Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive
Eric Marcus
Original audio cassette recordings from Eric Marcus mapping the twentieth-century LGBTQ rights movement through first-person accounts.
Why we picked this
We picked Making Gay History because it builds its archive on primary audio rather than modern summaries. Eric Marcus preserves the actual voices of activists, outcasts, and ordinary people who lived through decades of criminalization. The show trades smooth historical gloss for the raw texture of archival tape. Subscribe to the feed for unvarnished oral history that rewards long-term listening and documents the movement through the people who actually lived it.
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