"GAY PANIC! 1955" Finale, E9: "Pettiness, Intolerance & the Personal Ambition of a Few"

All this to say, defund the police. Reallocate resources. 🚔

What was Boise’s gay panic for? In this final episode, we explore the long-term results of 1955’s mass hysteria.

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Listen to the first 4 seasons of Queer Serial free wherever you’re listening to this episode right now! Hear the story of American queer liberation from its roots in the 1920s all the way through to Stonewall and beyond. Explore the Episode Guide at queerserial.com/episodes.

To support my projects and get some queer merch, visit my new Etsy shop! I have lots of podcast merch from throughout the series, plus new queer history-related postcards, buttons, stickers, and other fun things! etsy.com/shop/queerhistoryuplift. Thank you all so much for your support!

Listen to Morris Foote's interview about the Boise sex panic with historian Eric Marcus on Making Gay History.

Follow me on Instagram @queerserial for images from the true history, subscribe to periodic email updates here, and find more info & resources for the podcast at queerserial.com. Music comes from Blue Dot Sessions. “Radio clips” in this episode feature “CBS Reports: The Homosexuals” from 1967, Slate’s 2021 “One Year” episode featuring Anita Bryant, and various local news coverage from the 1970s. Hear more about “CBS Reports: The Homosexuals” in Queer Serial season 3 episode 7.

This show is entirely supported by subscribers on Patreon and by bonus episode subscribers on Apple Podcasts & Spotify for $2.99 a month. “Queer Serial” is written, hosted, edited, produced, etc. by Devlyn Camp. Thanks for listening!

"GAY PANIC! 1955" E6: "Queen of the Underworld"

City Councilman Buck Jones blames the police. The reporter uncovers the Arid Club's game. Suspected homosexuals and a murderer take the stand. A rogue officer takes matters into his own hands.

Find all things Queer Serial here: linktr.ee/queerserial

If you’d like to support my many ongoing LGBTQ history projects subscribe to bonus episodes of Queer Serial for $2.99/month here on Apple Podcasts, or $3/month here on Spotify or here on Patreon to also get my queer history archive dives & behind the scenes of my documentary currently in production about preserving Randy Wicker and Marsha P. Johnson’s archive. That’s all of my bonus episodes ever and all of my Patreon posts ever!!

Listen to the first 4 seasons of Queer Serial free wherever you’re listening to this episode right now! Hear the story of American queer liberation from its roots in the 1920s all the way through to Stonewall and beyond. Explore the Episode Guide at queerserial.com/episodes.

To support my projects and get some queer merch, visit my new Etsy shop! I have lots of podcast merch from throughout the series, plus new queer history-related postcards, buttons, stickers, and other fun things! etsy.com/shop/queerhistoryuplift. Thank you all so much for your support!

Listen to Morris Foote's interview about the Boise sex panic with historian Eric Marcus on Making Gay History.

Follow me on Instagram @queerserial for images from the true history, subscribe to periodic email updates here, and find more info & resources for the podcast at queerserial.com. Music comes from Blue Dot Sessions. “Radio clips” in this episode feature RuPaul’s drag ban message from March 2023.

This show is entirely supported by subscribers on Patreon and by bonus episode subscribers on Apple Podcasts & Spotify for $2.99 a month. “Queer Serial” is written, hosted, edited, produced, etc. by Devlyn Camp. Thanks for listening!

"GAY PANIC! 1955" E5: “Police Budget,” or, “Calm Minds are in Control”

City Councilman Buck Jones blames the police. Suspected homosexuals and a murderer take the stand. A rogue officer takes matters into his own hands. 👀

Find all things Queer Serial here: linktr.ee/queerserial

If you’d like to support my many ongoing LGBTQ history projects subscribe to bonus episodes of Queer Serial for $2.99/month here on Apple Podcasts, or $3/month here on Spotify or here on Patreon to also get my queer history archive dives & behind the scenes of my documentary currently in production about preserving Randy Wicker and Marsha P. Johnson’s archive. That’s all of my bonus episodes ever and all of my Patreon posts ever!!

Listen to the first 4 seasons of Queer Serial free wherever you’re listening to this episode right now! Hear the story of American queer liberation from its roots in the 1920s all the way through to Stonewall and beyond. Explore the Episode Guide at queerserial.com/episodes.

To support my projects and get some queer merch, visit my new Etsy shop! I have lots of podcast merch from throughout the series, plus new queer history-related postcards, buttons, stickers, and other fun things! etsy.com/shop/queerhistoryuplift. Thank you all so much for your support!

Listen to Morris Foote's interview about the Boise sex panic with historian Eric Marcus on Making Gay History.

Follow me on Instagram @queerserial for images from the true history, subscribe to periodic email updates here, and find more info & resources for the podcast at queerserial.com. Music comes from Blue Dot Sessions. “Radio clips” in this episode feature the charming braniacs at Pod Save America, Catholic priest what’s his butt, hate-mongers filling air time on Fox News (which of course includes Tucker Carlson), Jonathan Capehart reporting on anti-queer violence on MSNBC, Trixie Mattel talking on her YouTube channel about anti-trans violence, and the iconic viral “Satan & Pride” Target video.

This show is entirely supported by subscribers on Patreon and by bonus episode subscribers on Apple Podcasts & Spotify for $2.99 a month. “Queer Serial” is written, hosted, edited, produced, etc. by Devlyn Camp. Thanks for listening!

Harvey Milk's Political Will

“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 audio is provided courtesy of Daniel Nicoletta, a fabulous photographer who worked on Harvey’s campaigns and took some of the most well known photos of Harvey and Harry. You can read Dan’s history of the tapes and the transcript in a lovely new book here.

Listen to “Infamous Crimes: The White Night Riot Interviews,” and several other queer history bonus podcasts, on my Patreon at patreon.com/QueerSerial. Thanks for helping me preserve & share queer history! Follow me at @queerserial on Instagram & Twitter for lots of fab queer history from the podcasts. Get periodic email updates here. Thanks for your support. :)

Looking for some reruns? Check out this handy EPISODE GUIDE. 📺

If you’re enjoying the show, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show!

Resources, donations, and more info about Harry Britt can be found at queerserial.com & Will Roscoe’s website.

Music is by Blue Dot Sessions. Cover art photo courtesy Daniel Nicoletta.

xoxo
Devlyn

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“GIVE ‘EM HELL” E7: "Strength, Power, Beauty"

“Come out in the fucking rain and celebrate.” 🌈

Listen to “Infamous Crimes: The White Night Riot Interviews,” and several other queer history bonus podcasts, on my Patreon at patreon.com/QueerSerial. Thanks for helping me preserve & share queer history! Follow me at @queerserial on Instagram & Twitter for lots of fab queer history from the podcasts. Get periodic email updates here. Thanks for your support. :)

Looking for some reruns? Check out this handy EPISODE GUIDE. 📺

If you’re enjoying the show, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show!

Resources, donations, and more info about Harry Britt can be found at queerserial.com & Will Roscoe’s website.

Music is by Blue Dot Sessions. Cover art photo courtesy Daniel Nicoletta.

xoxo
Devlyn

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“GIVE ‘EM HELL” E6: "Off to the Races"

"If there's gonna be a queer movement, it has to say that there's something about our experience as queers that gives us an insight into something that is wrong with our culture that's beyond homophobia that needs to be changed." 💖

Listen to “Infamous Crimes: The White Night Riot Interviews,” and several other queer history bonus podcasts, on my Patreon at patreon.com/QueerSerial. Thanks for helping me preserve & share queer history! Follow me at @queerserial on Instagram & Twitter for lots of fab queer history from the podcasts. Get periodic email updates here. Thanks for your support. :)

Looking for some reruns? Check out this handy EPISODE GUIDE. 📺

If you’re enjoying the show, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show!

Resources, donations, and more info about Harry Britt can be found at queerserial.com & Will Roscoe’s website.

Music is by Blue Dot Sessions. Cover art photo courtesy Daniel Nicoletta.

xoxo
Devlyn

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“GIVE ‘EM HELL” E5: "Epicenter"

“Young people who seemed to be living the easy life—no responsibilities, let's just go out and play—who showed true heroism, true love, true wisdom.” 💐

Listen to “Infamous Crimes: The White Night Riot Interviews,” and several other queer history bonus podcasts, on my Patreon at patreon.com/QueerSerial. Thanks for helping me preserve & share queer history! Follow me at @queerserial on Instagram & Twitter for lots of fab queer history from the podcasts. Get periodic email updates here. Thanks for your support. :)

Looking for some reruns? Check out this handy EPISODE GUIDE. 📺

If you’re enjoying the show, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show!

Resources, donations, and more info about Harry Britt can be found at queerserial.com & Will Roscoe’s website.

Music is by Blue Dot Sessions. Cover art photo courtesy Daniel Nicoletta.

xoxo
Devlyn

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“GIVE ‘EM HELL” E4: "The Number One Queen"

“The basic difference in style is that he was a great man and I’m just Harry Britt.” 📢

Listen to “Infamous Crimes: The White Night Riot Interviews,” and several other queer history bonus podcasts, on my Patreon at patreon.com/QueerSerial. Thanks for helping me preserve & share queer history! Follow me at @queerserial on Instagram & Twitter for lots of fab queer history from the podcasts. Get periodic email updates here. Thanks for your support. :)

Looking for some reruns? Check out this handy EPISODE GUIDE. 📺

If you’re enjoying the show, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show!

Resources, donations, and more info about Harry Britt can be found at queerserial.com & Will Roscoe’s website.

Music is by Blue Dot Sessions. Cover art photo courtesy Daniel Nicoletta.

xoxo
Devlyn

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“GIVE ‘EM HELL” E3: "White Night"

“No apologies.” 🔥

Listen to “Infamous Crimes: The White Night Riot Interviews,” and several other queer history bonus podcasts, on my Patreon at patreon.com/QueerSerial. Hear several more points of few from fabulous queers that night when 14 police cars burned. Thanks for helping me preserve & share queer history! Follow me at @queerserial on Instagram & Twitter for lots of fab queer history from the podcasts. Get periodic email updates here. Thanks for your support. :)

Read Will Roscoe’s issue of VORTEX covering the White Night Riots FREE on my Patreon here: www.patreon.com/posts/vortex-will-of-64501040

Looking for some reruns? Check out this handy EPISODE GUIDE. 📺

If you’re enjoying the show, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show!

Resources, donations, and more info about Harry Britt can be found at queerserial.com & Will Roscoe’s website.

Music is by Blue Dot Sessions. Cover art photo courtesy Daniel Nicoletta.

xoxo
Devlyn

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[Preview] Infamous Crimes: WHITE NIGHT RIOT INTERVIEWS

Here's a little love letter to some of my girls, all of whom happened to have been at the same riot with GIVE 'EM HELL host Will Roscoe & Supervisor Harry Britt. We'll cover that story in episode 3 this Saturday—on the 43rd anniversary of the White Night Riots.

On my Patreon bonus podcast, you can listen to a few more points of view from that night on May 21, 1979. 🔥
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Subscribe now if you haven't already!

Devlyn 💖💖💖

Btw if you’re already subscribed to my Patreon, you can click here to open the bonus podcasts on your phone, log in with your Patreon password, and subscribe. Done! Bonus episodes will pop up on your phone regularly just like the free show, and you won't have to listen to bonus stuff on the Patreon website.

PS There's also a Patreon app for your smartphone!

“GIVE ‘EM HELL” E2: “This Crazy Jewish Guy with the Ponytail"

“It was about the redefinition of queer power in the city.” 🔥

Listen to “Infamous Crimes: The White Night Riot Interviews,” and several other queer history bonus podcasts, on my Patreon at patreon.com/QueerSerial. Thanks for helping me preserve & share queer history! Follow me at @queerserial on Instagram & Twitter for lots of fab queer history from the podcasts. Get periodic email updates here. Thanks for your support. :)

Looking for some reruns? Check out this handy dandy EPISODE GUIDE. 📺

If you’re enjoying the show, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show!

Resources, donations, and more info about Harry Britt can be found at queerserial.com & Will Roscoe’s website.

Music is by Blue Dot Sessions. Cover art photo courtesy Daniel Nicoletta.

xoxo
Devlyn

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“GIVE ‘EM HELL” E1: “The Most Screwed Up Person in the World"

“And I’m still mad.”

Listen to “Infamous Crimes: The White Night Riot Interviews,” and several other queer history bonus podcasts, on my Patreon at patreon.com/QueerSerial. Thanks for helping me preserve & share queer history! Follow me at @queerserial on Instagram & Twitter for lots of fab queer history from the podcasts. Get periodic email updates here. Thanks for your support. :)

Looking for some reruns? Check out this handy dandy EPISODE GUIDE. 📺

If you’re enjoying the show, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show!

Resources, donations, and more info about Harry Britt can be found at queerserial.com & Will Roscoe’s website. You can find all of Will’s fabulous books there, and you can find “Drop…Dead: The DJ Murders” by Tonne Serah (AKA Miss Will Roscoe) here.

Music is by Blue Dot Sessions. Cover art photo courtesy Daniel Nicoletta.

xoxo
Devlyn

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PREVIEW: “GIVE ‘EM HELL, HARRY!"

A new sister series about Supervisor Harvey Milk’s final wishes. •

Listen to “Infamous Crimes: White Night Riot Interviews”—and lots of other queer history bonus podcasts!—on my Patreon at patreon.com/QueerSerial. Thanks for helping me preserve & share queer history! Follow me at @queerserial on Instagram & Twitter for lots of fab queer history from the podcasts. And get periodic email updates here. Thanks for your support. :)

Looking for some reruns? Check out this handy EPISODE GUIDE. 📺

If you’re enjoying the show, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show!

Resources, donations, and more info about Harry Britt can be found at queerserial.com & Will Roscoe’s website.

Music is by Blue Dot Sessions. Cover art photo courtesy Daniel Nicoletta.

xoxo
Devlyn

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S3 E8 "Chicago Ain't No Sissy Town"

“Through the blue cigarette smoke you can make out the outlines of crowded tables.” • Meet me on Crilly Court.

Bonus episodes!! Research dives! (Often NSFW.) Mugs! Buttons! Books! Plus tons of other fun stuff! $3/month at Patreon.com/QueerSerial. Bonus episodes come right to your phone like any other podcast! If you’re already a Patreon gal, click here to make those bonus episodes pop up in your regular podcast feed.

Listen to the trailer (and the first episode) for the Boise sex panic mini-series here!

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If you’re enjoying the show, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show!

If you live in Chicago, please get in touch with your alderperson and ask them to support ECPS — Empowering Communities for Public Safety. Yes, that means “defund the police” and reallocate money to more effective resources in the community, and create democratic police accountability. Follow the Chicago Alliance @caarprnow, and get more info at bit.ly/SupportECPS.

Subscribe to the Queer Serial email list here! Thanks for your support. :)

Wanna put faces to the names? See the gay bars and cruising grounds? Flip through the homophile publications? Follow the show in photos on Instagram and Twitter @queerserial.

Teachers, message me for transcripts of the episodes! queerserial@gmail.com

Resources, donations, and the full voice cast for the podcast can be found at queerserial.com. If you’re looking for books about Chicago queer history, two of my faves are “The Boys of Fairy Town” by Jim Elledge and “Queer Clout” by Timothy Stewart-Winter.

Listen to my other podcast for one of Chicago’s oldest gay bars Sidetrack, “OutSpoken: LGBTQ Storytelling."

Music is by Blue Dot Sessions, and Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. Licensed under Creative Commons by attribution 4.0. The original Mattachine Society jester logo is used courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.

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Devlyn

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S3 E3 "The Raid on California Hall: After the Ball"

“Angry Ministers Rip Police” • The fever breaks in San Francisco. 🎭

Bonus episodes!! Research dives! (Often NSFW.) Mugs! Buttons! Books! Plus tons of other fun stuff! $3/month at Patreon.com/QueerSerial. Bonus episodes come right to your phone like any other podcast! If you’re already a Patreon gal, click here to make those bonus episodes pop up in your regular podcast feed.

Looking for some reruns? Check out this handy dandy EPISODE GUIDE. 📺

If you’re enjoying the show, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show!

Subscribe to the Queer Serial email list here! Thanks for your support. :)

Wanna put faces to the names? See the gay bars and cruising grounds? Flip through the homophile publications? Follow the show in photos on Instagram and Twitter @queerserial.

Teachers, message me for transcripts of the episodes! queerserial@gmail.com

Resources, donations, and the full voice cast for the podcast can be found at queerserial.com. Check out Glide Memorial Church here, and the documentary about the raid on California Hall "Lewd & Lascivious” here. Listen to Eric Marcus’s interview with Herb Donaldson & Evander Smith on Making Gay History here. Listen to Officer Elliot Blackstone, of the National Transsexual Counseling Unit, interview transgender people in 1968 San Francisco here.

Check out my other podcast for one of Chicago’s oldest gay bars Sidetrack, “OutSpoken: LGBTQ Storytelling."

Music is by Blue Dot Sessions, and Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. Licensed under Creative Commons by attribution 4.0. The original Mattachine Society jester logo is used courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.

xoxo
Devlyn

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S3 E2 "The Raid on California Hall"

“Every month you move forward by leaps and bounds.” • This is your ticket to the New Year’s Mardi Gras Ball hosted by the Council on Religion and the Homosexual. 🎭

Bonus episodes!! Research dives! (Often NSFW.) Mugs! Buttons! Books! Plus tons of other fun stuff! $3/month at Patreon.com/QueerSerial. Bonus episodes come right to your phone like any other podcast! If you’re already a Patreon gal, click here to make those bonus episodes pop up in your regular podcast feed.

Looking for some reruns? Check out this handy dandy EPISODE GUIDE. 📺

If you’re enjoying the show, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show!

Subscribe to the Queer Serial email list here! Thanks for your support. :)

Wanna put faces to the names? See the gay bars and cruising grounds? Flip through the homophile publications? Follow the show in photos on Instagram and Twitter @queerserial.

Teachers, message me for transcripts of the episodes! queerserial@gmail.com

Resources, donations, and the full voice cast for the podcast can be found at queerserial.com. Check out Glide Memorial Church here, and the documentary about the raid on California Hall "Lewd & Lascivious” here.

Check out my other podcast for one of Chicago’s oldest gay bars Sidetrack, “OutSpoken: LGBTQ Storytelling."

Music is by Blue Dot Sessions, and Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. Licensed under Creative Commons by attribution 4.0. The original Mattachine Society jester logo is used courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.

xoxo
Devlyn

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Season 3 Preview

Season 3 begins April 12. Follow along on Instagram @queerserial through the season to see photos of the real activists and events featured in every episode.

Season 3 picks up in 1963, as militant gay activists take cues from the Civil Rights Movement. Queer activists will be forced to go toe-to-toe against the doctors, ministers, and government officials who discredit them as sick, sinners, and criminals. The fight for liberation will lead them into some of the most famous raids in queer history at California Hall, Compton’s Cafeteria, and Stonewall. They’ll march in the first defiant pickets for our rights, and they will shake the walls of the United States Government.

Queer Serial is told in serialized episodes. Check out this handy episode guide!
Created by Devlyn Camp. More at queerserial.com.

Bonus episodes! Cute buttons! Cute mugs! Cute archival research photos! Join me on Patreon at patreon.com/queerserial, or “you’re only getting half the story!”

S2 E7 "A Useful Citizen" (Transgender & Intersex History)

How 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. •

Bonus episodes! Listen to my exclusive series of standalone queer history episodes called Forgotten Fairy Tales on my Patreon. Also, cute buttons! Mugs! Archival research photos! Join me on Patreon at patreon.com/queerserial. Among many scripted history episodes, you can also hear my recent interview with founding Radical Faerie, and voice of Mattachino Elver Barker on this podcast, Joey Cain!

If you’re enjoying the show, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show! Thank you for your support. :)

Wanna put faces to the names? Follow the show in photos on Instagram and Twitter @queerserial.

Teachers, hit me up for transcripts of the episodes! queerserial@gmail.com

Resources, donations, and the full voice cast for the podcast can be found at queerserial.com.

This season is also brought to you in part by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, San Francisco! We love the Sisters.

Music is by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. Licensed under Creative Commons by attribution 4.0. The original Mattachine Society jester logo and audio clips of Harry Hay are courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Audio clips from The Rejected are licensed by Thirteen Productions and WNET.

Thanks for listening! Next week: Episode 8, “Peddled Like Pornography”