As 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/

Today, @savingplaces.bsky.social placed the Stonewall National Monument on its list of America’s "11 Most Endangered Historic Places."

🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨 @savingplaces.bsky.social, the national advocate for historic places, has named the Stonewall National Monument to its 2026 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. www.nyclgbtsites.org/2026/05/20/s...

Indian-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-vaid

Subversive. 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-manford

TODAY at 18:30 @UCL Voices from the Shadows: LGBTQ Experiences During the Nazi Era with Eric Marcus from @makinggayhistory.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Join 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.

Was 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-manford

#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-kameny

Join 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/4cOABVy

Reed 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-erickson

“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-vaid

On 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-kight

"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-manford

Perry 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-watkins

Openly gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin traced his commitment to speaking against injustice to an experience on a bus as he spoke to @washblade.bsky.social's Peg Byron in 1986. #BlackHistoryMonth 1/4 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-rustin

Civil disobedience is nothing new to the Black and LGBTQ communities. As Ernestine Eckstein reflected in 1965 in conversation with Kay Lahusen and Barbara Gittings, it is fundamental to educating those around us about injustice. 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-eckstein

“I used to tell my mother, ‘I’m gonna marry a girl when I grow up.’” It was in Houston, Texas, that Rev. Carolyn Mobley-Bowie met her life partner, Rev. Adrain Bowie. #BlackHistoryMonth 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-mobley

The admin banned the trans-inclusive rainbow flag from Stonewall National Monument, and now Gilbert Baker's standard rainbow flag. The Nazis also came for homosexuals, as documented in “The Nazi Era." If history doesn't repeat itself, it's echoing loudly. makinggayhistory.org/season-fourt...

"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

The admin banned the trans-inclusive rainbow flag from Stonewall National Monument, and now Gilbert Baker's standard rainbow flag. The Nazis also came for homosexuals, as documented in “The Nazi Era." If history doesn't repeat itself, it's echoing loudly. makinggayhistory.org/season-fourt...

“It was February of 1987 ... Three months before Emery died, I was diagnosed with AIDS. And, poor baby, I remember he was upset on a number of levels. But the major one was, ‘Who’s gonna take care of you, you know, like you’ve taken care of me?’" —Damien Martin (died #OTD 1987) 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-martin

We're proud and humbled to share that "The Nazi Era," our season featuring the experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals during the Holocaust, has been nominated for Best History Podcast by The Ambies. bit.ly/4apriJB Thank you to all who have encouraged their networks to listen, reflect, and learn.

“If the plague of homosexuality goes unchecked, it will spell the end of Germany.” That was the message Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler delivered to an audience of SS officers four years after Adolf Hitler came to power in January 1933. #HolocaustRemembranceDay 🔊 linktr.ee/makinggayhis...

📣 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