S2 E11"The Rejected, the Elected"
What will we say when we finally have their attention?
Homophiles take control of the small screen for the first time in this local San Francisco special on homosexuality that syndicated nationally in 1961. Controversial Mattachinos are prominently featured.
The Daughters of Bilitis host a second national convention for their thriving lesbian organization. Randy Wicker gets a panel of gays on the radio. José Sarria fights for every vote as the election closes.
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Original release: September 30, 2020
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"Live and Let Live" w/ Randy Wicker
September 1, 1962 on WBAI
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“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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“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 28, 2020
Coming soon… 📺
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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Election results... tomorrow. 🗳
Episode 11 “The Rejected, The Elected”
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“the rejected”
KQED San francisco, 1961
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Homophiles hit the small screen. 📺
Tune in Wednesday.
🗂 “The Rejected,” 1961. KQED.
OCTOBER 1, 2020
“Hal Call is, indeed, a monster and everything that you say about him is the absolute truth.” 📺
🗂 “The Rejected,” 1961. KQED.
OCTOBER 18, 2020
the look at the end kills me 📺
Sadly this gal’s beautiful monotone isn’t included in episode 11.
🗂 “The Rejected,” 1961. KQED.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
Homophiles hit the small screen. 📺
Tune in now.
Episode 11 is out today!
🗂 “The Rejected,” 1961. KQED.
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
“When this fact about a person becomes known, he is, in truth, REJECTED.” 📺
This week on episode 11, “The Rejected, The Elected”
🗂 KQED
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
Homophiles hit the small screen. 📺
Tune in tomorrow.
🗂 “The Rejected,” 1961. KQED.
NOVEMBER 28, 2020
Homophiles hit the small screen. Check out the Mattachine offices! Recognize anyone? 📺
🎧 Episode 11
🎥 “The Rejected,” 1961. KQED.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
Homophiles hit the small screen. 📺
Tune in now.
Episode 11 is out today!!
🗂 “The Rejected,” 1961. KQED.
OCTOBER 3, 2020
You knew it was coming. Deeper exploration into “The Rejected” on my Patreon today. I’m obsessed with this incredible moment in gay history, this single hour that dispelled so many myths, that fabulous cruising artwork ⬆️, and maybe even the gayest thing Margaret Mead ever did openly. 📺
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NOVEMBER 23, 2020
𝘐𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘹𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘧𝘦𝘸 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘴? 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘹𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴...
📺 Dr. Karl Bowman explaining the Kinsey scale on KQED’s “The Rejected,” 1961.
🗂 news clippings, 1961. @glbt_history
NOVEMBER 14, 2020
𝚆𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚋𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚐 “𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚁𝚎𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚍,” 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚛-𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚖 𝚒𝚗 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚑 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍. 🎥
season 2, episode 11 🎧
📺 Anthropologist Margaret Mead on KQED’s “The Rejected,” 1961.
📸 Closing credits
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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
“𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚁𝚎𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚍” 𝚒𝚜 𝚍𝚎𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚍𝚞𝚕𝚎𝚍… tomorrow in episode 11. 📺
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OCTOBER 1, 2020
𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚜, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚠𝚢𝚎𝚛𝚜, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚕𝚎𝚛𝚐𝚢 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚜𝚊𝚢. 🗞
Hear the Mattachine’s response to it in “The Rejected,” on TV in 1961, and now in episode 11 of the podcast.
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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
Hear it now! Episode 11! 📺
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OCTOBER 5, 2020
Thanks for tuning in. 📺
🗂 “The Rejected,” 1961. KQED.
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
𝙸𝚏 𝚠𝚎 𝚍𝚘 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚒𝚗 𝚜𝚒𝚡 𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚜 𝚠𝚎 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚜𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚊𝚜 𝚊𝚌𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎. 💌
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OCTOBER 1, 2020
𝚆𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚜 𝚍𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝚏𝚎𝚠 𝚢𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚏𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚢 𝚒𝚖𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚑 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚋𝚒𝚊𝚗. 📚
The Daughters of Bilitis invite lesbian pulp author Ann Bannon to their second convention (episode 11). Here are a couple versions of the “Odd Girl Out” cover (episode 9) and the hilariously inaccurate cover for Beebo Brinker, Bannon’s story of a butch lesbian, and her final book for Gold Medal.
She wrote in the forward to Jaye Zimet’s collection of lesbian pulp covers “Strange Sisters,” “Authors were the last people consulted by the editors about pulp fiction covers, and probably for good reason. We knew what our characters looked like and wanted to see them materialize on our book covers. We cared intensely about the effect the cover designs would have on the readership. The editors, however, knew something more practical: how to move their inventory… My Beebo was tall, strong, handsome—and blue-jeaned. Theirs…well…. It was really the only time I found myself in ‘The Twilight Zone’ over one of my own books… As covers went, it was a megabomb. What was the goal? Again, it was the calculated and clever presentation of female gender displayed as an incentive to the boys to buy the book.”
📸 Ann Bannon, 1983. Photo by Tee Corinne.
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📚 Beebo Brinker, Gold Medal Books, 1962.
📚 Odd Girl Out, Gold Medal Books, 1957 & 1960.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
You’re invited! The second national convention of the Daughters of Bilitis will be held in Hollywood, California… in episode 11.
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OCTOBER 4, 2020
𝙼𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚐𝚘. 𝙸 𝚊𝚖 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚖𝚢 𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚍, 🖊
📄 The Daughters invite Eleanor Roosevelt to the second convention. I don’t know if they got a response, but I imagine I would have seen that in the archive or a book if Eleanor freaking Roosevelt wrote to the Daughters of Bilitis. (Correct me if I’m wrong, please.)
📄 They invite Dr. Wardell Pomeroy, co-author of the Kinsey reports. He wrote back to homophiles all the time.
📄 LA chapter president Jean Nathan (planning the conference, clearly) writes to Shorty A.K.A. Jane Bell. If you listen to the bonus podcast, she was Billye Talmadge’s girlfriend. After Shorty’s dishonorable discharge, Billye said Shorty was “accused of being homosexual, so she decided to find out what that was.”
🗂 @glbt_history send my love to the Lyon/Martin papers
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OCTOBER 2, 2020
Patreon subscribers! Today is a look at another edition of “Songs of Bilitis.” Again, NSFW. Unless you work at a lesbian art gallery.
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🗂 “Songs of Bilitis” by Pierre Louÿs, 1932 edition. Illustrations by Pierre Lissac.
OCTOBER 6, 2020
A couple issues of The Ladder released during the events of episode 11. 🗞
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OCTOBER 24, 2020
Check out this issue of “The Ladder” discussed in episode 11, including Stella Rush’s coverage of Paul Coates interviewing a Daughter on TV! 📺
btw on my Patreon we’ll be doing a fun dive into “The Circle of Sex” soon!
OCTOBER 3, 2020
pay up, queen! 📝
just kidding. But seriously. Here’s Hal Call’s bill for José Sarria’s campaign materials.
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hear bonus episodes of the podcast at patreon.com/queerserial 💜
OCTOBER 3, 2020
Take a deeper dive into “Live and Let Live,” featuring Mattachino Randy Wicker (as heard in episode 11), on my Patreon right now! Subscribers to the bonus podcast can hear the full program and take a closer look at some juicy DRAMAAA in Wicker Research Studies.
Forgive me, this Patreon post is yet another rambling deep dive into gay in-fighting. 🎭
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📸 “Live and Let Live” on WBAI, 1962
📸 Randy Wicker (then Charles Hayden, Jr.) pushed into the fountain by a group of “frat-rats” during a march he organized at the University of Texas against tuition prices, 1959.
📸 Young Wicker, c. late 1950s.
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OCTOBER 3, 2020
The elected. 🗳
President Kameny takes the lead of the Mattachine Society of Washington in this week’s new episode.
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see you in the magazines
OCTOBER 5, 2020
Bonus episode!! The police come knocking on Virginia Prince’s door. Hear how she uses their accusation for her own benefit today on my Patreon bonus podcast!
patreon.com/queerserial 💜
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OCTOBER 8, 2020
A few of the ONE Magazine issues released during the events of episode 11. Part 1!
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OCTOBER 11, 2020
More ONE Magazine issues released during the events of episode 11. Part 2! In their 10th year you can see the style begin to shift toward more photographs, but still some of that classic kooky art.
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