Another Martha Shelley was president of the New York City chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), an organization for lesbians. One Martha Shelley worked at Barnard College as a secretary. But during the turbulent years we cover in this episode, which focuses on Martha’s life from 1960 until the eve of the Stonewall uprising, Martha was at odds with the world-so much so that by 1968 the 25-year-old Brooklyn native found herself leading three different lives. Episode Notesįrom Eric Marcus: By the time I met Martha Shelley in 1989 at the home she shared with her then partner in Oakland, California, her battle to find a place for herself in the world was history. Credit: Photo by Diana Davies courtesy of the Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library. Martha Shelley at the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop in New York City's Greenwich Village, 1969.
