18. Ernestine Eckstein

Queer Qulture

WELCOME to episode 18 - don't forget to turn your listening ears our way! We are knee deep in Pride Month and celebrating an LGBT activist pre-Stonewall, Ernestine Eckstein! Ernestine is the proof in the pudding - if you have a person who historians claim "couldn't be gay because they don't know what the word gay means", if you EXPLAIN what being gay means, it probably hits the nail on the head for them. Moving to NYC in 1963 at the age of 22, she quickly wove herself into gay liberation groups and butted heads with them at a time when respectability politics and removing "being gay" from the APA as a mental illness were their top priorities. Join us while we moan about the Man, get frustrated with her about respectability politics, and exchange recipes on how to prepare the rich - we like 'em spit roasted! Don't forget to donate to our GoFundMes so we can move back to our ancestral homes of Ireland and Italy!