Jonathan Ned Katz on Fruit Punch Radio, March 23, 1977

In 1976, Jonathan Ned Katz published Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A., the first comprehensive book of documents on U.S. homosexual history, drawing on primary sources ranging from 1566 to 1972. In 1977, on a publicity tour for his book, Katz lectured in San Francisco, offering to his non-academic audience dramatic and humorous excerpts from his book's collection of documents. The Fruit Punch Collective, a gay men’s radio program based in San Francisco, recorded Katz’s lecture and created an hour long version. Thanks to Pacifica Radio Archives, the original radio broadcast of March 23, 1977 is available to the public. You can listen to the original Fruit Punch program here: https://archive.org/details/pra-AZ0102