Making gay history eckstein

Ernestine Eckstein is an iconic figure from the s homophile movement—from photos showing her as the only African American woman at the earliest protests to her trailblazing cover story in The Ladder. Now we can put a voice to those images with a never-before-heard interview. From Eric Marcus: Back in the late s, one of the people I was keenly interested in including in my oral history book was someone who jumped out at me from a vintage photograph. She was a lone African American woman in a gay picket line in front of the White House.

The interview appears in the June issue of The Ladder on which a photograph of Eckstein graces the cover. The print interview is culled from audio tapes of a long interview in with Eckstein. Those tapes were unearthed by Making Gay History MGH podcast executive producer Sara Burningham. Burningham uncovered a digitized copy of the interview among the archived papers of Barbara Gittings at the New York Public Library.

Ernestine Eckstein was an influential lesbian of color who was active in the LGBT rights movement in the pre-Stonewall years. While living in this tenement building, from until , she served as the vice president of the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis and participated in two of the earliest pickets for gay rights in the United States. From to , renowned poet Allen Ginsberg lived in an apartment here with his life partner, Peter Orlovsky. During these years, he continued to write and also received numerous accolades for his distinguished career in poetry.

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