S2 E12"The Pleasure of a Response," or,
"How to Handle a Federal Interrogation"
Enough schisms, how about an alliance?
Frank Kameny is the first open homosexual to speak before Congress, defending the Mattachine. FBI Director Hoover consults his gay informant. Randy Wicker recruits gay picketers. The lesbian activists focus on work, rather than in-fighting.
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Original release: October 7, 2020
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Season 2 Bonus episodes
"The Dogcatcher"
Dwight Huggins & "The Dogcatcher" research
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!
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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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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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OCTOBER 7, 2020
Congress welcomes the court jester in today’s new episode, “How to Handle a Federal Interrogation.” 💥
Episode 12 is now up!
📸 Cannon Office House Building
OCTOBER 9, 2020
Queens arrested on charges of indecent exposure and masquerading at the National Variety Artists’ Exotic Carnival and Ball in Manhattan Center, October 26, 1962. 👑
📸 Getty Images/Bettmann.
OCTOBER 23, 2020
On my Patreon today we’re diving into Paul-Émile Bécat's illustrations for a rare edition of “Songs of Bilitis.” tbh, I chose the images with the fewest nipples to censor for the IG prudes. 🍃
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Indigenous Peoples’ Day
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day! We’wha was a two-spirit person who wore both women’s and men’s clothing, performed tasks typically done by one gender or the other, and was a spiritual leader. Christian missionaries came to the Zuni tribe to attempt to convert them in 1877. Lhamana, Zuni two-spirit people, were imprisoned for suspected witchcraft. When We’wha got out of prison, they walked 40 miles to get back home. They remained a respected potter, weaver, and spiritual guide. 💕
📸 We’wha in 1920, University of California Libraries
📸 date unknown, Library at The College of Staten Island of the City University of New York
📸 We’wha weaving, c. 1871-1907. U.S. National Archives and Records
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day! Bíawacheeitchish (Woman Chief) was born in the Gros Ventres community and raised by the Crow community. Her adoptive father was a warrior, as she would become. She was known for her interest in horse riding, field-dressing buffalo, and hunting, though she still wore traditionally female clothing while doing all of this. When her father died she took his place as leader of the lodge and later married four wives. Woman Chief negotiated peace treaties with other tribes, while attracting the fascination of white westerners. James Beckwourth wrote an account of a person named Pine Leaf, who might have been Bíawacheeitchish, though is book is widely criticized as an inaccurate exaggeration. 💕
✏️ This drawing may or may not be Woman Chief, as published in “The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth,” 1856.
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day! Osh-Tisch (Finds Them And Kills Them) was a leader of the Badé, two-spirit people of the Crow community. They had a family and a lodge. Osh-Tisch was also imprisoned by white Christian colonizers who tried to convert two-spirit people to their own Christian practices. Prisons cut their hair and forced them to wear “male” clothing. Crow chiefs spoke out against this and succeeded in releasing the Badé people from U.S. federal prison. Osh-Tisch returned home. 💕
📸 These photos are both widely associated with Osh-Tisch, but I can’t seem to find any credits or additional info. Any tips on that are appreciated!
see you in the magazines
OCTOBER 15, 2020
A few issues of The Ladder released during the events of episode 12. Two of them are difficult to find online, but here they are on display at Bolerium.
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(Any one know of a complete collection of Ladder covers online somewhere?)
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OCTOBER 10, 2020
The most horrifying Mattachine Review cover. 🤡
🗂 @glbt_history, issue on display at Bolerium
OCTOBER 30, 2020
ONE Magazine issues released during the events of episode 12! 🗞
Some really fun (and a little dirty) drawings this year.
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OCTOBER 11, 2020
beach babe 🏖
📚 As heard in episode 12, here’s Jack Nichols of the Mattachine Society of Washington around the time he left the MSW for a while. This pic is from his book, “The Tomcat Chronicles”