Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive

In this final episode, we reflect on why there are so few testimonies from LGBTQ people wh... more

Charismatic German Jewish athlete Fredy Hirsch dedicated himself to inspiring and protecti... more

Kenneth Roman was 15 when the Nazis rolled into his Polish hometown. After they liquidated... more

German Jewish survivor Margot Heuman attributed her survival of the Nazi concentration cam... more

Lucy Salani was assigned male at birth, so when she came of age she was conscripted into t... more

After the 1942 deportation of his boyfriend, 19-year-old Jewish Berliner Gad Beck vowed to... more

When the Nazis invaded the Netherlands in 1940, 36-year-old conductor Frieda Belinfante di... more

In 1939, French teenager Pierre Seel had his watch stolen at a cruising spot in his hometo... more

Polish teenager Stefan Kosinski was beaten, tortured, and sent to prison. His crime? He fe... more

In our second introductory episode, we focus on life in the Nazi concentration camps and o... more

In this first of two introductory episodes, hear how the walls closed in on LGBTQ people a... more

Host Eric Marcus welcomes listeners to MGH’s “Nazi Era” series by going back in time to 19... more

Frank Kameny lived by three rules: have absolute confidence in your beliefs; fight for wha... more

In 1983 Evan Wolfson wrote a law school thesis that asserted that gay people had a constit... more