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1960’s gay rights champion Dick Leitsch died on June 22, 2018. We’ll be bringing you a full episode about Dick and his contributions to the movement during Season Four. In the meantime, we’ve produced this farewell episode to introduce you to Dick, who was a one-of-a-kind, out-and-proud, fearless leader at a time when few people dared to risk all to carry the ball forward in the fight against police repression and society’s condemnation. Listen now: http://bit.ly/mgh-leitsch
This Saturday in Brooklyn: JoinMaking Gay History, Food 4 Thot, Nancy and LGBTQ&A for the biggest, queerest live show, one night only. Get your tickets here http://bit.ly/bigqueerpodfest
Today the German government issued a postage stamp in honor of #MagnusHirschfeld. In 1897, Hirschfeld founded the first gay rights organization in the world in Germany. This year marks the 150th anniversary of Hirschfeld’s birth and 2019 will mark the centennial of the founding of his Institute of Sexual Research.
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On this day in 1946, film historian, activist, and co-founder of @actupny and @GLAAD was born. In a 1988 interview with #MakingGayHistory’s Eric Marcus, Vito said, “I want to be around to … tell the world what happened so that people will realize what we all went through. Because I think our lives have been devalued. These are brave courageous, beautiful people who are dying.” Vito Russo died of complications from AIDS on November 7, 1990. Listen to our episode featuring Vito here: http://bit.ly/mgh-russo
Happy birthday to Frida Kahlo The legendary Mexican artist would have been 111 today. Her work has inspired generations of artists. Frida occasionally wore men’s clothing and was proudly bisexual — despite the world being hostile to LGBTQ people in the early 20th century. : #NickolasMuray The first portrait was taken by Frida’s father, Guillermo Kahlo, in 1926.
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We are excited to be on the @sworalhistory board! Jennifer is the president and Cindy is the California delegate.
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We are getting excited for the @ohassociation conference sponsored by @sworalhistory in Salt Lake City October 16-20! Our oral history collections are growing and we look forward to sharing our research with these networks.
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Discover the Oral Historian in you and fall (back) in love with oral history!
EVERYDAY POETRY is a five-week class taught byme on the art of gathering, preserving, and interpreting oral stories – the literature of the street, the buzz of a corner store, the personal stories that dismantle stereotypes.
>>We will be diving into the history of spoken word and acquiring the necessary tools to begin (or continue) an oral history project of your own with the support of a community of oral historians.
>> We will read and discuss orality narratives, learn new ways of gathering and preserving language, and explore various media in relation to amplifying oral history narratives.
>>We will talk about why stories matter, discuss the shaping, sculpting, and editing of what we find, and send our work out into the world. You do not need experience with oral history to take this class.
WHEN: Tuesdays, 6:30 - 9:00pm, April 7 – May 12th (note: this is a five week class. We will not be meeting on 4/21).
WHERE:Waywards San Francisco Mission, at Mission and 29th street, accessible to 24th street BART.
COST: Early Registration: $200. Discounts available.
MORE INFO:http://waywardwriters.org/sf-mission-classes/
REGISTER HERE:http://waywardwriters.org/contact-us/
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For Wayward Writers
Oral History WHAT? Unearthing the oral historian in you
For me, it started in the kitchen.
Chairs in a semicircle next to a tiny window opened, supposedly, to ventilate the endless cigarette smoke exchanged for a little gossip. It all started in that kitchen where all my tías became chimneys, magical storytellers of their lives, narrating in hand gestures, laughters, shrugs, the ineptitude of their husbands, phantoms of their childhood, the stupidity of the newly elected mayor, the newest anti-wrinkle cream, etc. I stood in a corner mesmerized. Listening to words I did not yet understand, but entranced by the power of each individual story to open a world of its own. Fascinated by the emotional detailing of each memory, which allowed me to connect, empathize. I too, felt their pain, their loss, their joy.
Needless to say I’ve always been very attracted to storytellers. I’m a groupie with a radar for voice. I love hanging out with older folks and just chatting it up until they’ve retold at least twice that story about seeing three witches hidden in the gateman’s hut every day to and from school. My God. I live for that stuff. My believability capabilities are endless, not because I’m naive, or because I come from the “magical realism” country, but because human experience reaches supernatural limits every day (think wars, think bars in small towns, think grandmothers, think you).
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