S2 E10"The Hose & Heels Club"
José Sarria for Supervisor!
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Local drag queen José Sarria launches a groundbreaking campaign for San Francisco Supervisor. William Dorsey Swann, a former slave, fights the DC police and hosts legendary balls. Upper class trans writer Virginia Prince turns her secret cross-dressing club into a magazine called Transvestia. Young runaways Sylvia Rivera and Jack Nichols find their way into the queer community.
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Original release: September 23, 2020
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Season 2 Bonus episodes
“Transvestia 100”
Virginia Prince's final 'Transvestia' issue
Subscribe on Patreon or Apple Podcasts to listen to this bonus episode from spin-off podcast Forgotten Fairy Tales—and many more from Mattachine Meeting, Randy Wicker Radio, Infamous Crimes: White Night Riot Interviews, and more!
Check out these free bonus episodes from season 2:
“Live and Let Live:
6 Decades Later”
Interview w/ Randy Wicker
Featuring Sylvia Rivera, Randy’s friend Michael, and stories about Marsha P. Johnson, the Mattachine, and radical activism.
Recorded in Hoboken, New Jersey, January 16, 2020.
“Return to Normalcy”
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2020 Election Day bonus!
The 1920 presidential election proves yet again that history repeats itself, from fear-mongering to political scandal, and even a sitting president infected by the pandemic he downplayed. Make sure you have a plan to vote!
“Trans-sexuals and the Police”
on KPFA,
April 10, 1968
Three transgender San Franciscans discuss police problems and their work as members of C.O.G., Conversion our Goal, with Police Community Relations Officer Elliot Blackstone of the San Francisco Police Department. Herb Kutchins of the San Francisco Bail Project moderates.
“A Step Higher”
w/ Mattachino
Wendell Sayers
Historian Eric Marcus interviews Wendell Sayers, an attorney, the first Black assistant attorney general for the state of Colorado, and one of few Black members of the Mattachine Society.
He attended the 6th annual Mattachine convention in 1959, a dramatic event featured in S2 E8.
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SEPTEMBER 20, 2020
New beginnings this Wednesday. 📭
🗂 @onearchives
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Meet me in the ‘60s. 🎧
Episode 10 tomorrow.
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Patreon friends can now check out a brief history of Willy Pogany’s illustrations for a 1926 edition of “Songs of Bilitis.” The full series is very NSFW! (Don’t flag lesbian history, please. Or nipples in general, that’s dumb.) 🍃
patreon.com/queerserial 💜
william dorsey swann
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
“Her Majesty Shows Fight With a Policeman”
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As heard in the new episode, the original “queen of drag” William Dorsey Swann became legendary for his drag balls and his persistent fight against the police. Swann was a former slave who became a queen — and mothered Washington, D.C.’s drag community.
🗞 The National Republican, 1888
🗞 The Washington Critic, 1888
🗞 The Washington Evening Star, 1896
🗞 The Washington Evening Star, 1888
📚 Channing Gerard Joseph’s research on William Dorsey Swann can be found on his website channingjoseph.com. His book is due out in 2022 and will be titled “House of Swann: Where Slaves Became Queens - and Changed the World.”
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
William Dorsey Swann (the original “queen of drag”) historian Channing Gerard Joseph refers to this letter as the first known documentation of a same-sex romance between two enslaved men.
It’s from Alexander Hamilton Stephens (VP of the Confederate United States, ew) and refers to Felix Hall as Pierce Lafayette’s “mistress.” Lafayette went on to share a relationship with William Swann after they were freed from slavery. 💋
🗂 Alexander Hamilton Stephens papers, c. 1867-83. @nypl
🎧 Covered in season 2, episode 10
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Our turn. 👑
José Sarria campaigns for Supervisor in today’s new episode. 🗳
btw you can double-check your 2020 voter registration at vote.org!
🗂 @glbt_history
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
The second schism of the Mattachine has some painful consequences. The backlash begins Wednesday. 📩
🗂 @onearchives
voice actors
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020
Frank Kameny finds his protégé next week! Darling Nick Large joins the cast as Jack Nichols. (We recorded in my friend’s little library packed with early editions of Whitman and Wilde. We were in good company.) 📖
📸 @littlemisscumdump
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
My pal Nico Valdez joins the show next week as young Sylvia Rivera! @nicoxelyse 🌟
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Recording with my dearest judy Albert Williams just days before the pandemic hit. He’s the voice of Frank Kameny 💕
more from the black cat
SEPTEMBER 26, 2020
Come take a look inside “the most bohemian bar in America!” 🍻
🗂 @sfpubliclibrary
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
𝚅𝚘𝚝𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝙹𝚘𝚜𝚎 — 𝚑𝚎’𝚜 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝙾𝚄𝚁 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎. 🗳
Make sure you’re registered to vote at vote.org!!
🗂 @glbt_history
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
swipe to see a girl 🐈
Hear how the Black Cat Café outsmarts the police in today’s new episode.
🗂 @glbt_history archives
🗂 The GLBT History Museum’s Sarria exhibit when I presented the podcast for audience of delightful history queens in April 2019
see you in the magazines
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Issues of ONE Magazine released during the events of episode 10! Look who made the cover! 🧚🏼♂️
🗂 @onearchives
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
“We, as homophiles, are at war with society,” the Janus Society declared in their newsletter. Philadelphia’s homophile group was an extremely successful organization after they split off from the Mattachine, as we’ll soon hear. They even treated women and men as equals! Groundbreaking! The Janus Society was named after the two-faced Roman god of beginnings, endings, and transitions. 🥁
Here is a 1964 publication on display at @gerberhart, along with issues of their magazine Drum. (Stay tuned.)
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
“The first meeting of the Hose and Heels Club is formally open.” 👗
Bag up your heels and join us for this week’s new episode!
🗂 Transvestia magazine, editor Virginia Prince @transarchives
SEPTEMBER 26, 2020
Are you registered to vote? Are you sure? Double-check at vote.org 🗳
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
Meet the runaways, and future leaders of the movement, in the newest episode.
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📸 Sylvia Rivera, 1970. Photo by Kay ‘Tobin’ Lahusen (We’ll see both of these women again soon!) @nyplpicturecollection
📸 Jack Nichols & Ted Richards, 1955. From his book “The Tomcat Chronicles”
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Meanwhile, at the Bureau… 🔎
OCTOBER 7, 2020
Henry Gerber, founder of the first gay rights group in the U.S. (S1 E1), writes to the new Mattachine. 💌
🗂 @onearchives
OCTOBER 8, 2020
Hint hint… of the Daughters of Bilitis in-fighting to come… 📥
🗂 @glbt_history
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
“Others may have my company, Mother, but it is you that have my heart.” 🖊
🗂 @onearchives