Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive
Jun 18, 2026 · 5 min · 8 segments
MGH 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…
Eric MarcusHost
Starting June 18th, we're dipping into the archives, my own Making Gay History archive, and a few others, to bring you the voices of seven history makers, each of them unforgettable and radically courageous in their own way, all of them instrumental in moving the dial toward greater LGBTQ acceptance.
Their testimonies will take us from the 1920s through the 1980s with stories that shed light on landmark events in gay history, the life of early LGBTQ communities, or their own journeys of self-affirmation.
Starting June 18th, we're dipping into the archives, my own Making Gay History archive, and a few others, to bring you the voices of seven history makers, each of them unforgettable and radically courageous in their own way, all of them instrumental in moving the dial toward greater LGBTQ acceptance.
Their testimonies will take us from the 1920s through the 1980s with stories that shed light on landmark events in gay history, the life of early LGBTQ communities, or their own journeys of self-affirmation.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.
