In Making Gay History’s fifth season, the host Eric Marcus commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York City using his own recordings from the event’s aftermath. In investigating this crucial moment in American LGBTQ history, the show begins as a walking tour of Greenwich Village, but it also discusses the mood across the country, suppressive anti-gay laws, and the evolving language used to describe queerness. The famous lack of consensus about what exactly happened at Stonewall is the focus of the second episode, in which Marcus offers a mix of stories that don’t perfectly align. But his take, a refreshing one, is that history has room for them all. While narratives about the riots were everywhere in 2019, this special series lets listeners hear about them from the people who were actually there.