Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive
Eric Marcus

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- Nancy 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 the city’s LGBTQ community.
Visit our episode webpage for background information, archival photos, and other resources, as well as a transcript of the episode.
——— - Raised 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 materials grew into the largest LGBTQ archive in the world.
Visit our episode webpage for background information, archival photos, and other resources, as well as a transcript of the episode.
——— - Pat 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 firsthand, once WWII was won, the anti-gay witch hunts began.
Visit our episode webpage for background information, archival photos, and other resources, as well as a transcript of the episode.
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Audio source: Oral history interview between Pat Bond and Allan Bérubé, September 30, 1990, World War II Project Papers (collection no. 1995-16), courtesy of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society.
——— - Mabel 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 Renaissance.
Visit our episode webpage for background information, archival photos, and other resources, as well as a transcript of the episode.
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Audio source: Mabel Hampton Oral History Collection, used by permission of the Lesbian Herstory Archives.
——— - When 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 on the burden of educating the public about trans people.
Visit our episode webpage for background information, archival photos, and other resources, as well as a transcript of the episode.
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Audio source: Christine Jorgensen Reveals, an LP recording of a 1957 interview between Christine Jorgensen and Nipsey Russell (credited as R. Russell), released in 1958 by J Records, New York, NY.
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