Episode 306 - Barbara Gittings - The Librarian Who Shelved Shame

So, as June 2026 draws to a close, we present the life and times of Barbara Gittings, a woman who refused to let the world define her as insane or a degenerate just because she was a lesbian. She set out to change things, curating museum collections so not everything about the LGBT+ was written by doctors, moralists or police. She made libraries a safe space for queer people trying to discover who…