Making Gay History

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

Queer Quiz Show poster featuring Amanda Davis, Adam Kantor, Ken Lustbader, Eric Marcus, and Ann Northrup

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

Craig Rodwell outside the Oscar Wilde Bookshop

Press release announcing the opening of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop, 1967. Credit: Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.

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

Queer Quiz Show flier with Adam Kantor

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

3️⃣Repeal all anti-lesbian/gay laws

4️⃣ End discrimination in lesbian-mother and gay-father custody cases

5️⃣ Protect lesbian and gay youth from any laws which are used to discriminate, oppress, and/or harass them in their homes, schools, jobs, and social environments. 3/3

1️⃣ Pass a comprehensive lesbian/gay rights bill in Congress

2️⃣ Issue a presidential executive order banning discrimination based on sexual orientation in the federal government, the military, and federally contracted private employment 2/3

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

Poster for Making Gay History's 2025 Baking Championship

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

Poster for Making Gay History's 2025 Baking Championship

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

📸☝️ Courtesy of Greg Brock: 1️⃣ Oprah Winfrey and Greg Brock, Chicago, Illinois, October 11, 1988 2️⃣ Greg Brock in San Francisco, CA, 1988

Oprah Winfrey and Greg Brock, Chicago, Illinois, October 11, 1988

Greg Brock in San Francisco, CA, 1988

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...

Making Gay History event to watch The Queen, Photo credit: Loris Guzzetta

Making Gay History event to watch The Queen, Photo credit: Loris Guzzetta

Eric speaks at the Making Gay History event to watch The Queen, Photo credit: Loris Guzzetta

Making Gay History event to watch The Queen, Photo credit: Loris Guzzetta

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. 🎤👠💋👑 ⁠
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🎟️ Three more events are scheduled for this season! #MakingGayHistoryLive 👇

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📷 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/

📸☝️ January 1974 issue of the Chicago Gay Crusader announcing the American Psychiatric Association’s December 1973 decision to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

January 1974 issue of the Chicago Gay Crusader announcing the American Psychiatric Association’s December 1973 decision to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

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/

Margot Heuman

Josef Kohout

Liddy Bacroff

Fredy Hirsch

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

Making Gay History: The Nazi Era Eric Marcus, founder and host of the award-winning Making Gay History podcast provides an introduction to MGH’s current 12-episode series on the experiences of LGBTQ people during the rise of the Nazi...

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

Making Gay History: The Nazi Era Eric Marcus, founder and host of the award-winning Making Gay History podcast provides an introduction to MGH’s current 12-episode series on the experiences of LGBTQ people during the rise of the Nazi...

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.

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LGBTQ+ Experiences During the Nazi Era Making Gay History's Eric Marcus will share archival clips that bring this often hidden history to life through the voices of the people who lived it.

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...