American journalist and broadcaster Eric Marcus was BOTD in 1958. Born in New York City, he studied at Vassar College before attending Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. After graduation, he worked as a producer for TV news shows Good Morning America and CBS Morning News. His first book The Male Couple’s Guide: Finding a Man, Making a Home, Building a Life was published in 1988, followed by Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945 to 1990, which won the Stonewall Book Award. Breaking the Surface, his 1995 biography of gay Olympic diving star Greg Louganis, became a national bestseller, followed by Icebreaker, a biography of gay figure-skating champion Rudy Galindo. In 1998, he published Together Forever: Gay & Lesbian Couples Share Their Secrets for Lasting Happiness, followed by Making Gay History, a 2002 update of Making History. Between 2010 and 2014, Marcus served on the board of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, publishing the national bestseller Why Suicide? Questions and Answers about Suicide, Suicide Prevention, and Coping with the Suicide of Someone You Know. He is best known as the founder and host of the Making Gay History podcast, a grassroots narrative of 20th century gay life featuring interviews with LGBTQ people. He also co-produced the podcast Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust, drawn from the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University. Marcus lives in New York City with his long-term partner Barney Karpfinger.