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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.