The Making Gay History podcast’s Holocaust series will be presented in London next month.
Journalist and author Eric Marcus is due to speak at University College London on 5 May as part of an event examining LGBTQ experiences during the Nazi era.
The session will centre on his podcast’s documentary series, which explores lives during the rise of Nazism, the Second World War and the Holocaust.
The series 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.
During the event, Eric will introduce the project and share clips from the archive. The recordings document experiences that were often overlooked at the time and bring forward voices that had little public platform.
Eric began his career as a broadcast journalist before moving into writing. His book Making Gay History received the Stonewall Book Award and later became the foundation for the podcast. He has written or co-written a dozen titles focused on LGBTQ history.
The podcast is now in its 14th season with more than 100 episodes. It has reached audiences in over 200 countries and has been downloaded more than six million times.
Alongside his work on the podcast, Eric is executive director of the Making Gay History educational non profit. The organisation works with educators to develop LGBTQ inclusive history resources. He is also a founding board member of the American LGBTQ+ Museum.
The UCL event, titled Voices from the Shadows: LGBTQ Experiences During the Nazi Era, will bring academic and public attention to a subject that remains underrepresented in mainstream historical discussion.
