📣 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

#NewYearsEve 1967 at the Black Cat bar in Los Angeles’s Silver Lake neighborhood. As the clock counted down and the new year arrived, patrons embraced in same-sex kisses. Then, the police pounced. #NewYears 1/3

Quentin Crisp was born Denis Pratt #OnThisDay 1908. In his early twenties, he left his family’s suburban London home, changed his name, and began to cultivate a dramatic personal style that provoked both curiosity and hostility in a rigidly conformist age. 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-crisp

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

I have only one thing on my wish list this holiday season: to have enough cash on hand to continue bringing LGBTQ history to life through the voices of the people who lived it, as we have for the past nine years. 1/4 Donate: makinggayhistory.org/donate/

I have only one thing on my wish list this holiday season: to have enough cash on hand to continue bringing LGBTQ history to life through the voices of the people who lived it, as we have for the past nine years. 1/4 Donate: makinggayhistory.org/donate/

#OnThisDate 1993, the U.S. DoD issued “Don't Ask, Don't Tell," prohibiting the military from barring applicants from service based on sexual orientation. When Copy Berg was discharged, he challenged the military’s ban, drawing inspiration from Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich. 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-berg

Dick Leitsch always received a Christmas card from friend Jack Nichols, until one year, he didn’t. "...I called ... people who usually I talk to ... and haven’t talked to lately, and eight out of 10 of them either have AIDS or their lovers have AIDS." 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-dick-lei...

Greg Brock remembered of his childhood, growing up in Crystal Springs, Mississippi: “I was a sissy boy from the word ‘go.’ ... In fact, my birth certificate, I was marked as a girl. And that was always the running joke at family reunions.” 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-brock

DON'T MESS WITH THE MOMS! That's the loud and clear message Jeanne Manford sent in a 1972 letter to the NY Post calling out city officials for not protecting her gay son, Morty, when he was beaten by the head of the firemen's union at a Gay Activists Alliance protest. 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-kameny

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

"What set Harvey apart from you or me was that he was a visionary. He imagined a righteous world inside his head and then he set about to create it for real, for all of us." — Anne Kronenberg, campaign manager for Harvey Milk’s final run for public office, in 1977. bit.ly/harveymilkmgh

Join us tonight w/ @makinggayhistory.bsky.social at @thestonewallinn.bsky.social! Our Project Director Ken Lustbader and Executive Director Amanda Davis will help with hosting duties. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 👉 bit.ly/47YKBYO

TONIGHT! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Earn a chance to win merch at our interactive QUEER QUIZ SHOW, and enjoy Broadway star Adam Kantor performing a number from Life Jacket Theater's THE GORGEOUS NOTHINGS 🎉📚🏆 TICKETS: bit.ly/47YKBYO Co-Sponsors: @nyclgbtsites.bsky.social + @thestonewallinn.bsky.social

On November 18, 1967, a young Craig Rodwell announced the opening of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop, at 291 Mercer Street in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood. 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-rodwell

11/20: CALLING ALL LGBTQ+ HISTORY FANS! Meet new friends and earn the chance to win fabulous MGH merch during this fun, high-energy, and interactive QUEER QUIZ SHOW testing your knowledge of LGBTQ+ history. 🎉📚🏆 bit.ly/47YKBYO Co-Sponsors: @nyclgbtsites.bsky.social + The Stonewall Inn

Another adventure around the sun! ☀ The entire MGH team invites our community of listeners and history-makers to join us in wishing Eric the happiest of birthdays! 🎉 Share a social post or the link to your favorite podcast episode with someone who might be experiencing MGH for the first time.

Another adventure around the sun! ☀ The entire MGH team invites our community of listeners and history-makers to join us in wishing Eric the happiest of birthdays! 🎉 Share a social post or the link to your favorite podcast episode with someone who might be experiencing MGH for the first time.

And the winner is ... Meredith Mann! Baking for NYPL archives, Meredith’s Lavender Menace-inspired confection, served at our BAKING GAY HISTORY CHAMPIONSHIP, was the perfect blend of historical significance and, well, delicious sugar 💜🧁 Thank you to all who joined us at The Stonewall Inn. ⁠

11/20: Meet new friends, compete in small teams and earn the chance to win fabulous MGH merch during this fun, high-energy, and interactive QUEER QUIZ SHOW testing your knowledge of LGBTQ+ history. 🏳️‍🌈🤓📚🏳️‍⚧️ lifejackettheatre.org/mghlive Co-Sponsors: @nyclgbtsites.bsky.social + The Stonewall Inn

The March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights stepped off #OnThisDate 1979. An estimated 100,000 people from around the country had streamed into the nation’s capital, all united to advance five primary demands... 1/3

Will YOU be NYC’s Gay Baking Champion? 🧁 🏳️‍🌈Watch NYC’S best amateur bakers vie for the grand prize, showcasing delicious baked goods celebrating key chapters and icons of LGBTQ+ history. Stay for a live “Making Gay History” mini-podcast interview w/ an LGBTQ+ icon! 👉 lifejackettheatre.org/mghlive

Will YOU be NYC’s Gay Baking Champion? 🧁 🏳️‍🌈Watch NYC’S best amateur bakers vie for the grand prize, showcasing delicious baked goods celebrating key chapters and icons of LGBTQ+ history. Stay for a live “Making Gay History” mini-podcast interview w/ an LGBTQ+ icon! 👉 lifejackettheatre.org/mghlive

When organizers of the inaugural National #ComingOut Day in 1988 asked Greg Brock to participate in a live taping of "The Oprah Winfrey Show," he saw no need. At the time, Greg was the highest level openly gay person working at a mainstream newspaper anywhere in the US. 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-brock

#ICYMI: Thanks to the Museum of Jewish Heritage for hosting Eric's presentation of “Making Gay History: The Nazi Era." Together, we listened and made space for the voices of those who lived through this painful, often hidden history. Listen to the season: makinggayhistory.org/season-fourt...

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

“It's really hard not to have dysphoria about being trans if you're living in a society that tells you every day that being trans is wrong.” —Dr. Laura Erickson-Schroth Listen to all of "DISMANTLING A DIAGNOSIS" now. 👇 🔉 makinggayhistory.org/season-thirt...

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/

Fifty-one years after homosexuality’s removal from the American Psychiatric Association’s list of mental disorders—a major gay rights victory—mental health literature continues to pathologize trans people. 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-out-of-t...

An early example of LGBTQ+ students looking to create their own spaces came in an ad placed by Henry Wiemhoff #OTD 1969: "2 Gay Students Wanted to Share 5 Rm Unfrn. Apt." 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-mattachi...

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/

THIS SUNDAY, Eric's presenting “Making Gay History: The Nazi Era” as a featured speaker at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. RSVP (in-person/online) to learn more about (pictured) Margot Heuman, Josef Kohout, Liddy Bacroff, Fredy Hirsch, and others. RSVP: bit.ly/mjh-nazi-era

MARK YOUR CALENDAR! Join Making Gay History this fall for 4 exclusive in-person behind-the-scenes experiences, co-produced with Life Jacket Theatre Company. Tickets: lifejackettheatre.org/mghlive

Eric is immensely proud to be presenting “Making Gay History: The Nazi Era,” as a featured speaker at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on October 5. RSVP (in-person or online): bit.ly/mjh-nazi-era

Eric is immensely proud to be presenting “Making Gay History: The Nazi Era,” as a featured speaker at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on October 5. RSVP (in-person or online): bit.ly/mjh-nazi-era

Greg, Peter or Bobby — who was YOUR favorite Brady Bunch boy? Subscribe to our Patreon to support our work and access full talk w/ megahit Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller (Rent, Avenue Q, In the Heights, Hamilton) and many others. patreon.com/makinggayhistory

On July 23, Eric will join Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education for "LGBTQ+ Experiences During the Nazi Era." Learn more and RSVP for this Zoom program. www.ojmche.org/events/lgbtq...

Such a privilege to have this conversation with @makinggayhistory.bsky.social. I share the story of how — and why — I spoke my truth of living with HIV back in '92. I hope it brings comfort to anyone who feels silenced. Watch the interview via their Patreon at bit.ly/MGHMaryFisher

Marsha "Pay It No Mind" Johnson and Sylvia Rivera were ahead of their time when, in 1970, they came up with the idea for a safe haven for homeless queer youth who turned to dangerous street work to survive, as they did themselves. 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-fromthev...

Hearing Eric Marcus' voice on NPR is a balm in Gilead @makinggayhistory.bsky.social

It’s July 3, 1981, and Eric is reading @nytimes.com. On page A20, a single-column story running down the left-hand side catches his eye: “Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals.” A shiver runs up Eric’s spine. ⁠ Revisit our series "Coming of Age During the AIDS Crisis": bit.ly/aidscrisismgh

“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

Greetings from London! On this, the last day of Pride Month, I’m so happy to induct @makinggayhistory.bsky.social into the Podcast Canon. Read my latest for @avclub.com below!

"People began to gather in the parade assembly area ... a few blocks away from Christopher Street where angry mobs of gay people had rioted just one year before. The mood today was different." — Breck Ardery, producer of the audio doc, "June 28, 1970 — Gay and Proud" 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-stonewal...

If you want to start to understand Stonewall and the larger struggle for lgbtq rights you can't do better than listen to the @makinggayhistory.bsky.social podcast. #pridemonth

Love is a transformative force against oppression. In 1972 a mother’s love for her gay son set in motion a domino effect that continue today. Queens teacher Jeanne Manford marched in NYC Pride w/ a sign that read, "Parents of Gays: Unite in Support for Our Children." 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-manford

By the time of the June 1969 Stonewall uprising, the homophile movement was nearly two decades old and there were between 50-60 US orgs. A year later, there were as many as 1K orgs. Revisit our #Stonewall50 season for #Pride: makinggayhistory.org/season-five

Eric sat down w/ @npr.org’s @scottdetrow.bsky.social to offer a glimpse into MGH's recent season, which explores the experiences of LGBTQ people during the Nazi era — from people persecuted for their homosexuality to queer resistance fighters. Listen to the full interview at NPR: bit.ly/4l7O8J7

To me, suits and ties as a uniform are part of the larger heterosexual culture. It’s part of how society tries to define us as men and women.” — Craig Rodwell Pick a significant moment in gay history in the 1960s or ’70s and Craig Rodwell was *there.* 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-rodwell

The @sfchronicle.com #OnThisDay 2008: "Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon made history—again...the couple of 55 years became the first same-sex newlyweds in San Francisco and among the first in California under a new right bestowed by the state Supreme Court..." 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-lyon-mar...