Making Gay History

@MakingGayHistry

mines ' 30-year-old audio archive to bring the voices of LGBTQ history to life in a transporting podcast. Have a listen!👇🏽

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    Mar 11

    🚨🚨 NOW STREAMING: In S10E03, Eric’s in Alaska speaking w/ Sara Boesser, a soft-spoken activist who was drawn into the LGBTQ civil rights movement by the AIDS crisis. 🔊🔊

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    Mar 18

    In our new issue reviews podcast. We interviewed founder & host about this important project drawing on his extensive archive on today's 5Q About a Project.

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    7 Apr 2021

    NYC Educators! overview & registration links 4 this FABulous opp funded by the NYC Council. 20 virtual training options include our full library of 30+ LGBTQ-inclusive digital resources--and Eric Marcus keynotes secondary ed approach!

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  4. Mar 17

    NOW STREAMING: Novelist Randy Boyd had an agenda: “to be myself wherever I go, no matter whom I’m around, whatever the circumstances—lock, stock and barrel; all of me, including the parts that are gay and HIV-positive.” 📸 2018, via 🔊

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  5. Mar 16

    “O” for “Outside of California” was the letter assigned by epidemiologists to a patient in the “cluster” study for a mysterious new disease now known to be HIV/AIDS. Hear Dr. Ron Grossman’s explanation in S10E02, now streaming. 🔊

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  6. Mar 15

    "...an oral history podcast on LGBT+ history, featuring trailblazers, activists, and allies ... episodes draw from the three-decade-old audio archive of rare interviews that the podcast's founder and host Eric Marcus." — READ:

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    🎧 20 Best Queer Podcasts To Tune Into While Going About Your Daily Queer Life

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  8. Mar 11

    📷👆 Sara Boesser at the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, Washington, D.C., October 11, 1987. Credit: Courtesy Sara Boesser

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    Mar 8

    “The clinical tone of medical conferences could not camouflage the emotional burden,” reported in 1988 as Dr. Ron Grossman spoke at a conference about a patient who took his own life after being diagnosed w/ AIDS. 🔊🔊

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  10. Mar 8

    📷👆1⃣ Dr. Ronald Grossman featured in an article in the October 10, 1988, edition of 2⃣ Dr. Ronald Grossman delivering a talk on AIDS, New York City, November 1988. Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Ronald Grossman.

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  11. Mar 8

    “The clinical tone of medical conferences could not camouflage the emotional burden,” reported in 1988 as Dr. Ron Grossman spoke at a conference about a patient who took his own life after being diagnosed w/ AIDS. 🔊🔊

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    Mar 8

    Our ancestors SAY GAY every day in all 50 U.S. states and the 200+ countries and territories around the world where our episodes are downloaded. Listen and learn how to fight back against the anti-gay bigots: .

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    Mar 4

    Facilitating this historic meeting with Pres Carter was Jean's then girlfriend Margaret "Midge" Costanza, who was Carter's Assistant. Midge was closeted, and this was a secret until their deaths. S2: E5: Jean O'Leary - Part 2

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  14. Mar 3

    Dr. Ron Grossman’s recollections of treating patients during the early years of the epidemic are the focus of S10E02, now streaming each Thursday through 3/31. Find it at your podcast catcher of choice, and on our website 👉

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    Mar 3

    Such a privilege to share this interview with my own doc, who treated some of the earliest AIDS patients in NYC. By the time effective treatments were available, Dr. Ron had lost hundreds of patients to what was once an almost certain death sentence. Have a listen.

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  17. Mar 3

    📸👆 Dr. Ronald Grossman in his NYC office holding a model of a T cell, May 17, 2021. Credit: Courtesy of Eric Marcus. In the episode, Eric misidentifies the model as HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

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  18. Mar 3

    🚨🚨 NOW STREAMING: In S10E02 Eric takes us to the office of his personal physician of three decades, Dr. Grossman, who also happened to witness the early years of a baffling new disease that was causing his gay patients to fall ill and die. 🔊🔊

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  19. Mar 2

    Season 10 is streaming NOW. Later, you'll hear Eric in conversation w/ , an / advocate, mother and long-term survivor. Here's Eric and Michelle just before going into separate booths at in Chelsea.

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  20. Feb 28

    📸👆 Harvey Milk (center) with Randy Shilts, 11/7/78, San Francisco, on election night awaiting the results on California Proposition 6. Credit: Randy Shilts Papers, Hormel LGBTQIA Center,

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