Contents:
- MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST
- TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK AND GAY: LORRAE HANSBERRY
- LORRAE HANSBERRY'S GAY POLICS
MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST
By necsy, her engagement wh the homophile movement remaed hidn, but 1957, the DOB’s magaze, The Ladr, published two letters she submted. ———Episo TranscriptEric Marc Narratn: I’m Eric Marc, and this is Makg Gay History.
TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK AND GAY: LORRAE HANSBERRY
” One em ma both lists: “my homosexualy. ”——— Many thanks to everyone who mak Makg Gay History possible: senr producer Nahanni Ro, -producer and puty director Inge De Taeye, d engeer Jeff Towne, rearcher Brian Ferree, photo edor Michael Green, genealogist Michael Leclerc, and our social media team, Cristiana Peña, Nick Porter, and Den Louren. Our theme mic was posed by Frz Gay History is a -productn of Peapple Street Studs, wh assistance om the New York Public Library’s Mancripts and Archiv Divisn and the ONE Archiv at the USC eight of this podst is produced associatn wh the Studs Terkel Rad Archive, which is managed by WFMT partnership wh the Chigo History Mm.
LORRAE HANSBERRY'S GAY POLICS
Stay touch wh Makg Gay History by signg up for our newsletter at Our webse is also where you’ll fd prev episos, archival photos, full transcripts, and addnal rmatn on each of the people and stori we long! She first wished to dispel the ia of “wishg to foster any strict separatist notns, homo or hetero. ” In a readg of the “homosexual” lerature that was not apparently her first, Hansberry negotiated the problem of difference, showg a sensivy to need to fd separate and to jo, and monstrated remarkable aptns at applyg an unrstandg of the civil rights movement to the qutn of lbianism.