Season 4: Episode 8: Bayard Rustin
Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive - January 10, 2019
- 33:40
Bayard Rustin was a champion of the black civil rights movement—mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. But because he was gay and out, he faced bigotry inside and outside the movement. The FBI and Sen. Strom Thurmond tried to destroy him. But he persisted.Visit our episode webpage for background information, archival photos, and other resources.
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December 27, 2018
- 28:22
Reed Erickson was a trans man with a big checkbook, a pet leopard, big dreams for a better world for gay people and trans folks—and...
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Season 4: Episode 9: Ernestine Eckstein
January 24, 2019
- 33:45
Ernestine Eckstein is an iconic figure from the 1960s homophile movement—from photos showing her as the only African American woman at...
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