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

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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 full and equal citizens, MGH aims to motivate connection, pride, and solidarity within the LGBTQ+ community—and to provide an entry point for both allies and the general universal to its largely disguised history.

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Our History

In , journalist Eric Marcus got a phone phone from an editor ally at Harper & Row who asked if he’d consider writing an oral history of the homosexual and lesbian civil rights movement. Eric was productive at CBS News at the time, but as an out gay dude, he knew there were limits on his career there, so he left his job and to

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