American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982

  • Women dissidents and Ms. magazine / Tanya and William Mandel

    On Ms. magazine and womens’ conditions in the Soviet Union. Mandel begins the program by introducing controversy over the book Women In Soviet Society by Professor Gail Lapidus of University of California Berkeley and the articles by dissenter women who had been expelled by the Soviet Union, which appeared in the November issue of Ms.…

  • A blind blues street singer / Flora Molton ; interviewed by Natalie Reuss.

    Interview with Flora Molton, blind blues street-singer of the Washington, D.C. area. Flora tells stories of her past, sings and plays slide guitar, and explains why she has chosen to be a performer of the street. Her band members include Ed Morris and Phil Wiggins. Natalie Reuss of Sophie’s Parlor Media Collective conducts the interview.…

  • A lesbian video collective. Delia Davis and Nancy Houngs interviewed by Ronald Gold (Episode 15)

    Delia Davis and Nancy Houngs, members of Lesbians Organized for Video Experience (LOVE), discuss how their work serves as a record of the lesbian community’s history, and how it has affected their own loves and attitudes. Host and producer is Ronald Gold.

  • Gay moments in straight music / produced by Rudy Grillo.

    A program on popular songs from the last seventy-five years featuring male-to-male and female-to-female vocals with direct or implied references to gay men and lesbians. With works by Marlene Dietrich, the Boswell Sisters, Frank Sinatra, Cole Porter, and Eddie Cantor. Produced by Rudy Grillo.

  • Survival Sunday III

    Actuality from the benefit concert that took place on May 25, 1980 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Part 1 includes the opening, Pat Smith, Friends Band, and Alliance for Survival welcome. Part 2 includes Roscoe Lee Browne, Danny Ishio, (Solar) Bruce Mussell, and John Trudell. Part 3 includes Susan St. James, Holly Near,…

  • Lesbian culture / produced by Helene Rosenbluth

    A program on lesbian culture, starting with a radio presentation of “An Oral Herstory of Lesbianism.” Conceived and produced by Terry Wolverton, written collectively by 13 women: Jerri Allyn, Nancy Angelo, Leslie Belt, Cheri Gaulke, Chutney Gunderson, Brook Hallock, Sue Maberry, Louise Moore, Arlene Raven, Catherine Stifter, Cheryl Swannack, Christine Wong and Terry Wolverton. Sponsored…

  • West coast women’s music festival

    This program presents selected highlights from the West Coast Women’s Music Festival held September 26-28, 1980 at Yosemite. Part 1 of this program features rock musician Terry Garthwaite and jazz pianist Kelly Green. Part 2 features cabaret trio Nicholas, Glover, and Wray (Julie Nicholas, Sheilah Glover and Willow Wray); and singer/songwriter Teresa Trull. Part 3…

  • Can we find an index for the quality of life? / moderated by S. Fred Singer and Mancur Olson.

    Symposium heard at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) held in December 1971 in Philadephia titled “Can we find an index for the quality of life?” Moderators are professor S. Fred Singer of the University of Virginia, and professor Mancur L. Olsen of the University of Maryland. Speakers are Uriel G. Foa,…

  • Cuba and gays in Cuba : part two, 1977 / produced by the Fruit Punch Collective

    Interview with Ricardo Galvon and Kathleen O’Connell, two members of the Venceremos Brigade to Cuba who relate their experiences and the role of gays in Cuban society, based on their six-week stay in Cuba in Sprint 1977. The Vanceremos Brigade was begun in 1969, in which people from all over the world go in groups…

  • Cuba and gays in Cuba : part one, 1976 / produced by the Fruit Punch Collective

    Andy interviews Rebecca and Carlos, who have just returned from Cuba where they worked with Cubans and other North Americans with the Venceremos Brigade, about their experiences in Cuba’s three larges cities, the oppression of gays in Cuba, and on the changing roles of men and women in Cuba. This is part one of the…