# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-marcus
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:24:35.105Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eric-marcus"
name: "Eric Marcus"
slug: "eric-marcus"
description: "Eric Marcus is an American journalist, podcast producer, and non-fiction writer. He is the founder and host of the Making Gay History podcast, which brings LGBT history to life through the voices of the people who lived it, and he is co-producer of Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust, a podcast drawn from the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University. His books are primarily of LGBT interest, including Breaking the Surface, the autobiography of gay Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis, which became a #1 New York Times best seller and Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945–1990, which won the Stonewall Book Award. He is also the author of Why Suicide? Questions and Answers about Suicide, Suicide Prevention, and Coping with the Suicide of Someone You Know. He has written for a range of publications including The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, the New York Daily News, and the New York Post."
tagline: "American journalist, podcast producer and non-fiction writer (born 1958)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1958-11-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.08
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.682182666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.ericmarcus.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Marcus"
    title: "Eric Marcus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "إريك ماركوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "اريك ماركوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Marcus"
    title: "Eric Marcus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Marcus"
    title: "Eric Marcus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Marcus"
    title: "Eric Marcus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q347491"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump