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S3 E10 "The Walls of Jericho"

“The Homosexual Revolution of ’69 started this week in San Francisco as militant homosexuals made war on both gay and straight Establishments.” •

Huge thanks to special guest star Sam Pancake as Vector editor Leo Laurence! Check him out playing Mattachine President Dick Leitsch on HBO’s “Equal,” Mattachine President Kenneth Zwerin last season on “Queer Serial,” and listen to his powerful rant on “Lovett or Leave It” about respecting queer elders. Leo Laurence would be proud!!

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!

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. Listen to some beautiful 1968 Black Power chants here. The audio of Sylvia Rivera is used courtesy of Making Gay History. Find the Making Gay History podcast on all major podcast platforms and at www.makinggayhistory.com.

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

Season 3 podcast artwork by Ryan Thiel. 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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E9-A “Gay Party At Police Station” • MSNY Newsletter • June 1969

“The cops herded more than fifty very elegantly dressed, and very high, male homosexuals, four women, one sex-change-in-progress, and one dog (belonging to a customer) into the paddy wagons.” 🎉Evan Koepnick as MSNY President Dick Leitsch.

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

This podcast uses text from real homophile-era publications, letters, and organizational documents read by voice actors. The show has identifying terms that may now be out of date. Do your homework, sis!!

Music by Blue Dot Sessions.

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S3 E9 "Mattachine Millennia," or, "The Whole World Is Watching"

“One gets weary of trying to confront the people with the necessity of assessing their own history.” •

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!

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!

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. Learn more about “The Skull” and the case of “The Chickens and the Bulls” here, or in David Carter’s 2004 book “Stonewall.” Watch the legendary fight between William Buckley and Gore Vidal on ABC after the 1968 DNC here. Listen to some beautiful 1968 Black Power chants here. Since you’re listening to this episode, I think you’d enjoy the astonishing new movie "Judas and the Black Messiah," click here for the trailer.

The audio of Sylvia Rivera is used courtesy of Making Gay History. Find the Making Gay History podcast on all major podcast platforms and at www.makinggayhistory.com.

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

Season 3 podcast artwork by Ryan Thiel. 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 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!

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!

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.

xoxo
Devlyn

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S3 E7 "STREET POWER"

“The drug addicts, pillheads, teenage hustlers, lesbians, and homosexuals who make San Francisco’s MEAT RACK’ their home are tired of living in the midst of the filth thrown out on to the sidewalks and into the streets by nearby businessmen” •

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!

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. Hear the story of Dr. Socarides and his gay son—and his actor son playing his gay son on a gay mini-series—here. Watch Susan Stryker’s documentary about the Compton’s Cafeteria riot, “Screaming Queens,” here. While you’re at it, also check her out in the incredible HBOMax docu-series “The Lady & and the Dale.” Take a look at Compton’s Cafeteria’s former street now. (It was in the blue building on the left.) And if you’d like, you can visit the new Black Cat in LA.

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.

xoxo
Devlyn

linktr.ee/queerserial

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S3 E6 "The Sip-in & the Social Prophet"

“I think we have to decide how far we can go for caring about what heterosexuals think.” •

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. Visit Julius’ if you’re in Greenwich Village! They have a fab monthly party called Mattachine. Check out juliusbarny.com. Click here to learn more about Ernestine Eckstein on Making Gay History!

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. The audio of Eckstein, Lahusen, and Gittings is used courtesy of the New York Public Library’s Manuscripts & Archives Division.

xoxo
Devlyn

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Bonus: GAY BAR

Why are gay bars important? What role have they played in our history?
Take a peak at season 2.

Join the GAY BAR Book Club at www.queerserial.com/support through a single donation or by subscribing to Patreon for even more bonus content! Get your Mattachine button through the same links!

Patreon subscribers also receive bonus interviews from my Chicago radio show They & Them, photos through my Mattachine research process, transcripts of episodes, and more!

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Special thanks to author Will Fellows for donating GAY BAR to support the podcast!
Learn more about his work at www.willfellows.com.

School teachers, email me at queerserial@gmail.com for free transcripts of the episodes along with our resources. The original Mattachine Society jester logo used courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
Thanks for listening! Please continue to share our history.

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S1 E10 "Take This Crowd On"

When the Mattachine's founder is called to testify, when ONE Magazine is seized by the post office, and when the FBI begins to interrogate activists, how does the movement continue to fight?

Please rate and/or review the show on iTunes! Click here: apple.co/2jLJe8q
Or support the show at patreon.com/queerserial.
Editorial advising by Paul Di Ciccio and Albert Williams. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram @queerserial. School teachers, email me at queerserial@gmail.com for free transcripts of the episodes along with our resources.
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! Please continue to share our history.

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S1 E9 "I Think That Man Is One of Those"

Do we moderate our queer behavior in an assimilated world? What happens when Mattachine goes public? Or when the culturalists move forward with militant queer identity?
"Can Homosexuals Organize?" "How Clean Can A House Get?" "Why Try to Organize a Bunch of Queers Anyway?" "Quo Vadis, Mattachine Society?"

Please rate and review the show on iTunes! Or support the show at patreon.com/queerserial.
Editorial advising by Paul Di Ciccio and Albert Williams. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram @queerserial. School teachers, email me at queerserial@gmail.com for free transcripts of the episodes along with our resources.
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! Please continue to share our history.

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S1 E8 "Silly Letters"

Why do assimilationists reject queer culture? Hear the season from the point of view of the Mattachine's rising leader.

Please rate and review the show on iTunes! Or support the show at patreon.com/queerserial.
Editorial advising by Paul Di Ciccio and Albert Williams. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram @queerserial. School teachers, email me at queerserial@gmail.com for free transcripts of the episodes along with our resources.
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! Please continue to share our history.

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S1 E7 "People Like Other People"

Are you a culturalist or an assimilationist? What are the pros and cons of each side, and what would you do to fight for yours? No one will be the same after this week's Mattachine meeting.

Please rate and review the show on iTunes! Or support the show at patreon.com/queerserial.
Editorial advising by Paul Di Ciccio and Albert Williams. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram @queerserial. School teachers, email me at queerserial@gmail.com for free transcripts of the episodes along with our resources.
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! Please continue to share our history.

More at queerserial.com

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S1 E6 "Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been A Homosexual?"

When an organization splinters into alliances, will the community they're organizing splinter, too? Welcome to the secret society's first constitutional convention.

Please rate and review the show on iTunes! Or support the show at patreon.com/queerserial.
Editorial advising by Paul Di Ciccio and Albert Williams. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram @queerserial. School teachers, email me at queerserial@gmail.com for free transcripts of the episodes along with our resources.
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! Please continue to share our history.

More at queerserial.com

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S1 E5 "Diversified Individualists"

How will political pressure from the lavender scare cause cracks in the Mattachine Foundation? If we are "moral risks," then what is our moral code?

Please rate and review the show on iTunes! Or support the show at patreon.com/queerserial.
Editorial advising by Paul Di Ciccio and Albert Williams. Follow on Twitter and Instagram @queerserial. School teachers, email me at queerserial@gmail.com for free transcripts of the episodes along with our resources.
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! Please continue to share our history.

More at queerserial.com

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S1 E4 "The Lavender Scare"

How and when did homophobia begin in the United States? How did the government weaponize it against us?

Please rate and review the show on iTunes! Or support the show at patreon.com/queerserial.
Editorial advising by Paul Di Ciccio and Albert Williams. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @queerserial. School teachers, email me at queerserial@gmail.com for free transcripts of the episodes.
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! Please continue to share our history.

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S1 E3 "To Be Accused: The Trial of Dale Jennings"

Why was Dale Jennings arrested? What purpose does ONE Magazine serve? How is queer culture defined by our community?
-Miss Jean Dempsey, Treasurer


Please rate and review the show on iTunes! Or support the show at patreon.com/queerserial.
Editorial advising by Paul Di Ciccio and Albert Williams. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @queerserial. School teachers, email me at queerserial@gmail.com for free transcripts of the episodes.
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! Please continue to share our history.

More at queerserial.com

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S1 E2 "The Call"

Who is the Mattachine Foundation? What do they want?

Please rate and review the show on iTunes! Or support the show at patreon.com/queerserial.
Editorial advising by Paul Di Ciccio and Albert Williams. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @queerserial. School teachers, email me at queerserial@gmail.com for free transcripts of the episodes.
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! Please continue to share our history.

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S1 E1 "Strange Sex Cult Exposed"

What is Mattachine? Why are they anonymous? Our case opens with a postal worker in 1920s Chicago.

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Editorial advising by Paul Di Ciccio and Albert Williams. Harry Hay's voice by Steve Camp. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @queerserial. School teachers, email me at queerserial@gmail.com for (clean) transcripts of the episodes.
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! Please continue to share our history.

Download episode transcripts here.

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