Episode 1 Archive Dive!

Gerber Dismissal

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

Who are they?
Opening the files Jan 4.

DECEMBER 13, 2017

What are they up to?
Opening the files Jan 4.

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Thanks to @thefightmag for their early mention of the show!
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DECEMBER 15, 2017

What do they know?
Opening the files Jan 4.

DECEMBER 21, 2017

“Throughout the ages, the shaman, the witch doctor, the court jester, is the drag. It represents the duality of the material world and the fact that this is all illusion, it’s not to be taken seriously…so it’s political. It’s political on the most fundamental level.” @RuPaulOfficial
Opening the files January 4.

JUNE 1, 2022

It’s Pride month girlies 🏳️‍🌈

It took a lot of work and outrageous DRAMA to get this organized!! Hear the story of American LGBTQ+ liberation—climaxing with a moment-by-moment retelling of the Stonewall Riots—anywhere you listen to podcasts!! 💥

DECEMBER 26, 2017

“Those who refuse to believe the political, religious, and moral fairy tales current in our conventions are styled psychopaths, degenerates, perverts, radicals, infidels.”
-Henry Gerber, 1944

DECEMBER 28, 2017

One week.
Opening the files on January 4.

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Grateful for Ted and Bob's work.

JANUARY 2, 2018

Opening the real FBI files Thursday. Subscribe now.

JANUARY 3, 2018

Tomorrow, our case begins with a postal worker in 1920s Chicago.
Subscribe now on iTunes. Episode includes a shout-out to @history_unerased. 💕

JANUARY 4, 2018

The files are open.

JANUARY 5, 2018

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JANUARY 6, 2018

Der Eigene ("The Unique"), mentioned in the first episode, was the first known gay journal in the world. Published by Adolf Brand from 1896-1932, until Hitler's rise to power. Brand's home was searched in '33 and the materials used to produce the publication were given to Nazi officer Ernst Röhm, a gay SA ally of Hitler, until the dictator saw to Röhm's execution during the Night of Long Knives. (Röhm is also mentioned in episode 1.)

JANUARY 7, 2018

No copies of Henry Gerber's "Friendship and Freedom" publication are known to still exist. This photo of queer publications taken by German Jewish sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld shows one of Gerber's two issues, as well as Der Eigene, both discussed in episode 1. Hirschfeld is also covered. (You can also see him and his institute depicted in season 2 of @transparentamazon.)

JANUARY 7, 2018

The charter for the Society for Human Rights, the first gay emancipation group in the U.S. Granted by the state of Illinois on Christmas Eve, 1924, and taken down by police less than a year later. Signed by Reverend John T. Graves, Al Meininger, and Henry Gerber.

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JANUARY 8, 2018

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JANUARY 9, 2018

Henry Gerber's house is now a Chicago Landmark. The 1885 Queen Anne-style house at 1710 N. Crilly Court was designated a landmark in 2001. This is where police raided Henry's bedroom, arrested him with a Hearst reporter present, and ultimately had the first American gay emancipation organization shut down. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark by the National Park Service in 2015.
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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

AN ANGEL IN SODOM 😇😈
30% off!! What a fucking TITLE. I have the honor of promoting this new biography of the very first activist I covered on Queer Serial, Henry Gerber!! Legendary rebel postal worker. He started the first gay rights group in the US, ran an anonymous gay pen pal service, & so much more.

The book is by the fabulous Jim Elledge, who wrote ✨The Boys of Fairy Town ✨ which was one of my favorite reads while working on the podcast. I’m so happy he’s telling Gerber’s full story!

ok girlies if you wanna read this f@ggy book for 30% OFF use code QUEER30 and you’ve got til xmas to do it. GET TO IT!! YOU LOVE QUEER HISTORY!!! link in my bio and buy one for all your girls ♥️
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DECEMBER 7, 2022

all I want for xmas is AN ANGEL IN SODOM 😇😈
Use code QUEER30 for 30% off this fabulous new book!!

I have the honor of promoting this new biography of the very first activist I covered on Queer Serial, Henry Gerber!! Legendary rebel postal worker. He started the first gay rights group in the US, ran an anonymous gay pen pal service, & so much more.

The book is by the fabulous Jim Elledge, who wrote ✨The Boys of Fairy Town ✨ which was one of my favorite reads while working on the podcast. I’m so happy he’s telling Gerber’s full story!

ok girlies if you wanna read this f@ggy book for 30% OFF use code QUEER30 and you’ve got til xmas to do it. GET TO IT!! YOU LOVE QUEER HISTORY!!! link in my bio to buy one for all your girls ♥️
@chireviewpress