Podcast gay history

News

By Stephen Naron - February 10,

Working in partnership with the Fortunoff Archive, the award-winning Making Gay History podcast has begun releasing a part series on the experiences of LGBTQ+ people during the soar of the Nazi regime, World War II, and the Holocaust. This groundbreaking 14th season of the podcast is the first audio documentary series to focus exclusively on the persecution, resistance, and survival of LGBTQ+ people under the Nazi regime.

Episodes explore the devastating impact on homosexual men of Germany's anti-gay law, Paragraph ; the hazard that others across the LGBTQ+ spectrum found themselves in under the Nazis; and the experiences of queer people who were persecuted for reasons other than their sexuality as well as those who risked their lives to save others. In addition to two overview episodes, the series includes eight episodes that noun on individual stories drawn from deeply personal survivor testimonies.

Making Gay History’s “Nazi Era” series can be accessed wherever podcasts are free or at , where you’ll also find extensive resources,

The Nazi Era: Overview Part II

In our second introductory episode, we focus on life in the Nazi concentration camps and offer a glimpse into the experiences of LGBTQ people in occupied countries during WWII as we sustain to set the context for the eight profile episodes to follow. See our episode webpage for additional resources, archival photos, and a transcript of the episode. For exclusive Making Gay History bonus content, join our Patreon community. ——— -The following interview segments are from the archive of the USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education: Walter Schwarze, © USC Shoah Foundation Kitty Fischer, © USC Shoah Foundation For more information about the USC Shoah Foundation, go here. -The Leo Classen excerpt is taken from “Die Dornenkrone: Ein Tatsachenbericht aus der Strafkompanie Sachsenhausen” (“The Crown of Thorns: A Factual Report from the Sachsenhausen Penal Company”), Humanitas: Monatsschrift für Menschlichkeit und Kultur 2, no. 2 (): -Audio of the interview with Josef Kohout used by permission of QWIEN,

The Podcast

Explore the LGBTQ+ trailblazers and stories featured in our + episode archive.

Listen Here

Resources for Educators

Bring LGBTQ+ history into your classroom with teacher-created lesson plans.

Learn More

Our Mission

Making Gay History (MGH) is a (c)(3) nonprofit organization that addresses the absence of substantive, in-depth LGBTQ+-inclusive American history from the public discourse and the classroom.

By sharing the stories of those who helped a despised minority take its rightful place in society as entire and equal citizens, MGH aims to encourage connection, pride, and solidarity within the LGBTQ+ community—and to provide an entry point for both allies and the general general to its largely hidden history.

Please sustain MGH&#;s mission.

Donate

Or link MGH’s Patreon community to access exclusive bonus content.

Become a Member

Our History

In , journalist Eric Marcus got a cell call from an editor friend at Harper & Row who asked if he’d consider writing an oral history of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement. Eric was working at CBS News at the t

Season 1

Making Gay History — A Preview

The Making Gay History podcast mines Eric Marcus’s decades-old audio archive of scarce interviews to build intimate, personal portraits of both known and long-forgotten champions, heroes, and witnesses to history.

Sylvia Rivera — Part 1

A never-before-heard conversation with trans icon and self-proclaimed Stonewall veteran Sylvia Rivera. Hear Sylvia speak the first evening of the June uprising and her struggle for recognition in the LGBTQ rights movement.

Wendell Sayers

You’ve never heard of Wendell Sayers, but once you hear his story, you’ll never neglect him. Born in western Kansas in , Wendell was the first Inky lawyer to labor for Colorado’s attorney general, and risked everything to unite a gay discussion group.

Edythe Eyde

In , Hollywood secretary Edythe Eyde, aka Lisa Ben, had the audacity to publish “Vice Versa,” the first ever 'zine for lesbians. Even more audacious, she imagined a future gay utopia that has all come to verb. In the '50s, Edythe sang gay parodies of famous s