“Return to Normalcy”
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.
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Original release: November 2, 2020
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OCTOBER 28, 2020
Bonus episode! Patreon! 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! ☀️
Hear more standalone bonus episodes at patreon.com/queerserial
📸 1920 presidential campaign posters
📸 California, c. 1918. By Raymond Coyn, Lucretia Little History Room, Mill Valley Public Library.
📸 Oakland Municipal Auditorium as a temporary hospital during the flu pandemic of 1918, Oakland, California. Underwood Archives, Getty
📸 Warren Harding addressing a crowd from his porch, Marion, Ohio, 1920.
🎶 Al Jolson’s new tune, @librarycongress
🗞 Cartoon on “normalcy” by John Tinney, 1921. Newberry Library.
OCTOBER 28, 2020
Yikes. Hear all about Harding’s campaign to “Return to Normalcy” 100 years ago in today’s bonus episode! 🗳
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! ☀️
Hear more standalone bonus episodes at patreon.com/queerserial
📸 Warren G. Harding campaign poster by Howard Chandler Christy, 1920. Warren Harding Photograph Collection, Ohio History Connection.
🗞 Let’s repeat this history, too. New York Daily News, Tuesday, November 2, 1920.
📰 NYT, Wednesday, November 3, 1920.
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Coverage of the tragic murder of Frank Barbor. 🗞
Discussed in this week’s new bonus episode, Barbor’s murder presented several mysteries, which became linked with another victim whose death was dramatized by the press.
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OCTOBER 29, 2020
Leeds Vaughn Waters was tragically killed 100 years ago this week. Hear the story of his “indecent advances,” and how the mystery unraveled in the press through subtext, this week on the bonus podcast. 🗞
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📸 Leeds Vaughn Waters, 1873-1920. findagrave.com
🗞 November 4, 1920, Evening Public Ledger, Philadelphia.
🗞 December 6, 1920, New York Daily News
🗞 December 15, 1920, New York Daily News
OCTOBER 30, 2020
A woman who streaked across society once in a generation.” The one and only “Baroness” Blanc. Hear why “Baroness” gets quotes in this week’s Patreon bonus episode. 👗
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📸 Elizabeth Nicholson Blanc, findagrave.com
🗞 November 4, 1920, Evening Public Ledger, Philadelphia.
🗞 November 11, 1920, St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
VOTE!🗳
📸 Joan Jett Blakk at the 1992 DNC
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Election Day Patreon bonus episode in the free feed! Out now! 🗳 This story is about how fear-mongering from the president spreads through our communities. We'll follow the tragic murder of Leeds Vaughn Waters on the night of the 1920 election, and how the press reported the queer hate crime through salacious subtext. 💥🗳💥
The 1920 presidential election was surprisingly similar to 2020. Typical tropes like xenophobia, but also a president in office downplaying a pandemic — until he caught the virus. The next guy in line led to the greatest political scandal yet in presidential history, and the voter turnout was unprecedented in size.
📸 1920 presidential campaign posters
📸 Oakland Municipal Auditorium as a temporary hospital during the flu pandemic of 1918, Oakland, California. Underwood Archives, Getty
📸 Warren G. Harding campaign poster by Howard Chandler Christy, 1920. Warren Harding Photograph Collection, Ohio History Connection.
🗞 December 15, 1920, New York Daily News
🗞 New York Daily News, Tuesday, November 2, 1920.
🗞 Coverage of the tragic murder of Frank Barbor.
📸Leeds Vaughn Waters, 1873-1920. findagrave.com
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Let’s hope history repeats itself. 🗳
Hear all about the shockingly similarly presidential election 100 years ago in the new bonus episode in the free feed ☺️
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🗞 November 2, 1920, Neenah, Wisconsin Daily News
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
HA!! Thanks to everyone who shared this 😂
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
I hope you made your voice heard today!
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📸 Joan Jett Blakk at the 1992 DNC
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NOVEMBER 6, 2020
National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, Washington, DC, October 14, 1979.
NOVEMBER 7, 2020
“Victory! …This is your case, too, and your victory, because it was a fight to protect your freedom…But this small victory alone will not suffice. We must have more victories and in the highest courts.” 💥🗳💥
🗂 Mattachine Foundation announcement following the entrapment and trial of Dale Jennings, @onearchives
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
Irrelevant to the podcast, other than that I found this incredible news article while researching the 1920 cases in the new bonus episode. 🧦
🗞 New York Daily News, November 1920.
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"A Murder in Midtown"
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Recorded in Hoboken, New Jersey, January 16, 2020.
“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!
“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.