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Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive
by Eric Marcus
Today: #166 in History on our combined chart.
Today: #98 in History, Brazil on our combined chart.
Today: #58 in History, Philippines on our combined chart.
Today: #93 in History, South Africa on our combined chart.
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts |
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| Oct 31 | #166 | #161 |
| Oct 30 | #152 | #147 |
| Oct 29 | #164 | #158 |
| Oct 28 | #147 | #141 |
| Oct 27 | #127 | #121 |
| Oct 26 | #168 | #161 |
| Oct 25 | #180 | #174 |
| Oct 24 | #148 | #140 |
| Oct 23 | #115 | #104 |
| Oct 21 | #184 | #177 |
| Oct 20 | #169 | #162 |
Latest episodes
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The Queens of Welfare Island: Let’s All Be Fairies
October 26, 2026 · 41 minIn 1925 Gene Mosely was sent to the men’s penitentiary F*g Ward on a “masquerade” charge. Despite the risks of cross-dressing, drag balls flourished and female impersonators took NYC’s nightlife by storm, while the mainstream visibility of…
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The Queens of Welfare Island: Island of Misfits
October 19, 2026 · 35 minIt was called the F*g Ward: a separate wing of the men’s penitentiary on NYC’s Welfare Island where gay inmates were kept in the 1920s and ’30s. Eric digs into the history of the infamous prison on what is now Roosevelt Island and shares…
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The Queens of Welfare Island: Preview
October 1, 2026 · 4 minA century ago, at a notorious men’s penitentiary in New York City, gay inmates managed to find joy and community through their annual Christmas show, the “F*g Follies.” This season, join Eric Marcus as he delves into their lives and…
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Lou Sullivan
July 30, 2026 · 42 minWhen Lou Sullivan sought gender-affirming care in the 1970s, he was turned down. The reason? Lou identified as a gay man at a time when all trans people were assumed to be straight—a conflation of gender identity and sexual orientation…
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Barney Frank
July 23, 2026 · 27 min“Are you gay?” a reporter asked U.S. Representative Barney Frank in 1987. “Yes, so what?” With that, Frank became the first member of Congress to voluntarily come out as gay. But the casualness of his reply hid decades of agonizing and a…
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Nancy May
July 16, 2026 · 29 minNancy May’s allyship was as personal as it was political. After all, she was married to a gay man. In 1965, her involvement in San Francisco’s homophile movement placed her at the center of a headline-making face-off between the police and…
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Jim Kepner
July 9, 2026 · 31 minRaised in a religious home in 1920s and ’30s Texas, Jim Kepner pieced together a sense of his identity where he could—a homoerotic suggestion read between the lines here, a secretly acquired booklet there. His collection of gay-themed…
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Pat Bond
July 2, 2026 · 27 minPat Bond joined the Women’s Army Corps in 1945, driven by patriotism and a desire to be among lesbians. The war required bodies, so the U.S. military turned a blind eye to service members’ sexual orientation. But as Pat witnessed…
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Mabel Hampton
June 25, 2026 · 22 minMabel Hampton was a performer and domestic worker who lived as an out lesbian in New York City from 1920 until her death in 1989. Her recorded oral histories offer a rare firsthand account of Black lesbian life during the Harlem…
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Christine Jorgensen
June 18, 2026 · 28 minWhen news broke in 1952 that Christine Jorgensen, an ex-GI from the Bronx, had undergone gender-affirming surgery, she became a global sensation. In this 1957 interview, meet the thoughtful woman behind the frenzied headlines as she took…
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Preview
June 18, 2026 · 5 minMGH is back for another dive into the archives! Drawing from Eric’s own collection of rare interviews and other repositories of LGBTQ history, we’ll bring you the voices of seven LGBTQ change-makers and allies whose stories will take you…
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The Nazi Era: Prologue
January 27, 2025 · 10 minHost Eric Marcus welcomes listeners to MGH’s “Nazi Era” series by going back in time to 1980 and a darkened Broadway theater where his interest in LGBTQ Holocaust history was kindled. Join Eric as we embark on a 12-episode journey and…
About the show
Intimate, personal portraits of both known and long-forgotten champions, heroes, and witnesses to history brought to you from rare archival interviews.