"GAY PANIC! 1955" E8: "Trial in Boise"

1,472 interrogations later, the final man accused in the Boise gay panic and his adult accuser take the stand.

Cast in court:
Prosecutor: Blaine Evans (voiced by Devlyn Camp)
Witness: the accuser Eldon Halverson (Lucien Gratteri)
Witness: Officer Earnest Quinton (Julian Hall)
Witness: Officer James Brandon (Brian Rowe)
Defense Attorney: Vernon Smith (Salvio Gado)
Defendant: Gordon Larsen (Cody Kaszubowski)
& Judge Koelsch (Matt Camp AKA Dad)

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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. Hear more about “CBS Reports: The Homosexuals” in Queer Serial season 3 episode 7.

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.

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!

drama, docudrama, gay history, history, lgbtq historyDevlyn CampDecember 24, 2023LGBTQ history, serial podcast, lgbtq, gay panic, gay history

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

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

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 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.

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!

docudrama, gay history, history, lgbtq historyDevlyn CampOctober 22, 2023radio history, lgbtq, lgbt history

Mattachine Meeting w/ Rumi Missabu!

Welcome to a Mattachine meeting for the 21st century! Join Devlyn Cam, & queer activists, legends, and other very special guests as we discuss…everything!

This is a NEW BONUS PODCAST produced to fund my many new queer history archival projects—including archiving the Marsha P. Johnson & Randy Wicker papers. Legendary Mattachino Randy Wicker and I are archiving their lifetimes of activism. Supporters like you can fund my queer history projects, while looking through the archives with me, and listening to the fabulous new bonus show.

JOIN MY PATREON BEFORE FEB 1, 2022 AND I’LL SEND YOU ALL THE REWARDS FROM EVERY LEVEL! 💖

My very first guest is original Cockette and genderfuck visual storyteller RUMI MISSABU! He’s a Hollywood kid who fell off the grid, and became a star in 1970s San Francisco. In a special 2-part first episode of Mattachine Meeting, we talk about everything from ancient history to marriage & pronouns, along with Rumi’s many stories.

Support queer history & join the Mattachine at Patreon.com/QueerSerial.

xo
Devlyn

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"Live and Let Live: 58 Years Later" • Interview w/ Randy Wicker

Featuring Sylvia Rivera, Michael, and stories about Marsha P. Johnson, the Mattachine, and radical activism. • Recorded in Hoboken, New Jersey, January 16, 2020. •

More bonus episodes!! Twice a month! COMING UP: A 1920s Election Day special, and soon after, a new mini-series about a true 1950s gay sex panic that turned one small town into a witch hunt, and how the town tried to cover it up. These bonus episodes and many more already waiting for you, plus tons of other fun stuff! $3/month at Patreon.com/QueerSerial. (Bonus episodes come right to your phone like any other podcast!)

Research photos, buttons, mugs, books, and even some stunning NSFW history from the era are all on my Patreon, too! It only costs a little gayola.

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. Listen to the full, unedited version of “Live and Let Live” from WBAI in 1962 at Patreon.com/QueerSerial, or hear it in the context of its history in season 2, episode 11. Watch Randy Wicker and Sylvia Rivera talk on the pier here on YouTube or Vimeo. Watch the Marsha P. Johnson documentary “Pay It No Mind” here on YouTube. Listen to Randy’s full 1966 interview with St. Philomena on WBAI here on my website. And look through Randy’s photo collection here on Flickr!

This season is also brought to you in part by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, San Francisco! Thanks, sis!

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

Music is by Blue Dot Sessions. The original Mattachine Society jester logo is used courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. “Live and Let Live” courtesy Pacifica Radio Archives. WBAI, September 1, 1962. “Randy Wicker Interviews Sylvia Rivera on the Pier” by Randy Wicker.

Do you like Tallulah Bankhead?
xoxo

S2 E2 "Disorderly Establishment"

Queer bars shutter across the Bay as homophile organizations rise. How did we get here? Put a pin in that and follow me back to San Francisco 1821.

Bonus episodes! Cute buttons! Cute mugs! Cute archival research photos! Gorgeous PDFs! No really, there are gorgeous PDFs. Join me on Patreon at patreon.com/queerserial. Next week’s bonus episode follows a Bilitis leader who self-identified as a “bisexual ki-ki sonofab*tch butch/femme, oh boy!”

Enjoying the show? Please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show! Thanks for your support. :)

So many stories packed into this episode! Visuals might help! Follow the show in photos on Instagram and Twitter @queerserial. And join the Queer Serial newsletter here!

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.

You can hear Beverly Shaw’s entire fabulous album at queermusicheritage.com/jun2004bs.html

Also, check out the @lgbt_history Instagram. The guys behind it, Matthew Reimer and Leighton Brown, voice the San Francisco Chronicle reporter and the judge in this episode.

Music by Kevin MacLeod is 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 3 “Resort for Sex Perverts”

drama, history, lgbtq historyDevlyn CampJune 10, 2020history, lgbtq, drama

S2 E1 "Pacing," or, "A Gay Girl of Good Moral Character"

Would you like to be part of a group of women like us? The Daughters of Bilitis office hours are open.

Bonus episodes! Cute buttons! Cute mugs! Cute archival research photos! Join me on Patreon at patreon.com/queerserial. This week’s bonus episode is also a true queer history story called “A Murder in Midtown.” It’s a wild tale.

Love the show? Please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show! Thanks 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.

TONS more about Edythe Edye (A.K.A. Lisa Ben) at queermusicheritage.com/viceversa.html!

Music by Kevin MacLeod is at incompetech.com. Licensed under Creative Commons by attribution 4.0. Music by Edythe Eyde courtesy of Making Gay History. Find the Making Gay History podcast on all major podcast platforms and at www.makinggayhistory.com. 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 2 “Disorderly Establishment”

lgbtq history, history, dramaDevlyn CampJune 3, 2020history, lgbtq, drama

Season 2 Trailer

Check out the podcast on Instagram @queerserial to see the FULL visual trailer!

Season 2 picks up in 1954, right where we left off. (But you don’t need to hear season 1 to follow along.) A secret organization of lesbians forms under the FBI's watchful eye 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 conservative gays who commandeered the movement in Season 1 push against the queers who don't conform to suits and skirts. The masks come off and a militant minority is rising.

Mattachine: A Queer Serial is told in serialized episodes.
Created by Devlyn Camp.

Bonus episodes! Cute buttons! Cute mugs! Cute archival research photos! Join me on Patreon at patreon.com/queerserial. Our first bonus episode (June 1!) is also a true queer history story called “A Murder in Midtown.” It’s a wild tale.

Love the show? Please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show! Thanks for your support. :)

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 by Kevin MacLeod is 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.

lgbtq history, history, drama, gay historyDevlyn CampMay 30, 2020history, lgbtq, drama, lgbtq history, gay history

Mattachine Live in San Francisco!

Join me and Joey Cain live at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco this April!
We’ll be playing season 1 of Mattachine over three nights, along with visuals of the early LGBTQ movement and discussions about the homophile movement. (Joey was a friend of Harry Hay’s!) We’ll also be chatting about how the podcast was produced and what’s ahead in season 2. CAN YOU HANDLE?

Come ask questions, say hello, tell me who you’re rooting for on Drag Race. Whatever!

Tickets are available here:
Night 1, April 4: Dawn of the Movement
Night 2, April 11: To Be Accused
Night 3, April 18: Cracks in the Foundation
Every night will be a different topic and different discussion. Tickets are $5 or free for Historical Society members.

Join the Mattachine mailing list for cute, periodic updates about the show here: http://eepurl.com/dAp89X

Follow the show’s production process on Instagram and Twitter @queerserial.

I can’t wait to meet all of you!
xoxo
Devlyn Camp
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