Voices from the Shadows: LGBTQ Experiences During the Nazi Era

Eric Marcus, founder and host of the award-winning Making Gay History podcast provides an introduction to Making Gay History’s 12-episode series on the 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, Eric will share clips from archival interviews that bring this painful, often hidden history to life through the voices of the people who lived it.

About the Speaker

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. And he is co-producer of “Those Who Were There,” a podcast drawn from Yale University’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Eric is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and co-author of a dozen books and is a founding board member of the American LGBTQ+ Museum.