July 23 | 5 – 6pm | Zoom
Join us Wednesday, July 23 from 5-6pm for an online presentation with Eric Marcus, executive director of Making Gay History. Marcus will introduce the Making Gay History’s podcast series on experiences of LGBTQ+ people during the rise of the Nazi regime, World War II, and the Holocaust. Drawing on extensive research conducted for this first-of-its-kind audio documentary, Marcus will share archival clips that bring this painful, often hidden history to life through the voices of the people who lived it.
Making Gay History Podcast
Since 2016, the Making Gay History podcast has been mining audio archives for rare interviews that speak to the history of the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement. The show creates intimate portraits of both known and long-forgotten champions, heroes, and witnesses to queer history. Click here to learn more about Making Gay History, to access their educational resources, and to listen to Season 14 of the podcast, which documents LGBTQ+ experiences during the Nazi era.
Zoom Information
We will send a link to the Zoom webinar 24 hours before the event and periodically monitor any new ticket purchases leading up to the 5pm start time. If you have any issues, please get in touch with akurson@ojmche.org.
This program is presented as part of Outliers and Outlaws.
Panelists
Eric Marcus
Journalist and author Eric Marcus is the founder and host of the award-winning Making Gay History podcast, which brings LGBTQ+ history to life through the voices of the people who lived it. Eric is also executive director of the Making Gay History educational non-profit organization, which works in partnership with the National Education Association, the largest teachers’ union in the United States, to provide LGBTQ+-inclusive American history lessons to middle and high school educators. In addition, Eric is co-producer of Those Who Were There, a podcast drawn from Yale University’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Eric is the author and co-author of a dozen books, including the #1 NY Times bestselling autobiography of Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis, and he was a founding board member of the American LGBTQ+ Museum.