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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Bonus episode! Hear the standalone story of the first Washington Mattachine chapter — long before our current “characters” came on the scene. This group was short-lived, and you’ll soon see why.

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🗂 FBI documents found through FOIA by Douglas Charles

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

“There will be no more loud knocks on doors, shouting, scowls, psychological tricks, cornering in porch swings, evasive replies, scare techniques, etc. The stunt-pulling days of government agents and security officers are over. Yours truly, Buell Dwight Huggins.” 💋

Hear Dwight take on the FBI in the new bonus episode at patreon.com/queerserial 💜
Or subscribe on Apple Podcasts!

🗂 FBI documents found through FOIA by Douglas Charles

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

“…I notice that you folded it in such a way that part of it could be read through the envelope or easily x-rayed by the post office inspector. Maybe that was why it took so long to reach us. Sincerely yours, B. D. Huggins” 📨

Dwight Huggins is plagued by paranoia in the newest bonus episode… patreon.com/queerserial 💜
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AUGUST 25, 2021

“The stunt-pulling days of government agents and security officers are over. Yours truly, Buell Dwight Huggins.” 👋🏼

Before Frank Kameny, Dwight Huggins was crushed by the U.S. Government for organizing the original Washington Mattachine. Hear all about his brief rise & dramatic fall on my bonus podcast!! One of my favorite voice acting performances of the series by @loosh_in 😘

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🗞 Huggins covered the Boise gay sex panic in his 1956 newsletters! Hear all about THAT on my bonus series on Patreon toooo 😈

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AUGUST 26, 2021

More of the original Washington Mattachine’s coverage of the Boise sex panic in 1957. Hear all about the infamous scandal and the fall of the Mattachine chapter on my bonus podcast! A moment where all three series cross over. ☺️

🗞 Check out “Hoover’s War on Gays” by Douglas Charles, where I first read the fascinating story of Dwight Huggins and the original Washington Mattachine.

Bonus pods on patreon.com/queerserial✨
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more Season 2 Bonus episodes

"A Murder in Midtown"
A 1930s true queer murder mystery in New York City.

“Midtown” images

Subscribe on Patreon or Apple Podcasts to listen to this bonus episode from spin-off podcast Forgotten Fairy Tales—and many more from Mattachine Meeting, Randy Wicker Radio, Infamous Crimes: White Night Riot Interviews, and more!

“Live and Let Live:
6 Decades Later”
Interview w/ Randy Wicke‪r‬

Featuring Sylvia Rivera, Randy’s friend Michael, and stories about Marsha P. Johnson, the Mattachine, and radical activism.

Recorded in Hoboken, New Jersey, January 16, 2020.

Images from Interview w/ Randy Wicker

“Return to Normalcy”
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2020 Election Day bonus‪!

The 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. Make sure you have a plan to vote!

1920 Election Day Research Dive!

“Trans-sexuals and the Police”
on KPFA,
April 10, 196‪8‬

Three transgender San Franciscans discuss police problems and their work as members of C.O.G., Conversion our Goal, with Police Community Relations Officer Elliot Blackstone of the San Francisco Police Department. Herb Kutchins of the San Francisco Bail Project moderates.

“A Step Higher”
w/ Mattachino
Wendell Sayers

Historian 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 S2 E8.