Reed Erickson was a trans man with a big checkbook and a pet leopard named Henry.
I paid so little attention to that name that I didn’t recall ever hearing it until MGH’s executive producer Sara Burningham told me about Reed’s central role in the 1960s gay and trans rights movement as we were planning the episode lineup for Season Four. Episode Notesįrom Eric Marcus : When I interviewed ONE magazine newshound and intrepid archivist Jim Kepner back in the summer of 1989, he mentioned in passing a person named Reed Erickson.
Reed Erickson (center) with girlfriend Daisy Harriman (left) and Michele, 1963.Ĭredit: Photo courtesy of the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.