Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive
Jul 16, 2026 · 29 min · 10 segments
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…
Nancy MayGuest
Eric MarcusHost
I've arranged to interview Nancy at the May family home in Concord, California, a suburban city northeast of San Francisco.
It's a modest ranch-style house, currently also occupied by Nancy and Bill's two grown sons.
She's dressed in slacks and a sleeveless shirt, her dark hair pulled back in a ponytail.
We take a seat at a picnic table in her lovingly maintained yard, which is bursting with roses.
Nancy starts by telling me about the incident that turned her from a casual ally into a passionate activist.
The year was 1961, the place, the San Diego office where Nancy had worked for the past few years.
I've arranged to interview Nancy at the May family home in Concord, California, a suburban city northeast of San Francisco.
It's a modest ranch-style house, currently also occupied by Nancy and Bill's two grown sons.
She's dressed in slacks and a sleeveless shirt, her dark hair pulled back in a ponytail.
We take a seat at a picnic table in her lovingly maintained yard, which is bursting with roses.
Nancy starts by telling me about the incident that turned her from a casual ally into a passionate activist.
The year was 1961, the place, the San Diego office where Nancy had worked for the past few years.
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