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

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...

In June 1989, @sfexaminer.bsky.social ran a 16-day special report, “Gay in America,” in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. No news outlet had published anything like it before. Greg Brock was a driving force behind the series. #MakingGayHistory 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-brock

makinggayhistory.org/podcast/quen... "To wear suede shoes was to be under suspicion, you had to search your appearance for any sign of effeminacy" Fascinating interview. Thank you @makinggayhistory.bsky.social

#Pride2025 is underway! Throughout #Pride Month, we’ll be sharing the stories of history-making trailblazers featured on the podcast. (Re)Visit our factsheet "Stonewall: The Basics" to learn how history was made that night at the Stonewall Inn in NYC's Greenwich Village, bit.ly/stonewall-ba...

Recommended listening for Pride Month, the @makinggayhistory.bsky.social Stonewall at 50 episodes makinggayhistory.org/season-five/

Eric cried talking to @randyrainbow.bsky.social! And he’ll likely bring a tear to the eyes of many more when they read the Emmy and Grammy Award-nominated comedian’s debut picture book, “Randy Rainbow and the Marvelously Magical Pink Glasses,” out now. WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DowkoWIwIpU

“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, 1977 #HarveyMilkDay Hear more of Harvey’s voice: bit.ly/mgh-marching...

For many, “A Raisin in the Sun” is the first thing that comes to mind when they hear "Lorraine Hansberry." She (born #OTD 1930) was far more than one hit. Like friend James Baldwin, she held America’s racially oppressive society to account as a public intellectual. 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-hansberry

We are excited to team up w/ @oneinstitute.org and the Beth Chayim Chadashim (BCC) synagogue in LA. Eric will introduce our latest season and share clips that bring this painful, often hidden history to life through the voices of the people who lived it. Register: bit.ly/voices-shadows

Eric's had the privilege of speaking to some amazing orgs around the world about the LGBTQ+ stories he has uncovered. It's wonderful to spend time w/ these groups and share stories often overlooked in LGBTQ+/Holocaust history. 📧 Arrange a presentation for your org: [email protected]

🚨BONUS Episode🚨 Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum was featured in the epilogue of “Making Gay History: The Nazi Era.” The depth of the Rabbi's insights about history and the present moment compelled Eric to release an extended cut of their talk. 🔊 bit.ly/nazierabonus

Many thanks to the Jewish Women's Archive's "Can We Talk?" podcast for sharing our "Making Gay History: The Nazi Era" episode featuring conductor Frieda Belinfante, a Dutch musician who risked her life to help save hundreds of Jews. #YomHashoah #Holocaust #CanWeTalk bit.ly/3EKzU1h

Head to the Bay Area's @kalwradio.bsky.social to hear “Making Gay History: The Nazi Era.” The newest installment features the stories of Margot Heuman and Kenneth Roman. Catch KALW's "Queer Power Hour" live every Thursday at 6pm. www.kalw.org/show/queer-p...

On 5/14 Eric will join @oneinstitute.org at Beth Chayim Chadashim for "Voices From the Shadows: LGBTQ Experiences During the Nazi Era." Learn about our new season presenting the experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals during the rise of the Nazi regime, World War II, and the Holocaust. bit.ly/4cHmdN8

On 5/14 Eric will join @oneinstitute.org at Beth Chayim Chadashim for "Voices From the Shadows: LGBTQ Experiences During the Nazi Era." Learn about our new season presenting the experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals during the rise of the Nazi regime, World War II, and the Holocaust. bit.ly/4cHmdN8

🎙️ New podcast episode: The Dark Gay-ges We talk with Making Gay History’s Eric Marcus (@makinggayhistory.bsky.social) about the queer icons who fought before us and why remembering our past matters now more than ever. 🎧 Listen now + join our Patreon to support queer stories & resistance!

Some remarkable audio from @makinggayhistory.bsky.social featuring Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ open.spotify.com/episode/6quZ...

Join One Institute, Beth Chayim Chadashim, and Eric Marcus, founder and host of @makinggayhistory.bsky.social, for a special presentation on the podcast’s first-of-its-kind series on the experiences of LGBTQ people during the Nazi regime. RSVP today: www.oneinstitute.org/may-14-2025-...

The world’s first memorial to gay victims of the Nazi regime was unveiled in 1984 at the former Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. On it are the words "Totgeschlagen, Totgeschwiegen." "Beaten to Death, Silenced to Death." 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-nazi-era...

Among those on #MakingGayHistory season 14 is Italian trans woman Lucy Salan: “There was a guard who would take a piece of white bread, cut off a slice, remove the crust, and put the butter on, right in front of us — we who were so hungry..." 1/4