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?
Mattachino Dale Jennings is arrested, entrapped by a police officer. The Mattachine starts a movement for his defense. Meanwhile, journalist Paul Coates begins to unravel the organization's secrets as a spin-off group of activists launch ONE Magazine.
-Miss Jean Dempsey, Treasurer
Original release: January 18, 2018
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JANUARY 18, 2018
We follow the entrapment of a Mattachine co-founder, and the subsequent creation of ONE Magazine. Also, who is Miss Jean Dempsey? Find out now!
JANUARY 20, 2018
Wishing warm weather to our fellow marchers today at the #womensmarch2018!
Pictured above: The Citizens’ Committee to Outlaw Entrapment flyer calling on everyone to “UNMASK THE ADMINISTRATIVE CONSPIRACY TO SUBVERT THE RIGHTS OF CITIZENS.” Los Angeles, 1952.
JANUARY 19, 2018
Our newest character is Paul Coates, a journalist and one-day TV star whose Daily Mirror article on the “strange new pressure group” called Mattachine lands on the desk of FBI Director Hoover. It’s the first American newspaper article to use the word “homosexual.” Mr. Coates will return...
JANUARY 22, 2018
“Make checks payable to Miss Jean Dempsey, Treasurer.”
From a flyer announcing the Citizens’ Committee to Outlaw Entrapment merging with the Mattachine Foundation. 1952.
JANUARY 23, 2018
“Standing up and protecting homosexuals means bringing out those who stand against them.”