already know that what happened at Stonewall unleashed the explosive and expansive gay liberation phase of the movement thousands of LGBTQ people joined new organizations across the country, from Worcester to Wichita, found their voices, and demanded to be heard.
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Over the coming weeks I’ll be sharing with you five new episodes drawn from my archive of more than a hundred interviews that I recorded decades ago for my oral history book about the LGBTQ civil rights movement.ĭuring season five, we took a deep dive into the history of the Stonewall uprising and the year that followed. In this preview, we offer a taste of what’s to come in season six, featuring the compelling voices of Ruth Simpson, Copy Berg, Barbara Smith, Nancy Walker, and Damien Martin.Įric Marcus Narration: I’m Eric Marcus and we’re back-with season six of Making Gay History. Making Gay History mines Eric Marcus’s 30-year-old audio archive of rare interviews to create intimate, personal portraits of both known and long-forgotten champions, heroes, and witnesses to LGBTQ history. Credit: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force records, #7301, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. Damien Martin at the 1973 American Psychiatric Association convention in New York City. Credit: Photo by Kay Tobin Lahusen, courtesy of the Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.
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