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- Outlaw drag queens, FBI hunts, and not-so-secret societies. A true history radio drama following the raids, riots, and romance of American LGBTQ liberation from 1924 to Stonewall.
- 2017– 42mPodcast Episode"How could you possibly tell they were queer?"Join Dr. Evelyn Hooker as she begins a groundbreaking study. After a horrific experience during Kristallnacht, and a friendship with a young gay man in America, Dr. Evelyn Hooker embarks on an experiment (with many Mattachinos) to discover whether or not homosexuality is a mental sickness.
- 2017– 32mPodcast EpisodeHow will political pressure from the lavender scare cause cracks in the Mattachine Foundation? If we are "moral risks," then what is our moral code? We dig through the letters from the Mattachine archives to find how the founders of the organization began to splinter under the Lavender Scare's pressure.
- 2017– 1h 17mPodcast EpisodeThe final season of the original series. 1963. The Black Cat is finally shut down. Many of our main "characters" meet for the first convention of the East Coast Homophile Organization. New, young Daughters and Mattachinos take stances against the old guards. Randy Wicker speaks live on New York City television, to the criticism of many. SIR forms in San Francisco and, surprisingly, teams up with Glide Memorial Church. On June 26, 1964, LIFE Magazine reveals the secret world of "Homosexuality in America."
- 2017– 46mPodcast EpisodeWhen police crack down, how do we respond? San Francisco police raid gay bars and "clean up" the city. Homophiles and street queens strategize. The serial goes deeper into the Bay Area's foundational role in the U.S. LGBTQ+ rights movement.
- 2017– 15mPodcast EpisodeHistorian Eric Marcus interviews Wendell Sayers, an attorney, the first Black assistant attorney general for the state of Colorado, and one of few Black members of the Mattachine Society. He attended the 6th annual Mattachine convention in 1959, a dramatic event featured in 'Queer Serial' S2 E8.
- 2017– 48mPodcast EpisodeWould you like to be part of a group of women like us? The Daughters of Bilitis office hours are open. Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon establish a meeting group for gay girls and kick off the movement for lesbian rights. A small office in the Tenderloin and the debut issue of their magazine The Ladder draw the attention of women across the world.
- Season 2 picks up in 1954, right where we left off. A secret organization of lesbians forms as the national Mattachine Society crumbles. A political revolution is launched by a drag queen. Police raid gay spaces and street queens fight back. The masks come off and a militant minority is rising.
- 2017– 34mPodcast EpisodeWhy was Dale Jennings arrested? What purpose does ONE Magazine serve? How is queer culture defined by our community? Mattachino Dale Jennings is arrested, entrapped by a police officer. The Mattachine starts a movement for his defense. Meanwhile, journalist Paul Coates begins to unravel the organization's secrets as a spin-off group of activists launch ONE Magazine.
- 2017– 33mPodcast EpisodePicking up where the previous episode left off, the morning after the raid. Nancy May returns to work, waiting to be fired. Homophiles prepare for the worst as every major paper covers the raid. The ministers take the police to court, turning San Francisco in a surprising new direction.
- 2017– 10mPodcast EpisodeFrank Kameny is under the boot in this mini-episode.
- 2017– 48mPodcast EpisodeWhen the Mattachine's founder is called to testify, when ONE Magazine is seized by the post office, and when the FBI begins to interrogate activists, how does the movement continue to fight? After homophiles question FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's sexuality, the FBI strikes back at ONE Magazine. The gay publication is seized by the post office and sent to the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Mattachine's founder Harry Hay is called to testify before HUAC. How does the gay movement continue to fight? Season 1 finale.
- 2017– 1h 9mPodcast EpisodeWe've found each other, we're organized, we're ready - how do we demand change? In the season 2 finale, we meet Civil Rights icons behind the next era of the gay movement, including Bayard Rustin and Rosa Parks. Despite pressure from fellow Black activists to distance himself from a known gay man, Dr. King allows a socialist, pacifist homosexual-and expert in nonviolent civil disobedience-organize the March on Washington. Season 2 finale featuring a guest appearance from drag legend Joan Jett Blakk reading the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 2017– 57mPodcast EpisodeEnough schisms, how about an alliance? Frank Kameny is the first open homosexual to speak before Congress, defending the Mattachine. FBI Director Hoover consults his gay informant. Randy Wicker recruits gay picketers. The lesbian activists focus on work, rather than in-fighting.
- 2017– 51mPodcast EpisodeFlyers, magazines, television - how should we tell the public that we're organizing? The Daughters of Bilitis are refused their chance to make their case on television. Their magazine volunteer Barbara Gittings risks personal exposure, and a young new militant activist using the name "Randy Wicker" pushes buttons inside the New York Mattachine. Meanwhile, a genderqueer crowd at Cooper Do-nuts in LA erupts in the first known riot for queer rights.
- 2017– 1h 18mPodcast EpisodeHow long have transgender, intersex, and gender-nonconforming humans existed? This week we'll explore some of our known genderqueer history, from ancient Sumer to 1959. Meet legends such as Carlett Brown, Christine Jorgensen, Miss Major, Lucy Hicks Anderson, Harry Benjamin, Magnus Hirschfeld, and also episode 2's Charley Parkhurst returns from Gold Rush era San Francisco.
- Who is the Mattachine Foundation? What do they want? Harry Hay creates a discrete new gay organization under a pseudonym when he hears a call to action for his people. He and his recruits Rudi Gernreich, Dale Jennings, Chuck Rowland, and Bob Hull form the Mattachine Foundation to organize the American gay community-hopefully without drawing attention from the FBI.
- You don't have to hear season 1 to join for season 2, but in case you wanna brush up.
- 2017– 1h 1mPodcast EpisodeJosé Sarria for Supervisor. Local drag queen José Sarria launches a groundbreaking campaign for San Francisco Supervisor. William Dorsey Swann, a former slave, fights the DC police and hosts legendary balls. Upper class trans writer Virginia Prince turns her secret cross-dressing club into a magazine called Transvestia. Young runaways Sylvia Rivera and Jack Nichols find their way into the queer community.
- Why are gay bars important? What role have they played in our history? Take a peak at season 2 through Helen Branson's historic text. Join the GAY BAR Book Club at queerserial.
- 2017– 39mPodcast EpisodeWhen an organization splinters into alliances, will the community they're organizing splinter, too? Welcome to the secret society's first constitutional convention. Mattachinos from across California gather in Los Angeles for the secret society's first constitutional convention-and the schism that shaped the gay rights movement forever.
- 2017– 34mPodcast EpisodeAre you a culturalist or an assimilationist? What are the pros and cons of each side, and what would you do to fight for yours? No one will be the same after this week's Mattachine meeting. The Mattachine takes a new form as new ideas shape their constitution-are we culturalist homosexuals or assimilationists? What are the pros and cons of each side, and what would you do to fight for yours?
- 2017– 27mPodcast EpisodeA podcast documentary about the gay "grooming" panic of Boise, Idaho in 1955.
- 2017– 2mPodcast EpisodeAugust 5, 1965. "The house detective, Edward Murphy, was held on $7,500 bail for a hearing Aug. 13. He was impersonating an officer." Faye Camp as the New York Times reporter in this mini-episode.
- 2017– 1h 16mPodcast EpisodeLesbian magazine editors Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin interview and photograph Ernestine Eckstein, who is fed up with white assimilationists. Meanwhile, Mattachinos attempt to force a lawsuit at any bar they can with a gay "sip-in." Hear the moment-by-moment story of the Sip-in at Julius' that changed New York City gay bars forever.
- 2017– 3mPodcast EpisodeAn astronomer writes to the ACLU. In this mini-episode, we meet Frank Kameny.
- 2017– 52mPodcast EpisodeDo we moderate our queer behavior in an assimilated world? Or do we move forward with a militant and proudly queer identity? What happens when Mattachine goes public? Attend the 1953 banquet that rocked the homophile movement when Dale Jennings gave his astonishing "moderation" speech. "Quo Vadis, Mattachine Society?"
- 2017– 42mPodcast EpisodeHomophile picketing continues. The Watts Uprising pushes gay activists forward. Meanwhile, a closet queen wrecks Mattachine Miami. José Sarria establishes the Imperial Court. A gay hotel detective extorts rich queers in a blackmail scheme that will lead us toward a landmark event in gay liberation.
- 2017– 42mPodcast EpisodeWhy do assimilationists reject queer culture? Hear the season from the point of view of the Mattachine's rising leader. Follow Hal Call to war and back, a closeted homosexual forced to reconcile with his secret love letters. Hear how he discovered the Mattachine and why he's determined to take control.
- 2017– 13mPodcast Episode"This is Harvey Milk speaking from my camera store on the evening of Friday, November 18th. This is Tape #2...This is to be played only in the event of my death by assassination." This tape is Supervisor Milk's unabridged audio will, rarely heard in full, in which he appoints his possible successors, and explains his hopes for the future of the gay movement. This audio is provided courtesy of Daniel Nicoletta, a photographer who worked on Harvey's campaigns and took some of the most well known photos of Supervisors Harvey Milk and Harry Britt.
- 2017– 1hPodcast EpisodeA moment-by-moment historically accurate radio play of the Stonewall Riots. How it happened, why it happened, who was there (and who wasn't), and why there is no "first brick." Hear how the street kids outsmarted the pigs and made it queer history's most legendary night.
- 2017– 1h 23mPodcast EpisodeWhat will we say when we finally have their attention? Homophiles take control of the small screen for the first time in this local San Francisco special on homosexuality that syndicated nationally in 1961. Controversial Mattachinos are prominently featured. The Daughters of Bilitis host a second national convention for their thriving lesbian organization. Randy Wicker gets a panel of gays on the radio. José Sarria fights for every vote as the election closes.
- Episode: (2022)2017– 18mPodcast EpisodeRemember when Jane Fonda went viral in 2020 for a decades-old clip of her advocating for gay rights? Here's the speech she gave later that night at the Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club's Milk birthday dinner on May 21, 1980. This clip from "The Gay Life" hosted by Randy Alfred is courtesy our fabulous sponsor, the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco. It features the voices of Randy Alfred, Supervisor Harry Britt, Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden, and Bill Kraus.
- 2017– 1h 22mPodcast EpisodeTrans power is felt in San Francisco when the a riot breaks out at Compton's Cafeteria. Vanguard announces demonstrations of angry young street queers, and change finally comes. Barbara Gittings and Frank Kameny take on the Department of Defense and meet their new nemesis: "Dr." Charles Socarides. The LA Black Cat is raided on New Years Eve, inspiring new activists. CBS airs their controversial 1967 documentary "The Homosexuals" hosted by Mike Wallace.
- 2017– 51mPodcast Episode"Whom Should We Tell?" And who won't find out once the biggest scandal in homophile history breaks? Down at Mary's First and Last Chance, spies from the SF Alcoholic Beverage Control Board take notes on local lesbians. In Denver, Elver Barker makes a case for the Mattachine to go public at the organization's sixth convention, while a San Francisco mayoral candidate quietly infiltrates the gathering for his own agenda. The biggest scandal in homophile history is about to break.
- 2017– 1h 24mPodcast EpisodeAn "ethical homosexual culture" overwhelms the Movement. San Francisco's gay community confronts the police for payola. The Daughters of Bilitis hold their first national convention and lesbian pulp books stir new arguments. Frank Kameny joins the main story and reaches out for help from the crumbling Mattachine. President Kennedy ushers in a new era.
- 2017– 45mPodcast EpisodeJack Nichols ditches Kameny and the gay movement for love. Indonesian reader Ger van Braam is the first person to show her face on The Ladder, the lesbian publication now edited by Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin. The Janus Society launches their Playboy-esque homophile magazine DRUM. Randy Wicker organizes the first march for American gay rights. A Nazi infiltrates the ECHO convention. In Act 2, San Francisco homophiles and ministers host a New Years gay ball that goes terribly wrong. Listen to this moment-by-moment historically accurate retelling of "San Francisco's Stonewall," the 1965 raid on California Hall. This is your ticket to the New Year's Mardi Gras Ball hosted by the Council on Religion and the Homosexual.
- 2017– 1h 34mPodcast EpisodeA secret meeting of city leaders, backlash against Mayor Dianne Feinstein, and the fight to win gay domestic partnerships threaten the newfound liberation of the queer community, all while a spreading disease kills thousands. Supervisor Harry Britt battles bathhouse owners and his own community as they come to understand HIV/AIDS.
- 2017– 7mPodcast EpisodeA mini-episode explaining how 1953's anti-gay executive order lives on under Trump in 2018.
- 2017– 2mPodcast Episode"Another such private club will open next week. Nearly all are in Manhattan and about one-third are operated by underworld figures." Paula Harrington as the New York Times reporter in this mini-episode.
- 2017– 39mPodcast EpisodeWho are our allies on the outside? Who are our enemies on the inside? A series of romantic betrayals and political back-stabbings push the Mattachinos into accidentally revealing their true identities. The Daughters of Bilitis willingly reveal their true names, just as playwright Lorraine Hansberry discreetly reaches out to them.
- 2017– 5mPodcast EpisodeQueer Serial producer Devlyn Camp talks to rioters who attended the legendary May 21, 1979 uprising following the verdict in the Dan White trial in San Francisco. Interviewees include historian Will Roscoe, Jerry the Faerie, Radical Faerie Joey Cain, Sister of Perpetual Indulgence Cass Brayton (Sister Mary Media), and Cockette Rumi Missabu.
- 2017– 2h 13mPodcast EpisodeIf you've been listening along, Randy Wicker is the young college student who advertised the Mattachine so well he got them evicted. He used the Mattachine mailing list to send out the Wicker Research Studies questionnaire. He went on the radio with a small group of gay men and talked very honestly. He marched in the first picket for gay rights and sat at the Sip-in. He was roommates with Marsha P. Johnson and enemies - then later friends - with Sylvia Rivera. We're talking about all of it on the podcast today. Featuring audio of Sylvia Rivera, Randy's partner Michael, and stories about Marsha P. Johnson, the Mattachine, and radical activism. Recorded in Hoboken, New Jersey, January 16, 2020.
- A standalone podcast mini-serial about a true scandal in queer history-in a new city with no Mattachine, no Bilitis, and no one to turn to.
- 2017– 1h 24mPodcast EpisodeKameny bickers with Wicker over buttons and picks petty fights with lesbian activists. Leo Laurence calls out racism within his own gay organization, so SIR fires him. He calls for a new gay revolution. Meet the street queens of the Village, and hear some of the perils they survive. Finally, we open the oak doors and enter the Stone Wall.
- 2017– 47mPodcast EpisodeWhat is the anonymous Mattachine? Our case opens with a postal worker in 1920s Chicago, Bavarian immigrant Henry Gerber, launching the 1st gay rights group in the US. The Government destroys his life, but he inspires other American queers.
- 2017– 7mPodcast EpisodeIn 1978, on his audio will, Harvey Milk recommended a list of possible successors, including a relatively unknown volunteer in his campaign, Harry Britt. In a new series, Will Roscoe and Devlyn Camp will tell you Milk's story, and pick up where the movie left off. You'll hear the story of a shy minister was chosen by Milk to fill his shoes in the event of assassination, and how he kept the movement going forward. This is a new "Queer Serial" sister series about Supervisor Harvey Milk's final wishes.
- 2017– 1h 20mPodcast EpisodeTransgender philanthropist Reed Erickson puts his fortune into the queer movement. ONE Magazine splits in a classic melodramatic homophile schism. Donald Webster Cory, the supposed "Grandfather of the Homophile Movement," is finally unmasked. Black activists march from Selma to Montgomery, inspiring queer communities. Gay power is felt at the Dewey's lunch counter sit-in. Homophiles launch a long picketing season, climaxing at Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
- 2017– 1h 30mPodcast EpisodeWe return to the time and place where 'Queer Serial' began: 1920s Chicago. We'll cruise Towertown and visit the Dil Pickle Club, meet the performing queers at the 1892 World's Fair, read lesbian pulp, and dance at the First Ward balls. Queers of the Pansy Craze, the Levee brothels, the drag and jazz clubs of Bronzeville, and the mafia-owned lesbian bars lead us to a massive gay crackdown in Chicago, and the formation of the Mattachine Midwest in 1965. Meet me back on Crilly Court.
- 2017– 34mPodcast EpisodeThe 1920 presidential election proves yet again that history repeats itself, from fear-mongering to political scandal, and even a sitting president infected by the pandemic he downplayed.