{"id":2941,"date":"2017-04-19T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2017-04-14T16:14:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T20:14:46","slug":"making-gay-history-podcast-on-the-early-gay-rights-movement-within-ala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2941","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Making Gay History&#8221; podcast on the early gay rights movement within ALA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcollections.nypl.org\/items\/510d47e3-961b-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nypl.org\/index.php?id=1606076&amp;t=w\" alt=\"black and white image of two eomen, smiling, underneath a sign that says hug a homosexual.\" width=\"760\" height=\"515\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabel Miller and Barbara Gittings at the &#8220;Hug a Homosexual&#8221; booth <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcollections.nypl.org\/items\/510d47e3-961b-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99\">(image via NYPL Digital Collections)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Have you heard of the &#8220;Hug-a-Homosexual&#8221; booth at ALA&#8217;s 1971 Annual Conference? If not, take a <a href=\"http:\/\/makinggayhistory.com\/podcast\/episode-18-gittings-lahusen\/\">listen to this delightful podcast interview with one of the women involved<\/a>, Barabara Gittings, and her partner Kay Lahusen. While not a librarian, Gittings was involved in the early gay movement within ALA, which advocated for positive gay and lesbian literature in libraries, as well as visibility in the profession.<\/p>\n<p>The podcast episode is part of a larger project called Making Gay History from author?Eric Marcus. <a href=\"http:\/\/makinggayhistory.com\">You can listen to all the episodes on the podcast website<\/a>, including an <a href=\"http:\/\/makinggayhistory.com\/podcast\/episode-01-09\/\">additional episode about Gittings and Lahusen <\/a>which covers their involvement with the Daughters of Bilitis.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Emilia Marcyk<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard of the &#8220;Hug-a-Homosexual&#8221; booth at ALA&#8217;s 1971 Annual Conference? If not, take a listen to this delightful podcast interview with one of the women involved, Barabara Gittings, and her partner Kay Lahusen. While not a librarian, Gittings was involved in the early gay movement within ALA, which advocated for positive gay and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,59],"tags":[80,687,266],"class_list":["post-2941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-of-note","category-people","tag-ala","tag-glbt-podcasts","tag-lgbt-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}