"GAY PANIC! 1955" E3: "Idaho Underworld"

Follow the investigator, the doctor, and the reporter into Idaho's underworld. 🔦

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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 iconic bigot Tucker Carlson and his drag queen investigator, Jonathan Capehart & Congressman Robert Garcia on MSNBC covering anti-queer violence, and Miss Ron DeSantis fanning the flames of gay panic in 2023. The final clip is from “The Problem with Jon Stewart” interview with Oklahoma State Senator Nathan Dahm.

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S2 E10 "The Hose & Heels Club"

José Sarria for Supervisor! Did you register to vote yet? • vote.org •

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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.

Hey mama, welcome to the ‘60s!
xoxo

S2 E9 "The Twilight Woman"

Mid-season finale: an ethical homosexual culture overwhelms the Movement. •

Bonus episodes! I’ll still be releasing new episodes of Forgotten Fairy Tales regularly during the break! It’s an exclusive Patreon podcast series of standalone queer history episodes, and it only costs a little gayola. $3! This week’s episode explores the Mattachine Society’s relationship to gay pen pal clubs. Hear it at patreon.com/queerserial

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

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 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.

Back soon!
xoxo

S2 E8 "Peddled Like Pornography"

Whom Should We Tell? And who won’t find out once the biggest scandal in homophile history breaks? •

Bonus episodes! Hear an 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. Next week’s bonus episode takes place in the Mattachine Society offices at San Francisco headquarters.

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, 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.

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

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 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, sweet darling! Next week: Episode 9, “The Twilight Woman”

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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”

S2 E6 "Faces Behind the Names"

Flyers, magazines, television — how should we tell the public that we’re organizing? •

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. For this week’s bonus episode I’m interviewing 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 7, “A Useful Citizen”

Season 1 Recap

You don’t have to hear season 1 to join us for season 2, but in case you wanna brush up…!

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.

The true story of American LGBTQ liberation from day 1 to Stonewall.

A Queer Serial season 2 begins June 3.