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It’s almost exactly 30 years since I sat down to interview the proudly radical gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny and he tried to answer that not-so-simple question: When did it all begin?Īnd there’s another anniversary this June that’s being a bit more widely celebrated. At the home of Frank Kameny in Washington, DC.Įric Marcus Narration: I’m Eric Marcus and this is Making Gay History. And I’m sure it has cropped up…ĮM: June 3, 1989. Things got cooking…įK: In ’51, with the famous meeting in a closed room in Los Angeles, which has been so often described. I’m picking up.ĮM: The question was about the movement, when it got started. If you’d like to hear more of “The New Symposium,” the groundbreaking gay-interest radio program that aired on WBAI in the late 1960s, go here for an astonishingly frank 1968 conversation between host Charles Pitts and a gay hustler.Įric Marcus: And let’s see if I’m picking up. Jay Shockley and Amanda Davis, who take us on a tour of Greenwich Village in the episode, are both with the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, which maintains a terrific website where you can get more information about some of the gay bars and clubs (and so much more) mentioned in the episode.
Credit: Photo by Kay Tobin Lahusen, courtesy of Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. Craig Rodwell, left, and Frank Kameny, right, at the final Reminder Day picketing at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, July 4, 1969. In the short documentary The Second Largest Minority, shot at the 1968 picket by Lilli Vincenz, you can see Craig Rodwell smiling at 1:23 and hear Frank Kameny starting at 1:53.
homophile organizations, have a listen to our episodes with Harry Hay, founder of the Mattachine Society Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, co-founders of the Daughters of Bilitis and Dorr Legg, Martin Block, and Jim Kepner, who spearheaded ONE.Ĭraig Rodwell mentions an altercation between him and Frank Kameny at one of the annual Reminder Day pickets at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, which were held from 1965 to 1969. To learn more about the founders of some of the early U.S. Many of our previous episodes include interviews with LGBTQ trailblazers who became active in the movement pre-Stonewall. To learn more about pre-Stonewall demonstrations and confrontations with the police, read Denio Lourenco’s VICE article here. Craig Rodwell will be featured more extensively in upcoming episodes, but he also makes an appearance in our episode about Dick Leitsch, with whom Craig Rodwell was in a relationship during their early days at Mattachine. Johnson, Ernestine Eckstein, and Sylvia Rivera ( part 1 and part 2 ). To find out more about some of the people featured in this episode and the times in which they lived, check out the following Making Gay History episodes and the accompanying episode notes: Frank Kameny, Barbara Gittings and Kay Lahusen ( part 1 and part 2 ), Randy Wicker and Marsha P. For even more Stonewall resources, check out Marc Stein’s The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History. The final page has more resources if you’d like to dig a bit deeper. If you’d like a primer on Stonewall, here is a handy factsheet that Making Gay History co-produced. Have a listen! Happy Pride! Rare color view of the Stonewall sign (back right) as actresses Diane Baker and Hope Lange cross Christopher Street in a screen capture from the film “The Best of Everything” (1959). Unlike our usual format of featuring one or two voices in each episode, in “Prelude to a Riot” we share multiple voices to set the stage for that now-iconic night on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village when LGBTQ people said “Enough!” in a voice so loud and angry that it was the police who ran from us and not the other way around. And that’s the story we cover in this first of four episodes marking the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. Just a riot and the rest was history.īut I quickly discovered that Stonewall had rich, complex, fraught, compelling, exciting, and inspirational backstory. Gay people fought back against police oppression and the gay rights movement was born.
Episode Notesįrom Eric Marcus: Context is everything! When I first started researching the Making Gay History book (originally called Making History and now available as an e-book ), I thought that the Stonewall uprising was a singular event. Credit: From the collection of Tom Bernardin. Matchbook cover advertising Bonnie’s Stonewall Inn, c.